Category: General

  • The Google Browser: Google Chrome (beta)

    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…

  • “Thank you for taking the survey.” – 2008

    A List Apart is repeating last years survey: Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. Take the survey yourself at…

  • Set a Firefox 3 download record at Download Day 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…

  • “Thank you for taking the survey.” part 2

    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…

  • “Thank you for taking the survey.”

    A List Apart is having a survey: Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills,…

  • Testing with IE6 and IE7 on a Single PC

    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.

  • MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)

    Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.

  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released

    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.

  • IE7 Released

    It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is.

  • WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline

    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.