24 ways
Friday, December 29th, 2006via: Simple Bits
24 ways (to impress your friends?) has some interesting articles on web design, probably won’t impress many of my friends though.
Archive for December, 2006
Secure your Gmail
Thursday, December 21st, 2006Just a little tip for ensuring that Gmail (you are using Gmail aren’t you?) is as secure as possible.
Instead of going to http://www.gmail.com, go to https://www.gmail.com. It is that simple! What’s the difference? Note the super letter “S” in “https://”, this denotes a secure HTTP session, thus securing your email, I mean “Gmail”.
On a side note, a new Firefox update was recently release. The program should update it self, but if it hasn’t, or if you are unsure do the following:
- open Firefox
- Click on “Help”
- Clink on “Check for Updates”
One of the neat little features I noticed is the difference in the address bar when you are in a HTTPS session, the address bar turns yellow and there is a little padlock icon on the right. This was probably done in response to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 having the same functionality, the difference is that Firefox came out with this enhancement in a couple of weeks compared to Microsoft’s five year lag between major versions.
The power of multimedia
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006via: digg
The site http://www.obleek.com/iraq/, apart from being completely depressing, shows the power of multimedia representations of data over raw numbers. I have heard figures about the number of fatalities in the war, but I think raw numbers lack in impact. When watching the animation from the above site, it seems to put the severity and scope of the fatalities in an entirely new perspective.
Firefox reaches 25%
Monday, December 18th, 2006via: digg
According to a survey by the W3Counter, Firefox has reached 25% marketshare! What is Firefox you ask? Well, it is quite simply the finest we browser available (at least on the Microsoft Windows platform). This is an enormous achievement considering the opposition. Not at all unlike a David and Goliath story. Microsoft was able to dethrone Netscape Navigator with relative ease, but how will they fare against Firefox? Only time, and the popularity of the new Internet Explorer 7 will tell.
