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Before reading this, look here at what this idiot writes. According to him, Firefox is slow and buggy because of the web pages developers make, not because the people who develop Firefox made a piss poor job. So let’s put it out in the open. That’s retarded. Why? the purpose of a web browser is [...]

Ever since the HTML5 standard has been released in its “beta” stage, its adoption rate has sky rocketed. It’s no wonder, given that the blend between HTML, CSS and AJAX has become tighter and more reliable. Now, this blend has been mixed with native support for audio/video and has been pushed through towards the web. [...]

The fracture between Canonical (the company that brought Ubuntu on to the mainstream) and the team developing the Gnome desktop resulted in the so-called Unity desktop that is now part of the basic Ubuntu distribution. However, many users (including me), shun the Unity desktop for being bloated and slow. Gnome 2 works better but looks [...]

Programming web services with SOAP in different web programming languages (like ASP.NET and PHP) poses some challenges. The most subtle such challenge deals with a language’s attribute of being strongly typed or not. While Java and C# are typed languages, in PHP typing is not enforced. Thus, the same variable can be reused as a [...]

Who doesn’t like to customize their Android mobile? Having a device show off its graphical abilities can easily be achieved via the dynamic wallpapers in Android: the live wallpapers. Here are some from Killerappzz

Today dragonflame.org has migrated to iPage green hosting. In the following days, the rest of the joint websites that were hosted with me will also be subjected to the same migration procedures. While the websites themselves will not suffer any downtime as both hosting facilities will function in parallel, some unavailability of the email services [...]

The Internet is a tough place, especiall when your name is Microsoft and you’ve created a thing called Windows Live Spaces for blogging. Blogging is not only an interesting past time, but for many it is a business and the sheer number of blogs (where both companies and individuals showcase multiple blogs) that requires outstanding [...]

Have you ever wanted to start your own online recruitment company? With the help of today’s online environment known as the Internet and a pinch of human stupidity, you could be on your way of becoming a top recruiter in mere seconds. So what would you need to get started with your recruitment service? A [...]