Two alternative search engines
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Of course most of us use Google, Yahoo or MSN for searching the Internet, but there ARE other search engines available, 2 of which I have been trying out recently.
Addictomatic
From the Addictomatic web site :- "This isn’t a traditional search engine. It’s not designed to help you find answers about some error message or the cheapest flight to Aruba. Addictomatic helps you see what’s going on now on a given topic."
This is certainly a search engine with a difference as it is an aggregator. Entering a search term starts a search of up to 24 sources of information and then displays panels of links to web pages, one panel per source. If you don't a particular sours panel then it may be deleted.
At first I thought this was just a pretty gimmick, but id does work very nicely, and it is certainly addictive.
Give it a try at addictomatic.com or have a look at their descriptive blog page here .
Searchme
Now this search engine has a REALLY pretty display, very similar to minimized applications in Windows Vista.
Go to http://www.searchme.com/ and enter a search term and you may then browse through the various panels which each display one web page. Best of all you can generate a "stack" of page by dragging the panels onto the "stack" icon at the top of the page. Clicking on any panel opens it in a normal browser window. You can also make it available as one of your search engines if you use Firefox.
It's absolutely fantastic, and very useful for storing stacks of pages that you visit regularly.
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New Maxthon v2 browser
Posted on Saturday, August 04, 2007 at 11:40 AM
In this post I described a great new browser called Maxthon.
Well, now a new version 2 is available from http://www.maxthon.com/. Version 2 is now much improved and the following is just a short list of what's available.
It's QUICK !
Easy configuration wizard.
Tabbed browsing with undo closed tab
feature.
Mouse gestures to aid navigation.
SuperSmart Acceleration.
Magic
fill for forms.
Feed Reader.
Assign aliases to web pages and open
them by typing the alias in the address bar.
Add Windows utilities
such as notepad to your toolbar.
Full add and pop up blocking.
Web
sniffer.
SuperDrag&Drop. Highlight text, drag it and Yahoo will do a
search.
Screen capture with full control over what is copied.
Clean
private data.
Add a skin.
Multi language.
Full support and
forum.
And much, much more.
Thoroughly recommended.
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Show/hide details on web pages
Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 9:57 PM
It's always nice to include lots of text containing keywords on a web page. But it is so easy to overdo the amount of text. Indeed, it can be very offputting to a visitor.
Is there a way to include text such that the veiwer can elect to read it or not ? YES THERE IS ! And I found it at the HTMLcenter web site.
It's all rather easy actually. First of all yopu need a small amount of JavaScript programming, which should be put in the <head> section of your web page. Here is the code.
<script> function show_hide(the_layer)
{
if(document.getElementById(the_layer))
{
if(document.getElementById(the_layer).style.display
== 'none')
{
document.getElementById(the_layer).style.display =
'inline';
}
else
{
document.getElementById(the_layer).style.display
= 'none';
}
}
}
</script>
Right, having sorted that out you need to code your HTML in a special way as follows. By the way, this example code is taken from my Agatha Christie web site where you can see it in operation on the home page and also on each novel summary page. Do have a look and then return to this posting.
<p><a href="javascript:show_hide('foobar');">Show/hide Agatha Christie's biography<'/a><br /><br /></p><div style="display: none; text-align: justify;" id="foobar"><p>Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (Lady Mallowan) DBE is known throughout the world as the Queen of crime.......</div>
You will see that the coding is in several parts. A call to the JavaScript routine, the link text I wanted to display on the page, a <div> with various formatting commandes to hold my text, and the text itself.
As you will see from my example page(s) the effect is great.
HAVE FUN !
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Post-it notes on web pages
Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Post-it notes are in every day use on desktops (including monitor desktops) and are a useful reminder of important details needing action. Well. How about post-it notes on a web page ? Why, you ask ? Well, they are a very good way of temporarily displaying information without having to clutter up the page on a permanent basis.
I have searched for a long time for a simple way of implementing post-it notes on web pages, and finally found a rather nice solution by Benjamin Keen.
If you open the home page of this blog you will see at the top just underneath the yellow box a link "About this site..." If you click this link a post-it note will open. Clicking the note will close it.
This solution uses a JavaScript file together with special formatting of the HTML code. This link contains all the information you need (I suggest you inspect the source code) together with a download link to the JavaScript file.
