Category: 'Internet'
Set a Firefox 3 download record at Download Day 2008
Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Always wanted to set a Guinness World Record? Well, now you can by simply downloading the soon to be released version 3 of the Firefox webbrowser. You don’t even have to install it. A download will suffice, thank you. But while you’re at it, why not give it a try.
How do you participate? […]
Posted in Utilities, Internet, Firefox, Browsers, General | No Comments »
“Thank you for taking the survey.” part 2
Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Back in April A List Apart held a survey among people working in the ‘web-industry’:
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and […]
Posted in Internet, News, WebDev, Development, Design, Webdesign, General | No Comments »
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released
Posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
And another official one down! Less than a week ago Microsoft upped their browser to a 7.0 version. This time it’s the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox is now a 2.0.
Posted in News, Utilities, Internet, Development, Browsers, Firefox, General | 1 Comment »
IE7 Released
Posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is.
Posted in Internet, Utilities, WebDev, Development, Browsers, Internet Explorer, General | No Comments »
Watching the sea-level rise, virtually.
Posted on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Here’s an interesting Google Maps implementation: Flood Maps.
What if the sea-level where to rise? .. Because the polar ice-caps are melting at an alarming rate … Would you be able to keep your feet dry? Now you can find out for yourself. (And maybe decide about that piece of real-estate you’ve layed your eyes on. […]
Posted in Google, Internet, General | 1 Comment »
Major Google Earth Update (Maps to follow)
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Read all about it on the Official Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth:
We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. […]
Posted in Desktop, Utilities, Google Earth, Google, Search, Development, Internet, News, General | 3 Comments »
Get Firebug!
Posted on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
if ((bWebDeveloper || bWebDesigner) && bFirefox) {
try {
var oNewExtension = new cExtension();
oNewExtension.fetchXPI = fnFetchURL(”www.getfirebug.com“);
oNewExtension.installXPI();
if (oNewExtension.success) {
console.log(”Firebug installed successfully.”);
var oFurtherOptions = getElementById(”divTellUser”);
[…]
Posted in WebDev, Internet, Intranet, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, Design, General | No Comments »
Visualising the DOM for fun
Posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The Document Object Model, or DOM as it is known better, is usually visualised as a tree. For instance with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar or DOM Inspector / Firebug for Firefox. But there are other more fun ways, like Aharef did.
Posted in Internet, Utilities, WebDev, Development, ThinkLemon, General | No Comments »
Pizza in Europe?
Posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Lately there has been some news surrounding Google Maps. As a result I’m obliged to sum things up. ThinkLemon style, surely.
First, it was called Google Maps (beta), then Local, and now Maps again. Probably because everyone was calling it Maps anyhow. The Google Blog explains more.
Second, Maps has expanded to continental Europe. Finally I’d […]
Posted in Google, Utilities, Search, Internet, Development, General | No Comments »
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Over at Google Code they ran a survey, in December 2005, looking at a couple of webpages trying to find out which elements and their respective attributes are used most. And more importantly how they are used.
We took a sample of slightly over a billion documents, and looked at what elements were used on the […]
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