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Life beyond IE?Following the European Commission's ruling which argued that the US giant's practice of pre-installing Internet Explorer on Windows PCs was anti-competitive, Microsoft now must offer you the choice of browser, if you use Internet Explorer as your default browser.
Early this week, Microsoft started offering you the choice of 12 browsers. The first on the list are the five most popular browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Apple's Safari.
With this change, now is the perfect time to try a new browsing experience, particularly if you are using an older version of Internet Explorer such as IE6, which has long been the bane of any developers life, as its far from standards compliant.
If users choose to upgrade to IE8 from IE6, they can look forward to a more favourable browsing experience and nicer looking websites!
http://ie6funeral.com/
If only everything was Green...Brilliant!! Not sure how eco friendly this car is but it sure is green!
(random 'Green' image )
Star Trek movie uses Flash!All of you Flash fans out there will be delighted to hear that the new Star Trek movie uses Flash for its live interfaces. The same guys, ooo-ii, who did the cool stuff in Minority Report used Flash and AIR technology to make the screens come to life and interact.
You can watch a preview interview with the developers at theflashblog.com and on the star trek movie site you can see a cool 3D panorama of the set.
The full interview is coming soon, I will have to go and see the movie now!
Clare
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
This talk is highly inspirational and funny at the same time! Well worth a watch. It raises points about the education system and its lack of emphasis on CREATIVITY that Green17 strongly agrees with.
Check it out by clicking play on the video above.
Green17 Talk Business Creatively26th March 2009
Clare and Adrian visited Bangor S.E.R.C. college today to give a talk to business and multimedia students. The talk focused on what its like to set up your own creative business and little tips and advice for doing so.
- Amazing 'sixth sense' wearable technology to get info projected anywhere
I could'nt believe this thing when I saw it on a TED video. It's amazing!! It allows you to have the internet literally at your fingertips.
It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
Just watch the video above and see..
- Inspiring talk from Apple's Steve Jobs
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.“
Steve Jobs