Category Archives: Misc
- October 30, 2009
- BrowserLab live on adobe.com– also posted in Tools
I’m probably a bit behind the times with this one, but Adobe have added “BrowserLab” functionality to “preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand“.
Seems to work like other paid services, but is free
https://browserlab.adobe.com/
Available browser options (across mac and windows) include:IE 6/7/8
Firefox 2/3
Safari 3/4
- August 15, 2009
- Firefox changing default download location?
Hmm it seems firefox (Windows) 3.5.2 has decided to change the default location for downloading files. Used to be the desktop, but if you suddenly discover that you can’t find things you’ve download you might want to head to Tools->Options in firefox.
If you see “Downloads” as the chosen folder (as below), you can change it [...]
- November 12, 2008
- Google releases video chat– also posted in Tools
For those that use gtalk/gmail, google have finally caught up and released voice and video chat.
They even help you buy a webcam!
- September 2, 2008
- Google Chrome – Google entering the browser market
Yep, Google have entered the browser market with Google Chrome.
Although the press release was sent a little early, you can read an interesting comic book (PDF) here with some quite technical details on the ins and outs of Google’s newest plan for world domination philanthropic effort.
Webkit is the rendering engine, and the V8 team have [...]
- August 25, 2008
- Gmail hacking tool – do you access your email securely?
Stumbled upon this article today detailing a Gmail hacking tool presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas which will be released in a week or so.
While news about the insecurity of accessing personal information without using encryption is really nothing new it serves as a timely reminder to secure ALL information you access [...]