19. April 2006
Chris Pederick the guy behind the <accent type=’american’>awesome</accent> Firefox Extension, the Web Developer Toolbar, has won one of the grand prizes in the extend firefox competition. He blogged the win and has subsequently blogged some pictures of his Alienwa^H^H^H^H^HDell PC. Completely unrelated to the prize, here’s some pictures of a Firefox branded bus.
Continue reading...2. April 2006
The Wurzels have a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurzels The name of the band came from the fodder beet Mangelwurzel. As can be determined from the subject matter of many of their songs, cider is very popular amongst Wurzels and their fans. Their particular “genre” of music has been named “Scrumpy And Western” (scrumpy is a name given to [...]
Continue reading...15. February 2006
This article carries the headline: “Brum promise internal Butt probe” which relates to stories that Nicky Butt stropped off before a recent match because he wasn’t in the starting line-up. I would guess that someone is having a laugh in the Editorial team. On a related note apparently Butt has subsequently been fined 2 weeks wages for [...]
Continue reading...23. January 2006
I feel slightly out of touch on this one as it took the Radio 4 today program (their normal target audience not too tech savvy meethinks) to inform me that the Ricky Gervais podcast was officially the most popular one out there with 2 million downloads of the most recent episode. So here I am catching [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2006
The Firefox team have put together a brief for an advert to expand awareness of Firefox to less savvy web users. The target audience is particularly interesting: The primary target audience for the Firefox advertising campaign are moderately experienced Web users, who are comfortable with using the Web but are not necessarily power users. These users [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2005
Taken from a recent Saturday Night Live, check out this The Chronicles of Narnia rap video. It’s a very well produced video, with a Beastie Boys type sound.
Continue reading...30. November 2005
According to this post FF 1.5 out of RC status. Lots of behind the scenes improvements including a vastly improved upgrade process but of immediate notice is the drag and drap tab re-ordering. Firefox rocks.
Continue reading...28. September 2005
An extremely interesting (and disturbing) account of one guy getting stopped, searched and arrested for acting suspiciously soon after the London bombings: 19:10 From my workplace in Southwark, South London, I arrange by text message (SMS) to meet my girlfriend at Hanover Square. To save time – as I suppose – I decide to the take [...]
Continue reading...19. September 2005
Microsoft have brought out a toolbar for web developers: The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page. Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings. View HTML object class names, ID’s, [...]
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20. April 2006
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