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Today I decided to give a try to Internet Explorer 9, currently in the Release Candidate phase, and available to download at http://www.beautyoftheweb.com. These are the impressions after the first day. I used it for my usual browsing activity, such as email, search, facebook, etc. No benchmarking or things like that. Unfortunatelly, I can’t say…
Well, if you didn’t know there was a Pirate English you can find it on facebook. Scroll to the bottom of the facebook page, click on the language link and select English (Pirate). A new world will unveil. For instance “What’s on your mind” becomes “What be troublin’ ye”, “Edit my Profile” becomes “Fix up…
Google has unveil the next product they will launch later this year. It’s called Wave and it’s a communication protocol. It’s like the email of the 21st century, but much more than that. Wave is a collaborative product. The waves are communication objects, both conversation and documents, allowing people to almost instantly communicate on the…
There is a new search engine in town. It’s called Bing, and was created by Microsoft. Looks like they are going to invest massively in advertising it; according to AdAge, it will be between 80 and 100 million dollars. You can find a short video here, with Stefan Weitz, the director of Windows Live, talking…
I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#. This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about…
According to the official Google Blog, Google is set to release today a beta version of a new web browser, called Chrome. They say that: Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go. There is a comic book…
INETA Europe in collaboration with Microsoft organized a competition called European Silverlight Challenge, organized on country based, with the winners from each country participating in the European final. It is based on the development of a web component or application using Silverlight for its user interface and with the only condition that it to be…
I’m using Yahoo! mail beta, and a couple a day ago I found something intriguing: a feature called ‘Subject-O-Matique’. It is an automatical subject line generator. When you hit the subject button it inserts random (unique) titles such as: Eating pasta with chopsticks Pass the timbits! Space heaters make great house-warming gifts Boris or Brigitte?…