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Just before Christmas, the big news was that StatCounter was showing Firefox 3.5 as becoming the world’s most popular browser. The StatCounter graphs for that period do indeed show that Firefox 3.5 overtook the previous leader IE7. What I find interesting though is how FF3.5 managed to take so much market share in such as [ READ MORE ]
Recently I had need to test how a site runs on a low-speed connection. To cut a long story short, we were handling file uploads and despite the maximum upload limit being quite high, users were not able to upload large files. We happened across a solution that it may be users on slow connections [ READ MORE ]
Apple’s new operating system, Snow Leopard, hits the shelves tomorrow morning. Here’s a quick guide to get you through the upgrade process with as little pain as possible. Check Your Compatibility Snow Leopard is the first Apple OS to abandon the old PPC architecture that Macs used to run on. This means that only Intel-based Macs will [ READ MORE ]
Mac OS X has some fantastic screenshot capabilities built into it, but there is one annoyance that doesn’t seem particularly well thought through – putting all the screenshots on the Desktop. This can be changed through the use of the “defaults” command in the Terminal. Here’s a decent setup for it: Open your home folder, then [ READ MORE ]
Nokia have released the first version of the QT toolkit since they took over Trolltech in June 2008. The new version of the toolkit that powers KDE is now available under the LGPL, allowing proprietary software to be built upon it without the need to then release that software under a similar license. This, combined [ READ MORE ]