Lunch Log Archive  Search  Internet Explorer Falls Below 60% Market Share   (5/3/2010) Anyone else still dealing with vendors/apps designed exclusively for IE? Small mind syndrome abounds... "Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dropped to a historic market share low in April, according to Net Applications. The company estimated IE’s market share at 59.95% in April, which is about the range that was reached by Internet Explorer 4 more than 11 years ago in early 1999. The big winner was once again Google’s Chrome browser, which maintained a double-digit growth rate and is now more than 2 points ahead of Apple’s Safari browser, which it surpassed four months ago." http://www.conceivablytech.com/796/science-researc  MS Releases Visual Web Developer® 2010   (4/14/2010) Testing now... "Microsoft® Visual Web Developer® 2010 Express provides you with everything you need to start building standards-friendly Web applications." www.microsoft.com/express/Web/  Palm putting itself up for sale   (4/12/2010) In today's edition of "all good things must come to an end"... "Apart from Apple and Google, Palm--which currently has a $870.8 million market value--is the only company with a modern smartphone operating system in the market. Palm has a long history in the PDA and smartphone worlds. Its original Palm Pilot--its low-cost Newton wannabe--was a total success back in the 1990s, and its Treo smartphones were probably the first nice PDA/phone hybrids. As a result of this long story, Palm owns patents that may become very effective weapons against both Apple's omnipotent iPhone and its lawsuit." news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20002231-94.html  Pingtest.net   (4/5/2010) Use Pingtest.net to determine the quality of your broadband Internet connection. Streaming media, voice, video communications, and online gaming require more than just raw speed. Test your connection now to get your Pingtest.net rating and share the result with others! www.pingtest.net  Canned Unicorn Meat   (4/1/2010) Tastes like chicken? www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml  The Bob Chronicles   (3/29/2010) MS Bob, the epitome of marketing over substance... "What’s the most efficient way to deride a technology product as a stinker and/or a flop? Easy: Compare it to Microsoft Bob. Bring up the infamous Windows 3.1 front-end for computing newbies–officially released fifteen years ago this week, on March 31st, 1995–and you need say no more. Everything from OS X to Twitter to Google Wave to (inevitably) Windows Vista has gotten the treatment." technologizer.com/2010/03/29/microsoft-bob/  How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers   (3/22/2010) This is every guy's dream, or at least every cool guy's dream... "Professional motorsport is a cold, hard place. If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage and show up, right? Wrong. One guy did just that. Here's his amazing story." jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat  Florida Trip 2010   (3/19/2010) Work-ation in FL. Family went and the kids got to play at the property, go to the Space Center and hit Disney. Photos available from this link... scottmcfarland.com/images/?sp=Home\2010\Spring\Dis  Webmonkey Redesign and nostalgia   (3/17/2010) Once upon a time I had this printed and tacked to my wall... "HTML Cheatsheet By Webmonkey Staff. Keep this cheatsheet handy — it contains the most common HTML tags and their proper syntax." www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/  IE9 - Competition Killer?...   (3/16/2010) Firfox has over 25% of the market, MS has got to be feeling the pressure. Is this their answer, and will it be enough? For those who doubted that Microsoft was serious in its effort to re-engage with the Web, it's time to put the skepticism aside. At its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Microsoft gave programmers, Web developers, and the world at large a taste of things to come with its Web browser. Specifically, Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, just as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now. news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000433-264.html [2/151]