Two days ago, it seemed that XMarks was going to close, forever. It seems that they’ve had a load of comments saying “oh no, what do I do now – they’re the only cross browser sync in the business” (they don’t – sadly – support Opera, but do support Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari, although sadly that last on Mac only).

Turns out there might be a lifeline yet… Here’s the details, and if you can’t wait, just go and pledge to pay between $10 and $20 for a premium service. That’s a year. Yes folks, a year. Sounds like a good deal to me…

Fiddler allows you to inspect web browser traffic, see what Internet Explorer (or Firefox) is up to. Very useful for web developing and debugging, and for other purposes, too, such as sussing out the link so I could bring you this. (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….

I had to try this…

Well, it made me laugh, anyway

Google have finally done what a few people said they would a while ago – launched a new web browser called Chrome.

It’s got some very interesting concepts behind it.  First of all, of course, it’s completely open source (more…)