When Apple’s iPhone was first introduced Apple’s iOS dominated the smartphone market but, by the fourth quarter of 2010, Google’s Android OS had 53% of the U.S. consumer smartphone market while Apple’s iOS fell to 19%.  Now it looks as… Read the rest

The following browser market share percentages are from NetMarketShare and are current as of February, 2011. Browser Total Market Share Microsoft Internet Explorer 56.77% Firefox 21.74% Chrome 10.93% Safari 6.36% Opera 2.15% Opera Mini 1.12% Netscape 0.71% Konqueror 0.05% Flock… Read the rest

The latest version of Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, has “gone gold” and you can download it here before its general availability to the public.… Read the rest

If you use WordPress and haven’t yet learned about Fast Secure Contact Form, take a look at the free plugin and I think you’ll be as impressed as I was.  I’ve used a number of PHP scripts and WordPress plugins… Read the rest

Here’s an interesting Sitepoint article:  “Crimes Against WordPress: How to Be a Real Jerk if You Make WordPress Themes and Plugins“.… Read the rest

XARA 3D is a graphics program that makes it easy to create stunning animated and still 3D headings (like this blog’s heading), logos, animations, and video titles.  XARA has just released 3D Maker, Version 7.  You can download a free… Read the rest

I’m running the Release Candidate of IE9 as my default browser and it seems to be stable.  Here’s how it performs on the W3C’s HTML5 Conformance Tests:… Read the rest

SitePoint has launched a new blog called Design Festival. SitePoint describes it as “A blog about web design, with a focus on typography, logo design and UX [user experience]. We’ve also thrown in a few techie bits just to keep… Read the rest

If you're a Dreamweaver user you're probably familiar with Project VII, a company that offers Widgets, CSS Menus, and CSS Templates for DW.  Project VII has just released a new CSS Page Pack for DW, but I think you'll find… Read the rest

Every time I did a full disk backup to a USB 2.0 external hard drive I longed for USB 3.0 which offers a theoretical top transfer speed of 5Gbit/sec. versus USB 2.0's 480Mbit/sec. The other day I was looking at… Read the rest