Web Wednesday – April 18, 2012
Posted on Apr 18, 2012 by Stephanie Yeager in Web Wednesdays
Web Wednesdays – each Wednesday we will feature a website that we’ve come across while in our process of searching for inspiration, the latest trends, or learning about anything and everything we can get our hands on that interests us.
“Drop it like it’s hot.” At least that’s what Dropmark tells you to do when you use their product. Dropmark is the new, innovative way to share documents and collaborate on projects. As of March 1st, Dropmark became available to all users after successfully completing their beta testing this past year. Their interface is wonderfully simple to use; drag photos, videos, documents, websites, text (essentially anything that you would like) from your desktop and place it into the specified collection on your browser window. The files are automatically uploaded and you have the choice to share it with anyone that you like or keep it to yourself. You can also invite collaborators, who can can upload their own files to the same collection. This makes project management much more efficient. And if you’re looking to make the workplace a little more inspiring, you can also create playlists or podcasts in your dropmark account to share with your co-workers.
Every collection has a built-in RSS Feed, so anytime something new has been added, users in that collection will be notified. Dropmark is now also integrated with Courier, available through the app store, which makes it so you can add to a collection without even opening your browser window. Sharing files has become so easy over the past few years, and now there are so many options to use, but if you are looking for an easy, efficient way to share files and collaborate on projects, go with Dropmark. Below is a video, made available through Vimeo, to show you how it all works.
Firefox 6
Posted on Sep 08, 2011 by Peter Ellis in IT, News
Firefox is on fire! In last 2 months, Mozilla Firefox has released 3 new versions of their browser, and they are not stopping there. Firefox intends on releasing a new version every 6-8 weeks, due to high demand in online features and new technology.
From one side, innovation and betterment of your product is always good, but on another, considering how many third party add-ons and plug-ing are out there for Firefox, its going to make it pretty difficult for those to ensure compatibility with the latest Firefox version.
Another thing to consider, when a website is designed and developed, an agency usually tests browser compatibility with currently used and popular browser versions (Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9; Safari 3 and 4; Firefox 4, 5, 6; Google Chrome). If the new version of Firefox begins to use a technology that has not been tested for, that website browser compatibility is at risk.
In the end, if you look at this with little bit of humar, maybe Firefox is just trying to bypass Internet Explorer with their version numbers?!
IE9 vs Firefox 4
Posted on Mar 30, 2011 by Dennis Driscoll in IT
Upgrading your browsers, do you do it immediately or do you wait? Well, just for our readers (and poorly managed curiosity), I upgraded both as soon as I could. Well, that wasn’t a good idea. Here are some specifics: FireFox 4.0 – only 1 out of 7 plug-ins I use still work. This is bad as I depend on them daily. IE 9 – some sites that use asp, don’t work. I am repeatedly thrown from the website as the browser crashes. We all know this isn’t gonna fly.
Now for the noticeably good stuff in these browsers. They are both super fast, I mean Maserati sleek and cool fast. Websites that would normally take 5-6 seconds to come up (database driven), now come up in less than 2 seconds or are noticeably faster. Both have redesigned their user interface and look similar, and function quite the same. IE 9 has integrated itself fully with Windows 7 to create a better experience. IE9 has also become fully integrated with HTML 5 usage, enhanced developer tools and better add-on control. FireFox has added a menu button that allows for easier use, InPrivate browsing, and an app tab.
If you are looking for a seamless transition over to one of these browsers, wait 3 months. Sites that need to get updated to handle this code base will be up to date by then, and Microsoft, Mozilla and plug-in providers will have worked out the bugs.
I will periodically update this post for those of you who want to know my findings.
Internet Explorer 9
Posted on Mar 22, 2010 by Dennis Driscoll in IT, News
As we all know, Microsoft released their “new” operating system in November 2009, called Windows 7. Well, Microsoft has also been working very hard on trying to enrich not only the desktop experience, but also the online experience of their users. Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser took the back burner spot with the release of Windows 7, but it has been hitting some amazing mile stones lately.
It has been successful enough in testing mode for Microsoft to make the results public.
Internet Explorer 9 will be fully compatible with HTML5 and CSS3, which makes for a faster browsing experience for an end-user, plus makes the developer’s job much easier (I’m a bit selfish). It also has a new JavaScript engine allowing for browsing speeds faster then Firefox 3.6.
To find out more information or to view the test-drive demos of IE9 platform, click here.
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