To assist you here is a summary.
NOTE that all postits on a single page MUST have unique ID's such as postit1, postit2 etc
First of all you will need to download the JavaScript file and upload it to your web server. Then you will need to add <script type="text/javascript" src='postit.js'></script> to the <head> section of your web page. I would also suggest that you add <style type='text/css'> #postit1 { display: none; } to the <head> section to make absolutely sure that the postit (or a list of postits separated by commas) do not display when the page loads.
Right. Now we are in a position to add out postit. The example contained on my home page consists of the following HTML code.
REM this is the call to the JavaScript file
<div
id="postit1" onclick="return showPostit(this.id)">
REM This puts a nice bar header at the top and
then comes the actual text (which can include hyperlinks
<div
style="background-color: #336699; padding: 2px; color: white">About this
site...</div>
REM Now the actual text of the postit, which may
include hyperlinks
<br>This site
contains just a few of my random thoughts on computers, software, the
web, and much, much more. <br><br> It is updated on an occasional basis,
and I have an RSS feed available. <br><br> This RSS feed will keep you
informed of all new postings. <br><br> To access the feed, simply copy
<a href="http://www.gbtamc.co.uk/blog/rss.xml">THIS LINK</a> into your
feed reader. <br><br> <b>Click this panel to close...</b><br><br></div>
REM and finally the actual link that appears on
the web page
<br><a href="#"
onclick="showPostit('postit1')" style="width: 300px;">About this
site...</a>
Of course you can adjust the colour of the header bar to suit your web page design.
HAVE FUN !
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Tooltips on web pages
Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Tooltips on web pages ? Whatever would I use those for ? Well, they are a very good way of temporarily displaying information without it cluttering up the page on a permanent basis. But how on earth would I do it ? Recently I was browsing the CSSplay web site, and I came across a very simple, elegant way. However, as with most of the CSSplay examples, there is very little in the way of explanation as to how to implement it, merely an example page (which is situated here). So here is a little bit of help on how to produce tolltips using purely CSS.
First of all a little example. Place your mouse over this linkThis is the tooltip.. Voila. A lovely little tooltip that disappears when the mouse moves away. So what is needed to work this little piece of magic ? First of all a simple style sheet in the <HEAD> section of your web page or your default CSS file if you prefer. The code for this follows. Simply copy and paste the following purple text.
<style type="text/css">
a.tooltip
{color:#c00;}
a.tooltip b {display:none;}
a.tooltip:hover
{border:0; position:relative; z-index:500; text-decoration:none;}
a.tooltip:hover
b {display:block; position:absolute; top:20px; left:-25px; padding:5px;
font-weight:normal; color:#000; border:1px solid #888; background:#ffc;
width:150px;}
a.tooltip:hover b em {position:absolute; left:20px;
top:-6px; width:11px; height:6px; background:#fff url(tooltip.gif) 0 0;
display:block; font-size:1px;}
</style>
How to display the tooltip ? Here is the HTML code that I used in the above example. Place your mouse over <a class="tooltip" href="#">this link<b>This is the tooltip.</b></a>.
Right. Now here is a little variation which make the box of the tooltip a little bit more appealing. We shall use a small "carat" graphic (available HERE - click the link, download and upload to your web server, changing the CSS URL to point to it) and a couple of changes to the HTML code. AFTER the <b> add <em></em>. I know this appears to be a little strange but yes, you do put these two tags together with NOTHING in between ! See this example. Place your mouse over this linkThis is another tooltip. Note the top "carat" graphic..
HAVE FUN !
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Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Yes folks. At long last the Safari browser by Apple is now available for the Windows operating system as well as for the Mac.
It's still in Beta stage, but is available for download at http://www.apple.com/safari.
The installation is quick and easy (including Quicktime) and once fired up the screen is very easy on the eye.
So, what do you get ? Well, as I haven't ever used a Mac I'm not sure whether there are any new features in the Windows version of Safari, but here is a short list of its capabilities.
1) Blazing performance. Faster than IE and Opera, yes, even faster than
Firefox 2, and this applies to HTML pages, JavaScripts and also the
actual application launch.
2) Very nice brushed steel user interface.
