Microsoft confessed yesterday that over 2,000 well-known websites still remained incompatible with Internet Explorer 8.
The software vendor said that the number had dropped by about 1,000 sites compared with figures Microsoft spat out a year ago when more than 3,000 web portals needed “Compatibility View” support to show up on an IE 8 user’s screen.
As 10-year-old Lim Ding Wei blasts alien space ships on a computer screen in his living room, his father Lim Thye Chean looks over his shoulder proudly.
"This is way beyond me already, because I do not know how to do 3D programming. I can't teach him any more," he said proudly as his son zips around in outer space fully rendered in 3D.
The Android Market may still lag behind the iPhone App Store in terms of variety and quality, but there is something to be said for the Android operating system’s extremely tight integration with existing Google products, and the wide choice of devices and carriers.
There’s no question that the iPhone has many wonderful apps, but Android’s smart syncing with existing tools, interesting Android-only experiments coming every day from Googleemployees, and its open marketplace model have yielded some tools that may give the average iPhone user pause.
User e-mail addresses on Facebook have come a long way. For years, Facebook converted them into a static image to keep potential spammers and data thieves at bay. As a result, it made copying them a serious pain, as you'd need to have whatever e-mail tool you were using in one window, and that user's profile in another.
Earlier this month, Facebook changed it to plain text, which lets you copy and paste the address instead.
A Denver Web design firm will hold a tongue-in-cheek funeral for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on March 4 to celebrate the aged browser's decline.
The design company, Aten Design Group, announced IE6's funeral on Monday with a site, ie6funeral.com, that offered a short obituary and an invitation to a wake.
Although the HTC Desire has only been recently confirmed, a group of dedicated hackers have already pulled out the bare bones of its operating system and user interface to bring them to the Google Nexus One.
The biggest change that the HTC Desire offers over the Nexus One, which shares much of the same hardware, is the addition of the Sense user interface which is exclusive to HTC smartphones.
Security rivals thermal paste as the most important thing you have to keep in mind when building or using a system. Every bit of software on your PC should be updated; every external access point into your digital life, closed. There's no reason why you should be handing over the keys to the castle to random Internet strangers. Powerful virus protection, a strong firewall, and a bit of common sense -- among other tricks -- will go far to preserve your fortress of a system.
IBM ANNOUNCED a software tool today that helps users selectively capture and share their browsing activity for web-based tasks.
The tool records web browsing activity and logs the data. Users can review information and convert sequences of the "action shots" into scripts that can be shared with other users online. According to IBM, passwords aren't recorded, and users can turn off the recording mode and delete session actions so data is protected.
Adobe has issued a security bulletin warning users of its PDF and Acrobat applications against two widely publicised vulnerabilities but, in the haste to get the relevant patches out of the door earlier this week, one of the two URLs in the update was incorrect.
Facebook has made it possible for its members to assign, on the fly, a wider variety of access levels to content they post using third-party applications and Web sites, the company said Wednesday.
Previously, members chose a default privacy setting for content shared via applications, and that setting was then applied across the board to this type of post going forward.
