By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You only have to look at the issue of online file sharing to see how different the European Union is. Some political parties in Scandinavia want to legalise it while German prosecutors think it’s a waste of their time and taxpayers money even prosecuting such “petty offenses”. But France […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to Mozilla’s official live downloads page, Firefox 3 is about to hit 8 million downloads (at the time of writing this, it was at around 7.9 million and rising VERY fast). This is in the first 24 hours of its release. According to the page, this translates to […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A while back, I wrote about the RSS feeds that I use to look for stories. Well I have now come across another potential source of new online information, albeit a slower, more laborious one. inSuggest is a service that scans your Del.icio.us bookmarks, and based on the sites […]
The following video shows an interesting demo of an experimental user interface for a future mobile version of Firefox. This is well worth the watch for those of you who are anxiously waiting for a good browser to be released on their favorite mobile platform. Yes, yes, I know, the browser on the iPhone already […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] One of the extensions that will NOT be graduating with the Firefox class of 2008 will be Google Browser Sync after the company decided to consign it to the internet graveyard. It seems the team responsible for its development has “moved onto other projects” (is that like a politician […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mozilla has finally announced the release date for Firefox 3 – Tuesday June 17th – 5 days from now. Mark it in your calendars folks! It’s taken 34 months to develop Firefox 3 and anticipation is high. I tried out one of the preview versions when I was helping […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Being a Brit in Germany, I am constantly learning the German language and I know a lot of Germans constantly learning the English language. So Lingro is a perfect web app for all of us. It’s a translation tool but with a nice difference. Normally if you want to […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In what must be the biggest tease ever on the internet (9 months and counting), the new Delicious 2.0 is still not available, leading me to believe that one of the following scenarios applies : Delicious is missing, perhaps dead. Delicious has been put into deep stasis and blasted […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m sure you’ve all seen Google’s new icon by now. Instead of the nice smart looking Google icon that has been around for the last 8 years or so, we now have this ugly looking stringy blue “g”. The person who designed it should slapped behind the head and […]
By Mark O’Neill Twitter has been crashing so much lately that it isn’t news when it goes down. But now, in an ironic twist, a mini-industry seems to be springing up to cater to Twitter users for when the service is not available. No, it’s not tea and sandwiches. No, not 24 hour suicide watch […]