Thursday, August 5th, 2010
As a follow-up from my last post here are some more visitor statistics courtesy of Google Analytics. These are for sandfly.net.nz as a whole, not just this blog.
Last year I got nearly 18000 visits from over 4000 cities (not all appear on this map) in 128 countries. The top 5 ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
It was bound to happen. People seemed to enjoy the first TV Theme Quiz so I fired up Audacity and created another 30 seconds of familiar ditties. Things were solved pretty quickly last time so I tried to make this one just a smidgeon harder - we will see if ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
I have been mucking around with the
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Safari 4 has been out for a couple of days now, and I must say I am enjoying using it. On the Mac, Safari has always had a great overall browser experience but Firefox always managed to stay my weapon of choice for viewing the Internet. This may change, ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Back in the day there was no standard way to publish video on the web. You could put any kind of video file you wanted on the server, but there was no guarantee that your readers would have the correct plugin required to view it. Everyone had to have a ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
I have been quietly impressed with the progress web browsers have been making in recent years towards the goal of supporting a wide variety of applications. The promise of web-apps rivaling traditional desktop applications seems within reach after nigh-15 years of ballyhoo. Most recent browsers have extremely fast Javascript support ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
First some facts...
Fact 1:
None of us can remember the passwords for the dozens of web sites we re all registered on. That is why web browsers all optionally store logon information and automatically fill out logon pages when we revisit a site.
Fact 2:
Web browsers do all support a special type ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
So Google is going where angels fear to tread, and has released a browser of their own: Chrome. This is a very interesting move; I can think of a few reasons why Google might think a custom browser might be a good idea:
although everyone thinks of Google as a ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The browser wars are starting to hot up again. Apple is making a late play for cross platform browsing by releasing Safari 3.1 onto the world. Safari is MacOS X's bundled browser - on the Mac it has always been pretty good, but the recent Windows versions have been terrible. ...
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