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Category Archives: Software

A Regularly Updated Browser is a Happy Browser

First of all, what is a web browser? You’re using one right now. It is a program used to access and change information on the World Wide Web. Some of the most popular ones are Firefox, Internet Explorer,  Safari, and Chrome. You may even be using one on your iPhone or other cell phone. A [...]

Making Web Searches More Fun

The Google Wonder Wheel is an expansion to the Google search that I heard of recently that allows searches to have a different user interface that automatically suggests multiple related searches and displays them in a kind of chart form. You really have to try it out to understand. All you have to do is [...]

Internet Explorer 6: The Superior Browser.

Well, according to this site anyway. SaveIE6.com was put together by the uptime monitoring service, Pingdom, as an April Fools prank. SaveIE6.com has these goals: 1. Get everyone to use Internet Explorer 6, 2. Get IE6 ported to more platforms, 3. Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6. That’s hilarious. There’s even a petition [...]

Why it pays to make backups

One of the most important thing you should be doing with your computer, that you’re most likely NOT doing, is making backups of your important files. If you want an object less, and haven’t heard about it yet, learn from NASA’s mistake. “NASA could put a man on the moon but didn’t have the sense [...]

Google Plans Chrome-based Web Operating System

In December of 2008, Google introduced their contribution to the browser wars, Google Chrome. There’s also been a push for several years now toward online versions of the desktop applications you’re used to using every day when you’re not surfing the Web. One of the more successful has been Google Docs. One of the biggest [...]