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How to take a screenshot

David Damstra — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:37:37 +0000

If you are getting an error on your website (or really any application) or you are seeing a funny browser rendering issue on your website, it helps us to see a screenshot. This lets us see exactly what you are seeing. Taking a screenshot is really easy and helps us out, especially when we can’t duplicate what you are seeing.

Lifehacker has a nice series called Emailable Tech Support. They are simple and concise instructions on how to do certain computer tasks. Last week they covered taking screenshots. Take a read through to see how easy it is.

Friday Fun – 6 ways to crash IE6

David Damstra — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:30:27 +0000

It’s Friday. How about a little fun?

Cats Who Code give 6 HTML and Javascript snippets that crash Internet Explorer 6. The shortest one is an 11 symbol character string.

Are you still using IE6? Mozilla’s Firefox 3 was also released this week (more on that later.)

AOL Discontinues Netscape Browser

David Damstra — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:24:10 +0000

From TechCrunch…

AOL is discontinuing development on the Netscape Navigator browser this February. Netscape Navigator was the dominant browser in the early 90′s, which lead into the browser wars and ultimately the Anti Trust lawsuit against Microsoft.

Mozilla Firefox, which spun off from Netscape several years ago, has had more success due to its add-on capabilities.