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An historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog.AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com. The Netscape.com Web site will remain as a general-purpose portal. Read the rest of this entry »
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So, the previous article that I wrote was kind of an introduction for the topic that I will do for the month of February, I tackled the first pro of the Apple TV which is the availability of movies and the huge amount of movies available for renting.Now, I will go on discussing the other side of the coin. The main problem or the huge turn off when it comes to renting these videos is the time limit for the consumer to watch it. You are only given 24 hours to watch it, but the thing is, not all consumers watch a film from start to finish. And especially the viewing behaviour of children where they watch a single movie over and over and over again for like a couple of months until they have memorized the whole script and their songs, and even their dance steps. But, blame should not be put on Apple, but on the movie studios that made this decision. Tsk.
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The mobile internet browsing experience is so bad these days: text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome. This was more likely due to both the smartphone’s hardware and integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, most expect some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.
The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook - any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.
Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.
Posted By Faye
Without doubt, the most frequent question my Web site customers ask is; can you make our Web site appear on the first page of the search results? You can spend hours developing excellent site content; however, if no one can find it there is little marketing value. Of course, all marketing literature and advertising will list the Web site address but this will reach an extremely small segment of the potential Internet audience.
When I speak of search engine performance, I am referring to how a site does on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Forget all the spam messages that promise to submit your site to 300 plus search engines. If you do well on these three, you will capture over 85% of the market and do well on most other small engines. Many smaller search companies actually purchase their search content from Google or Yahoo.
It is no longer necessary to submit your site to the search engines as long as it is linked from another site that is currently listed on Google and Yahoo. Most of the companies promising to do “mass” site submissions using automated software are frowned upon by the “big three” search engines. The spiders will find your site by following links from other listed sites. This is where a link from an Internet service directory such as IHR.com or InfertilitySpecialist.com can be valuable (more about links later). The only directory I specifically submit to is DMOZ.org which is a “human reviewed”
directory that is used by others such as AOL. One way to learn if your site has been added is to type your URL (domain name) into the search engines and see if it appears.
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by: Stan Colquitt. He has specialized in fertility Web sites for the last nine years. He has demonstrated competence in gaining superior rankings for his customers and personally composes the site text for most of his physician customers. He holds the Web Master Certification from CIW and he has also attained the Microsoft Certified Professional Certification. Stan has his bachelor’s degree in biology and worked as a manager for Serono Laboratories for six years. He and his wife, Coty, were also fertility patients.
Posted By Faye
In considering how to extend the Web with new technologies, it is instructive to compare Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with frames. CSS is an elegantly designed extension, whereas�frames suck, as I have said many times.CSS is�backward compatible�to the extent that viewing a style-enhanced site with an older browser causes no problems at all. Of course, the user doesn’t see the stylistic enhancements made possible by CSS (e.g., multiple fonts and indented margins), but the text of the page will be readable and will be presented in a reasonable default style (of course, the extent to which you deem the default presentation reasonable depends on your assessment of the quality of typography in mainstream browsers: admittedly rather poor). In contrast, a page designed with frames is useless for a user with an old browser.CSS is�orthogonal to other features�in Web browsing. When multiple style sheets become supported in future releases of the mainstream browsers, users might want to learn the command to switch between styles, but they won’t have to. Even if users do learn this new command, it will not interfere with or change their understanding of earlier commands and operations. In contrast, frames destroy bookmarks, change the meaning of established commands like “print” and “view source”, and in general make a mess of the user’s prior understanding of the Web.CSS�builds on the philosophy of the Web: cross-platform design and simple-to-understand codes that are precisely documented in public specifications. In contrast, frames are hard to learn for authors, poorly documented, and have no chance of working on anything except desktop computers with relatively large screens (try fitting frames on a Pilot palmtop and you will see what I mean).Read more in�http://www.useit.com/alertbox/styles_vs_frames.html��
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Apple kept its rush of year-end security patches coming Monday, issuing a flurry of fixes for its Mac OS X operating system and the test version of its Safari browser.
Monday’s patches included a whopping 31 updates for the Apple operating system. The Mac OS X patches fix components ranging from the Address Book and iChat software to under-the-covers operating system components such as ColorSync, the IO Storage Family, and the Perl, Python and Ruby programming languages.
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Posted By Faye
Break on through: Among the Innovation Award winners are HP’s TouchSmart (displaying Microsoft’s Popfly), Toshiba’s Portege R500 (displaying Mint.com), Seagate’s hybrid hard drive, NetGear’s Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000, and — no surprise — Apple’s iPhone.
Make no mistake, the Web is taking over. Applications are moving to browsers en masse, and technology to take Web apps offline promises to smooth the road ahead. And let’s not forget breakthrough devices advancing the Web-anywhere world: Apple has redefined the phone, and One Laptop per Child’s sub-$200 laptop is delivering Internet-style collaboration to kids in developing nations. But innovation isn’t all on the Web; the PC is evolving as well. Apple has reenvisioned backup, HP has created the first useful touch-screen PC, hybrid hard drives boost speed and battery life, and ultraportables have become even more useful. Chosen from the hundreds of products we reviewed in 2007, here are 25 that will change the way you work, communicate, and play this year — and beyond.
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Web 3.0 just a marketing ploy, but collaborative tools are here to stay
By Jon Brodkin, Network World
LAS VEGAS — IT executives just getting comfortable with having Web 2.0 technologies within their networks are being faced with a moving target: Web 3.0.
But this time, the buzzword is really just a marketing ploy used to hype incremental improvements over the groundbreaking technologies that were labeled Web 2.0, analysts said during this week’s Gartner Web Innovation Summit in Las Vegas.
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