Notes on the web

Software, websites and development

I'm Jan Polzer. I write about the web, content management systems and the tools I actually use. New articles appear when there's something worth sharing.

Development

Web Slices, Internet Explorer 8 and Drupal

As you probably know, the new Internet Explorer 8 will support new web parts called Web Slices. These can be added to the toolbar and work as an alternative to RSS feeds on your website.

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Software, websites

MobaLiveCD: how to run Linux in Windows

If you are a Windows user and would like to try any of the Linux distributions and find yourself why is the Linux so great that many people praising him up to the heaven, then you have several options – most of them are not very comfortable. However, there is a solution you will like. MobaLiveCD.

2 min read

Software, websites

Free and full Red Alert in Windows Vista (and in VMware)

For the last year I don't have enough time for computer games because I spend most of the time at the computer with writing articles for my websites, working with Drupal or looking for good writers. But a few days before I noticed, that the EA released the realtime strategy Red Alert for free.

3 min read

Software, websites

Save Complete: better page saving for Firefox

Neither the latest version of Firefox 3 available has not the possibility of saving a complete web page. The biggest weakness of saving mechanism is overwhelming ignorance of CSS. Given that today practically every site uses CSS, saving the page without them is useless.

2 min read

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