For the first time since 1996, the InternetExplorer browser family is no longer dominating the German Internet landscape read more
A Glimpse At Opera Mini 5
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lthough Opera might not be so dominant in the desktop market, it has managed to establish its self as reputable software in the mobile domain. Opera Mini is a web browser for your phone that goes far beyond any standard mobile browser, as it is able to display full HTML pages while fitting perfectly to the small screen.
Clever Adverts
Its not often we come across such cleverly thought of advertising. Companies spend large amounts of their annual budget on marketing yet its strange how adverts like these are quite rare. Or perhaps we have just learned to subconsciously ignore advertising as a side affect of marketing bombardment. This certainly could be the case when it comes to internet marketing as many simply out of an automatic instinct pass right over online advert’s
5 Years of Firefox, A Testement To Open Source Potential
With the recent passing of Firefox’s fifth birthday, it got me thinking of the magnitude of good this innovative browser has done to promote the open source software movement. I clearly recall back in 2005 when I first stumbled on this browser in my search to rid myself of the virus prone Internet Explorer 6.
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Could there Be Google OS Clues in Google Wave??
I Received my Google Wave invite from Google this morning. After a long wait it was relieving to see that Google considered me by sending the invite. The service looks incredibly exciting but there is alot of playing and learning to be done since it is such an innovative and different product.
Username Check
If you are particular about having a unified username accross all the sites you use, then this tool could come in handy. With todays increasing messy password and user account environment it does make it slightly easier to manage your online identity with a unified username. KnowEm checks about 370 popular social and media websites for your username and displays the results in catagories.
The Motorola Droid
Motorola recently announced its upcoming android phone which has been causing quite some hype among the online community regarding its features. Touted by many to surpass that of the iPhone. Its pleasing to see that mobile linux is doing so well, and further more pleasing to see its projected market share to beat that of Windows Mobile in the future.
Thunderbird 3 Edges Closer
For those who don’t know about Thunderbird, Thunderbird is Firefox’s sister application, a powerful email client that shares Firefox’s incredible might for extensibility and usability.
“Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days” – Wikipedia
Google Wave Expected To Open In September
Google wave is expected to be opened up to non developers in September. Google wave is set to be a hybrid service of Gmail, Gtalk and Blogger. Said to be completely open source, Google Wave aims to reinvent online communication and sharing. There has been much hype regarding what this service actually entails and how it might change the internet communication landscape.