3)
Easy bookmarking - including for the inbuilt RSS feeder, with
importation from any (well almost) browser lists, and you can also set a
bookmark for a set of tabs - very useful. You can just store the
bookmarks, or drag them to you toolbar for quick access.
4) Of course
there is pop-up blocking and other security facilities, including
"Private browsing" where history etc is not stored.
5) Find
details on any page via the small search box situated at the top of the
page.
6) When opening a page from a search a snapback icon is
displayed. Clicking this takes you back to the search results.
7)
Auto fill of forms and resizeable text fields. Let Safari fill in your
name, street address, city, zip code, email, and other information.
8)
Of course, what browser is complete without tabbed browsing.
I have now used Safari for just a few days now, and have found it both easy to use and very stable. My only gripe is that it does not always display pages when links are clicked (nor sometimes when the back button is clicked), but a second try seems to work OK ! Apart from that I have had no problems with any site I have visited. Should you have problems there is an option in the help menu to report bugs to Apple and these can include a screen dump and page source
Of course it does not have the extensions and plugins that Firefox has, not even themes, but no doubt they will come in due course.
Should you try it ? Well, far be it for me to recommend, but of all the browsers I have installed (IE, Maxthon, Opera, Firefox and Safari) It certainly seems to be very quick and once you get used to the Apple buttons, scrollbars etc, you should find it a very worthwhile addition to your browsing armory
Pricing & Availability. The free public beta of Safari 3 is available immediately as a download at www.apple.com/safari, and is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. The final version of Safari 3 will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS® X version 10.5 Leopard, and will be available as a free download to Mac OS X Tiger and Windows users in October 2007.
Go on. Give it a try.
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Firefox 2 extensions
Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Here is a list of all the extensions I have downloaded and used in Firefox 2, the most wonderful Internet browser available. Click the above image to go to the Mozilla site and read all about it..
I find that Firefox slows down somewhat when all extensions are enabled, so some of them are normally disabled until I need to use them.
List updated 11th April 2007.
-
Add to Netvibes 0.7.3
Add feeds to netvibes -
AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.9.1
Allows the use of Roboform in Firefox. -
All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.1
Sidebar control with award-winning user experience! -
Back to Top 4.0
Go to the top (or bottom) of a page -
BBC Bar 1.0.1.29
(Disabled)
Great companion for BBC fans! - British English Dictionary 1.19
-
Broadband Speed Test and
Diagnostics 1.0.3
Test speed of your broadband connections and provide troubleshooting -
Browser Statistics 1.0
Statistics (e.g. size of data loaded) about browsing on the statusbar -
CalendarHome.com Toolbar 1.5.0.8
More than just a toolbar. -
Clear Cache Button 0.5
Adds a clear cache toolbar button -
Colorful Tabs 2.0.1
(Disabled)
Colorful Tabs colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface. -
ColorZilla 1.0
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies -
CSSViewer 1.0.2
A simple CSS property viewer -
Extended Copy Menu 1.3
Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html. -
Extension List Dumper 1.8.0
Dumps a list of the installed extensions. -
Extension Manager Extended
2.6
Use the extension manager to view the id and the folder of an extension. -
Fasterfox 2.0.0
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. -
FavLoc 1.1
Easily download to commonly used locations. -
Firebug 1.01
Web Development Evolved -
FireFTP 0.95.2
FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox. -
Firesomething 1.7.0
All your branding are belong to Firesomething. -
FoxyTunes 2.2.5
Control any media player from Firefox and more... -
Fullerscreen 1.0a1
Really full screen... -
Gmail Space 0.5.6
Use your Gmail account space for file storage. Enables uploading/downloading of folders. -
Googlepedia 0.4.3
Shows you a relevant wikipedia article along with your search results. -
GooglePreview 2.1.4
Inserts web site previews in Google and Yahoo search results. -
Highlight 0.12.12.20
Share the news with the click of a button! -
Html Validator
0.8.3.9
Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3c. -
InFormEnter 0.5.3
Helper for form filling in semi-automatic mode. -
JSView 1.2.9
View the source code of external stylesheets and javascripts. -
MeasureIt 0.3.6
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage. -
