Category: 'Utilities'
The Google Browser: Google Chrome (beta)
Posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Looks like the Browser Wars have been rekindled with this new kid on the block. Yes, Google released their oft rumoured browser in the wild.More info on the Official Google Blog: A Fresh Take On The Browser. And for the technically inclined there’s a comicbook explaining it all. Or skip the hoopla and take Chrome for a testdrive [...]
Posted in Browsers, Development, Google, Internet, Intranet, News, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | 1 Comment »
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? Go [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet, Utilities | 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 Browsers, Design, Development, General, Internet Explorer, News, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | 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 Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, News, Utilities | 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 Browsers, Development, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, Utilities, WebDev | No Comments »
WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline
Posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Here’s something I’ve been experimenting with. For a whole couple of minutes, at least. As with most WordPress plugins it was a matter of upload, activation and copy-pasting. Et voila: Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.
Posted in Development, General, Utilities | 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? [...]
Posted in Desktop, Development, General, Google, Google Earth, Internet, News, Search, Utilities | 4 Comments »
WordPress Posts, Pages and pagination
Posted on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
While rummaging through the WordPress theme code I stumbled upon this vague function call ‘link_pages()‘. Not knowing what is was or did, I looked it up in the documentation. And it seems that WordPress can paginate (lengthy) posts out-of-the-box. Great! But while the difference between a post and a page can be confusing for WordPress [...]
Posted in General, Reset, ThinkLemon, Utilities | 15 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”); oFurtherOptions.innerHTML = “About FireBug” oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += “FireBug Screencast” oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += “FireBug Overview” } } catch(e) { throw “Next time Gadget, next time!” // Take a look at [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, Intranet, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | 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.
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