Category Archives: Internet

Picking a Domain

Shannon has been wanting to start a blog of her own, however its getting tougher and tougher to find a good, short and memorable domain that actually has something to do with her content. I heard about PickyDomains on an episode of TWiT and I am going to give it a shot, I have a [...]

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Yahoo! Releases OSS Ajax and Design Tools

Today Yahoo! released the Yahoo! User Interface Library. This library is comprised of a number of dynamic HTML utilities and controls for building rich web UIs and Ajax applications. They are made available under an open-source license. In addition, Yahoo! released the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. This collection of design patterns for Web interaction is [...]

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Google Desktop 3 extreme launched

Hot Features: – Share information with your friend’s right from the Sidebar – Floating panels on your desktop – Play multi-user games (Tic Tac Toe) – View personalized news, photos, and more on your desktop – Find your emails, files, photos, web history, Gmail, and more – Security: Lock Search – Advanced Sear

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FireFox 2.0 (Alpha 1) Release Date

Most current activity on the Firefox 2 front is wrapped up in planning, scoping, and assigning tasks. Please see the features list and the planning documents linked therein for more information.
Next scheduled release date: February 10, 2006 (Alpha 1).

New Bookmark and History System
Tabbed browsing UI improvements & defaults
Extension Manager enhancements
Search Engine UI improvements (add/remove/options)
Visual refresh, [...]

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Gmail Chat

he NYT is reporting that Google will be blending Google Talk directly into the Gmail website tomorrow for a limited number of users. The new product will be called “Gmail Chat”.
The new program, called Gmail Chat, will let Gmail users exchange text messages with others without having to log onto a separate chat program, making [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 Available

For those of you running Firefox 1.5, you can use the browser’s integrated update engine to upgrade to version 1.5.0.1. Here are a list of changes/updates in this release:

Improved stability.
Improved support for Mac OS X.
International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled.
Fixes for several memory leaks.
Several security enhancements.

The list mentions that several memory [...]

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Internet Explorer Beta 2

IE Beta 2 has been officially released by Microsoft to the masses. Lots of new (and long overdue features) such as tabbed browsing, better CSS and security.
MS also released a useful Developer Toolbar that lets you do some advanced things design websites and such.

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Firefox 2.0 Features

From the developer’s own blog: New Bookmarks and History, Tabbed Browsing Enhancements, Improved Basic Content Type Handling, Web Search, Visual Uplift, Inline Spell Check and more! Check out the post for more details.

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IE 7 Build 5299 (Beta 2) Screenshots

The JCXP forums have leaked new screenshots of the latest Internet Explorer build 5299, which is current the 2nd beta of the browser. IE7 is slated for release sometime in the upcoming year and judging by these screenshots it may be sooner than expected.

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New Bugmenot plugin for Firefox

Bugmenot is a service that feeds you valid, anonymous login/passwords for websites that require free registration, like the New York Times. After a long hiatus, there’s a new version of the Bugmenot plugin for Firefox, which automates the process of reading the news while protecting your privacy. Link

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