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  • Firefox Personas Extension
    By vinu on December 18th, 2007 | 2 Comments2 Comments Comments
    Skin firefox according to your mood. Change your Firefox themes without having to download, install and restart the browser using Firefox Personas. In this version, the Persona selector is dynamically loaded and popula...
  • Rules for High Performance Websites
    By vinu on October 30th, 2007 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website.  The points covered in this are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets...
  • Really Simple History - History for Ajax
    By vinu on September 18th, 2007 | No Comments Comments
    If you’re working on Ajax based websites, you’ll always face usability problems when users click on the Back or Forward buttons on the broswer. Using Really Simple History (RSH) allows you over come this is...
  • Google Gears for offline apps
    By vinu on May 31st, 2007 | No Comments Comments
    Google has released a beta version of Google Gears which is an open source browser extension which  enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs. Here’s what you ca...
  • Browser detection in PHP
    By vinu on September 11th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Did you know that PHP has a built in function to detect which browser your visitor is running? Well neither did I till one of my collegues, Ansar, pointed out PHP’s get_browser function. Here’s how to use thi...
  • Gmail Manager - Firefox plugin
    By vinu on August 22nd, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s a cool firefox extension for Gmail addicts called Gmail Manager. Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread...
  • JSView - Firefox plugin
    By vinu on June 15th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s a cool extension for Firefox which gives you a quick look at the javascripts which are linked within the HTML page. No more hunting for JS includes in the HTML source ! “All browsers include a “V...
  • FIX IT - Click to activate and use this control - Flash | I.E | Problem
    By vinu on May 18th, 2006 | 4 Comments4 Comments Comments
    Since Microsoft lost a legal battle on how they display multimedia conent in their browser, they’ve had to the change the way these content displays on screen. Now a user has to click these elements to start playin...
  • FireBug - FireFox Plugin
    By vinu on January 21st, 2006 | 2 Comments2 Comments Comments
    Here’s a cool plugin for Firefox which allows you to debug Ajax code. FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, ...
  • IE for Mac is officially Dead
    By vinu on December 20th, 2005 | No Comments Comments
    Microsoft is officially retiring IE for Mac from the end of January. They plan to stop updates by the end of December and downloads by the end of January Microsoft plans to discontinue support for its Internet Explorer b...

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