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Dolphin HD is a feature-packed web browser for the Android smartphone platform. It features swipe gestures, tabbed browsing, quick access to bookmarks, and support for add-on applications for things like screen capture, Google translate, and bookmark synchronization.

Get ready for an advanced treadmill experience with superior technology and top performance with the ProForm® Trailrunner 4.0 Treadmill. Featuring a built-in web browser, you can check your email, read the news, or watch your favorite TV shows during your workout. The Trailrunner 4.0 also features iFit Live^TM, built-in technology that provides incredible workouts powered by Google Maps, training sessions with Jillian Michaels, and automatic speed and incline controls using wireless technology. iFit Live^TM provides exciting opportunities to challenge your workouts, tour the world virtually, run and train for races, and compete with others right from your home gym.

The treadmill’s powerful 3.8 continuous duty horsepower Mach Z Commercial Pro Motor delivers top performance for even the most advanced runners. Other features include 32 workout apps, comfortable ProTech Advanced adjustable cushioning, and a heavy-duty 20- by 60-inch two-ply commercial treadbelt to help you get the most out of every workout.

The Trailrunner 4.0 folds vertically when not in use. The treadmill also adjusts from 0-15% incline, using ProForm’s Quick Incline feature.

Features and Specifications:

• 10-inch Full-Color Touch Screen with Browser Powered by Android: This 10-inch full-color touch screen allows you to connect to your home’s wireless network to check the news, read email, watch sports highlights, and more while you exercise. You can navigate through workout stats and options with the swipe of a finger and track your speed, time, distance, calories burned, pulse, incline and pace. Plus, it’s integrated with iFit Live^TM Technology, so you can watch your workout progress on the course map.

• iFit Live^TM Technology: Get smarter workouts and faster results with iFit Live^TM Technology, which features workouts powered by Google Maps, training with Jillian Michaels, and automatic speed and incline controls. This wireless technology is the ultimate workout experience and allows you to customize your own fitness program, draw a map, or select a course online to get started. As you exercise, your results are uploaded to iFit.com in real time, helping you manage your online profile

• 3.8 Continuous Duty Horsepower Mach Z Commercial Pro Motor: Run longer and quieter on ProForm’s highest grade motor. The Mach Z Commercial Pro Motor was expertly designed and features high-grade wiring and insulation, a thermal cut-off switch, and commercial bearings and brushes. Extensively tested for superior performance, this motor is smooth and quiet.

• ProTech Advanced Adjustable Cushioning: Full-length, adjustable cushioning offers virtually limitless cushion settings. Every stride is different and adjustable cushioning allows you to find the perfect fit to provide comfort and protection to your joints, enabling you to exercise longer and more intensely.

• 20 by 60-inch Two-Ply Commercial Treadbelt: This large, durable belt is built to last and will withstand heavy use. The treadmill’s heavy-duty belt is designed to operate quieter than most treadbelts.

• 0 to 15% Quick Incline Control: Allows you to change the incline with a single touch of a button, rather than scrolling through multiple options.

• 0 to 12 MPH QuickSpeed® Control: QuickSpeed® Control allows you to instantly change the speed of the treadmill between 0 to 12 MPH with the single touch of a button.

• 32 Workout Apps: There are 32 built-in workout apps created by a certified personal trainer. Choose from eight speed, eight incline, eight high-intensity workouts (combining speed and incline), and eight calorie-burn workouts to accelerate your progress. The simple navigation of the apps makes it quick and easy to pick up your workout and get going.

• Compatible Music Port for iPod®: Move to the beat of your favorite music with this built-in sound system. Plug your iPod®*, or MP3 Player into the Interplay Music Port for unbeatable sound quality. With the iPod® resting on the console shelf, it’s within easy reach and leaves the controls right at your fingertips.

• Intermix Acoustics 3.0 Sound System: Enjoy great sound quality with this built-in sound system, featuring ProForm’s highest-grade speakers with high-excursion drivers.

• SpaceSaver® Design with EasyLift Assist: This patented design allows your treadmill to lift vertically for storage. It also features a powerful shock that will help lift the deck with an easy push and a self-locking latch.

• Workout Intensity Control: Adjust the intensity of your workout at any time to make it more or less intense on the fly.

• Dual-Grip EKG Heart Rate Monitor: Monitor your heart rate with the built-in handlebar sensors, which will challenge you to the right training zone for your fitness goals.

• Product Dimensions: 78 by 38.5 by 56.8 inches (L x W x H)

• Weight Capacity: 350 pounds

• Manufacturer’s Warranty: Includes a lifetime motor and frame warranty, 5-year parts warranty, and 2-year labor warranty.

