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    Apple’s Stock on the Rise: What’s Wall Street Telling Us?

    March 25th, 2009

    As most of our regular readers know, I’m no fan of Wall Street. It’s not that I have ever had enough money to play the market, but I rather think that I’d do as well or better in Las Vegas. On the other hand, my budget at the gambling tables has never exceeded $20, so […]


    The Night Owl’s Firefox 3.0 First Look

    June 17th, 2008

    You know, I sometimes think most everyone has gone crazy when we calculate browser speeds in fractions of a second and then argue which application is faster. So on one hand, Safari 3.1 is faster than Firefox 2, but Firefox 3 might have taken the edge all over again. But wait, folks, because Safari 4 […]


    Newsletter #421 Preview: The Browser Wars:
    Take the Acid2 Test and Call Me in the Morning

    December 23rd, 2007

    The alleged holy grail of a properly-coded browser is full adherence to prevailing Web standards. The developers of these applications all tout their performance and rendering accuracy, but we all know it’s not necessarily true. Internet Explorer, for example, has long been regarded as a major and chronic offender. In large part, this is attributed […]


    Camino 1.1 Beta: Not Quite a Firefox Clone

    February 26th, 2007

    In recent months, I’ve settled on Firefox as my default browser. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Safari, but Firefox seems to provide fewer complications in acccssing some sites. It has, however, some issues with printing certain sites, which forces me to revert if there’s no “Print” link to access the specially-formatted variation. There […]