So I finally buckled down today to try Safari on Windows. After a discussion with a colleague about how Apple does everything better I thought I’d see if that was true in the browser world. Safari, although residing on my Vista machine, is till very Apple-like. It has the iTunes brushed metal look. The first [...]

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Today I was doing research for a client’s project. One of the tasks is integrating a 3rd party data component into a website. The developers of that component, while not having the most informative site, had a link to ‘live support’.
Intrigued and unfullfilled, I decided to click the link. Within seconds I was in [...]

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Adobe decided to jump into the Feed Reader space with its new ‘Labs’ project called myFeedz. The differentiation factor here is that you can view other people’s feeds that are tagged similar. They coin it as a ’social newspaper’.
So for instance I imported my OPML file from Google Reader and I have several posts tagged [...]

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Everybody from bloggers to major publications like PC World are writing about Vista - what it does, why it’s great, why it sucks, how it copies Apple’s OSX, etc, etc, etc. I shared my first impressions on Vista - “Loving it!” - shortly after my first week of using Vista Ultimate. Zane says he [...]

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I plan on writing a series of posts of why Firefox 2.0 is better than Internet Explorer 7.0 (no link, sorry).

Reason #1: Extensibility
Granted, both camps offer add-ons but the value created by Mozilla and its vast community of users far surpasses that of Microsoft’s with Internet Explorer.
The Firefox community provides thousands of add-ons from those [...]

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