Menu Editor 1.2.3.3
(Disabled)
Customize application menus -
MinimizeToTray
0.0.1.2006102615+
Minimizes Mozilla windows into the system tray -
MR Tech Disable XPI
Install Delay 2.4
Disables default delay when installing extensions. -
My IP Viewer 2.03
This extension will display your current IP address in the status bar. It is also equipped with the following features: IP Country; Auto-update (every 10 minutes); Last Update (on hover); Copy IP to clipboard (on click and in popup menu); Link to More Info. -
My Portal 1.0.7
A live web page of your bookmark hierarchy. -
netcrafttoolbar 1.1.1.7
(Disabled)
Blocks Phishing Sites -
NewsFox 0.6.5.1
RSS/Atom News Reader. -
Plain Text
Links 0.3
(Disabled)
Treat plain text urls as links, right click to open -
Print Hint 0.3
Helps you to quickly find printer-friendly versions of webpages -
Print/Print Preview 0.4
Replace the default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview" toolbar button/menu. Adds new options to context menu as well. -
Professor X 0.4.1
See inside a page's head. -
QuickNote 0.6.0.3
A note taking extension with advanced features -
QuickRestart 1.1.0
(Disabled)
Adds a "Restart Firefox" item to the Tools menu. -
QuickZoom 1.0.5
(Disabled)
Adds two icons to the status bar that enable quick access to the Enlarge Text, Reduce Text, and Normal Text menu items. -
RankQuest SEO Toolbar 3.9
RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operation -
Reload
Tab On Double-Click 1.0.6
(Disabled)
Reload tab when double-clicking on tab. -
ReminderFox 1.2.1
Displays and manages reminders and ToDo's -
Restart Firefox 0.3
Restart Firefox with ease -
RSS Ticker 1.8.10
Scrolls your RSS feeds (Live Bookmarks) in a toolbar. -
Sage 1.3.10
A lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator. -
ScrapBook 1.2.0.8
Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection. -
Searchbar Autosizer
1.3.6
(Disabled)
Auto resizes the searchbox as you type -
SearchStatus 1.18
(Disabled)
Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools. -
SnagIt
Firefox Extension 1.0.1
Captures images, scrolling web pages and more right from Firefox! -
Snipshot 1.0
Bring any picture into Snipshot for editing -
Splash 1.2.2
Adds a splash screen. Supported in Firefox, Flock, Thunderbird and Sunbird. (en-US) -
StumbleUpon 3.04
StumbleUpon Toolbar -
Stylish 0.4
Customise the look of websites and of the user interface. -
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2
Tab browsing with an added boost. -
TableTools 0.19
Sort, filter or copy any table ('ctrl+alt+click' sorts, 'ctrl+shift+click' shows filter, 'ctrl-z-click' etc. allows copying in various formats). -
Talkback 2.0.0.3
(Disabled)
Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla. -
Viamatic foXpose 0.6
Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click. -
View Source Chart 2.5.02
Creates a Colorful Chart of a Webpage's Rendered Source. -
Web Developer
1.1.3
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. -
Wizz RSS News Reader 2.1.8
A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
Technorati Tags: gbtamc, Internet, Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Browser
Firefox 2
Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2:15 PM
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox for short, is a free Internet browser.
"What's wrong with Internet Explorer?" you say - well despite being a good browser, Microsoft was getting complacent. Internet Explorer's vulnerability to numerous security breaches was growing by the day, yet many simple things MS could do to patch these up were left undone. Internet Explorer lacked many convenience features often requested. And Internet Explorer did not adhere completely to web standards; it pretty much set its own standards. Internet Explorer lacked competition.
However all that has changed since Firefox became a legitimate challenger. Firefox has forced Microsoft to incorporate many much needed security and customization features into the latest version of the world's most used Internet browser, Internet Explorer 7. All of this has been spurred on solely by Firefox's existence and growing popularity.
Aside from helping improve Internet Explorer, what else makes Firefox great? An easy to answer is that it has all the useful and familiar features of Internet Explorer, yet provides additional features, better security, adherence to web standards, less of Internet Explorer's quirky behavior, and most important of all greater potential for customization. In releasing Firefox 2.0 in October 2006 the Mozilla Foundation has further improved Firefox, adding useful new features and tightening its code base to prevent new security vulnerabilities. Now more than ever, Firefox stands as a true competitor to Internet Explorer, and has massive customization potential with add-ons, extensions and themes.
