December 23, 2009
People spend a LOT of time on social media sites like Twitter, chatting with fellow friends and colleagues, reading the latest trending topics, and sharing links to popular blog posts and news articles. Likewise, these same individuals also spend a lot of time surfing the web for interesting content, often sharing their thoughts, ideas, and [...]
December 22, 2009
I have been using Google Chrome since it first came out and it has a lot of features to recommend itself (the speed and lower memory usage being the main sells). But there were lots of features that were lacking which prevented me from making the full switch from Firefox. With my heavy usage of [...]
December 4, 2009
You wouldn’t put it past them, and now they’ve done it; Google has reinvented email. The news has reached most people by now, but just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, I’ll start out with an – admittedly oversimplified – explanation. Because that’s the thing with Google Wave: [...]
October 27, 2009
Not many people know this, but Google Chrome is based on Chromium, an open source browser project. Everyone willing can download the source code, and make a few tweaks to their own Chrome-like browser. That’s right, Firefox isn’t the only contender showing off their code! Although there are a whole bunch of Firefox spin-offs, Chrome [...]
October 13, 2009
For a lot of us Google Chrome is still not hot enough. The reason? It’s still not extendable enough like Firefox. Ever since it came out, users have cried out for ways to tweak the browser to make it the Jack of all trades. The easiest way of course is through add-ons as Firefox calls [...]
October 10, 2009
Call them extensions, plug-ins or add-ons; the terms probably owe their popularity to Firefox. The knock on effect is that it has almost become a gold standard for browsers to be judged by. Why not as these days we live inside the browser rather than anywhere else. The need for extension support was almost a [...]
August 27, 2009
In the kingdom of Mac browsers, there are two names that rule the land: Safari – with its speed and style; and Firefox – with its flexibility of functionalities. There are other browsers of course, with their loyal users if I may add; but these two share the biggest share of the pie. Being the [...]
June 5, 2009
Firefox is an incredibly versatile and flexible tool that offers a lot of possibilities for individual customization. An integral part of browsing the internet is collecting URLs or favorites, better known as bookmarks within the Mozilla browser family. The integrated Firefox bookmarks however are rarely used to their full potential. Here is a selection of [...]
June 2, 2009
Glue, a social network coupled with a Firefox add-on, manages to bring usefulness to the feature list ““ providing you with recommendations from your friends and from the Glue community, on movies, music, restaurants and more directly in your browser. It was created by Adaptive Blue, a New York based startup launched in 2006 by [...]
April 20, 2009
I remember the first time I set my eyes on Microsoft Office2007. It was love at first sight because everything seemed so stylish. At second sight, I found myself a bit lost among the buttons of the new Ribbon menu. I knew there was a bit of a learning curve ahead of me. Though I mastered [...]
