A comprehensive review of Opera 9.5 beta by a former Firefox enthusiast. Includes an overview of all its features and a few tips for those who’d like to try it out and maybe make it their favorite browser.
December 2007
since he won’t allow comments digg will
2007 is almost over so it’s time to make a list of the Top 10 BitTorrent sites getting the most traffic this year. Mininova is out in the lead followed by IsoHunt and The Pirate Bay. TorrentSpy, the most popular BitTorrent site last year, has dropped down to 6th place.
Ah, eBay. Home to some of the rarest, most incredible devices known (and previously unknown) to man. On the docket today is a stupendously rare, unreleased development controller for use with the SNES CD dev kit.
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
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I left feedback for AOL’s web dev team. If you want to call them web developers…
MSDN’s Channel9 and the IEBlog both confirm the new version of IE, IE8, will pass the ACID2 Test!
This guide shows how to use Timevault on Ubuntu 7.10. TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated into Nautilus.
Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been officially released over at Mozilla.[Improved in Beta 2!] Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in our mouths.
[Opera] Urges Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standards—compliant Web browsers
This tests the w3c standards for the XMLHttpRequest object.
Two phone browsers going head to head, but a third one takes the win
Todoist is a popular online task manager that’s useful, fast and easy to use.
“w00t,” an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.