Archive for February, 2006
@Fred: Trackbacks vs. Pingbacks
Posted on Saturday, February 25th, 2006
The thought did pass my mind to clear up the confusion about trackbacks and pingbacks. But ‘Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk!‘ (Warning: Naidurlands gesproiken! ) has an elaborate explanation for the taking. Although it doesn’t seem to take track-/pingbacks itself…
Anyway, I thought I’d just ping you back.
Posted in General, ThinkLemon | 3 Comments »
Google Page Creator (Beta of course)
Posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Normally I wouldn’t blog about yet another new Google product release. Now would I? Hey, I’m not the Googleblog you know.
But this time they’ve released a product that lets my mother create webpages in no-time, although I doubt if anyone’s waiting for another bridge-site. (Sorry mom. )
So what is it?
It’s an [...]
Posted in Design, Development, General, Google, News, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev, Webdesign | No Comments »
What’s it gonna be?
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
I’ve been looking at this ‘Future Pagerank’ for some days now:
What’s it gonna be? A PR 6? Level off on a PR 5? Or a penalty on a PR 1? I can’t tell from all the datacenters dancing around.
Looks more exciting than an Olympic ice-dancing final.
Anyway, Matt Cutts is awfully [...]
Posted in General, Google, News, Search, ThinkLemon | No Comments »
PocketMod, Hipster PDA or Ductster PDA
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The PDA* market is becoming quite competitive it seems. Once a small niche, it looks to be ready for main-stream. There have been no mergers, buy-outs or busts … yet. But hey, it’s still an emerging market. Here’s the short-list:
PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer: Nice pocket-sized, folding design, but takes a while to ‘install’. [...]
Posted in Development, General, Hardware, Utilities | No Comments »
Google Earth for Mac, update (3.1.0617.0)
Posted on Friday, February 17th, 2006
The PC version of Google Earth has been out of beta for some time. The first beta of GE for the Mac was released around the same time. And now we have an update.
First look tells me it solved a few bugs with the previous beta. Icons are showing, polygons are showing, it’s [...]
Posted in General, Google Earth | No Comments »
Who’s using the Search Bar anyway?
Posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
While browsing to Yahoo! this bar on top struck me. Click to enlarge:
Apparently Yahoo! is promoting the Search Bar, which is standard issue in Firefox. Guess they want us to change the default Google setting.
This in turn made me think of the times I used that Search Bar. Probably once, the first time [...]
Posted in Firefox, General, Google, MSN Search, News, Search, Yahoo | No Comments »
Google Buys Measure Map
Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map:
Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I’ve been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years. By opening up the app to more bloggers through Google, we hope to help even more people become passionate about their blogs.
Great! I’m still [...]
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Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2
Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Opera Labs:
We’ve released a technology preview of Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, on Opera Labs. There are some very cool features we want you to try: Widgets, BitTorrent, Customized Search, Content Blocker, Pop-up Blocker, Site Specific Preferences, Tab Thumbnail Preview.
Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage » Blog Archive » Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2:
For those interested (if [...]
Posted in Browsers, General, News, Opera | No Comments »
Finalists for the Extend Firefox Contest announced
Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Extend Firefox Contest Finalists :: Mozilla Update:
We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today’s Web services. Over 200 Extensions were [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Utilities | No Comments »
Oops… Firefox Update Failed…
Posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Guess I’ll have to download the entire updated 1.5.0.1 package. Oh well… better than an endless download/update loop.
Update: Well, it seems that the update also failed on my WinXP box.
Update 2: If you’ve found that your automatic update to Firefox 1.5.0.1 went less than ideal, go visit Mike Beltzner’s blog. He’s [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General | 2 Comments »