This article on convincing the average web user to switch to a non-IE browser is interesting, not because we should try to convince everybody what browser to run, but because it illuminates the mind of users. It’s easy for us web design folk to forget that to most users, half of what we say is [...]

It may be kind of an immature thing, but this site makes an important point. It’s aimed at the kinds of “clients” who post on Craigslist, with long wish lists for huge websites for which they explain that they can’t pay you… Take a deep breath and check out mute.co. Things these kinds of clients [...]

This informative (and very well-designed) infographic is a historic look at all of the updates Google has done to try to fight spam content in its index pages. Panda is the update that got everybody’s attention recently (it’s getting so bad, we’re wondering whether people remember they’re not talking about actual panda bears anymore), but [...]

Las Vegas! Hot as blazes (by American standards), seedy and cheesy, and crazy hyped all the time, but when convention season starts up it’s like they’re the top spot. Might as well browse the list of things to look forward to at this year’s CES and get a lead on the next buzz early, because [...]

Little late for a New Year’s post, but several of these The Top Ten Stupidest Things That Happened In Tech In 2011 are smart-on. But we’ll have to stop and explain one: SOPA. SOPA and its sister law Protect-IP are two laws American government is seeking to pass to enable the blocking of international content [...]

In a new move that some said would never happen, Mozilla, makers of Firefox, has struck a deal with Microsoft to offer a separate version of Firefox with Bing as the default search engine instead of Google. That’s kind of awkward – we just saw this screenshot of Internet Explorer 9 telling everybody that Firefox is akin [...]

O’Reilly is putting on a webcast titled “10 things every web developer, designer (and manager) should know about HTML5 “. If you didn’t catch it in person, there’s always the YouTube archive. But this is without a doubt one not to miss. HTML5 is sweeping the Internet. Both the desktop and mobile platforms are looking [...]

Surprising news from ReadWriteWeb: Chrome is Now the #2 Browser Behind Internet Explorer, Beating Firefox. It’s shocking because Google only launched their browser three short years ago. It’s doubly astounding when you consider that Firefox descended from Mozilla, which descended from Netscape… It’s a tried-and-true code base that’s had a long time to ripen, whereas [...]

Every now and then, you think that there’s just too many copycats out there in the tech world. Everybody bah’ed at the concept of a pretty desktop interface back in the ’80s until Apple introduced the Mac, and then suddenly icons and menus were everywhere. None of the tech giants took the idea of file [...]