Links tagged with “windows”
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Historical timeline maker | Timeline creator for students | Aeon Timeline
Paid app for Mac, Windows or iOS. Haven’t tried it but looks interesting. (via Ask a MetaFilter)
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[Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco
Just spent a while trying to find these graphs, having seen them once before. So now they’re here. Really interesting, market share of computing platforms since 1975.
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Google Maps - 3339 California 121
Google Streetview of the hill from the Windows XP desktop wallpaper. The actual hill, not just “looks a bit like the hill”.
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xdissent/ievms
Automated setting up of Microsoft’s virtual machines for testing versions of Internet Explorer, using VirtualBox. (via @mattb)
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Building and dismantling the Windows advantage | asymco
Blimey, those are quite some graphs, showing ratio of Windows:Mac, and Windows:Apple sales over time. (via Daring Fireball)
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Xdissent/ievms - GitHub
“Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines.” So you can test web stuff in IE on your Mac. (via Tom Taylor)
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Testing Multiple Versions of IE on One PC - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Run IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 on one machine by running Windows XP within Windows 7. (via Mildlydiverting)
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Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
For IE6 or IE7. (via Haddock)
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My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage
More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)
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Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition
Tool for “diagnosing and preventing AJAX performance issues”. Annoyingly on Windows, for Internet Explorer, but free and could be useful. (via Yoz)
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Free PDF Printer
I failed to get Windows XP running on VMWare to print. Grrr. But this allowed me to print to a PDF, which I could drag to the Mac and print from there.
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Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
Free software for learning stuff off flashcards.
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Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X - Ryan Parman
I’ve avoided IE 8 so far, but guess I’ll need to give it a whirl soon. Harrumph. (via Tom Taylor)
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New clearing method needed for IE7? | 456 Berea Street
So I don’t need to Google the clearfix fix again.
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Jaikoz Audio Tagger
Multi-platform ID3 tagging app, for most kinds of music file, using MusicBrainz and MusicIP. 15 quid, but powerful, even if a bit, you know, Java.
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Mozy Online Backup: Simple, Automatic, Secure
Simple-sounding online backup service for Windows or Mac. (via Haddock) (UPDATE, 2009: Heard not so good feedback about it, trying Backblaze instead.)
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Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft
This has come a long way since I last looked at this kind of thing. Now comes with a handy installer.
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Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks
Because I’m always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.
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How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine
Looks a bit laborious but might be handy sometime.
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Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones
If you’ve installed several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows XP, here’s how to make them work better.
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Aplus :: z-pos
Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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How to type French characters
Because, like Blech on 2lmc, I’ll need to do this on a Windows machine at some point and I’ve never understood how to do that.