Recently, I yet again ran into a web site that would not work in Firefox or Chrome correctly. It had some form dialog boxes in combination with some JavaScript that simply would not display proper in the two aforementioned browsers. What I did at that point is what anyone else in Windows would do, I fired up Internet Explorer 8, loaded the site with that browser...

Even though the internet as a business medium is still see as the "Wild, Wild West" by many, it has established itself as a genuine means of conducting good, solid business. Something to bear in mind is that advertising on the internet now has evolved quite a bit. In the past, ads were quite literally just thrown out on the internet in one-for-all...

As web browsers continue to evolve, a design element that is brought up often is how much space menus take up. The current trend is to focus as much attention as possible of doing what’s called "reducing visual footprint", which in a nutshell means to make menus as small as possible while trying to remain informative and useful. To see where...

A true radio station is one that actually broadcasts over the air and isn’t just internet-only. Sure, you can find internet radio stations aplenty, but it’s the true ones that we want to hear the most. True radio on the internet has had its legal troubles over the years. At first they were sprouting up like weeds – which was good – but...

Internet Explorer 8 has two features that are underutilized by many, that being Web Slices and Accelerators. The following video shows you how to use them. Once you do (particularly with Accelerators), you can enable quick shortcuts all by using just a few clicks of your mouse, such as quick translations, shortening URLs, sharing out things on Facebook and a...

Before starting this one, yes you can download the IE9 platform preview now at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ but it is very limited as to what it can do as it’s for demonstration purposes only. This is not a completed browser by any means. It’s meant for developers, but if you want to try it out for yourself, go right ahead. Quick installation...

The weekend was not a good time in Internet Land. Facebook broke. Buzz is still ticking people off left and right, with some saying that Google doesn’t give a crap about anyone but themselves. Apple went on a banning rampage, again. Aaaaand last but not least, Firefox 3.6 now has a rather nasty exploit. Given that the #1 social network broke, Buzz still...

As a writer/journalist I try in my best effort to write content that makes grammatical sense. It is true I do break the traditional rules by using fragments, run-on sentences (like this one), shortening words for creative effect (ex: "Good ol’ IBM), starting sentences with and or but, and so on – but with blogging that’s acceptable because...

If there’s one thing that internet has taught us, it’s that privacy issues have always been a hot-button topic. Whether it’s social media, online shopping, email or even searching the internet, privacy matters. Why does it matter? The answer is protection. Protection from identity theft (which almost always leads to having money stolen from...

The entire reason we didn’t use sidebars for anything in web browsers years ago is simply because we didn’t have the screen real estate for it. We more or less always had the option, but it took too much away from web page viewing to be useful. Since many people today use higher resolutions, we now can use bookmarks in the sidebar while still having...

I received this email from my ISP, Brighthouse Networks: (click to see full size) There are some points of this sales pitch that are just outright laughable. For example, "open multiple sites and support multiple users simultaneously" – as if we all haven’t been doing that for years ever since we first started using...

It’s interesting to consider what the best mediums are for entertainment and news. Obviously it depends on what type of entertainment or news is being referred to, so here’s a basic rundown. Local News 1st place: Newspaper 2nd place: Internet 3rd place: TV Last place: Radio Your best source of local news is still the tried-and-true newspaper. This is...

Internet Addiction Disorder, commonly abbreviated as IAD, is a disorder that is not officially classified by medical science at present. I want to make that clear right up front. However it may, if you can believe it, exist in the next edition of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) which will be published in May 2012. It is being...

If you are like most people, you might eat out several times a week (if not every day) at work. While you may be eating cheap, spending ~$5 a day can really add up. To see how much this is costing you as opposed to bringing your lunch, take a look at the Brown Bag Savings Calculator. When you just play around with the numbers you can really see the true impact...

If there was any universal immutable truth to the internet, it’s that things vanish from it all the time. Those pages you bookmarked last year? They may be gone. Those forums posts that contained a wealth of useful information? They may be gone as well. There are several different ways to archive web pages. You could use ScreenGrab for Firefox. But the...

Before social media was even a twinkle in a programmer’s eye, there were the early days of internet, affectionately known now as Web 1.0. Nobody knows the exact date of when Web 2.0 started, but it is believed to have started some time in 2004, which at this point is five years ago (oh, how time flies..) Many of you out there will remember these pre-2004...

The definition of a web site that refuses to upgrade is one that does not "understand" anything other than Internet Explorer 6 or 7. For many this is a constant source of frustration for three very good reasons:Internet Explorer 8 has been in existence for almost seven months at the time of this writing. The administrators of these "IE...

People save web pages to ensure they can retrieve information later without having to load it on the internet. It also is a way of retrieving a web page just in case the original web site has an outage or goes offline for whatever reason. There are two basic ways of saving web pages, that being via the browser or "printing it" to a PDF. Via the...

Caret Browsing is when you use your keyboard to navigate a web page as you would if you were in a text editor or word processing application. This style of moving within a document is nothing new as it’s been around for a very long time, however most don’t know it exists in web browsers. IE and Firefox both have the Caret Browsing feature, accessible...

In our last episode.. I talked about how much web browsers suck. But now it’s time to discuss how great they are. The best way to describe the greatness of modern web browsers is to point out the features we have now that most people take for granted. 1. Tabbed Document Interface Most people know this as simply tabs. This was one of the best improvements...