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Opera hints at version 8 with latest beta

With voice commands, shrinking Web pages and improved RSS tools, Opera is confident that the beta of its new browser has enough new features to merit a jump to version 8.0. Read more »

Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds

Google has introduced RSS and Atom feeds for its popular Google News aggregation service. Read more »

Third beta of Internet Explorer 7 is out

Microsoft has released a third "beta" or testing version of the next version of its popular Internet Explorer Web browser. Read more »

Google mulls RSS support

Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services, marking the latest twist in a burgeoning standards war over technology that could change how people read the news. Read more »

Start-up Xcerion sees the Web as your OS

If Swedish entrepreneur Daniel Arthursson has his way, millions of people will be running their applications on an Internet operating system by the end of next year. Read more »

Web 2.0 potential unmet?

Despite the explosion of new Web services, a number of hurdles stand in the way of consumer- and business-oriented social-networking applications, experts at the Web 2.0 Summit said Tuesday in the US. Read more »

Windows Live program manager quits 'paralysed' division

The departure of a Windows Live program manager has highlighted concern within Microsoft about the strategic direction of the company. Read more »

Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome

Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed. Read more »

New Opera beta sports email, feed changes

For right now, the future of Opera — the browsing alternative to the browsing alternative — doesn't look a whole lot different from the present. Keeping in mind that this isn't a stable release, Opera 9.60 beta 1 for Windows and Mac looks to add a few feature tweaks and claims to be faster. Read more »

Flock's 'social browser' set to fly

Start-up Flock plans later this year to release version 1.0 of its namesake browser, which intermingles online socialising and Web surfing. Read more »

Features (21)

Build an AIR application for your website

Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »

Add RSS feeds to your Web site with Perl XML::RSS

Take advantage of the XML::RSS CPAN package, which is specifically designed to read and parse RSS feeds. Read more »

Deliver RSS content with JSP and JavaScript

You can generate RSS feeds for your JSP-based web site easily. We'll show you how. Read more »

Yahoo! Pipes brings mashups to the masses

The Yahoo! Pipes project facilitates mashup creation via an easy-to-use interface. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Location-based publishing and services

Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »

A developer's look at IE7

With an overwhelming share of the browser market, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) cannot be ignored. This candidate release gives you the opportunity to be proactive and identify any problems that may arise with your applications as viewed in the new browser. Read more »

Manipulate process priority with nice

Modern operating systems are multi-user and multi-tasking, which means that multiple users and multiple tasks can be using the computer at any given time. Each process has a niceness value associated with it, which is what the kernel uses to determine which processes require more processor time than others. Read more »

Tech Guide: What's inside Apple's Mac OS X Tiger

How does Apple's latest version of Mac OS X, Tiger, look and feel on the desktop? Read more »

Five simple ways to improve your SEO

Continuing our Web Directions South content, we asked SEO expert Scott Gledhill what developers can do to improve their search engine ranking on their own sites. Read more »

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Get more out of Safari with Debug mode

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Safari's debug mode can open up a few nice features like a JavaScript consol and mask Safari as Internet Explorer. Read more »

Do browsers need a Universal Edit Button?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- As websites allow more user generated content do browsers need a way to better inform users that pages are editable? Read more »

The most interesting Web OS experiment yet

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS. Read more »

Just how much memory is Firefox using?

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- According to our logs 40% of you use Firefox: can you tell how much memory it's using? Here's a few tricks you should know if you're trying to cut it down to size. Read more »

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