Sunday, October 29, 2006

Time Magazine: Why Two Browsers are Better than One

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"The just released Mozilla Firefox 2 may be better than Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7, but you'll probably want to use both.."

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Google Earth coordinates for all of Wikipedia

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"Wikipedia contains the geographical coordinates for thousands of cities, landmarks, and other geographical features. One clever soul has taken a snapshot of the geocoordinates Wikipedia makes available and put them together as a .KMZ file that you can load into Google Earth. There are tens of thousands of coordinate pairs in the nearly 2MB file"

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Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

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""In this article, I introduce you to some of the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that can be downloaded for free. I walk through using each of the add-ins, but because I am covering so many I only have room to introduce you to the basic functionality...""

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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

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"Joel Spolsky's amusing and informative screed on the proper way to interview and hire software developers. (This is updated from the older, previously-dugg version.)"

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Review: Firefox 2.0 is a solid improvement

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"Not to be outdone by the debut of Internet Explorer 7 last week, the Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0 with a minor makeover, a few new features, and a number of enhancements to existing features. It's not a drastic change from the 1.5 series, but Firefox 2.0 bring enough improvements to make the upgrade worthwhile."

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Search across tabs in Firefox with Showcase

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"Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system."

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Firefox 2 is NOT released!

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"Downloading Firefox builds before the "official" release can cause problems for both Mozilla and for end users. "Preed the Release Engineer says: friends don't let friends download Firefox before it's released.""

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