Archive for the ‘ web ’ Category

EasyPHP

EasyPHP [via via via] is exactly what i had been looking for to be able to locally test some simple PHP stuff for some recent web projects. I thought that Dreamweaver came with that functionality built-in, but it didn’t. And i wasn’t really sure where to go from there. Setting up a server and PHP [ READ MORE ]

Extension Idea

While reading How to build a better web browser [via], the line: “the 5 or 10 URLs I visit most often, whether they’re in my bookmarks or not, should be pushed into my quick link bar,” inspired an idea for a Firefox extension. A few quick searches brought up no results for anything similar, though [ READ MORE ]

History Is History

Just realized i’ve lost three week’s worth of browsing history due to a system crash. It tends to happen because the history.dat file gets corrupted if Firefox was running at the time of the crash. Normally i back up the file and try to rescue-edit it, which usually works. But i guess last time it [ READ MORE ]

Yahoo In New Windows

I never quite understood the point of the little “Open Link in a New Window” icons next to the results of Yahoo searches, until today at work when i had to use IE and couldn’t open them in tabs. It actually comes in handy, saving a trip to the context menu[ READ MORE ]

Portal-Lite

What is this My Way thing? I’ve come across a couple of AP news articles there lately and stumbled from Ask Jeeves onto their movie listings during a Vividence evaluation. Seems to be some new “portal-lite” alternative to Yahoo and MSN. No annoying ads, by the way. Not as if i’m on the market for [ READ MORE ]

The Years