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Mozilla announced a new labs project, Ubiquity, last week. It's intended to be a keyboard driven interface to advanced functionality in the web browser, similar to Gnome Do, which I've been using a lot recently, and the Mac application Quicksilver. I… more »

I previously did a review of the first IE8 beta, the second one came out a few days ago so I thought it would be worth a follow up post. Here are the main things I noticed:Activities are now called 'Accelerators' though otherwise seem to be largely the… more »

I was reading an article on text visualisation and came across this site. Very cool B) I've not completed a real blog post in a while - there are plenty sitting both in draft status and in my head, I'm sure I'll get to them eventually. more »

This week Google announced improvements to it's indexing of Flash files. It seems Adobe did most of the work with the actual Flash files for them, and it all sounds quite clever:We've developed an algorithm that explores Flash files in the same way that… more »

Review: SearchMonkey Developer Event at Wallacespace, 2 Dryden Street, Covent Garden, London, England. WC2E 9NA. 18:30 to 20:00 I'd heard quite a lot about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!'s new search platform but not got around to checking it out, so I was hopi… more »

Review: London Geek Nights: Ajax at London offices of ThoughtWorks UK. 18:30 to 20:30 First up was a talk by Remy Sharp on jQuery. I got the impression there were a fair few folk there who didn't have much experience with Javascript so it was quite in… more »

For a long time now, I've had a WackoWiki implementation on my (not so technical) personal site. It was upgraded from a WikkaWiki which was installed back in March 2003, which makes it about four months older than this blog :) Anyway, the point is it… more »