Category: General

  • Viewing WAP sites with Firefox

    In a follow up to my previous post about RSS2WAP I got curious. Is there a Firefox extension available that would enable me to view WAP sites? Well, yes there is! The wmlbrowser extension makes Firefox a fully-fledged WAP-browser. (See screenshot of the CitiWiz WAP site to the right) Although every mobile device will present…

  • RSS2Wap: Turn your feeds into WML.

    Over at www.fredscapes.nl Fred is plea-ing that webloggers should care more about mobile devices (Dutch only). Although the number of mobile devices is rising and the technology for delivering content to those devices has been around for years, I still haven’t gotten any experience developing for mobile. Sure, my phone contains a WAP-browser. But the…

  • The zombies are here

    The zombies are here and multiplying. Quick! Grab your baseball bat! Fortunately zombies are slow creatures muttering ‘Whoooooowhooooo’. They generaly have a lethargic look, look pale, miss limbs, … So they are easy to spot. No they’re not. According to Cyphertrust, never heard of them before, their numbers are rising 170,000+ a day. Just take…

  • Safe browsers don’t exist. True.

    According to David Sheets they don’t. He has written a column about the safety of browsers. And I think he’s right. Partialy… Safe browsers do NOT exist. Agreed. Just as bug-free software doesn’t exist. How hard you try, there is always a funny/strange/malicious kind of input possible, putting your normal day of business off. Due…

  • XTech 2005 Conference

    This week, from 24 till 27 of may, the XTech 2005 Conference is held in the Amsterdam RAI. So what is it about? ” XTech 2005 is the premier European conference for developers and managers working with XML and Web technologies, bringing together the worlds of web development, open source, semantic web and open standards.…

  • Favorite browser?

    Yesterday I furled a CNET article which declared Mozilla Firefox victorious. Ok, ok, firefox won from contenders like IE, Opera & Netscape (8). All of which I didn’t suit me. Here’s the real story. I’ve been using IE ever since IE3. Why? Well, I’ve won a cd-rom with IE3 along with a videotape of ‘The…

  • Lorem Ipsum Dolor

    No this isn’t a fake post. It’s something almost every designer (web or print) out there uses as a placeholder for text in his/her design. But using the same text over and over again can get a little boring. How many headings can you see starting with Lorem ipsum? Fortunately some people have made fake-content…

  • Netscape 8 released

    Apparently the latest version of the Netscape browser, version 8, was released thursday. I don’t know if it’s any good. It has the ability to show webpages like IE or Mozilla Firefox does. Whichever you prefer. So when you get stuck on a page you can switch to ‘IE’. I think I’ll just stick to…

  • Who are my neighbours? (Formerly known as Test)

    Blogwise meant. What blogs are my visitors also reading? Traditionally your/my visitors are tracked using ‘exits’. But that only means where your visits stopped reading or where they went (according to your click-outs). It doesn’t say anything about what sources your visitors also depend upon. Feeds4all.com has something innovative… What are my visitors also reading:…

  • ThinkLemon in *Alpha* stage 2

    I’ve just finished setting up my FeedBurner feeds. No site can go without it. Well… if you just prefer to scan your serverlog(s) for anyone consuming your feed(s), than it’s OK. For me it’s just a bit cumbersome to filter out the good stuff. Unfortunately my provider doesn’t support AWStats, instead it only provides Webalizer.…