Microsoft has begun to add some messages from Twitter to results from the Bing search engine. It comes as Microsoft celebrates a clear – though minute – growth in Bing’s usage. While Twitter’s audience is still relatively small in comparison to the web as a whole, it’s become a useful way to find information which […]
Since the last time I posted browser benchmarks, Google Chrome jumped to version 2, Safari released version 4, Internet Explorer 8 was released, and just yesterday Firefox version 3.5 hit the intertubes. Furthermore, the Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks have been refined and expanded since then, so it’s high time we update the numbers. I ran Dromaeo’s […]
It’s official folks, Firefox 3.5 final has just been released today! Not only does the new version have a smaller memory footprint and better memory management, but it’s also twice as fast as the previous one. So what are you waiting for? Each second you spend reading this is a second of future productivity lost! […]
If the internet was a 50s Broadway musical, it would feature eHarmony, Pandora, Evite, Twitter, and anything else that rhymes well enough for a song. OK, to really enjoy this, you have to be old enough to be familiar with West Side Story AND young enough to know your way around the internet. You know, […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to The Economist, the virtual world Second Life might be a new way to help those with learning disabilities understand (and therefore provide informed consent for) medical procedures and treatment options. A model of the Royal Sussex County Hospital is being built, where the avatars of study participants […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a recent speech, Dow Jones Chief Executive and publisher of the Wall Street Journal Les Hinton waxed poetic upon the evils of Google by picking a metaphor and, er, sinking his teeth in. He called Google a vampire that’s been “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper business. […]
O.M.G.I.G.P. stands for “Oh My God I’m Gonna Puke.” Some of you will think that this acronym should be used as an Anti-IE acronym, but in the case of the following video, no, it’s to promote IE8’s new InPrivate mode. Warning: Video is a bit gross. Oh, and before anyone mentions it, yeah, we know, […]
A browser is a search engine??? Really? It’s pretty hard to believe that in 2009, of all the people who were interviewed for this video, less than 8% actually knew what a browser was. I tell you folks, this is truly a sad day for the geek nation. It seems that we’ve got a lot […]
Have you ever thought that it would be really cool if you could combine multiple RSS or Atom feeds into a single feed? I have, and I now know that it’s possible with an awesome cross-platform web application called FeedMingle, available at www.feedmingle.com. For years now I’ve relied on my RSS feeds for getting news […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] It seems that every time a new technology comes out, we hear about a special “secure” version of that technology close on its heels. First we had HTTP, followed by HTTPS. Similarly, a lot of protocols like IM, VOIP, and FTP have secure or encrypted versions of themselves. […]