Netscape 3.0 was my web browser of choice way back when I first got on the internet way back in 1997, but as it went through feature bloat and bugginess with each update since then, I found myself using other web browsers more often, browsers like Opera, Safari and Mozilla Firefox. The latest Windows-only beta of Netscape 8 available for download hereseems to be based on Firefox, but also seems capable of using the Internet Explorer rendering engine. Not sure…
Noticed the profileration of Wikis these days, especially for the user documentation on several websites. Some day I will figure out the pedagogical applications, but for now I’ll digest what this article has to say. ONLamp.com: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?
Well I’ve heard of “words” like n00b, w00t and kewl (no thanks to my 1.5-year experience as a Diablo 2 addict on Battle.net, but apparently there’s a lot more of such “vocabulary” going around. Check out this parent’s primer to computer slang, published by…gasp!…none other than Microsoft itself. hmm, no wonder many of my students’ vocabulary and spelling absolutely suxx. :-O
This piece on blogging software roundup may be almost 2 years old, but it certainly reflects just how much the blogging landscape has changed in so short a time.
Didn’t realise just how small the Mac mini is till I saw this picture at this review by Tom’s Hardware Guide
Just surfing around as usual when I noticed a link to a new FREE blogging service, siimlar to Blogger and LiveJournal. The big difference is that is running on WordPress – yes, the very software this blog is powered by? I’ve set up a test account and it seems to be running off a version 1.5 beta of WordPress, as the manager interface seems to contain features missing from my version 1.2.2 of WordPress..including a handy theme manager! Time will…