Posts Tagged ‘browsing’

Opera’s new browser worth a look

20th June 2006 10:46am by JB posted in People

Many Internet users and even some web developers are still choosing to ignore the fact that there are more browsers available than just Internet Explorer.
The Opera team has quietly built a name for itself and the new browser Opera 9 is now available to download. Savvy Internet users have given Firefox a go and the [...]

Welcome to Userville

16th May 2006 5:45pm by Chris N posted in Archived

Working in IT is only marginally less stressful than working at CTU, a recent poll suggests. Well colour me surprised - bet if you did a similar poll of carribean beach-bar barmen they’d be moaning about the hazards of falling coconuts, and you’d probably find toy testers losing sleep over the incorrect rendering of Barbie’s [...]

Selectitis

28th April 2006 9:57am by Chris N posted in Archived

When people watch me browsing they think I’m weird - even when I’m not on hatsofmeat.com - because my name is Chris and I am a selecting-things-on-the-screen addict.
When I’m reading something on the web I compulsively select and deselect text with the mouse. I’ll click and drag to highlight from the bottom of a paragraph, [...]