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    Video Game Console Emulator

    Like most American children of the 1980s and 1990s, I spent a good amount of time playing video games with my friends.  My first console was the original Nintendo (NES), then the first Sega console, then onto t he Nintendo 64 (the best gaming system ever created)...

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    Thoughts on Xbox One

    I've never been a massive Microsoft fan but one thing I believe they got massively right was Xbox.  I didn't own the first Xbox but I did jump at the Xbox 360 and love it.  When I saw that Xbox One was coming out, I bought...

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    3 Solutions for Supporting Internet Explorer

    In the beginning, Internet Explorer was the progressive browser.  After a period of inactivity, Internet Explorer became the bane of our existence.  Microsoft has since recommitted to their browser but the fact remains that sometimes modern Internet Explorer is lagging just a bit behind WebKit-based browsers and...

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    Free IE Virtual Machines

    Microsoft has been working their butts off to repair the image of their flagship browser, Internet Explorer.  They've done so by adhering to standards they previously scoffed at, creating a website with awesome IE-compliant demos, adding useful developer tools, hiring...

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    Windows 8 Pin METAs

    Windows 8 allows for adding websites as apps (or maybe "bookmarks" is a better term) to the home screen, much in the vein that iOS allows users to do the same.  Like iOS devices, Windows 8 allows  users to accomplish this same task using custom...

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    Application Pinning with META Tags

    If there's one thing I want you to learn from the wide range of blog posts I've written, it's that it's the small things matter when you're creating your websites. Whether it's a one-page showcase, a business website, or an enterprise web application, there are...

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    Edge & Mobile Browsers

    From a developer's perspective, the Web is moving faster than ever. Thanks to reinvigorated browser vendors, frequent releases of new mobile devices, and our own need for better APIs and tools, we're seeing loads of movement across each platform. Since browser vendors like Mozilla...

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    Turn Internet Explorer into Chrome with Chrome Frame

    I'm just going to cut to the chase: Internet Explorer is rubbish. I don't care what version you throw at me -- 6, 7, 8...rubbish. Apparently Google agrees with me because they've released Google Chrome Frame, a browser plugin and META tag system...

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    Making IE8 Emulate IE7

    As you probably know, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 was "officially" released yesterday. If you were caught off guard by this and haven't had time to test your sites in IE8, don't lose sleep; you can make IE8 render pages like IE7 using a simple...

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    Sizzle and Peppy Selector Engines in MooTools

    A few weeks back I touched on how you could implement the Peppy and Sizzle selector engines in MooTools. Both posts showed how to remove the default Moo engine from use and instead make each respective selector engine the one and only.