Firefox 3.5 beta 4 Out

If you’re into browsers and betas, you’ll likely want to go have a look at the Firefox 3.5 beta 4 release. Most interesting aspect to me?

JavaScript, the “J” in “AJAX,” is sped up dramatically in Firefox 3.5 with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.  Web applications are much faster than in Firefox 3.

I haven’t had much

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Zoho Projects – Pictorial Overview

As I mentioned a few days ago, my company and I have been looking into web based/online Project and Time tracking applications. Tonight I spent some time looking at Zoho Projects to get a feel for what it offers.

What follows is a rather image heavy walk-through to familiarize myself and the folks at

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Netvibes Gets Some Style

I can no longer whine about how boring or blah the Netvibes themes are (or how few). New customization features were introduced today!  This is a very welcome announcement.

Not only is there a new theme creator, but there are also a handful of new themes to use. The new themes

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More on Browsers – now with JavaScript wrinkles

I’ve been pondering my browser usage lately, especially as it may (or may not) relate to excess CPU and Memory usage that seems to crop up over time.  [some back-story] 

One thing that’s really starting to bubble up is how much my favorite sites rely on JavaScript.  And how long those sites sit in a tab

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Netvibes Bunny

Although I’ve been using Google’s Personalized Pages more lately, a lot of my browsers are still set to Netvibes as the home page.  While starting IE7 this afternoon, I spotted this little “Easter egg”:

Rich beat me to the post (I was eating a lovely ham dinner).  I agree with him:  We need more theme options

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