Practical Technology

Sorry Opera; too bad about what happened to you, Netscape; and Internet Explorer, please, don’t make me laugh. The best Web browser on the planet is Firefox 3.5… for now.
I’ve been using Firefox since day one, and, for the most part, I’ve liked it. And, folks, since I’ve been using the Web since before there [...]

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Hulu says that it’s “free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc.” Unless, though, you own a Sony PlayStation 3. If that’s you, you’re out of luck.
PS3 users discovered starting over the June 27th weekend that when they tried to watch [...]

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Opera Software’s announcement that it’s going to bundle Unite, an easy-to-use Web server with content-sharing applets, with the Opera 10 Web browser sounds great — at first. Upon closer inspection, though, there could be some real security headaches.
For now, Unite, which is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, is alpha software. That means [...]

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I’d been waiting for Chrome on Linux since Chrome first showed up. Chrome, if you haven’t tried it, is the speed-demon of Web browsers. I love it. But, until now, there really wasn’t a version that would run natively on Linux. Starting last night, June 4th, Google released developer’s versions of Chrome for Macs and [...]

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There was a time when Firefox was the Web browsers for the cool kids who knew their tech. Most would still agree that it’s better than Internet Explorer, but that’s damning it with faint praise. Over the last year or so, Firefox have become better known in tech. Savvy circles for its relatively poor performance [...]

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