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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Discover Lunascape

The concept is quite simple. A multi-engined browser.
We’ve all come across the issues with web sites working in Firefox and not IE, or looking fine in IE, but not in Safari.
Lunascape is setting out to bring the Trident engine (used in IE); the Gecko engine (used in Firefox); and the Webkit engine (used in [...]

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People Browsr – First Glance

On Friendfeed this evening, and Robert Scoble posted a link about People Browsr.
It’s still very much in development right now, currently at alpha 0.69
First you go to the web site.
Then you add your twitter ID and password, and it then asks you for your email address.
Then you get a list to work down, if you [...]

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Check Out Musical ‘Twitter’

Want to micro-blog messages with your favorite songs attached, and follow others that like similar music to you?
You need blip.fm
Ok, it’s not exactly a new concept. There’s already Pandora, and Last.FM about, and others besides. What is cool about this service is that you can integrate it with Twitter, Friendfeed, Pownce and Tumblr, and share [...]

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Do You Think Minimalist Is Best?

If you’re a regular reader in here, you’ll surely have noticed that the theme has changed.
Now, I’ll fess up here. I’m all for content. I want to read when I go to a blog. OK, an image or two is nice, and we all know that a picture speaks a thousand words… sometimes.
Still, the [...]

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You Need This To Watch Video Anywhere

I’ve got a large collection of videos. Different codecs, but mostly MPEG-2 and MPEG4. A whole bunch of different containers – AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, and ASF. Mostly the first two, a few of the third, and a smattering of the two latter ones.
Anyway, what I used to do with video I had downloaded, was [...]

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Kick Ass Windows Security At a Kick Ass Price

I have been using Sunbelt VIPRE security suite for a number of months now, having tried out the beta version, and then moving onto the paid version when it was released. I wholeheartedly recommend this software. It’s light on resources, but heavy on squashing the viruses, spyware, and rootkits.
It seems to be very good at [...]

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Best Way To Get Up To The Minute Info About Your Site

I have joined a great service called Clicky.
So what is Clicky?
Install Clicky code onto your web site and you can get up-to-the-minute stats about your site.
It’s easy to implement. All you do is take the supplied code, and add it to your web site, and then Clicky will slurp up all that lovely data [...]

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Kick Ass Ways To Use QIK

When I first heard about QIK, I thought “What the heck am I going to with this?”  I reckoned it would be fine to play with for a while, but that was it.
QIK allows you to stream live video from your mobile phone to the internet. You can stream it to your own QIK Page, [...]

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Do You Tweet, And What For?

I use Twitter for more than one purpose.
1. I use it to communicate between groups of online friends. Messages like “see you at the meetup on Friday”, or  “hey, gas is only $1.50 a gallon here today”
2. My wife and I use it to communicate a lot. We could use regular SMS, but we have [...]

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