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Entries Tagged as 'Web Browsers'

Internet Explorer 8 Beta

March 16th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

IE8 Beta has been released specially for developers and web programmers. It comes with some interesting features:
* IE7 Emulation
* Developer Tools for debugging, with similar functionality to the Firefox Ad on  (mentioned just as a reference not as a comparison).
*  IE8 activities - Providing quick access to external services from any webpage by sending information from the page to another application or fetching external information related to data on [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Web Browsers



PicLens a browser slideshow

March 8th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window.
PicLens suports a number of sites: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Google Images, [...]

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Tags: Applications · Technology · Web Browsers · quick & easy tips

Internet Explorer for Linux IE4Linux

November 2nd, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

What a terrible idea… and yet very useful. Let me explain. If you are a web developer you will have to test you web apps or sites on IE, specially because IE lives in it’s own little world but still a lot of people use it. Anyway, I came across this application IE4Linux [...]

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Tags: Applications · Web Browsers · Web Design · quick & easy tips



Create search plugin for Firefox and IE

October 27th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

By pure curiosity I decided (at 2am last night) to look into creating a search plugin for my Google Adsense Search. Well it was a very successfull adventure. It can be created for any site search, even your personal blog.
There are 2 ways of doing it (maybe more) I found .
1 - Create your own [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Technology · Tutorials / Training · Web Browsers · quick & easy tips

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) without Windows Genuine Advantage validation

October 11th, 2007 by Mark5 · No Comments

Microsoft are now making Internet Explorer 7 available without having to go through the process of validation (WGA) for your Windows installation.
By visiting their site, you can now elect to have your os automatically detected and updated, or, download the installation files for you to do on multiple machines.
This development - or change of heart [...]

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Tags: Citizen Journalism · Mark's Bits · Web Browsers

FTP client for Mac OSX

October 8th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

I friend of mine, had long suffered to find an easy FTP client to use on his Mac. He tried several but didn’t really find an FTP client to work well. He kept on using the FTP connection via Dreamweaver which is also a bit of a pain. I tried to use Finder as [...]

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Tags: Applications · Web Browsers · quick & easy tips