Tag Archives: google

Windows finally lets you choose your browser

The European Competition Commission have forced Microsoft to offer alternative web browsers with their operating systems, which will be available from March 2010 in Europe. This will obviously confuse some of the less techy users but it may also achieve something I think we all want – the accelerated demise of Internet Explorer 6!

Just because things can animate does it mean they should!

Clunky and badly designed animation has flooded the web for as long as I can remember.  In the early days this phenomenon belonged to the animated gif files blinking furiously at you in an erratic attempt to attract your attention, while in comparison today’s web is littered with a mixture of gif, javascript and now flash animation. So this [...]

The dark side and Google

In the last ten years Google has moved from humble search engine to dominant web superpower and with no sign of easing up, but are they running the risk of becoming the new Microsoft which for the early part of this decade were hated.  Surely Google can’t move to the dark side and become the new [...]