One of the issues people are having with tabs on top in Safari 4 is that it's hard to distinguish which tab is currently frontmost. I found this an issue even with the previous location of the tab bar in Safari 3. The problem, for me at least, is that the Unified interface theme doesn't provide suff...

I have posted previous notes about how newspapers and journalists need to adapt to the blogosphere and to social media (see, for example: Mainstream Media Begin to Adopt Link Journalism). I myself am a relatively recent convert to microblogging and Twitter. A recent article on the web provides advic...

One of the main problems that users of multi-user Windows XP systems experience is that the default internet browser is set as a system setting that is affecting all user accounts. If one user decided to change the default internet browser it would affect all user accounts of the Windows XP system. ...

By Adam Thierer, Berin Szoka, & Adam Marcus As noted in the first installment of our “Privacy Solution Series,” we are outlining various user-empowerment or user “self-help” tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tr...

Filed under: Windows, Browsers There have been portable versions of web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera that you can run from a USB flash drive for a while. Basically these apps let you store your data to the flash drive allowing you to run these apps on Windows without installi...

Windows only: Google has gotten in the bad habit lately of requiring you to install Google Updater to download any of its desktop apps, but if you're not keen on the required Updater install (and want to try Chrome), try the Google Chrome Standalone installer. It downloads a full "offline" installat...

If it is not because of the benchmark result that confirm Safari 4 is faster than Firefox and the rest of web browser, I’m probably still not using full version Safari browser. I do use Safari, but only on Iphone. But before that, there is something I want to show you.  This post was initiall...

Safari 4 Beta sprinted from the gate with a claim to being "3x faster than Firefox" at JavaScript rendering. We're calling Apple's ante and updating our browser speed tests with the latest builds. As in our previous speed tests, we're looking at a few key factors that the average browser user notice...

Early on Tuesday, Apple slapped an unannounced release of Safari 4 Beta on the table, and the entire Internet subsequently went bananas. We’ve taken it for a test drive and right off the cuff it feels natural to compare Safari’s upgrades to the features in Google Chrome. In fact, even af...

In a previous note, I raised the topic of Google juice (see: Snap Google Quiz on a Tuesday Morning), which is a term for describing influence with the Google crawler. It can be assessed by the ranking of you or your blog on the Google search engine retrieval page (SERP). The topic of personal search...