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08
Sep

Google Chrome available for download

Google has released their beta browser Chrome for Windows. It distinguishes itself from other browsers by having a very minimalistic design, and some interesting technological features:

The address bar doubles as a search box, history browser and suggestion bar.
The tabs can be dragged out of the browser to create a new window, or multiple tabs can [...]


30
Jun

Dvorak’s metered bandwidth, and why he’s wrong (again)

Finally I’m getting around to posting a rebuttal of John C. Dvorak’s Eight Reasons Your Web Connection Should Be Metered. He claims the current all-you-can-eat model can’t continue much longer, and is stupid. I assume Dvorak is talking about measuring every bit and byte that is sent across your connection, when he talks about metering [...]


17
Jun

Firefox 3 download day starts at 10AM PDT

The Spread Firefox website has a forum post announcing the official start of the Firefox 3 download day as 10 a.m. PDT on June 17th. The local times are listed here.
This means I can’t start downloading Firefox 3.0 until 1PM… the tension is unbearable!


12
Jun

Firefox 3 scheduled for release on Tuesday June 17th

The Mozilla developer center announced yesterday that Firefox 3 is expected to release on Tuesday June 17th. It is accompanied by a large amount of compatible Add-Ons, and is expected to break a record of number of downloads in one day.


30
May

Revision3 suffered Denial of Service attack from… MediaDefender?

Revision3, host of such video podcasts as Diggnation, Systm and TekZilla, suffered a Denial of Service attack over the Memorial Day weekend. The interesting twist in this is that Revision3 says MediaDefender was the one causing the DoS attack.
Why is this interesting? Because for years discussions have been going on about the moral and legal [...]

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