2007 April

Firefox cannot be stopped: close to 25% of the European use rate. The use rate in Europe still remains lower than Oceania’s since November 2006.
Global Situation:

North America (USA and Canada): 15.1% marketshare
Central and South America: 11.9% marketshare
Europe: 24.1% marketshare
Africa: 13.1% marketshare
Asia: 11.9% marketshare
Oceania:24.8% marketshare
Methodology:
The use rate for Firefox corresponds to all Firefox visits for the [...]

It seems like Mozilla and eBay are working together on a new Firefox add-on to integrate Ebay into Firefox. The Firefox Companion for eBay is only in private testing for the moment, but I would like to test and provide feedback you can leave your email at the project’s website to be added as a betatester [...]

RAR Labs just released the seventh beta version of Winrar 3.70.
The advantages of Winrar are its superior compression and capabilities to work with the most common archiving formats such as rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar, iso, 7z and z. It also has a skinnable interface. This beta is already [...]

As promised in an earlier post here are my Firefox extensions I can’t live without. Be carefull when installing extensions, because there are thousands of firefox extensions out there and not all of them are of good quality and some are even dangerous to your computer. As a general rule: download the scripts from a [...]

Microsoft WPF/E has a more catchy name as from now on. On Monday Microsoft launched Silverlight at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. Silverlight is browser plugin for interactive web content.
Plugin for interactive web content sounds like flash, you think?
Like Flash, the Microsoft program will have development tools for designers and software [...]

People ask me sometimes which software I use on a daily basis.It’s a big list, but for me the following are my top applications.
Internet
My default browser is Firefox. It gives me speed, stability and endless possibilities using the extensions. One of the following days I will post which extensions I use, and the reason why.
I [...]

I see myself as an early adopter of new technology. I was excited about the new Microsoft OS, running the betas and RCs. Then a nice clean install of the official version of Vista. Trying to adopt to the new OS. As always I expected some learning curve but in general change is good (especially [...]