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There is a battle for the hearts and wallets souls of our young surfing children on the interwebs. Parents are obviously concerned about the appropriateness of the world wide web being a kid’s playground, so are looking for suitable controls to help them feel their children are protected online.

We looked at 2 kids browsers, Glubble and Kidzui, and gave them a test spin as well as subjected them to an unscientific kid focus group. Check out our results after the jump.Glubble

Glubble is a Firefox add-on which offers kid safe web browsing and parental…

Google rolled out an improved iPhone interface for Google Reader this week, and here’s something neat you can do with it: Add it to your Firefox sidebar. While you can open practically any web site in a Firefox sidebar, some web pages are better suited to the sidebar than others. And the iPhone version of Google Reader fits the bill because unlike the full version of Reader, it’s designed for small, narrow screens. And fortunately, you don’t need an iPhone to access the new interface.

So here’s how to add Google Reader…

Last year two services launched, giving bloggers easy access to threaded comments, spam control, avatars, and other advanced features. Disqus and Intense Debate also let you create a single profile which you can use to leave comments on any participating blog or web site. No need to register for each individual blog.

And since last year, thousands of web sites have adopted these two commenting systems. Considering there are millions of blogs out there, that’s just a drop in the bucket. But every filled bucket starts with a single drop. Or something like…