Category: Software
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Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IV
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I just posted this week’s Netscape 9 update at the Netscape blog: Netscape 9 Saves You Time: “Netscape 9 will be the first major browser to automatically correct common typos entered in the location bar. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types…
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Yahoo shortens search box, makes Techmeme
Seriously, why is this news? They slapped a “width: 192px;” in their style tag, and I see it in half a dozen of my RSS feeds.
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Netscape 9 Teasers: Week III
This week at the Netscape blog, I wrote about the allowances we’ve made in Netscape 9 for installing extensions targeted at Firefox 2: “Since Netscape 9 will share an architecture with Firefox 2, it is very likely that most Firefox 2 extensions will work in Netscape 9 without modification. This is why Netscape 9 will…
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Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)
I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.
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Top Diggers list is back
Digg removed its top users list this morning. However, as I mentioned yesterday, It’s an exercise in futility. A competent programmer could easily throw together a page scraper to determine the top submitters, so when the dust settles, Digg will still have problems with pay-for-play, but the most prolific users will no longer be recognized…
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Netscape 9 Teasers: Week II
My latest teaser/progress report for Netscape 9 is available at the Netscape blog. More discussion at UFAQ.org and the Netscape Community message boards.
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Shortcuts are people too
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: […] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing…
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URL Fixer gets a little British flavour
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ URL Fixer will now correct “.ku” to “.uk”, but I’ve made no decision on colour, metre, or encyclopaedia. Cheerio!
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Netscape 9.0 is coming
I’ve posted the first in a series of teasers for Netscape 9.0 at the Netscape blog: […] Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: it will be tightly integrated with the Netscape.com service, as evidenced by the icons for the two available Netscape.com extensions (Friends’ Activity…
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Update to URL Fixer (1.2.12)
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.12. In addition to including a Catalan translation, there are two main changes to the correction algorithm: 1. “;//” will now be corrected to “://” (http;// => http://). 2. All commas and other semicolons will be changed to…
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On deprecating RSS 0.91
Our decision at Netscape to stop hosting the DTD for RSS 0.91 has inspired some healthy discussion around the Web on the topics of RSS and DTDs. Since I was speaking for Netscape in the official blog, I wanted to lay out my personal thoughts on the matter. However, as is normally the case, the…
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Minor update to URL Fixer
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.11. A bug was causing the Chinese translation to be displayed for English-speaking users, so if you were seeing “?? (R)” or Chinese characters instead of “Confirm corrections” in the context menu for the URL bar, go ahead…
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Sorry, Missouri
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated the URL Fixer extension for Firefox; it was inadvertantly “fixing” all .mo.us addresses to .com.us. The latest version is 1.2.10.