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Today’s Browsers Wars - some visualizations and statistics

Ten years ago, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were still fighting each to be the most popular web browser. Internet Explorer won the battle… easily, in fact. Support for Netscape finally ended in 2007, and since then Netscape has only been a byword. Shipping with (and being a fundamental part of) Windows has given IE a near monopoly over the web browser market. Is it the best web browser? Back when it was just IE and Netscape, I preferred IE. Now I would take any of the other browsers over IE. Ever since Firefox emerged in 2004, we’ve seen a change from what browsers were, to what they can be. We’ve seen innovations like tabbed browsing, speed dial, useful extensions, greater web standards support and faster JavaScript engines. It is also no surprise that these innovations are not coming from Internet Explorer; they are coming from all the newer browsers. Because of this, the market for these other browsers are growing.

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Facebook Discussions: Favorite Email Providers and Web Browsers

My new favorite thing to do on Facebook is to have discussions on my wall via the comments. I propose a question or thought as part of my status update, and then everyone else supplies their opinions by leaving a comment on my status. It’s fun. This past week I asked about Gmail and web browsers. I took a screen shot of both discussions. Read through and feel free to comment here if you didn’t get a chance to on Facebook.

Gmail

I have been using Gmail since 2004 (the year it started) and I have always felt that it has been way ahead of the competition in terms of features, usability, and speed. However, I also have a Yahoo, Hotmail, Live Mail, and a few other accounts. I use these all for specific things (like handling spam). Gmail has always just worked well for me. It has features that I can’t live without anymore like labels (better than folders), search, filters, chat, labs, themes, todo list, etc. You can read more about Gmail on their blog. Let’s see what everyone else said.

Web Browsers

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How to steal videos from Facebook

Skip down to the instructions on how to steal videos from Facebook.

Most people that aren’t tech savvy or that are uninterested in computers seem to use the internet for at least two things: email and videos. YouTube has been the standard for sharing videos on the web for a while. Google made an important purchase back when they acquired YouTube in 2006. Many websites have tried to compete, including many of the social networking platforms like Facebook.

However, Facebook video just isn’t as good for sharing videos. Facebook lacks the ability (or at least chooses to neglect the ability) of sharing videos to an audience outside of Facebook. You can share videos with your Facebook friends, or anybody else on Facebook, but you cannot embed your videos on other websites, like your blog. I’m going to show you how to get around that and be able to steal videos from Facebook.

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Announcing Jeremy and Penny’s New Blog

Trumpets burst forth from the heavens to announce the grand opening of Jeremy and Penny’s blog!

Welcome, welcome friends, family, peers, contemporaries, associates, etc. I’m announcing the beginning of our blog. I have felt the need to create one for some time, but now it is here. What should you expect to see on this blog? Well, I’ll spell it out for you:

1. Posts about Penny and I and our family. Eventually we’ll have some pictures of our kids, but first we need to get some kids… and then some photos of them.
2. Web development articles. Yep, it’s my passion. Expect tutorials and informative articles about various subjects and how-tos for PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, MySQL, and JavaScript. I will also be linking to and/or reposting good articles I found around the web or that I write on other web development blogs like HTMList.
3. Restaurant reviews. I don’t consider myself a food connoisseur, but I do think of myself as more of a food carnisaur, which is kind of like a connoisseur, a carnivore and a dinosaur all in one. That just means I am an expert at eating food, and I can tell you what places are good or bad.
4. A bunch of other stuff. Rants, raves, thoughts, ideas, religious blurbs, movie reviews, events, news and stuff about my band, school and work, etc.

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