InfoWorld had a nice post of 5 things to love about Firefox 3. Here are my comments on the lovely things of Firefox 3. 1. Much better performance Mozilla developers borrowed some memory management tricks from the Free BSD operating system for the Windows and Linux versions of Firefox. (They say memory management on Macs already worked pretty well.) The effect is ...

It's hardly to believe that the creation of Firefox logo was inspired by space images captured by Hubble Space Telescope but the following pictures could prove that claim. The picture on the left looks like the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy. However, it is found that the original image (below) was modified a bit to look more ...

I've registered and had some hand-on experiences with Amazon Web Services (S3 and EC2) since they were launched. I like the idea behind them and theoretically they provide very flexible hosting environment where you can deploy and publish your apps on fly. Yet, in practice, it's not that simple: you must be an expert to create a system of high ...

Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 is now available for download. This release includes "750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta" (quoted from the release note). Adrian had a little hands-on time with ...

A few months ago, I told one of my friends, Bill Aue, that I was really tired with going tens of websites to read tech news everyday while my RSS reader had been overloaded with hundreds of feeds. Sometimes it's very hard to find what important news is. Idea and Implementation Then, Bill had an idea of creating a weblog which pulls ...

Here are a few things I discovered while playing with Google search. Did you know already? Search in Search Searching "Microsoft", I got the result as image below. Now you can search within search result. It seems only news portals have this functionality as I got similar embedded search button when trying with "New York Times" and "Washington Post" keywords but just got ...

Every journey begins with the first step and after the first two months I can say I've passed the first step of a very long trip. So, I want to show a summary of my blog stats as a milestone. Visitors and Site Ranking In the passed 2 month, "Just Talk About Web" (JTAW) blog has welcome about 19,000 visitors (i.e. 367 ...

Yesterday, I subscribed to Website Magazine - a magazine which covers a variety of categories of web business from website management, online advertisement, SEO to web design and development. This magazine is an excellent source for people who are interested in doing business on the net of any kind. I'm very fond of the digital edition of the magazine powered by ...

"I'm sure what most of you care the most about are the facts, and so I've compiled the results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test for each of the different browsers. All of the tests below were performed on the same Windows machine, and the Firefox 3 nightly builds definitely came out on top." reported Ryan from CyberNet.   "It's important to ...