Tag: firefox

  • Firefox 3.0b1 on OS X Leopard quick review

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    I downloaded and installed the beta version of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago and have been using it since on my OS X Leopard laptop. I also installed the Proto theme for Mac Firefox which significantly enhances the look of Firefox 3 on the Mac. My initial impressions of Firefox 3.0b1 are very positive.…

  • Popfly mashups

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    After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right) and the interface is easy to get used to. In fact it is even easier…

  • Ubuntu 7.10 DNS issue

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    Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) has a DNS-related bug. I referred to it when I posted about having upgraded to 7.10 last week but since then I have found how to get around it. First the problem – After the upgrade, browsers, mail clients and other Internet-related applications run very slowly. Loading pages in Firefox…

  • Firefox's marketshare now 27.8% in Europe?

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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Damien asks us what our site stats for Firefox are after reading the results of a survey by XiTi monitor which shows Firefox having 38.6% marketshare in Ireland. You can…

  • Does Silverlight kill Internet connectivity on Macs?

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    I had a problem with my MacBookPro the other day. It lost Internet connectivity. It couldn’t get an IP address from the DSL router. Restarting the router didn’t help. Nor did stopping and starting Airport or using a wired connection. At first I figured the router was fried. But then, I restarted the Mac and…

  • Richard MacManus' predictions for 2007

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    Richard MacManus, over on Read/WriteWeb has an extremely comprehensive must read post on his forecast for what will be hot in 2007. His predictions for 2007: RSS will go mainstream Structured data will be a big trend Widgets will continue rising in 2007 Web Office will continue to ramp up The consumerization of the enterprise…

  • How to advertise to me

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    Advertising any product to me is becoming more and more difficult. It is not just me, there is a growing number of people who are discovering ways to skip ads almost completely in their daily lives. In my own case, I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper but it would be…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…