Why can’t they fix the Flash/Firefox bug?
An annoying and long-lived bug is preventing some users from viewing Web videos. There’s a workaround, but for many, the cure is as naughty as the disease.
The bug is that Flash videos don’t play for convinced Firefox 3 users on Windows XP or Vista, when using the current Flash player versi…
Get isolated file access, management on your iPhone with Sugarsync
Sugarsync, a pricey but excellent file syncing and backup solution has a new iPhone application that’s downright cool. It gives you access to all the files stored on computers linked up to your Sugarsync explanation. Better yet, it provides instant–and I do mean instant updates when a file has b…
Patents.com lets you search through ideas (good and not good)
Got the next big notion floating around in your head but want to see whether someone else has already come up with it? Digging through the mountain of patents on file at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web site can be a bit daunting. To help in that search is Patents.com, which has an index…
Exploring World Wide Web Explorer 8
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Accounting on the go: Quickbooks for iPhone and Blackberry
Quickbooks, one of the main accounting packages for small businesses, has just released web interfaces for Blackberry and iPhone. The iPhone version, seen to the left, sports a very slick UI and allows easy, at-a-glance access to all of your financial knowledge, entered into Quickbooks Online.
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Voice-activated text gets you to the Evite party
(Credit: Evite)
As of Wednesday, Evite’s Send-to-Phone text alerts–which let users get event details on their mobile phone–include a voice-activated directions service. Yes, the addition of direction texts means partiers have lost one of their top excuses for being late. That drawback aside, that…
Google gooses Apple’s Safari with Gears beta
As promised in May, Google has brought the open-source Gears technology to Apple’s Safari, augmenting some browser abilities such as using Gears-tailored Web sites while offline.
The company announced a beta version of Gears for Safari (DMG file download link) on the Gears users mailing list Mo…
Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages
Mozilla on Tuesday released a public prototype of Ubiquity, a curious command-based interface to locating data on the Web and creating compilations of knowledge from various sources. See: Mozilla offers do-it-yourself mashups for all.
At the moment, it’s most capable as a command-line browser…
Technorati acquires ‘online magazine’ Blogcritics
Technorati Media, parent company of blog search site Technorati, has acquired Blogcritics.org. The newly purchased site is a user-fueled “online magazine” for bloggers that was already a member of the newish Technorati Media ad network.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Tech…
Marvel forces Twitter takedown of fan account
If you’ve been thinking about starting a Twitter history under the pretense of being someone else you might want to think twice whether it has anything to do with someone else’s mental property.
In the past few weeks users, who have been trying their best to emulate characters from AMC’s televisi…
