Posts Tagged ‘internet’

State of the Internet Explained via Infographic

February 3rd, 2010

State of the Internet

I recently posted about an infographic regarding “If You Printed Twitter”, and now, here’s another one similar to it. Let’s take a look at the current state of the internet today.

Here a summarized information about the infographics below:

  • 74% of men use the Internet, and so do 74% of women. So that means that, there’s no gender bias when it comes to the Internet.
  • The older people are, the less likely they are to use the Internet. 93% of people ages 18-29 years old use it, but only 38% of people 65+ years old do. 65 years old is where the big drop off happens, though; 70% of people 50 – 64 are online.
  • The higher their income level, the more likely it is that someone has broadband access.
  • 94% of college grads are online, while only 39% of people with less than a high school education are.
  • 58% have a desktop computer. 46% have a laptop.
  • 54% of bloggers consider themselves experts on whatever it is they’re blogging about.
  • Norway ranked number 1 of the country with the highest level of Internet penetration. It’s odd that the United States is in 5th place.
  • Japan has the fastest Internet connections on average. No surprise there. (Not sure if this is accurate. The last time I checked, it was Korea.)

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Sneak Peak: Firefox 3.7 Mockups Preview

July 21st, 2009

It’s been a few weeks since the release of Firefox 3.5 and here comes the next picture of the upcoming Firefox 3.7. There are some really interesting features for the new version that will surely make your browsing faster and easier! Here are the added features from Mozilla’s Wiki along with a few screenshots:

  1. Embracing Glass: Toolbar and Tabs using Glass. Buttons translucent and slightly glossy to meld with the toolbar. Raised 3D lookachieve tactile “feel”.
  2. Page Button: Connect the Page button to the left side of the tab area. Directly connected to the Page.
  3. Tools/Bookmark Bar: Connecting the Tools button to the side of the Window to emphasize the fact that it is used for customizing and changing the UI. Adding a button next to that to toggle the Bookmarks Bar which is turned off by default.

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Any thoughts and opinion?

Firefox 3.5 Released

July 1st, 2009

ff35Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. Some of the notable features are:

  1. - Available in more than 70 languages.
  2. - Support for the HTML5 and elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
  3. - Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
  4. - Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
  5. - The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
  6. - Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
  7. - Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  8. - Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage. and offline application storage, text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

Source: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/

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