One at a time

Firefox 3 beta 5 is out

The news are out there already, but I might as well spread it: Firefox 3 beta 5 is out.  Just updated mine, it looks the same so far, except for a few mildly redesigned icons.  Let’s see…. Popularity: 19% [?]

My Day With Safari For Windows

As you might know, Apple has released a beta version of its browser, Safari, for Windows.  Since I’m a huge fan of beta stuff and have been seriously considering whether my next notebook should be a Mac, I decided to test it for one full day – the idea being that during an entire day I would use only Safari, instead of Firefox.  I spend most of my...

Google Gears: use web apps offline

Google has launched this week a technology (I’ll call it technology, as I think “browser extension” doesn’t quite fit here) that allows you to use web applications offline. This is pretty cool stuff – imagine writing all your emails on the way to work, on a bus or train or whatever, using your webmail client, and sending them off...

Search plugin for Flickr Creative Commons

This one is a nice tool for bloggers and designers: all the images I use in my blogs, websites, presentations, etc. tend to come from searching Flickr for photos licensed under Creative Commons. To make my life easier, I created a search plugin for Firefox that will add this search to the little search bar at the top right corner of the browser windows. Since...