Posts Tagged ‘browser’

Googles idea of an operating system is Chrome

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Could you live your life in a cloud (Vince’s words not mine) using just a browser and living online.  Google are starting to punt the idea, not for the first time, of a light weight operating system where everything is accessed via a web browser.  So, could you work entirely on the internet?

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How to make the most out of surfing the internet

Monday, November 15th, 2010

I have been using the internet since around 1994.  Initially I used CompuServe – Internet Service Provider (ISP) – along with their truly dreadful browser.  I soon switched to Netscape Navigator, shortly after it was launched in 1994.  I later switched to Microsoft Internet Explorer – primarily because of work – although I always preferred Netscape.  Users now have a number of options – include Flock, Google Chrome, Lynx and Safari – although I am a massive fan of Mozilla Firefox, which is my browser of choice and I’ll be explaining how I use Firefox at work.  I’ll share with you some of the tools that I use to get more from the internet.

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