Tag: firefox

  • Running Windows on OS X

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    Actually Sprinting Windows on OS X might be a more accurate post title or Screaming Windows, or… Parallels is virtualisation software which allows you to run other OS’s on your Mac. I splashed out recently and bought myself a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo, 2gb ram, 120gb hd). Now that I have…

  • Firefox 2 Beta 1 review

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    Mozilla announced yesterday the release of the latest beta version of Firefox – Firefox 2 Beta 1. I downloaded a copy to try it out. As always on the Mac, install was the extremely straightforward drag and drop. On launching, Firefox checked my extensions and disabled almost all of them (except Adblock – phew!). It…

  • Microsoft to start supporting Firefox?

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    I write posts here with boring regularity on Microsoft’s latest releases. They all follow a similar pattern – “I have just heard that Microsoft have just released [insert product name here] unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox/Mac”. Now, however, I have acquired an unlikely ally in Robert Scoble – Microsoft’s chief blogger! Robert said in…

  • Cool new Firefox plug-in

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    Hyperwords was released yesterday and it is a very cool extension for Firefox and Flock. It has been developed by Liquid-Information an interesting company with an advisory board that reads like a who’s who in IT (Doug Engelbart, Vint Cerf, Ted Nelson, Bruce Horn, Dave Farber, Joi Ito, etc. What does it do? Well, the…

  • Zoho Writer fails to impress!

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    I received an email this morning from an Aravind (a Market Analyst for the Zoho range of products & services apparently). Aravind asked me to test the Beta of Zoho Writer, an online word processor. I tried it out and wasn’t too impressed! I have tried and written about online word processors previously and both…

  • Video Skype finally rolled out – PC only!

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    Skype today launched their Skype 2.0 application, complete with video calling capabilities! I’m a little confused, though because although Skype refer to the application as Skype 2.0 in their press release, it is called Skype 1.4 on the Mac download page. Ok, just downloaded Skype 1.4 Beta for Mac OS X and I can’t find…

  • Google Analytics graphs on a Mac

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    Google announced it was opening Google Analytics – a web stats program, for all to use free last week. Since it was launched Google Analytics has had problems – mostly related to the unprecedented demand for its use (unprecedented by Google, at any rate). One persistent issue, unrelated to popularity is that the Google Analytics…

  • New Safari (released version) now passes the Acid2 test

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    The latest release of Safari (v2.02) – released in Mac OS X 10.4.3 today, now passes the Acid2 test – wohoo! Acid2 is a test page, written by the Web Standards Project, to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Safari is now ahead of every major browser in its…