Find out for yourself just what Firefox can do for you. Believe me. Once you have used Firefox you won't want to return to any other browser. Visit the download site by clicking the following graphic. And if you want a great guide to the new version click here.
Technorati Tags: gbtamc, Internet, Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Browser
Firefox browser
Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 9:48 AM
I've been converted !
No, not to a new religion, but to Firefox 
Yes, I've heard about it for a long time, even used it a couple of times, but until recently I had never given it very much thought. Until, that is, I heard that Microsoft, in their wisdom, will make IE 7 the default browser when it has finally gone through all of its testing stages, and that automatic updates will install it whether the user wants it or not. Now I don't like IE7 very much at all, so I started looking round for an alternative browser.
Having used Maxthon for some time (see this posting and this posting), I was naturally drawn to a browser which allowed me to have tabbed browsing. Enter (once again) Firefox.
The latest version as at the time of writing (20th September 2006) is 1.5.0.7, and it is really quite remarkable. Free, slim, fast, tabbed, auto updates to latest version, extensible - what more could I ask ?
So after just a few days of intensive testing I am now going to standardize on using Firefox.
So, what do you get ? Well, first of all read the Mozilla blurb on their web site. It's really quite good and accurately describes the functions and operation of the browser - and (a refreshing change) for once a web site doesn't make false claims - everything on the page is actually quite true. Firefox does what they claim.
And in actual use ?
My favourite feature - apart from safe, fast browsing - is the extensibility. Addons include plugins such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and Macromedia Flash Player among others, but it is the extensions that grabbed my attention, and I want to use the remainder of this post to pass on details of some of my favourites - all of them available from the Firefox web site, and very easily installed.
FIRST OF ALL A WARNING. BADLY WRITTEN EXTENSIONS CAN MAKE FIREFOX UNSTABLE. AN EXAMPLE OF A VERY BADLY WRITTEN EXTENSION IS "REEL NEW MEDIA TOOLBAR" BY ROULA EATRIDES, DETAILS OF WHICH CAN BE FOUND HERE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INSTALL IT ! READ THE COMMENTS OF MANY PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME !
Print/Print Preview replaces the default print button giving much more flexibility.
RSS Ticker scrolls RSS feeds in a tool bar Alternatively there is also Wizz RSS News Reader and Sage, which are more standard news reader applications.
Menu Editor allows you to edit the right-click menu entries.
Tab Mix Plus boosts the tabbed browsing capabilities with many new features.
ColorZilla. Developing a web page ? See a nice new color you would like to use ? Enter ColorZilla. Click the icon at the lower left of your screen and then pass it over the color. RGB and Hex information can be viewed and stored. Great ! Not so good as the independent ColorPic application but very usable.
StumbleUpon is a very novel idea. When first entered you can choose categories of web pages that you are interested in. Then, every time you click the Stumble button a random new site is displayed - and it's AMAZING what you can get. Well worth getting Firefox just for this alone.
And finally, but by no means least, among my favourites is ScrapBook. See a web page and want to come back to it without bookmarking it ? Select some text to save ? Want ot download an entire web site ? Use ScrapBook. A simple right-click and choose what to save. Open the ScrapBook side panel, click the entry and its there ready to use. Want to open the actual web page (rather than just the image) ? Right click the title and select Open URL and away you go. SIMPLE, VERY FAST, VERY EFFECTIVE, ABSOLUTELY GREAT.
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What a visitor sees
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 3:46 PM
Just what does a visitor do when your carefully designed web site first appears before their eyes ? What part of the page do they look at first ? How far down do they scroll before leaving your home page. What are the important areas of your page ? How about the text size ? And what about graphics ?
These and many other questions were used in experiments on web users by Eyetrack and their web site makes very, very interesting reading.
It seems that there are certain patterns which visitors eyes tend to follow when looking at a web page. There are a couple of interesting graphics (reproduced below - click the image to view the original larger version) which show "heat maps" of the most important areas of the page, and the track visitors eyes tend to follow.
One very interesting thing that came out of the research was that smaller text tends to be read more then large text, which tends just to be scanned.
Although the research was carried out a couple of years ago, I think it makes very interesting reading and may provide clues to web masters and bloggers when designing web pages. Do have a look at the site - you can even download a 300 page pdf file of all the results to keep as a reference.
Related to this subject, but on a different web site, there is a posting here which may shed more light on the subject.
