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Microsoft blamed for Google Docs flaw threat

Google has fixed a flaw in Google Docs that allowed an attacker to hijack sessions on any Google service — but security experts say that the real damage is being caused by Internet Explorer, not Google's technology. Read more »

Test out new Firefox 3, faster than version 2

The initial release candidate of Firefox 3 is ready for download. Read more »

Google Chrome's open source ally: Microsoft

During Google's launch of its Chrome Web browser, the company went out of its way to acknowledge the debt it owes two open source projects, Firefox and WebKit. But Microsoft, an uncommon ally in the open source realm, might also deserve a tip of the hat. Read more »

Google begins Gears-enabling its office apps

The Google Docs' word processor will be the first Google app to be made available offline using the free Google Gears extension, which means users will soon be able to read and edit their documents even without an Internet connection. Read more »

Google unveils desktop search

Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles. Read more »

Google throws bodies at OpenOffice

Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense. Read more »

Mandriva founder puts OpenOffice in Firefox, IE

OpenOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite got a boost on Wednesday when Ulteo, a company staffed by Linux veterans, launched a service that lets people run the OpenOffice.org suite in a browser. Read more »

Safari 3.2 includes antiphishing tools

Without fanfare, Apple has apparently added antiphishing to its Safari 3.2 release. Read more »

Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard. Read more »

Microsoft unveils free enterprise search

Microsoft is targeting the lower end of the enterprise search market with Search Server 2008, a free version of which will also be available. Read more »

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Automate and extend Firefox with the Chickenfoot add-on

Chickenfoot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automate user actions within the browser environment. It also lets you extend the browser interface to provide additional features to a Web page. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

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

Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »

Microformats and Mapping

We begin by looking at what a microformat is and how they are useful, then progress to introducing the Google Maps API and finally putting it all together to produce the user group map Read more »

Make the most of mapping down under

Map-based mashups are appearing everywhere. Whether you're planning a bike commute or looking for hotels, Andrew Muller shows how Aussies can incorporate maps into applications. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. 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 »

Starting with Spry

Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »

Make the most of AJAX

AJAX has changed the way Web apps are developed and used. It allows for interactive Web pages and is on the cutting edge of current web trends. Read more »

Create a quiz app with XML and JavaScript

Follow the creation and evolution of a JavaScript-based quiz application as a developer satisfies the specified requirements for a client-side-only solution. Read more »

Blog (2)

Ubuntu gets jaunty

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »

The return to the king

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Does the arrival of Web applications on the desktop warrant the death pronouncement of the desktop or is it just hot air? 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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