Spoon.net – A web developer’s dream come true.

Posted on September 28, 2010 by OmniSpear

We all know that cross-browser compatibility testing is a necessary evil for web developers. Testing is especially difficult when your workstation can only have one version of Internet Explorer installed at a time.

Today I discovered Spoon – (www.spoon.net), a plugin-based virtualization app that allows you to run desktop applications with no installs. Beautiful!

Testing on all popular versions of IE is a snap, just load the spoon browser sandbox: http://spoon.net/Browsers/

Web Users Now Spend More Time on Facebook Than Google

Posted on September 14, 2010 by OmniSpear

We already know that Facebook is the web’s biggest black hole for wasting time online. If you look at the average amount of time (according to Nielsen) users spend on the social network, Facebook is a clear winner over sites such as Google or Yahoo. The average came out to be a whopping 7 hours per user / month for Facebook, vs. 1.23 hours on Google.