First Jackie Chan, then Jet Li... and now Godfrey Gao? Already a major celebrity in China -- he's Asia's premier male supermodel and the star of a number of Chinese films and TV shows -- Gao aspires to become the East's next biggest export. With his good looks, charm, and role in the much-anticipated film adaptation of "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," he just might be. In the movie, based on the YA bestseller about a teenage half-angel locked in an epic battle against demons, the Taiwanese actor/model plays fan-favorite character Magnus Bane, an 800-year-old bisexual warlock who throws epic parties.

Our Man Godfrey.

While on his first major U.S. press tour leading up to the release of "City of Bones"' on August 23 -- and just days after appearing before 6,000 fans at the film's Comic-Con panel -- Gao made time to chat with Download.com about the five apps that have cast a spell on him of late.

Instagram

I like Instagram, because I love to take pictures. With Instagram, you snap what you think is interesting, you do your special effects filters, your borders, whatever you do to make the picture look cooler, which is why I love it. I take pictures of food, the sunset, whatever is interesting -- some sneakers, I'll put it on there. Obviously, I gotta put some selfies up the... [Read more]

In the wake of the release of Firefox 23, the infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay, released its own Web browser, dubbed "PirateBrowser." The package browser is a bundling of a custom Portable Firefox Browser with the add-on FoxyProxy and Vidalia (a Tor Client).

All this work is being done with the goal of allowing the user to bypass the censor net of certain countries such as United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Iran, and North Korea. The browser is portable so you can just put it on a thumb drive and take it with you. Just extract the executable and launch "Start PirateBrowser.exe."

The official adult browser of the UK?

At first glance there is not much different from the standard Firefox browser, with the exception of the automatic Tor logging and the PirateBrowser brand replacing the Firefox one on the top left. FoxyProxy comes preinstalled with customized settings to allow for faster loading. PirateBrowser also includes a selection of Favorite links on your bookmarks menu lead... [Read more]

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