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- Frans de Jonge
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- Mon 25 Jul 2005 at 11:07
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This is Microsoft's answer to Google Maps. A blog post gives us some more information:
Microsoft has launched MSN Virtual Earth, a new service which combines mapping with local search to answer user queries. Read the press release here.
MSN Virtual Earth provides detailed street-level maps and point-of-interest information for the United States. Later this year it will incorporate bird's-eye-view imagery that shows cities, landmarks, and more from a 45-degree angle view (we told you about some of these features a month or two ago).
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- Frans de Jonge
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- Sun 17 Jul 2005 at 4:31
I recently came across a very nice collection of utilities for a lot of things you can do on your computer. Personally I find the network related tools most interesting.
For example there is FastCache, which can save the IP of any address you visit for a couple of days in the HOSTS file (which Windows only does for a few seconds). So for sites you visit quite a lot, like Google, Wikipedia (and Lowter? :-) ) you immediatly start connecting to the server which saves almost a second of DNS lookup, providing a definite speed improvement.
Anot…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 15 Jul 2005 at 21:22
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JavaScript can be useful in some hard spots, and a browser detecting script can be very convenient. Detecting the browser of the visitor can easily assist in cross browser web design. JavaScript allows you to access the user's browser via the navigator object:
<script type="text/javascript">
var browser = navigator.appName;
alert(browser);
</script>
You can also use another property of the navigator object known as userAgent to access a description of the browser version of the appName property. Here we can combine t…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 14 Jul 2005 at 15:43
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Google AdSense users are now able to manage their ads through an all new interface. Along with the new layout, Google made modifications to their Terms & Conditions for the AdSense program.
The new interface offers the same capabilities as the previous interface. The only difference is the updated design with smoother colors and larger fonts. Overall, it makes a nice change to the dull interface we were use to.
Even though the new design is nice, it won't help advertisers make more money. Still sometimes a new look is more encoura…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 9:34
Today, July 13th, marks the ten year anniversary for the popular server programming platform - ColdFusion. This programming language has gone through numerous changes throughout the years, but in the end it has become a very powerful programming language.
The true ColdFusion geeks are throwing a worldwide party. I don't believe that anyone did that for PHP's latest anniversary, but oh well.
Over the course of ten years, ColdFusion has gone through seven versions and switching hands between Allaire and Macromedia. You can visit the anni…
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- Frans de Jonge
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- Fri 8 Jul 2005 at 2:56
Opera Software today launched a technical preview (TP) of the Opera browser for Windows, Linux and Mac that includes support for BitTorrent. Integrating this popular file-downloading technology in the Opera browser offers the end user a faster download process by utilizing full bandwidth and reducing the chance of in-transfer delay when multiple users download the same file.
While BitTorrent has been on Opera's radar screen for more than a year, the true value of the technology became evident when the company launched Opera 8 in April thi…
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- Frans de Jonge
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- Sun 3 Jul 2005 at 5:25
Yep, that's right, I'm posting something Firefox related. So you want to get your Firefox faster than it is by default? This is the ideal tool. For me, it really increased Firefox's performance. Not that it's faster than K-Meleon or Opera now, but well, that's not the most important reason either of us uses one browser over the other I think in this era. :-)
FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working opti…
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