Posted on 13 February, 2008 by Sphere
Pretty much every browser out there has articles about how it’s so much better than IE7. But only Firefox has made any real headway into the browser market share with around 25% in Europe. Opera is some way behind in third with around 3%.
So is Firefox that much better than Opera ? It’s not really clear [...]
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Posted on 25 January, 2008 by Sphere
Until recently I was completely unaware of the range of desktop blogging applications. These allow you to post your blog through an application instead of the web interface.
In my case, I’m a fan of WordPress.com, but the posting interface is a pain in the ass, especially when dealing with images. Add to that the fact [...]
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Posted on 6 September, 2007 by Sphere
Yet another IPTV application was announced yesterday with the HP/DAVE Networks offering, NEXT TV.
If you think you’ve heard all this before, you probably have :
NEXT.TV Press Release (Sept 5th, 2007)
NEXT.TV brings together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an easy to use entertainment driven environment.
NEXT.TV can be accessed with a wired or wireless broadband [...]
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Posted on 6 September, 2007 by Sphere
Microsoft Silverlight, widely touted as the ‘Flash-Killer’ was officially released today.
There has been talk about this for a number of months, along with some impressive case studies, and in a Press Release today the ‘cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web’ was launched.
A full comparison between Silverlight and Flash is lengthy [...]
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Posted on 17 August, 2007 by Sphere
One of the major decisions any blog has to make is which software/service to use.
It can be difficult to find recent, unbiased reviews of the options available, but there’s a good article over at Top Ten Reviews which compares ten of the current hosted offerings. Their top 3 are :
1. WordPress.com
2. Typepad
3. Blogger
Mashable.com have [...]
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