Tag: 2006

What will happen in 2007? Who knows what the future holds, right? I am willing to bet that you already have a good idea what will happen next year. Care to share? I want to hear what you are most looking forward to this year, are there any apps that you think will go critical and be the next big thing? Also, what was your favorite app of 2006? Let me know. In case you can't remember your ...

The folks over at DonationCoder have rounded up their top picks for 2006 in a very extensive list of 9 different categories: software, web sites, essays and debates, flash games, humor, gadgets, DonationCoder roundups, programmer stuff, and entrepreneur writing. There are definitely some good picks in there (DownloadSquad and SlashFood made their best web sites list, woot!), and some quirky ones ...

At the end of every year Google releases a Zeitgeist that ticks off the year's most popular searches, which is good, clean fun for info-addicts like me. The Google Zeitgeist for 2006 is now out, and though it's not quite as fascinating, for some reason, as Zeitgeists past, the year's Top 10 searches are pretty interesting: bebo myspace world cup metacafe radioblog wikipedia video ...

Everybody likes quick and dirty apps, especially me. Anything quick and dirty that is also free is my holy grail. Microsoft is offering the XML Notepad 2006 for download, which is quick, dirty, and free. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is a simple XML editor for editing XML documents. Sometimes less is more, and this app proves it. XML Notepad does a nice job of helping you organize XML ...

Today this year's winners of the annual Apple Design Awards were announced. The awards aim "to recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement on Mac OS X" in eight categories. Here are the winners (uh, spoilers): Best Developer Tool: TextMate 1.5.2 Best Use of OS X Graphics: modo 201 Best Dashboard Widget: iClip lite 2.0 Best Automator Workflow: Build Real Estate ...

In case you were having a hard time trying to think of PC games you ought to be looking forward to in the next nine months, head over to the GameSpot forums where user AdrianWerner posted (albeit a couple months ago) an enormous list of "promising" games due in 2006. "Promising" is by his own reckoning, taking into account their developers' previous games.There's something like ...

Alessandro Fulciniti at Web-Graphics has collected his top 20 bookmarks of 2005. They're all, of course, web development links with a focus on CSS and JavaScript with some design, typography, AJAX, and search engine optimization thrown in. Every one is a must-read for anyone doing web development in 2006. ...

The LA Times' Sallie Hofmeister has published her business predictions for the new year, and there's a lot of interesting speculation among them, but most interesting is this tidbit: "Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC." Of course this isn't the first talk of a Google-branded computer, and if anyone could ...

So far I've avoided the predictions-for-'06 lists just for sheer volume (if you've spotted any particularly good ones, though, please hit up our tips form) but Philipp Lenssen's mostly Google-centric 15 Search Predictions for 2006 at Google Blogoscoped is pretty good. He gives a probability for each of his predictions: Web-wide Google video search? 80%. Graphical ads on Google.com? 40%. Google ...

Opera blog Avencius has posted a solid summary of what's in store for Opera 9 in 2006, based on what can be seen in Preview 1 and what's been written on Opera's blogs and forums. At the top of the list is improved web standards support including Atom, SVG Basic, Web Forms 2.0, and some CSS3 support. Acid2 compliance, rich text editing, and OPML are among improvements for end users, and Opera Mail ...