Archive for April, 2008

Apr

23

Global IE use drops below 80% for the first time since 2001

By Chewie

Real quick post because there isnt a great deal to comment on, but for the first time since 2001, Internet Explorer (ie5.5 + ie6 + ie7) market share has dropped below 80%, whilst Firefox continues to rise.
We all know that IE is crap so its nice to see that it’s market share is falling, but […]

Apr

23

Facebook Chat Launches

By Chewie

It’s been in the works for a while, but it seems that today was the mass roll out of the Facebook Chat Application, well i say application but it isnt the usual FB app whereby you install it on a canvas page and then it shows up in your profile, oh no sir e Bob […]

Apr

16

Boot Camp Assistant crashes during partition

By Chewie

Since i use a MacBook I have been getting a bit annoyed at not being able to test my sites in IE6 or IE7 unless i go home and turn on the pc. Sure i can run IE6 in X11 but its slow and a little buggy, plus IE7 doesn’t run at all.
Since i […]

Apr

15

Google teams up with NCMEC

By Chewie

With all the shouting that goes about whether Google really do stick to their “Do no evil” slogan its nice to see that the power house is teaming up with the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to utilise the technology it created in filtering copyright material on YouTube to help catch scumbags […]

Apr

9

Super Mario Word 1-1 written in 14kb Javascript

By Chewie

This is just so awesome it defies belief, some guy called CupBoy has managed to create world 1-1 of the original super mario brothers in Javascript.
If that wasnt impressive enough he has also managed to squeeze it all down into an ity bity 14kb javascript file.
The sprites are stored in custom encoded strings in […]

Apr

9

Great new IE testing browser

By Chewie

I am not gonna make a massive post about this, but i came across this browser this morning which looks pretty cool.
Basically some guy over at My DebugBar has created a little browser which allows you to switch rendering engines between all versions of IE from 5.5 up to IE8 Beta.
I am fully aware that […]