14 DAY TRIAL // It's in human nature to look for new and appealing methods of satisfying our basic needs. We have to eat, sleep, dance, have sex, listen to music and so on. If you don't search it for yourself, be sure that someone else would do it for you. The basic instincts in man were always subject for smart people interested in gaining something. Being just another product, maybe pornography came to life exactly the same way.
Literally, pornography first derived as a result of early prostitutes' life. Somebody just thought of writing down all those slippery aspects. Then with all the drawings, photos, colors and the television it spread out.
Nowadays, the internet is full of porn. From very accessible images and videos to even more "cultured" material - it's everywhere. Just go on any well known search engine and type "porn pictures".
And it reached quite a high level, with all these porn stars and porn Oscar awards, with the movie producing companies and all the advertising. It's a real market with its own industry. Even a well known and respectable site like http://sourceforge.net/ couldn't have missed this one. Indeed, a porn project here on sourceforge. Should I be surprised?
Orphne is an internet browser based on Mozilla engine that was especially designed for adult material viewing. It comes under GPL (General Public License) license stipulations and already reached 0.3 version.
The browser starts with the obsolete warning which ends with ENTER/NOT 18, EXIT. Not that they know the user's age. But at least they've done it by the book, giving the legal form for this. Orphne has a simple and intuitive interface. It consists of two main areas, the larger one in the left side. This is where all the content will be displayed.
The menu bar has little configurations to make with a few buttons on it. It shows itself on the upper part of the main left window. Here you can manage your searches on the "Search Results" tab: as you're in you'll be surprised to see a long list of porn search keywords (from adorable, amateur, kissing to ones like licking, shaved, threesome, sixtynine, just to mention those that can be written here). Just click on each of them and then press the search button above. You'll get a list of galleries you can browse for your pleasure.
Why is Orphne a web browser? Because in the next tab "Browser" you can insert any web address you like and just go on visiting it, so it's not just for porn. A detailed help of Orphne is shown here. It explains how searching works, how you can rate a gallery you encountered and how you can add tags to galleries. A list of Orphne shortcuts are presented: CTRL - T - Tag a gallery, CTRL - W - Exit Orphne, CTRL - R - Refresh/Reload, CTRL - B - Go to previous search result, CTRL - N - Go to next search result, ALT - Left Arrow - Go Back, ALT - Right Arrow - Go Forward.
"Bookmarks" tab will let you select any gallery you like most for later view. When browsing a site gallery just press the "Bookmark Album" button on the right side of Orphne and you can view it anytime you want in the boolmarks.
As all internet browsers, Orphne also displays an address box (here you'll type the website you want to enter) with the classic buttons Back, Forward, Stop and Go.
Orphne features an Options menu too. Maybe too much for calling it Options, but at least you can filter the research and choose your default save folder.
All the photos Orphne finds in a gallery are thumbnail-listed in its right pane. You can also use this part to go to the previous/next gallery, bookmark/save your current album and launch a slideshow view for the images in the current gallery.
Every photo can be tagged by right clicking it and choosing the appropriate word from the list. The tags can also be added in a small box from the lower part on the right side of Orphne. When you will search that tag the respective gallery will be found.
So if you want to see some Asian hardcore porn and not only, get Orphne and all the porn will be at hand. Be careful with that... I mean your hand.
And to be serious now, be very careful; if you're not yet of legal age or your country laws forbid the access, do not attempt to be smarter than you really are. You don't want to be a juvenile criminal or spend some time in jail, do you?
Anyhow, Softpedia could not be held responsible for your actions under the influence of this material. You must read the producer's legal notes and obey them.
The good
Orphne also finds and displays videos. Small 15 second previews, but YES! Videos. The clips are downloaded and launched in your default media player. As I was saying in the beginning of this material, some "cultured" material can be found. Despite of the well known disgusting porn parts Orphne also browses through some nice erotic snapshots. Although even some of those pictures are explicit in showing the woman genitalia, they are artistically made (jewels and extravagant dressing outfits, outdoors shots).
The bad
Porn makes a lot of profit from our lust. Not bad for them, as there'll always be the consumers. But I somehow dislike the availability of these materials. I mean, any kid under the legal age could reach to this content. How do we protect our children against it? Not every parent is a computer geek to know how to restrict his/her children's access to porn. A refresh and home button might have been included directly to the menu bar, close to the back/forward ones.
The truth
This is a totally free project as it was released under the GPL (General Public License). As a browser, it's accurately and simply designed. It does what it was made to do: it's a Porn Viewer. And not only.
Here are some snapshots of the application in action:
