Category: 'News'
“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 »
Testing with IE6 and IE7 on a Single PC
Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2006
Great news from the people who brought us Internet Explorer. They’ve released a Virtual PC image containing a time-limited WinXP SP2 with IE 6 for all our testing pleasure. No licensing required! And if you don’t have a copy of Virtual PC yet, they’ll give you Virtual PC 2004 for free to run it all.
Posted in WebDev, News, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Internet Explorer, Design, General | No Comments »
MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.
Posted in Search, MSN Search, News, Development, Internet Explorer, General | 3 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 »
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 »
Firefox ACID2 compliance on its way
Posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Now, after Safari, iCab, Konqueror & Opera 9 beta, it’s Firefox’ turn to comply with the ACID2 test. David Baron has built a special development version of Firefox that fixes some rendering issues that kept it from complying before. You can see the screenshot of ACID2 in action on his Flickr account.
Now, why is […]
Posted in WebDev, News, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, General | 2 Comments »
Hell hasn’t frozen over, yet…
Posted on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
I know Apple didn’t mind if anyone were to install Windows (XP) on their new Intel Macs. But actively making it feasible by themselves?
Apple - Boot Camp:
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS […]
Posted in Apple, Hardware, News, General | No Comments »
Google Earth: Suspected Earth Impact Sites March 2006 update (KML)
Posted on Saturday, March 11th, 2006
The IFSG released a new database containing all the known suspected earth impact craters. I could not stay behind and updated the collection for Google Earth.
Download the March 2006 edition of the SEIS database (200KB KML).
So if you happen to discover some craters yourself, now you can check if it’s in the collection of […]
Posted in Google Earth, News, Development, General | 12 Comments »
Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The grand prize winners of the Extend Firefox competition are in. One of them is the one I use on a daily basis. In fact it’s the biggest reason why I’m using Firefox as my main browser. Props to Chris! But IMHO the Web Developer toolbar is only usefull for us web developers (and […]
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Ask.com Maps & Directions
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The latest addition to the online mapping frenzy comes from none other than ask.com (that search engine that fired its card-bored butler remember?).
At map.ask.com you can find maps and directions. A first glance may remind you of that other mapping solution. But … this one is aware of roads in the rest of the world, […]
Posted in Google, Utilities, Search, News, Development, General | No Comments »