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• 5.14.07 VirtualBox: Open Source Virtualization posted in Geekery

  VirtualBox is an Open Source x86 virtualization product available for OS X. Functioning along the lines of Parallels, but free, I’ve recently gotten XP up and running on my Intel based MacBook Pro and have Internet Explorer versions 5-7 open for testing my websites without having to boot up my old PC. In fact, now I can sell my PC ;). VirtualBox is simple, powerful and easy on the eyes. I had XP up and running in 30 minutes, and 27 of that was the actual XP install. I especially recommend this product if you’re a web developer who needs to test websites cross-platform. I’m currently working on figuring out how to approach a localhost test server in a way that will let me access it from both platforms while I’m working. Once I get that down, I’ll let you know how I did it ;).

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• 10.27.06 I Heart Not Microsoft posted in Web Design

  Jeffrey Zeldman writes in IE7 CSS tweak show and tell: Once IE7 gains critical mass, a lot of our current thinking about ems and pixels and such will go out the window. I’ll write about that soon, probably on A List Apart. Funny how Microsoft has the power to change all the good that was coming […]

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• 9.2.06 The music war is on. DRM shields up. posted in marketing

  Samsung has joined the fray, along with Microsoft, Myspace and Spiral Frog/Universal to compete with iTunes. More options, more music, right? DRM issues aside, here’s my biggest problem. With the exception of Myspace, they all seem to be planning proprietary formats that can only be used on certain brands of players. […]

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• 9.1.06 Microsoft pulls AJAX posted in Web Design

  Were you impressed with the AJAXy search on Windows Live Beta? Because they just pulled it. I don’t know why. In the meantime, Google added a little AJAX popup to their search interface, so when you click the “more” link on the main search page, you can choose from more Google apps without having […]

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• 9.1.06 IE Developer Center Redesign: still a table. posted in Web Design

  Microsoft just announced a redesign of their Internet Explorer Developer Center on the IEblog. So I checked it out. You would think, with all of their supposed attention to CSS and standards compliance on IE7 that they would have paid a little attention to either one when putting a redesign of their […]

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• 8.28.06 Internet Explorer 7 fixed up? Nope. posted in Web Design

  A recent post on the IE Blog seemed hopeful. They’ve made a lot of fixes recently. But reports from beta testers, found in the comments of the post, were discouraging, as what IE claimed to have fixed was still erratic and fundamentally broken, and there are still major parts of the CSS1 […]

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• 8.22.06 More IE7 ranting… posted in Web Design, Geekery

  So, despite some retractions and an updated post from Paul Thurrott, I still have this burning question: “Why do we need Internet Explorer 7?” The major reason for the release, according to Bill Gates keynote and the IE Blog is security, security, security. But they keep responding to questions about standards by […]

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• 8.20.06 Firefox wins at Circle Six! posted in Geekery

  Based on my mint stats for the last 1000 some unique visitors, we’ve got 52% using Firefox and 24% using Explorer. I like my demographics! While I’ve admittedly gotten good at designing for Internet Explorer, and it takes me a lot less time to make things work, it still feels dirty to […]

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• 8.8.06 IE7 and CSS… a dead horse? posted in General

  So the initial reports are popping up around the net. Internet Explorer 7 is only 54% compatible with the CSS 2.1 standard, vs. firefox’s 93% and Opera 9’s 96% (statistical analysis based on this source). This jives with my initial experiences with the beta release, although the Microsoft blog claims quite a […]

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• 8.7.06 Browser wars tenfold. posted in General

  I’m sure this subject has been broached many times, in many ways, but I need to have a go at it… I started working with web design in the early days of the Explorer/Netscape browser wars. Back then we got frustrated because both browsers kept pushing proprietary features that forced us to design two sites […]

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