Firefox’s Download Day 2008: Help Set a Guinness World Record!

The people at Mozilla have come up with a neat idea for Firefox 3: they’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded program in a twenty-four hour period, on an as-yet-undecided day next month. To see a breakdown (by country) of how many people have pledged to do, or to pledge to …

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The Agony of Switching IDEs

(For the unenlightened out there, IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment, a program that usually includes a text editor specifically geared toward program source code, an integrated project manager to keep track of what files are part of your program, some kind of parser for error messages from your compiler, easy ways to call up …

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Safari for Windows… but why?

I was recently discussing the state of computers with a friend, and it occurred to me that there’s no obvious business case for Apple to make their Safari browser available for Windows. It makes sense for them to have their own browser for the Mac, so that they’re not at the mercy of any other …

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Microsoft’s OOXML Now An ISO “Standard”

Speaking of Microsoft’s arrogance when it comes to following existing standards, the results of the ISO vote on their unnecessary OOXML have been leaked, and it looks like they won approval… though a number of people in the know are saying that they played fast and loose with the rules to do so. No surprise …

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