Once again the web site is at Eyetrack.
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Alternate browsers - an update
Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 11:02 AM
You may have noticed that I have started using Technorati tags with this post. Hopefully they will be indexed by Technorati, but in view of the many problems reported by fellow-bloggers (read THIS POST for just one experience) I won't hold my breath. Alse see THIS POST for a very good summarry of Technorati tagging.
AN UPDATE TO MY ORIGINAL POST I'VE JUST COME ACROSS FLOCK. IT REALLY IS A GREAT BROWSER WITH SEVERAL VERY NICE USEFUL FEATURES, ESPECIALLY THE WONDERFUL NEWS READER. WHY NOT TRY IT OUT ? VISIT THE HOME SITE HERE
Please note. I am a Windows user, so do not include Mac alternative browsers in this summary.
Whilst Internet Explorer still holds about 70% of the market share, there ARE alternatives, and here are a few you might like to read about and download. Apart from those listed here there is an extremely comprehensive list of archived browsers at Evolt.org. You will be absolutely amazed at how many different browsers are available ! Log onto the site and have a look.
My own favourite browser which I now use most of the time is Maxthon Tabbed Browser. This is a powerful multi-page web browser based on the Internet Explorer engine with a highly customizable interface and many additional efficient features including pop-up blocking, auto-scrolling, form filling, external tools, plugin support, a newsgroup-browsing mode, skins, mouse gestures and an auto-hide panel. It also provides theme support, extended Unicode support, enhanced toolbars and much more. Learn more...
Advanced Browser. Surf the Web Faster! This browser was built for speed. You should get less crashes and lockups with this browser. Great design - solid performance - includes memory enhancer that outperforms all other browsers in it's class. Best of all it is 100% Free - No Adware, No Popups, No Spyware - just one great browser for you to enjoy! Learn More...
The super fast Opera web browser has been hailed the fastest web browser on Earth by users and press world-wide, and offers advanced technology you won't find in ordinary web browsers. The Opera browser doesn't use an MS Internet Explorer engine and is available as a free or paid version. Learn more...
Firefox free web browser is fast, standards-compliant and full of useful features including tabbed multi-page browsing, popup blocking, browser extensions and themes. Firefox does not use MS's Internet Explorer engine. Learn more...
PhaseOut is a tabbed customizable web browser with features including one click searches in multiple search engines, popup killer, security and privacy functions, fast previewing of web page thumbnails, skin manager and tools to organize your collections of favorite sites. Learn more...
The Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window free web browser. It allows the user to browse multiple web sites simultaneously and block all unwanted pop-up windows and flash ads. Learn more...
The SlimBrowser is a tabbed multiple page web browser that brings a large range of convenient and powerful features. It has an integrated pop up blocker, skinned window frame, quick searching, automatic login and form filler. Learn more...
Netscape v 8, speed, flexibility and probably more security choices than any other browser. Tabbed browsing has been expanded so you can open all of your favorite web sites in one window automatically. Learn more...
And finally ... Not really a browser, but an RssReader. Grab the latest headlines from RSS compliant web sites. FANTASTIC ! Learn more...
Technorati Tags: gbtamc, Browsers, Flock, Maxthon, Advanced browser, Opera, Firefox, phaseout, Avant browser, Slimbrowser, Netscape, RSS reader
Safari test
Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 12:35 PM
One of the big frustrations of working on themes purely on a Windows or Linux machine is that you can't see how your site will look under Safari for the Mac.
Well, here's a way of doing it. Check snugtech's sarfaritest which will generate you a screenshot of your chosen site as seen by Safari. You can even choose the screen resolution to be used - great idea !
Maxthon browser
Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 9:45 PM
Over 28 million downloads, one of them being me, and I use it almost to the exclusion of any other browser.
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features like...
Tabbed Browsing Interface
Mouse Gestures
Super Drag&Drop
Privacy Protection
AD Hunter
RSS Reader
IE Extensions Support
External Utility Bar
Skinning
And Much More to Explore...
Here are links to the download site - the full feature list and the support page
TRY IT OUT. IT'S GREAT !
Internet Explorer v 7
Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 9:51 PM
Microsoft have released the latest Beta test version which is available here
Try it out. Many changes from version 6, some I like, others I'm not too keen on.
