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5 January 2010 17 Comments

The iPhone is to Smartphones as IE6 was to Browsers

A few years ago when Apple stormed on the scene with their new, revolutionary phone that they called the iPhone, a moment in history occurred that would change the mobile space. It suddenly became possible for rich web browsing from a mobile phone. It became possible to listen to music in a natural way on your phone. Touch screens became the norm.

A year later, Apple announced their second generation phone, the iPhone 3G. With it, they opened up the ecosystem even more by allowing developers to build third party apps that could run on the iPhone. 50 million apps later, it is still the best thing about the iPhone. More after the jump.

5 September 2008 1 Comment

Google Shiny is Not as Hot as You would Think

Much has been said about Google Chrome Shiny this week. Google stormed the internet by announcing that they too had a browser that web users could be proud of. They claimed the best of all browsers while slipping in some legal language into the EULA that revoked privacy of user browsing data while using the product. That was quickly changed when their bluff was called.

12 June 2006 15 Comments

Firefox Window Size

Not sure if any Firefox gurus can assit out there, but for several months now, I cannot get popup windows to show at the correct size. Some windows can be resized and others cannot. Sometimes I can get around the problem by opening a window in a tab but for Windows, such as the one [...]

22 August 2004 Comments Off

Non-IE Technosailor

As an advocate for Non-Internet Explorer browsing, it should come as no surprise that there are browsing benefits for using browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox or Opera. The most notable is CSS benefits for browsing useing the :hover attribute. More are being added.
Pick up your copy of the WordPress Bible, a wildly popular resource for [...]

12 June 2004 Comments Off

Firefox 0.9 Profiles

I just downloaded and installed the Release Candidate of Firefox 0.9. First thing I noticed was that my home page was set to the default used in my IE installation and that the links toolbar did not have any of my bookmarks.
Upon some investigation, I noticed that Firefox now uses a different profile directory.
Under [...]

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