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November 12th, 2006

BAT/BWG.A and Gmail and IE7 and Windows Live OneCare

I’ve been getting a virus alert message from Windows Live OneCare about a new virus being detected: BAT/BWG.A
Looks like I’m not the only one. If you’re experiencing this problem you can go to this site and get some details on what others are experiencing and what they’re doing to remove the infection.
It seems to occur […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 31st, 2006

Windows Mail Replaces Outlook Express

An area that hasn’t gotten much press with all the talk about Vista, IE7 and the new Office 2007, is lowly Outlook Express.
The Lifehacker site has a great gallery of screen shots and details about the application. Gina Trapani wasn’t too impressed with the developments although she did state it was still a nice upgrade […]

By Jason Bean -- 7 comments

October 28th, 2006

Microsoft Purchases Firefox

It was bound to happen. When you’ve got that much money and someone that’s starting to cut into your market, you’ve just got to do something.
I’m not sure how I really feel though, I have been very pleased with IE7.
Tags: browser, Firefox, IE7, Internet Explorer, Microsoft

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By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

October 26th, 2006

SitePoint Responds to Browser Wars

Sitepoint, the website resource for developers/webmasters and other tech evangelists has responded to the browser wars in their latest SitePoint Tech Times newsletter #151.
They have good review of IE7, specifically CSS support but encourage developers to have a “can’t we all just get along” policy for both browsers.
And in that respect, Internet Explorer 7 is […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

October 25th, 2006

Adding Google Custom Searches to IE7

b5media just announced they’ve incorporated Google’s Custom Search into their main page. This allows visitors to search across all of b5media’s blogs for information they need.
IE7 makes it super easy to incorporate your Google Custom Searches into your IE7 and search your favorite sites from anywhere, which I talked about on Emerging Earth. What’s even […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 24th, 2006

My Favorite IE7 Feature So Far

I may have just found my favorite feature of all for IE7. The “Add Tab Group…” and “Open Tab Group..” feature. I regularly open the same group of websites everyday when I start up my computer:

Yahoo! Mail
Gmail
Bloglines
iWon
Fox Fantasy Sports

I also regularly open all of the my Admin panels to WordPress at the same time, or […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 24th, 2006

ALT+TAB Buggy in IE7

Has anyone else noticed that IE7 doesn’t let you switch through your active program windows easily using the ALT+TAB function? Is it just me?
While I’m blogging I switch between windows very frequently getting information, quotes and links for my posts. Is this just a quirk with IE7 and WordPress?
Anyone else experiencing this challenge?
Tags: alt+tab, […]

By Jason Bean -- 11 comments

October 23rd, 2006

Firefox Copies IE7?

I just downloaded Firefox 2.0 and installed it. Two questions:

They copied IE7’s option of the close box within the tab itself
Are they calling extensions add-ons now like IE7? Why?

Tags: add-ons, close, extensions, Firefox, IE7, tabs

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By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

October 23rd, 2006

Screen Real Estate Comparison 2 - IE7 vs. Firefox

In the comments of my last post about screen real estate comparisons between Firefox and the new IE7, Robert Aitchison wanted me to compare the two without all the 3rd party toolbars installed.
How about the copmparison without all the 3rd party toolbars loaded?, or alteas cut it down to one.
Also you’ll notice that Firefox has […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

October 20th, 2006

Forgetting About Firefox

I’ve been using IE7 now almost exclusively since downloading the final version this week. I’ve already posted that there are some things I like about it compared to Firefox.
Another feature I like is the full-page view of all open tabs.

I’m sure there was a Firefox extension that let me do that as well. That brings […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments