Cormac mentions that Safari beta 3 is available for download on OSX and Windows XP! I just grabbed a copy and have tried it out on a couple of sites. Its rendering engine is fast, but will it live up to the claims? According to Apple it: loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. It also ships with Bonjour, which is an … [Read more...] about The End Is Nigh – Safari Available For Windows!
Archives for June 2007
Irish Online Services Winning Awards?
Two online services that are run by Irish operations have been nominated for awards recently. PollDaddy, which is run by Infacta has been nominated for the Webware 100. You can vote for it here. It's up against some stiff competition in that category, so best of luck to them! Aodhan Cullen, the man behind StatCounter, has been nominated for a BusinessWeek Young Entrepreneur … [Read more...] about Irish Online Services Winning Awards?
SPF Does Its Job – Pity The Host Didn’t
SPF has been around for a couple of years now and is included with all installs of Spam Assassin by default. So why is it that some hosting companies can't understand how it works or how email filtering works? It's not rocket science. SPF, which I've mentioned here several times in the past, allows a domain owner to specify which mail hosts can send mail from the domain. It's … [Read more...] about SPF Does Its Job – Pity The Host Didn’t
More Blog Award Nominations
There's nothing wrong with the odd award nomination, is there? This blog has been nominated for several in the past, though I am yet to win any! *sniff* The latest round of nominations is from the "Blogger Choice Awards". A couple of other Irish blogs are up there (including Twenty Major). Anyhow if you are that way inclined feel free to vote! (I think the company's doing … [Read more...] about More Blog Award Nominations
Movable Type 4 Test Drive
I've been testing the beta version of Movable Type 4 today and I must say I am really impressed. Yes it is beta. Yes there are bugs, but it's beta software. What do you expect? The development team will fix the bugs and release a very tasty piece of software once they are happy with it. So what's it like? One of the things about MovableType that always annoyed me to a degree … [Read more...] about Movable Type 4 Test Drive