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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.

4 December 2007 7 Comments

Freakin’ Beacon Firefox Extension

I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension puts a little icon in the status bar that lights up in blue when on a page using Beacon technology. In [...]

13 July 2006 6 Comments

Anything to Make non-Microsoft Products Look Bad

Jeremy’s a trip. He has a very predictable pattern about him and he has for years. Microsoft is the best thing since sliced bread is the mantra – until someone or something makes a real difference and makes Microsoft look bad. Then the song and dance is more one of “I’m not going to [...]

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 [...]

17 March 2006 9 Comments

Firefox 2.0 Alpha- Take some from the oven

That’s right, Firefox 2.0, and that’s also right, it’s still in the oven.
Before you go downloading and installing it, I’d like to remind you of a couple different things:
1. Probably just about all of your extensions will cease to work.
2. Your computer will likely crash constantly.
3. Your browser will have a rediculous amound of [...]

23 October 2005 Comments Off

Firefox 1.5 Beta for Developers Demo

New Firefox offers new tools for developers
Firefox 1.5 Beta for Developers – Demo
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Written by Aaron Brazell on October 23, 2005

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