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Microsoft IE8: An Essential Upgrade
[...] One nice option within InPrivate browsing is InPrivate filtering. This feature can help prevent third-party sites from carrying user information over from site to site, and users can choose which sites they want to allow for this kind of data sharing. [...] Also new in IE 8 are Web Slices. Web Slices are a simple way for Websites to integrate content directly into the IE 8 browser. For example, rather than going to separate Websites to check the weather or see top headlines, users can install a Web Slice from these sites and access this information with a single click on the browser toolbar. [...] On the privacy front, the biggest new feature is InPrivate Browsing (which has been euphemistically referred to as the porn mode but has plenty of legitimate uses). InPrivate browsing lets users open a special window and then make sure that none of the information from that session is saved in the browser cache or history. [...]
Microsoft Bing: At Last Google Has A Rival
[...] The middle is the main results list and this will be familiar to any Google user. But there are some nice touches. Hovering on a bar to the right of the result brings up a small window with more information from the linked site. [...] In general, Bing is more attractive than Google and has a lot of nice interactive touches. Once you've entered a search, the results page in Bing provides a variety of information. [...]
Opera 10 Review - Opera’s Turn To Catch Up!
[...] The integrated developer tool, Dragonfly, also boasts some new capabilities for viewing information on site codes and script, including increased DOM inspection options. In addition, users can now choose to have Opera update automatically when new updates become available, rather than requiring a download and install of an update, as previous versions of the browser did. [...]
Review: Force.com And Eclipse Head For The Cloud
[...] I think that Salesforce has done a beautiful job of integrating data access right into the language, which is something I've longed for more than once in my programming career. Take a look at the Apex developer site for more information. [...] The Force.com development site is huge, and the Eclipse plugin is only one small piece of it. For those who aren't keen on writing code, the site makes available various designers that can be used to piece together an entire application right on the website. [...]
Keynote KITE 2.0: Check Web Site Performance
[...] Keynote's KITE 2.0 software lets Web site developers and implementers gauge the performance of their sites and rich AJAX-based applications. [...] At its most basic level, KITE enables users to test a particular URL using Keynote's Web site&mdash.the service accesses a given URL from the six points of presence I mentioned above&mdash.and provides a breakdown of all the elements on the specified page and how much network time and browser rendering time it took to load those elements. [...] For scripted site interaction, the KITE desktop application comes into play. The KITE client enables users to create two types of script, those that involve scripting of a real Web browser, called TxP scripts, and those that involve scripting of an emulated browser, called ApP scripts. [...]
Microsoft IE8: An Essential Upgrade
[...] The IE 8 SmartFilter is a service (which users can choose to turn off) that checks out sites before users surf to them. If a site is identified as one known to be a phishing site or to contain malware, IE 8 will display a warning page to the user before he or she travels there. [...] IE 8 also now puts the core domain name of a site being viewed in bold. This makes it easier to detect if a site is using a URL similar to, but different than, the one that the user expects to be surfing to. [...] In IE 8, Microsoft has also made some stability improvements. One of the nicest of these is tab isolation, which brings down just a single tab when an unstable site is surfed to, rather than bringing down the entire browser. This feature worked well in tests, although I was a little frustrated that it kept trying to reload the offending site in the tab, essentially restarting the tab crash sequence until I hit the stop button. [...]
Cisco And VMware Show Long-Distance VM Movement
[...] According to a diagram of the San Jose-to-San Francisco test, the San Jose site includes VMware ESX servers and Catalyst 6500 switches from Cisco. At the San Francisco site were ESX servers and Cisco's Nexus 5000 and 7000 switches. [...] not pretty from a network architecture standpoint. And then there is the storage piece. If you move the VM, it has to remotely access its disk in the other site until a Storage VMotion occurs. [...] However, there are particular challenges to the idea of moving live virtual servers from one site to another, Brunsdon said. [...]
NetBeans IDE 6.7 Review
[...] The Project Kenai site itself includes full support for source code repositories. This enables developers to connect via any of several source code version control systems, such as subversion. Through the site you can create projects, host documents, track issues, and even create forums and chat rooms for your projects. [...] Many of these features can be accessed right from within the NetBeans IDE, not just through a Web browser inside the IDE, but directly through the IDE's menus and windows, without the need to interact with the site itself. [...] The latest version of the NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment) is a 0.7 release, but it includes so many new features it could rightfully receive a full version increment. What may be the biggest improvement is full integration with Project Kena i, a site Sun built for open-source collaboration, and that's what this review will focus on. [...]
Review: Acronis Backup and Recovery 10
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Firefox 3.5 Review - The Return of Mozilla!
[...] It is possible within Firefox 3.5 to do some fine-grain post-session editing of a browser session. For example, when in the browser history, users can choose a site they've visited and select Forget about this site to remove all traces of having ever visited the web site. [...] This works through a number of methods, including IP address, Wi-Fi nodes and GPS systems. This feature will be less accurate for a desktop-bound system and more accurate for a mobile device or laptop. (And, of course, a website can always learn your IP address and gain some location information, no matter what the browser does.). [...] Another new feature in Firefox 3.5 is Location Aware browsing, which utilises the Geolocation API. With this capability, a user can choose to share (or not share) his or her location with a website to gain information, such as businesses in a certain area. [...]
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