So Long Netscape, Thanks For All The Fish
Fifteen years ago Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed the first popular web browser “Mosaic“. The funding for this work came from the “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991“, an act created by one Senator Al Gore. President George Bush Snr. predicted that the […]
Does Face Always Mean Facebook?
Here’s one for you all to ponder (or maybe not, maybe I’m overreacting).
If you have Firefox as your browser, type the word face into the address bar and hit enter. You will find yourself automatically redirected to Facebook. Why? Because Google assumes that if you type face into your address bar, then you wanted to […]
Guardian Technology Redesign: Not Too Technical
As part of it’s plans to slowly redesign its entire network, The Guardian have now redesigned the Technology section of their site. It fits with the new design already seen on the home page & Travel section, and as we’ve said before, we’re big fans.
But there’s one small problem: it doesn’t seem to support Firefox, […]
Google suggests…
Just what is Google suggesting i look up here… well, ok that’s a rhetorical question as it’s quite clear what they’re suggesting i look up, I’m raising the question as to the legitimacy of having “school girls” as the first entry in the suggestion box… in any suggestion box for that matter.
In these modern days […]
Contaminate Firefox? Or exterminate IE?
So, recently I discovered IE Tab, which is a tasty little plugin for (Windows) Mozilla/Firefox that lets you view any page as it would appear in IE from within Firefox. (Visit a page that doesn’t work right in Firefox? Right-click on the tab and select “Switch rendering engine”. You can also get […]