A 10-inch full-color touch screen allows you to connect to your home’s wireless network to check the news and read email while you exercise.

About ProForm
When you hear the name ProForm, you probably think treadmills. In its early days, ProForm revolutionized the treadmill industry with the now world-famous SpaceSaver® fold-away design. Today, ProForm continues that tradition of quality and innovation. Thanks to cutting-edge advances in cushioning, electronics, and reliability, ProForm treadmills have become a top choice of fitness enthusiasts throughout the world. Fortunately, ProForm wasn’t satisfied just producing great treadmills. In recent years ProForm has unveiled a complete line of exercise bikes, elliptical machines, and weight benches–all geared to provide the most effective workout available.

Proform Trailrunner 4.0 Treadmill with Built-in Web Browser

When Firefox 3 was launched on 17 June, the free web browser generated 8,002,530 unique downloads in a day. It’s a hugely impressive figure that constituted a new Guinness world record, albeit in a category that didn’t previously exist.

For the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Firefox, successfully encouraging so many users to download the new browser on day one was a canny way to grab headlines. But the release of Firefox 3 also marked the moment in which the cultural shift away from Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer finally went mainstream.

Internet Explorer (IE) has been bundled with Windows since 1995. By 1999, it had become the world’s most widely used web browser, a position it has held ever since. At its peak in early 2003, IE achieved a staggering 95% usage share, leaving its onetime bitter rival Netscape Navigator as nothing more than a forgotten cyber-casualty.

But since July 2003, the level of IE’s dominance has steadily declined. Figures for June 2008 indicate that its market share is now at 73%, compared to 19% for Firefox and 6% for Safari, which is the native browser on Apple Macs and the iPhone (all other browsers have a share of less than 1% each).

Microsoft had become complacent. The first iteration of IE6 was launched in August 2001 and wasn’t replaced by a full IE release for over five years. The debut of the much-hyped IE7 in October 2006 failed to have an impact on IE’s overall market share. Indeed, by that point, Firefox – which was first released in November 2004 – had highlighted just how archaic IE’s interface was.
With its inclusion of tabbed browsing, integrated search box and – thanks to its open source architecture – the option for users to customise it with over 5000 third-party add-ons, Firefox quickly became the technophile’s browser of choice.

In contrast, the muted response that met the release of IE7 offers some clues as to why IE no longer enjoys the ubiquity it once had. Beyond incorporating some of the features that were the catalyst for many users switching to Firefox in the first place, IE7 offered little innovation.
Curiously, IE did have the opportunity to introduce tabbed browsing years before Safari and Firefox popularised it. NetCaptor, an alternative IE interface that was first released in January 1998, incorporated tabs at the bottom of the browser.

If a user wanted to have multiple pages open at once, they were able to use this neat solution as opposed to having to open numerous windows. It was, and remains, an elegant solution but one that IE belatedly embraced only after other browsers highlighted its usefulness.
But IE7’s limitations are more than just anecdotal. Its lack of standards compliancy means that it fails the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, which identifies flaws in web browsers: any browser that follows the World Wide Web Consortium HTML and CSS 2.0 specifications will pass. The test is based on whether a somewhat startled-looking smiley face is displayed correctly.
In October 2005, Apple’s Safari was the first browser to make the grade, something that Firefox, Opera and others have also since done. IE remains the only major browser that’s not Acid2 compliant, forcing web developers to insert conditional code to compensate for the differences between IE and other browsers.

Internet Explorer 8, which has been available to download in Beta since March and is expected to be officially released in 2009, comes at a critical moment in IE’s history. Microsoft’s IE development team have already confirmed that it is Acid2 compliant. It also has integrated developer tools, meaning that HTML, CSS and JavaScript debugging can take place directly from the browser.
A feature called Activities assists copying and pasting between web pages, while WebSlices will allow users to subscribe to a specific element of a web page, which can then be viewed from the Favourites bar (think Mac OS X’s Dashboard).

There are some well considered security touches, from safer mash-ups to domain highlighting, which automatically highlights a site’s owning domain to help users identify attempts at phishing. Handily, IE8 will also offer a Firefox-style crash recovery mechanism: if the browser crashes, any web pages being viewed will be salvaged when the browser is restarted.

But, given Microsoft’s closed-source approach to software development, what IE8 won’t do is reflect the open and adaptable nature of Firefox, which users are able to pimp with everything from blog editors to PicLens’ 3D wall.

IE remains couched in old web thinking. As long as that continues to be the case, it’ll risk losing yet more users to Firefox, whose market share has increased from 14% to 21% over the last two years. What began as a cool alternative for in-the-know webheads may be on its way to beating one of the world’s largest corporations at its own game.

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Originally published here.