Resource for Mozilla: Python Sidebar

For all you python programmers out there, here's an excellent tool for the mozilla browser (firefox, netscape, etc) that loads the documentation in a sidebar. How convenient!

Click on the image to go to the site.

(note: link courtesy - Sameet Mehta on the biopython group)

Opera frees its browser

In a bid to become the second most popular browser in the world, opera has decided to change its policy and remove ads from it browser. Earlier, the free version displayed ads which could be done away with by paying a fee. See Opera's why free.

Visit Opera.com or see some screenshots.

Search Engines move on ?

With google having 'been there, done that' with everything that you can do with fundamental search - are the engines moving on to better and better way of producing search results? Here's clusty (thanks to Sameet Mehta, Pune for the link) which featured in the Time 50 coolest websites.

While you are at it, you might want to take a look at Grokker which shows results in a circular clustered fashion (i actually found a few links on myself that i didnt know existed).

Here's me on Grokker (requires java) and me on clusty.

Internet Explorer UI designer adopts firefox.

Scott Berkun posts on his blog on his recent adoption of firefox browser. His speciality is UI usability and he knows what he's talking about.

What is of interest to me in his post is his criticism of firefoxs UI. If you are interested in firefox vs. msie differences, make sure you read this post.

IIS 7.0 takes inspiration from Apache

It seems Microsoft has finally seeing light. It has decided to adopt ideas (or what corporates prefer to best practices) from Apache server. Ideas like modular architecture (dynamically loadable modules), XML configuration (apache config) instead of its metabase changes to which take effect without restart (which has got to be a first with microsoft!), etc. Whats more, they've even acknowledged Apache for the learnings.

Anyway, i am glad M$ is moving in the right direction. I am looking forward to dissecting IIS 7.

WinZip Beta v10

Winzip, the popular compression software company has announced the beta release of v10.0 of its software. Most importantly, this time they've split their software into a standard and a paid-for aka professional versions thereby doing away with the traditional snag screen.

See here for a list of new features.