An extremely different Mac OS X web browser went live this week.
Raven provides full access to your social networking services in a single and unified way. It uses a technique called ‘site specific browsing’ to create a dedicated browser instance for each web app in the Smart Bar.
The Mac web browser was co founded by the French blogger, developer - Thomas Ricouard and the American designer, developer - Kevin Milden. Also involved is Min Tran, a UI designer from Vietnam. All have worked with, or for, many top businesses around the world. Read More
Tags: apps, browser, Mac, OS X, Raven, social networking
Ideally, a simple Google search will give you exactly the results you need. When it doesn’t, here are the best ways to tweak your web searches to help you get relevant results.
We all (or, well, most of us) love Google but it may not be the best search tool for everything. While the following information will concentrate heavily on Google, we’ll also be looking at other search engines and options that might suit you better for certain tasks.
If you’re not getting the results you want from Google, in some cases another search engine may be the best fix.
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Tags: Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, internet, search, web, Yahoo!
If statistics are to be believed, then there’s a good chance that you’re reading this post using a version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The market dominance of IE has many people, including the European Union, questioning Microsoft’s dominance of the browser share, particularly when Internet Explorer is pre-installed on Windows machines. Most users will be happy to use it, without considering something else and many businesses can’t afford to replace IE with another better browser, even if the alternatives are free, open-source products.
So what are those alternatives? The big four main choices are Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Read More
Tags: browser, chrome, firefox, Google, internet, internet explorer, opera, safari, web
Google have announced they are launching a survey, to better understand the needs of visually impaired users of the internet.
They want to make Google products more accessible to the blind/visually impaired and deaf/blind and to fully understand the accessibility needs of users.
There has been controversy about this over the years, as visually impaired users have reported that some screen readers do not read everything on the page and there are many programmes that they do not read at all. Read More
Tags: accessibility, chrome, Google, internet, OS, web
