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Feature: Why Web Standards Matters
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the group that establishes the standards for web pages—rules for the syntax of the code, rules for how the site should be structured, rules for how tags should be used...
There are a lot of rules. More...
Feature: Who Owns Your Computer?
When you purchased your computer, you paid for the monitor, the keyboard and the optical mouse. You also bought a box that contains your CPU, floppy, hard and CD-RW drives, with just enough RAM to make it all work.
No one disagrees; you own your computer’s hardware; “Your” operating system (OS) and software operate under different rules primarily because of a hard choice faced by IBM in 1980. More...
Review: The Perfect Browser
The media has recently noted a significant drop in the popularity of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) as the browser of choice for the world—reports vary, but most agree Firefox now owns somewhere between 10 to 15%—according to some reports, maybe as much as 20%—of the active browser market that used to belong to Microsoft.
But here’s the thing: this has never happened before. More...
How-To: Protect Your Computer
Never open e-mail attachments,
unless it's one you're expecting from yourself or someone you know. Many viruses access user's address books and send themselves to the first fifty or more names on the list. Because you think it's from a friend, you innocently open the attachment and that's when the wackiness ensues. More...
Opinion: Transparent Computing
When writing a story by hand, the writer spends no time at all thinking about her pen. The pen just works and she just writes. The pen is a tool. The pen is a tool that allows the writer to write transparently, without thinking about the process of using a pen.
When they're in the zone, a writer will tell you they were so unaware of the pen, the paper, where they were, anything but the words—they no longer "see" the pen—it had, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. More...
Feature: Web Site Myths
In the modern world, a company without a web site is like an office without a telephone—you’re constantly out of touch. But there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the design process and unrealistic expectations about what a web site can and cannot do for a company. More...
Review: Google Toolbar
There are a lot of search toolbars you can add to your web browser out there, pretty much all of them free and most of them not worth the cost.
Companies like Alexa and MySite give you their toolbars and in exchange you get to become an anonymous (so they say) number as they track your movements around the Internet or worse, turn your computer into an ad server for other users out on the web. More...