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Google's changes rely on guinea pig users

Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website — both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces. Read more »

Mozilla releases fifth beta of Firefox 3

Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac on Wednesday, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser. Read more »

KDE4 offers new glitzy look

KDE released a significantly revamped version of its Linux graphical interfaces software on Friday. Read more »

Mozilla takes wraps off Firefox 1.5

A new version of the Firefox Web browser debuted Tuesday in the United States, promising speedier browsing, swifter updates and better pop-up blocking. Read more »

Mozilla plans major facelift for Firefox 3

Mozilla is hoping the next version of its Firefox browser will look familiar -- regardless of which operating system you use. Read more »

Antitrust prompts Microsoft Vista search revamp

Microsoft has outlined the changes it plans to make to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista to satisfy antitrust concerns. Read more »

Google signs LG for YouTube mobiles

Google has thrown in its lot with a major handset maker to bring YouTube to the mobile platform Read more »

Firefox beta out of the foxhole

A test version of an updated Firefox browser is out, offering such features as automatic updates and improvements designed to speed browser navigation. Read more »

Microsoft blames users for OneCare fiasco

In an interview with Munir Kotadia, the software giant denies Windows Live OneCare automatically deleted quarantined e-mail files, contrary to users' claims. Read more »

Welcome to iGoogle

Further clarifying its customisation strategy, the search giant enhances personalised home page product, renaming it iGoogle. Read more »

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Designing 3D buttons with pure CSS

CSS buttons are much more efficient than image-based buttons because they're entirely text-based. Here are two techniques for creating a bevelled-edge by styling the borders of a CSS button. Read more »

Design more cohesively with XML and XSLT

Find out how XML and XSLT transformations can help you bring together your site's design. Read more »

Flex: The new face of design and development

Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »

Better VB6 GUI design

Visual Basic 6 simplifies graphical user interface development, but it still takes time to design a clean GUI. Use these pointers to keep your VB6 GUIs intuitive and attractive. Read more »

13 Design rules that every Web site designer should know about

If you regard yourself as a professional Web site designer, then you need to be aware of, and then follow, these 13 design rules for building effective Web sites. Read more »

Create flexible CSS2 border effects

Before CSS2, Web developers had to rely on graphics-heavy pages to create mouseover and other effects. See how to produce such effects in CSS2. Read more »

Eight UI tips for better Web forms

How do you keep a user interested in completing a Web form? The following tips are a sure-fire way to help you get the most out of your Web forms. Read more »

Creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation bar

Now that tables are no longer recommended for positioning any nontabular page content, many Web authors are looking for ways to create navigation bars using structural XHTML markup and CSS formatting. Read more »

Oversee Web site editing with Macromedia Contribute 2

You want to hand off some Web maintenance tasks, but you're afraid to turn users loose with editing tools. Macromedia Contribute 2.0 works hand-in-hand with Dreamweaver MX 2004, so novices can work on site content--but under your administrative control. Read more »

Builder's JavaScript QuickStart Tool

Get a solid foundation in JavaScript in this download which includes explanations of common tasks, strengths, weaknesses, and the best uses for this powerful scripting language. Read more »

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Blog (7)

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 »

Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »

StartupCamp Melbourne: The review

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0. Read more »

Creating Web apps at iPhone Developer Camp

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- "Apple is not ready to have a developer community yet ... you have to be on the Apple happy list to be a developer," Christopher Allen said. "There has always been this tension with Apple and the developers' community." Read more »

Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »

Mixed Emotions

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »

The last of the codeslingers?

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Is programming a transient job that's experiencing its last days of the Wild West? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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