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I got my regular email from Sitepoint and was pleasantly surprised to see a fellow Web Standards enthusiast in it! All I can say is: Support Chu Yeow and his book, Firefox Secrets!! In his own words…

A great way to use CSS for different devices. Microsoft may be slapped with US$100 million fine, forced to split up software. Yahoo versus Google – a comparison on ‘word density’. Time to check out Yahoo’s new search algorithms.

A new search engine which claims to be ‘more natural and intuitive’, may pose a challenge to Google. Quoting Techcrunch, I haven’t seen a demo of upcoming search engine Powerset yet, but reportedly many people who have are impressed, saying they’d never use Google again. Sounds mighty powerful to me. I’ll wait for the public…

A thought-provoking video on Facebook’s privacy policy and the risks we face, along with background info of some people pulling the strings behind the scenes. It alleges that there may be links with the CIA and US Department of Defence. Thanks to Overacuppa for sending me this link.

I was browsing the Mozilla website and couldn’t resist trying out Camino, a simple browser designed specifically for OS X. So far so good. Pages and images render pretty quickly, and since they use Apple’s interface, all the buttons look like they’re straight out from Mac OS X. It also has a Google search bar….

The Chinese government denies hacking into the Dalai Lama’s computer network and spreading a virus via email, to his supporters. Even web gurus make boo-boos. Well, more like their editors did. Check out the erratum for Zeldman’s book, Taking Your Talent To The Web. A book I intend to purchase, BTW. And before I forget,…