Offtakes on Web-related software, services 'n tips
Archive for year 2008
Make Firefox 3 Rocket – short, simple ‘n sweet
Oct 27th
If you really want to make Firefox the fastest browser around it take 3 staeps to make it happen.
First you have to download a Beta copy of Firefox 3.1.x Beta download link. Alternatively, you can access the Mozilla FTP system at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ to download a copy of the latest trunk version. As I do at least once a week.
Next grab a copy of Portable Firefox as it’s not advisable to direct-install these trunk builds. Unless you’re willing to live with chaos.
For those who came in late, Portable Applications (in general), were developed for setup and use from USB pen drives. And let More >
Is Google Chrome shiny gold or cheap tinplate?
Sep 29th
The hottest, or rather shinest, web app today seems to be Google’s Chrome Web browser. But all that glitters ins’t gold. For starters a very strange EULA states that any data you exchange with a site when using Chrome is the property of Google!!! This post isn’t being processed using Chrome; that’s for sure.
Also Chrome is a teeny-weeny bit unstable on Vista. So I took the coward’s way out. And run it from my Microsoft Virtual PC Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta trial machine. And even there I don’t run the Chrome installed version; but the Google Chrome More >
Is your Windows got the Terminal Slows?
Sep 15th
Ok, so I’m a bit slow and stupid (it ain’t my genes; I seemed to spend most my childhood out cold Evel Knievel style doing what is in hindsight silly stunts). But late discovery or not, virtualization has come as a boon to me. It lets me begin testing software and services for this column without causing my computer to suffer a bad case of the terminal slows.
On Windows XP (or Vista), use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1. This really neat PC emulator can run just about every released consumer flavor of 16-, 32- and 64-bit Windows beginning with Windows95 More >
What Powers Your Web Browser
Sep 8th
I encountered a really interesting article Under the hood, a quick look at the Trident, Gecko, Webkit and Presto/Electra browser engines at Neowin.
Before you read this article do try and guess which engines are used in which browser. Then check out this under the hood unbiased, brief overview of each engine, plus a historical background and the browsers they power.
Back among the living
Aug 25th
Hi readers!
My apologies for a nearly one whole year of silence. Lots of stuff happened in my personal space. And I flat out lost the will to locate ‘n review netapps and other web-related stuff.
But a recent server migration revealed that 12,000 loyal fans visit this site every week. And its for folks like you who believed in me that I’ve vaporized my demons (this week anyways). And will soon start adding more stuff you like to read.
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