February 2010
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By Robin Monks on February 23, 2010
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
Posted in Development, Drupal, Free Software, Watchful Eye | Tagged Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Web browser |
By Robin Monks on February 21, 2010
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather [...]
Posted in Drupal, Free Software, Policy and Law | Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Web browser, Windows 7, Windows Update |
By Robin Monks on February 14, 2010
via rss.slashdot.org I so, totally, want one of these….badly.
Posted in Bugs, Video | Tagged Mosquitoes, Slashdot |
By Robin Monks on February 13, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Another question I recently answered on Aardvark, thought it would be useful to more folks as well. Where can i get the Nexus One in Canada and will it work on Fido? The first thing to note is you can’t get Nexus One’s that easily if you’re in Canada, since, the Google [...]
Posted in Q&A | Tagged Canada, Google, Nexus One, Tools |
By Robin Monks on February 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Here’s a question I get hit up on Aardvark with earlier today: I have a very very big collection of music in iTunes. I want to move to Linux but I don’t know if the players can handle 200,000+ files as efficiently as iTunes. Help? The answer, is rather simple. Â Songbird is [...]
Posted in Free Software, Q&A | Tagged Digital rights management, Hardware Support, itunes, Linux, Operating system, songbird |
By Robin Monks on February 4, 2010
Image via Wikipedia So, Microsoft sent me a complimentary copy of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 today for being a partner. Kudos to them. As to Expression Web, it works wonderful for prototyping but, doesn’t really handle CMS themeing that well. Will be playing around with Expression Blend a bit later to see what geekiness I [...]
Posted in Development, Screenshots, Video | Tagged Add new tag, Business, Microsoft, Microsoft Expression Studio, Microsoft Expression Studio 3 |
By Robin Monks on February 2, 2010
Image via Wikipedia TV shows like MacGyver and Junk Yard Wars, as well as real world survival and minimalist training [even camping] tell us that it’s cool to take bits of whatever is lying around, and jury-rig it into something useful, and potentially vital to our survival. Today as I was thinking about the plethora [...]
Posted in Development, Drupal, Standards | Tagged Action and Adventure, Add new tag, Cascading Style Sheets, Data Formats, HTML, HTML5, MacGyver, Markup Languages, Television, Video |
