With the exception of Google’s Chrome, most of the alternative browsers out there tend to get lost in the shuffle. Three writers take some lesser-known browsers out for a spin: Camino (for the Mac), Maxthon (for the PC), OmniWeb (for the Mac), Opera (both the Mac and the PC versions) and Shiira (for the Mac).
Anyone played with Google Analytics? We’re considering using it at work, so I’ve justed the reference to the JavaScript file in the footer. (Took all of 2-3 minutes… Gotta love server-side includes!) Here is a test pdf file to see if Analytics will track PDF files. If you want to grab it, open it, that…
A Twitter post today mentioned the Maps of War, a site that has history maps with time lines showing the progression of different events overlaid on a map. Two of the maps caught my eye: Imperial History of the Middle East and the History of Religion. I’ve embedded both of them here. While not much…
Over the past few year, I’ve been getting 2-3 registrations on this blog per day with very few actual posts from the new users. The registrations are from automated spam bots trying to see if they can log onto the site and take over some functions. I sorted through the 1100+ users who had registered…
The Reg has an article on 10 reasons to purchase a Mac from Apple. I’m pretty much hooked. I refuse to go to Vista with all of it’s let me help you attitude problems. I hate operating systems that will not let you do what you need to do on a computer. That puts the…
Online game where you earn XP for completing chores called, of course, Chore Wars. Earn XP for completing chores around the house. Sign up the household and see who levels first… http://www.chorewars.com/help.php#2 Cute idea. If Mom had used this when we were little, my sisters and I probably would have been more enthusiastic about completing…
According to an article in Wired: “Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.” The game is being developed by Multiverse (whose Web site has been slashdotted,…