Browsers

Walt Mossberg reviews iPhone

June 27, 2007

Walt Mossberg of WSJ is highly regarded as one of the most influential writers on information technology. After trying out iPhone for 2 week, he has his say on this post Checkout this video too Points to note from the video: He was able to get in terms with the virtual keyboard after 5 days [...]

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Safari – Now on Windows

June 12, 2007

One of the announcements made by Steve Jobs in WWDC was the availability of Safari Web Browser on Windows. As soon as I saw the news (it was around 1AM IST), I was tempted to try it out. The windows installable is around 8MB. The Browser setup optionally installs the following components: Bonjour Networking Service Apple [...]

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Website Load Time Tester

June 11, 2007

Pingdom is a service which provides tools to monitor web sites, E-Mail Servers, FTP servers and a multitude of other services. Though I didn’t find the service that useful, they do seem to have introduced a nice little tool (free) to check the page loading speed. http://www.pingdom.com/tools/fpt/?url=www.venukb.com/blog (Replace the “url” parameter with the URL of [...]

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Blogging From Flickr !

December 22, 2006

Originally uploaded by venukb. Trying out the “Blog This” feature of Flickr ! Also ever since I found out about the macro mode in my camera, I have been shooting photos of flowers like crazy ! Don’t believe me ! Check this flickr set  

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WP Tiger Admin 3.0

December 14, 2006

WordPress is truly a great publishing platform. It is written completely in PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. The true power of WordPress lies in the extensible plugin architecture. Also you can change the look and feel just by a click ! However the Admin interface of WordPress has always looked dull and [...]

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Snap – Add preview to your website

December 3, 2006

Snap is a search portal which shows a image preview for each search result. Unfortunately the search engine is not that great, it would have been nice if the they had used the Google search engine to show the search results However they have another service called Snap Preview Anywhere which I liked very much. [...]

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AutoHide Firefox Extension

November 29, 2006

In most of the browsers, toolbars take a lot of space on the display. You can either remove/hide the toolbars or switch to Full Screen Mode. In the latest version of Firefox (Version 2.0) the Full Screen mode will display only the Navigation Toolbar. However you are forced to switch back to the normal view [...]

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Firefox Extensions

November 3, 2006

One of the nice feature of Firefox Web browser is the ability to add new features via extensions. Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox, from a simple toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow you to customize Firefox to fit your own needs and preferences. Note that extensions shouldn’t [...]

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Mozilla gets a cake from Microsoft

October 26, 2006

I am not sure how true this is, but it seems that Mozilla got a cake from Microsoft IE Team for the release of Firefox 2.0 ! Checkout some interesting comments for this post on Digg even their cake probably has bugs in it It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess [...]

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Firefox 2 is out !

October 25, 2006

Firefox 2 (codenamed Bon Echo) is now officially released and is available for download here. I checked for updates from within the browser, however I was prompted with a message saying that no new updates were available. This means that Firefox 2 is not being pushed via the update mechanism as of now ! I [...]

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