Tag: SURFING

No, sadly it's not my video (whose accent do you prefer, incidentally? The squeaky American, or mine?) but still, it's a great early look at the browsing experience on Windows Phone 7. Lee really likes the tabs (those close buttons look fiddly though). I like the Metro UI, and the ability to add favourite pages to the Start screen. Froyo looks like a crusty donkey in comparison -- and iOS4 ...

It's only been live for a few hours, and Google hasn't yet published before-and-after comparisons, but it looks like speculative pre-connection is now built into the developer tree of Chromium. As with most of these clever under-the-hood type changes, it's hard to describe just how much this will improve your browsing experience, but I'm going to try. Basically, pre-connection opens an HTTP ...

Here's a problem all of us face, but few of us acknowledge: the mouse. It's long been known that the humble mouse is a necessary, and sometimes much-loved evil. It's not actually the mouse itself, or the manipulation of it that's bad for us, but the moving of your hands to the mouse -- now that's bad. I won't get into the details, but a big part of avoiding RSI (repetitive strain injury) from ...

It's now safe to say, we've found a noble use for Dashboard: figuring out when the surf's up. WindGuru is a widget that offers one-glance reports on wind direction and speed--useful for figuring out when the waves are big and when they're just knee-high. This is particularly true in places where surfing is a twice-a-year luxury like on Lake Erie. Sadly, Lake Erie hasn't hit WindGuru's list of ...

On Monday Google released Google Toolbar 4 beta which has a number of cool new features. The biggest new feature, in my opinion, is a bookmarks menu that's accessible from anywhere a la Foxmarks, but some might be uneasy about entrusting their bookmarks to Google's servers. The second big feature is the new custom buttons API that lets developers easily create little buttons on the toolbars that ...