Archive for the 'Browsers' Category

Google Toolbar v2 for Firefox

Friday, April 7th, 2006

The Google Blog is reporting that the Google Toolbar v2 for Firefox now is available. It is so. And it will easily install.

Internet Explorer Exploit

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I have not been covering security much. But I ran into this Internet Explorer security issue on www.spyber.com. It turns out that that you can read the Clipboard from javascript. You could some pretty nasty stuff with it.

Sorry only browser with Iframe support

April 1st launch of Google Calendar

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

There is speculation of a April 1st launch of Google Calendar aka CL2.
There are a couple things that are certain, it will be based on Ajax and it will be integrated with Gmail. What will be crucial is possibility to sync with cell phones and pda’s. That will be tricky as you can not do […]

Google Gmail Chat client

Monday, February 20th, 2006

A while back I wrote that Google should stick to web based apps. A step in the right direction is the Gmail-based chat client. It does not require any software, but is maybe too basic.
The hottest thing right now are Ajax desktops. The plan is that create a personal dynamic home page. It sounds pretty […]

Google should stick to web only apps

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Google has innovated the computer world more than any company in recent years. It has been through simple web application.
They have a few attempts at making non-web applications such as Google Earth and Google Talk. Those applications have not been as successful as the web applications such as Google Maps/Local and Google Mail.
Google just […]

Updated versions of Google Toolbar 4 and Firefox

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Apparently I was not the only one having problems installing Google Toolbar 4 on Firefox. There is a new Firefox out that will install the Google Toolbar 4.

Google Toolbar 4 beta available

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Matt Cutts is writing in his blog that Google Toolbar 4 beta available.
Main feaures:

Suggestions as you type
Send web pages via email (or blog, or SMS)
Server-side bookmarks

For some reason I was not able to install it on Firefox 1.5.

Google Toolbar 4 beta

Improvements to eBay Google Mashup

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I just made some improvements to the eBay Google Mashup. When changing the country in the form it will reset categories and postal codes. This is done to prevent the eBay API from complaining about unvalid postal codes and categories.
I have also made hyperlinks for the cities. The links lead to local searches around […]