Archives for June 2011
Published on 30 Jun 2011 at 3:27 pm.
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The following are a list of my own, personal recommendations for apps on Android based devices. I stick with free versions of everything. Dropbox– Absolutely the best way of keeping files between multiple computers and mobile devices in sync. Just need to copy a file into folder on your computer or phone and it is […]
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Published on 23 Jun 2011 at 2:10 pm.
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This is the fourth in a series of posts on interesting third party browsers for the mobile Web. Read part 1: Opera Mini, part 2: Opera Mobile, and part 3: NetFront Life. First off, I will offer full disclosure before I continue with this post. I currently own the Motorola Droid, which has a known […]
Read ‘Third Party Mobile Browsers – part 4: Firefox’
Published on 21 Jun 2011 at 10:54 pm.
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I am a bit of a Web geek who is really tired of seeing ads on the sites he visits, but IÂ do not want to run ad-block because I like a bit more control over what I block. I have taken to editing the userContent.css file in the chrome directory of my Firefox profile […]
Read ‘ad blocking on facebook, failblog, and fark with firefox’
Published on 21 Jun 2011 at 9:43 pm.
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This post is a follow up to my previous post. This post was actually written following the platform preview, but apparently was never published. I am editing it slightly and posting it now that IE9 is out. Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010. – correct Border-radius support! – correct […]
Read ‘IE9 Predictions results.’
Published on 9 Jun 2011 at 4:20 pm.
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Earlier this week Google announced that they were beginning to support authorship markup. Since then there have been a slew of individuals that immediately assumed that this meant that you could steal credit for another author’s work just by editing markup. This is not the case. The way authorship markup is designed to build the […]
Read ‘Clearing up the confusion on Google’s new authorship support’
Published on 7 Jun 2011 at 7:26 pm.
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Twitter is a social media network that is an amalgamation of Facebook, instant message, and e-mail all in one. Users are said to “follow†individuals they are interested in. These users send messages called Tweets that are 140 characters in length. To draw attention (called “mention†in the world of Twitter) to a user you […]
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Published on 3 Jun 2011 at 2:19 pm.
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Google has recently announced that they going to be dropping support for older browsers. … Older browsers just don’t have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience. For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, […]
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Published on 2 Jun 2011 at 1:38 pm.
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This is the third in a series of posts on interesting third party browsers for the mobile Web. Read part 1: Opera Mini, and part 2: Opera Mobile. Moving away from Opera we now begin to look at some of the other active mobile browsers on the market. The NetFront Life browser from ACCESS Co. […]
Read ‘Third Party Mobile Browsers – part 3: NetFront Life’