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07 Aug 2009 11:03

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Offbeat: Here’s a wonderful text-based toy for you to play with

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  • Your World Of Text is just a giant text box that anyone can edit. And it’s awesome. You should play with it for a couple of hours. source

30 Jun 2009 22:30

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Tech: Firefox 3.5 is out. Is it quality or junk? Ars Technica weighs in.

  • The Firefox 3.5 release builds on the browser’s existing strengths to offer a high-quality user experience with a lot of rich new functionality.
  • Ars Technica writer Ryan Paul • Explaining why Firefox 3.5 is a major step forward for not only the browser itself but the Web in general. Simply put, it doesn’t suck. Less simply put, it offers significant speed increases, private browsing, HTML 5 video standards, drop shadows, interface upgrades and other awesome stuff. But you STILL can’t drag JPG files into Photoshop without a big error box coming up. What the heck, Mozilla? That’s a big problem. • source

03 Mar 2009 21:40

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Tech: This Web browser predates Mosaic. It coulda been The One.

Meet Erwise, a browser created by Finns who don’t know how to strike while the iron is hot. source

05 Jan 2009 05:08

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Sports: Kudos to ESPN.com on their redesign

  • Slimmer. Quicker. Faster. Stronger. ESPN.com has long been the go-to site for sports content, but it was hobbled by a heavy footprint and long load time. No longer. They redesigned today and it’s much nicer. Check out the scoreboards up top; they rock! source