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Tech Talk Radio|TTR Ep 1808 - Conroy talks Digital TV, Data Recovery, more eBay dilemmas, Safari takes off for PC, Spam turns 30, XP SP3 and Vista SP1 delayed, TIVO in Australia, 2008 biggest IT Brand Names Episode
In the not to distant future, web surfers globally will have new versions of their favorite web browser foisted upon them from all the major players.
Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Mozilla's Firefox are battling to become your browser of choice. So which one should you use - Safari 3.1, Firefox 3, or Internet Explorer 8?
Apple's latest offering, Safari 3.1, preserves the company's signature focus on clean design and smooth usability, but it lacks any phishing or malware filters.
For its part, Mozilla should have applied the finishing touches to Firefox 3 by now. From under-the-hood memory improvements to a major reworking for bookmarks, version 3 represents a big step forward.
Whereas the new Firefox and Safari browsers are ready to roll, Microsoft's early beta of Internet Explorer 8 remains a work in progress. Bugs and rough edges are to be expected in a first beta intended for developers and testers. But IE 8 beta 1 provides a glimpse of new features such as WebSlices (which let sites create widgety snippets of information that you can view by clicking a bookmark button) and Activities (which add right-click menu options for looking up selected text and pages on map, translation and other sites) that will distinguish the browser Microsoft eventually releases.
From an end user’s point of view changing upgrading web browsers should be, as the great author Douglas Adams said as he described the inhabitants of planet earth, “Mostly Harmless”, but spare a thought for web developers. With hundreds of changes to style sheet implementation, what are the chances websites built for current browsers will look the same in the new browsers?
Safari and Firefox are the most reliable browsers when it comes to displaying websites on your screen. Microsoft’s Internet explorer is riddled with bugs and strange, unexplainable anomalies, which most of us turn a blind eye to. Let’s hope Microsoft’s IE8 conforms to internet standards a little better than its previous incarnations.
The future of Digital TV in Australia!
Be sure to tune in this week to hear Adam Turner's exlusive interview with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
With the goal post continually on the move, Adam asks the minister when and how analogue TV will close in Australia.
Data Recovery -
You may need to know about it one day - so why not today!
Graham Henley is one of the world’s experts in data recovery from the PC environment and from iPods, digital still and video cameras and MP3 players.
He is a director and co-developer of the world’s leading data recovery software applications - GetData Software’s Recover My Files, Recover My Email, Recover My Photos and Recover My iPod.
He also has eleven years law enforcement experience in the Australian Federal Police, five of those in the Computer Crime Unit.
After leaving law enforcement Graham spent five years as Director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Asia Pacific computer forensics practice.
He headed the computer forensics team which recovered thousands of missing files involved in the collapse of corporate giants FAI, One-Tel and HIH.
Also on This Weeks Show
We take a look at the worlds most powerful brands for 2008 – technologically,
Tivo’s introduction in Australia is not sailing as smoothly as first thought
Optus takes a leaf from Telstra’s book and sinks the boots into Canberra and
Bay Sellers may be restricted to cheaper items
[ Mon, 5 May 2008 23:14:46 +1000 ]
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