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Microsoft Debuts ‘Browser Choice Screen’ for Europe
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Microsoft’s Dave Heiner posted the above image on his official blog at Microsoft Friday. It’s the first test of the system that will let users decide which browser they’d like to use, as per the European Union’s mandate on Microsoft. Users in Europe — and only in Europe — running Windows XP, Vista and Windows
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| (Published: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:03:17 +0000) |
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A Universal Solution for Rounded Corners in Your Designs
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Say what you will about the aesthetics of rounded corners in web design, the reality is you’re probably going to have to implement them some day.
It used to be that rounded corners required four separate images. Then came a clever trick that used just one circular image. But creating rounded corners was still a pain
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:30:29 +0000) |
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Latest Update Makes JetPack Add-ons More Powerful
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Mozilla Labs has announced the release of JetPack 0.8, an update to its new, lightweight extensions framework for Firefox. Jetpack lets people use common web tools like HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build Firefox add-ons.
The latest release of JetPack brings two new APIs in the fold; the Toolbar API, which lets JetPack developers place custom
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| (Published: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:30:35 +0000) |
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No Virginia, Adobe Isn’t Blocking HTML5
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Ian Hickson, head of one of the standards groups charged with creating HTML5, caused quite a stir over the weekend when he alleged that Adobe was trying to block HTML5.
Adobe quickly denied the charge, but not quickly enough for the open web evangelists to grab their pitchforks and take to blogs in anger. After all,
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| (Published: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:02:46 +0000) |
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Is Opera 10.5 the ‘Fastest Browser on Earth?’ Maybe.
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Opera 10.5 beta on the desktop.
Opera has released the first beta for Opera 10.5, boasting that it’s “the fastest browser on Earth.” We took a copy for a spin and found that it is indeed snappy, besting Safari 4 and Firefox 3.6 in our informal testing.
At the moment the Opera 10.5 beta is available for
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:37:18 +0000) |
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Opera CTO Sees Open Video Formats as Key to Web’s Future
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With all the fervor over HTML5 video, the death of Flash and the future of open video on the web we thought it might be helpful to ask the man who proposed the HTML5 video tag for his opinion on the matter.
It shouldn’t be any great surprise that Opera CTO Hakon Lie — famous for
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:57:44 +0000) |
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Hands On With Google Buzz - It’s a Stream in Your Inbox
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Tuesday saw the debut of Google Buzz, a new service for sharing status updates, links and media with your friends. It’s currently being rolled out to the public slowly — you can sign up at buzz.google.com — but we’ve had access to Buzz since shortly after it launched, and I’ve had a chance to play
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:01:10 +0000) |
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Google Launches Buzz, Its New Social Media Sharing Platform
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Google debuted Buzz Tuesday morning, its latest product for sharing links, media and status updates with your friends.
Buzz is fully integrated with Gmail’s inbox. You can go to buzz.google.com and turn it on right now if you’re a Gmail user.
Buzz is more than a little bit like Twitter — and a whole lot like Facebook
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| (Published: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:36:52 +0000) |
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Bit.ly Pro Makes it Dead Simple to Create Your Own URL Shortener
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Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL.
The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows you to set up a short domain and then point that domain to the Bit.ly servers. From there Bit.ly Pro works
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:04:29 +0000) |
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Weave May Let You Keep Firefox and Your iPhone in Sync
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Want to see all your open Firefox tabs on your iPhone? There may soon be an app for that.
There’s already a demo app and a code library that will let someone build an app for that, thanks to Mozilla’s recent efforts to extend Weave, its syncing tool for Firefox, to devices like the
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:45:39 +0000) |
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Finding the Best Firefox Add-ons Gets Easier With New ‘Collections’
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The ability to expand Firefox’s capabilities using add-ons, and thus extend its basic functionality far beyond that of a normal web browser, is no doubt responsible for much of its popularity. There are literally thousands of ways to extend Firefox, and Mozilla claims that users have downloaded close to half a billion add-ons.
However, while
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:48:23 +0000) |
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Facebook Offers Vanity URLs for User Profiles and Pages
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Starting this weekend, Facebook is letting each user pick a real name to identify the URL of their profile.
Right now, your Facebook profile’s URL ends in a decidedly inhuman string of numbers. Not so easy for anyone to remember (except search engines). Starting Friday night, the social networking site will allow users to pick out
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:34:50 +0000) |
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Firefox 3.5 ‘Preview’ Paves the Way for Final Release
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Mozilla has released what the company is calling Firefox 3.5 Preview, an “almost there” version of its next web browser, which is due in about a month.
Firefox 3.5 is not at the release candidate stage just yet, but the announcement does say that the Preview update is “considered stable for daily browsing use.” This release
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| (Published: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:48:30 +0000) |
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Safari 4, A Browser Equipped for the Web App Jungle, Arrives
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The next version of Apple’s web browser has hit the open waters. The company announced the final version of Safari 4 will be available for download Monday afternoon for Mac OS X and Windows from Apple’s website. The browser will also ship with Snow Leopard, the next version of Apple’s Mac OS X desktop operating
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:21:08 +0000) |
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Glue Goes Mainstream With New Internet Explorer Plugin
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Glue in Internet Explorer. Click the image for a larger view.
Glue, the social network that lives in your browser, has announced a new plugin for Internet Explorer. Previously Glue was available as a Firefox add-on and a very slick iPhone app.
The new IE Glue plugin offers the same features found in the Firefox version, including
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:44:47 +0000) |
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Google Throws Chrome for Mac, Linux Out Into the Wild
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Google Chrome on Mac OS X. Click the image for a larger view.
Google has released official pre-alpha versions of its Chrome web browser for the Mac and Linux platforms. The announcement cautions that these early version are unstable and lack many features, concluding that really, you shouldn’t download them. Nor we might add, should you
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| (Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:43:21 +0000) |
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Faster, Sleeker Opera 10 Is Built for Better Web Apps
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Opera 10 Beta 1 on the desktop. Click the image for a larger view.
Opera has released the first beta version of its upcoming Opera 10 web browser. The latest test release gives Opera fans a taste of what’s coming in the final release later this year, namely a faster, slicker browser with a whole new
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| (Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:28:28 +0000) |
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TwitCaps Gives Photographic Insight to Twitter’s Zeitgeist
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TwitCaps is extraordinary. The newly launched website displays the most recent photos posted to Twitter via the various photo-sharing sites tied in to the microblogging platform.
The TwitCaps frontdoor is captivating. Every tweeted photo, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is lined up in reverse-chronological order. You can hover over each picture and see the original
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| (Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:05:02 +0000) |
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Adobe’s New Flash Tools Ease the Pain for Both Designers and Coders
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Adobe has released two new tools for Flash developers and updated its popular framework for building sites with Flash.
The company has announced the beta release of its Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly known Flex Builder), along with a new authoring tool, Flash Catalyst. The open-source Flex framework has also been updated. All three pieces of
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| (Published: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:01:30 +0000) |
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Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ Search Engine Debuts, But It’s No Google
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Microsoft’s revamped search offering — known as “Bing” — has gone live. In fact, Bing is now the default Live.com homepage.
We know what you’re thinking: Does the world need another confusingly-branded search engine? But horrible name and questionable graphics aside (Hot air balloons? Seriously?) Bing actually isn’t that bad of a search engine.
The problem is
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| (Published: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:00:07 +0000) |
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