Google seems to be countering the threats from News Corp‘s Rupert Murdoch, and Microsoft’s Bing by evolution, rather than revolution. First of all there is the change to allowing five page views from a subscription site in 24 hours, rather than the previous “first click” principle (where the first click is free, you have to subscribe to the rest… unless you do a new search). Now, they’ve launched a revamped front page. Well, revamped by Google’s minimalist standards, anyway. (more…)

If you ever do any web development, you’ll be acutely conscious of the fact that you need most versions of IE available to test on. Of course, a virtual machine (using Virtual PC, Virtual Box, VMWare or whatever) is one solution, but it would be nice to have everything available on the same machine. Sure, using Multiple IEs you can install IE 3 to 6, but what about 7?

Well, you can. Credits to Tredosoft for the details, and Softzilla for spotting it….

Xmarks, formerly known as Foxmarks, is a bookmark-based search engine, a bookmark replicator, a saved password replicator and even helps out at lambing time. (Okay, I made that last bit up)…

Basically, there are two aspects to Xmarks. The first is a cross-browser bookmark and password replicator that can copy your bookmarks between different computers running Firefox, Safari (on the Mac only) and MS Internet Explorer (they’re working on Safari for Windows, and Opera – I think – but I have found that it does work in Flock). (more…)

Years ago I used to read lots of comics online, especially one of the earliest – Doctor Fun, which sadly stopped publishing in 2006.  You’ll need to be a bit of a science buff to get most of the jokes, but Records Your Neighbours Listen To or When Cats Try To Cook (which I used as my desktop wallpaper for a couple of years) bear comparison with The Far Side. (more…)

There’s an open-source spinoff from Chrome already: it’s called Iron (the website is in German, but Incomplete News translated it). (more…)