In this article we’ll take a look at the websites of leading fashion companies, as well as some fashion news sites, and see when fashion, style and web design come together.
An anonymous reader writes “According to its own speed tests, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer loads most websites faster than both Chrome and Firefox when looking at the top 25 websites on the Internet. ‘As you can see, IE8 outperforms Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0 in loading 12 websites, Chrome 1.0 places second by loading nine sites first, and Firefox brings up the rear by loading four sites faster than the other two browsers. Also, in case you missed it, IE loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox, and Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE, just for kicks.'”
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It’s easier, but it’s far too risky to reuse the same password — but many of us do, security firm reports. A third of web users have admitted to using the same password for a number of different websites. According to the security firm, just 19 percent never use the same password twice.
jQuery is everywhere, its fast and versatile, and is rapidly becoming as common on websites as CSS. The only small problem you may have is keeping up with development, keeping up with new plugins and tutorials. This article will do just that. All of these tuts have been written within the past eight weeks, bringing you up to speed with latest devel
From Los Angeles Times: 27 top Internet publishers – New York Times, CNN, CBS Interactive, ESPN and the Wall Street Journal – say they’ll try the supersize ads in an attempt to get the attention of Web surfers who have learned to ignore banners. But doubters say more intrusive ads won’t work. “We will tune those out as well,” says Jose Castillo.
We’re going to SXSW Interactive this year and we know alot of you are too. In order to help newbies and veterans alike manage the wealth of information that’s already pouring in, PeopleBrowsr, an online visual dashboard that combines your Web profiles and connections, has created a centralized dashboard for SXSW and all the happenings at the event.
Jack Spine writes “The inventor of the World Wide Web has pointed out some of the dangers of deep packet inspection. Sir Tim said that ISPs ‘snooping’ on data was similar to the interception of mail. ‘This is very important to me, as what is at stake is the integrity of the internet as a communications medium,’ Berners-Lee said on Wednesday. TBL’s comments come as the UK government is gearing up to intercept all web communications in the UK through the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and echo comments he made last year about Phorm.”
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So, if you’re looking around for a great web editor for Linux, just what is the state of editors for Linux and does it get any better than Vi or Emacs? Let’s take a look at what options are on offer today.
Talk about declaring a price war: MetroPCS has launched their first BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone with an unlimited rate plan. The personal rate plan includes unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry email access through BlackBerry Internet Service, while an extra gets you the BlackBerry Enterprise Server version.
superglaze (ZDNet UK) writes “Google is gearing up to launch cookie-based ‘interest-based’ advertising, which involves monitoring the user’s passage across various WebSense partner sites. The idea is to have better-targeted advertising, which is not a million miles away from what Phorm is trying to do — the difference, it seems at first glance, is that Google is being relatively upfront about its intentions.”
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