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More People Browse On Mobile Than Use IE6 & IE7 Combined

The latest data on browser trends from Sitepoint show that more people browse the Web on smartphones than use Internet Explorer 6 and 7 combined. Those two old clunkers have been the bugbears of Web developers for years, requiring sites to degrade as nicely as possible to that least common denominator of browsers. But it’s a new world now; 6.95% of Web activity in November 2011 was on mobile browsers, and only 6.49% was on IE 6 or 7. More People Browse…

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How I Evaluate Terms of Service for Social Media Web Sites – Google+ » JMG-Galleries – Jim M. Goldstein Photography

Terms of Service are something you have to agree to anytime you register for an online service. These are mostly long, confusing legal documents we skip through as quickly as the website allows, trusting in the rest of the users to let us know if there’s anything wrong. Several times in the last few months trusted services have changed their Terms of Service without notification leading to uproars from the users. This article is a blessing because it gives pointers…

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A Quick Review of Google+

Google+ is the search company’s latest foray into social networking. They’ve learned from mistakes in previous offerings and it shows every indication of becoming a hit.

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WordPress 3.0 Roundup

The blogosphere has been spending a lot of time lately talking about the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0. It includes many new features like a new default theme, the ability to manage multiple blogs from a single code installation and an easier method of creating custom menus. I’m personally looking forward to the multi-site ability as I have several different blogs using WordPress. Keeping up with blog and plugin updates on all of them can be a little tiring. I…

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My favorite iPhone Apps

Thanksgiving and I finally have a break from school and time to work on other projects. Evernote is my external brain. There is a desktop app for Mac or PC, an iPhone app and a web app that all sync automatically. There’s even a Thunderbird extension that sends things to your account. Text, audio, or photo. It’s searchable, taggable and has categories. Bookshelf is an e-book reader specifically for iPhone and the iPod Touch. It supports a lot of file…

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