I have just been tipped off by Michael Lee, a Silverlight front-end developer, who is working on bring the Windows 8 look and experience to the browser. He has so far reached a point where the Windows 8 “emulator” works in the browser. This emulator is built using Silverlight and can be played with now, [...]

Yesterday Wired.co.uk released a new web app which offers a new way to browse around the Wired website, it is called The Wired Mind. This web app, like many others, works very well in IE9 because of the HTML5 and hardware acceleration and it did feel like an app not a web page. It’s a [...]

If, like me, you are eagerly awaiting Microsoft to upload the keynote from day 2 of MIX11 then I have something that might tide you over for a little bit. Incidentally if you can’t wait to find out and see some of the Windows Phone announcements from today then you should check out the interview [...]

Today, if you write the date down in the American date form is 03.14, or as its also known as “Pi Day” as the date is the same as the beginning of Pi. However, today should also have the similarly geeky name of “IE Day” for it is the day that Microsoft release its latest [...]

I was just reading an article on Cnet when a new IE9 banner ad popped up. I showed how to pin a site in three easy steps. A big number 1 came up, then an outline of IE9 with a website loaded. Step 2 was dragging the site’s favicon to the Windows 7 taskbar. Finally [...]

Since September I have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the HTML5 version of Bing, we were promised it would arrive a month after the IE9 beta went public and here we are nearly 6 months latter and we still don’t have the new Bing. However this is all set to change over the coming [...]

Earlier today Liveside wrote an article about a new IE9 related mystery which goes by the name of Dev:unplugged. Little is known about what this is so I had a hunt around for more information. A Bing search later I had found the below link to a Microsoft site mentioning Dev:unplugged. Sadly this site had [...]

Continuing my procrastination I’ve designed another wallpaper, enjoy. Feel free to share this but make sure you credit the site, thanks.

By the end of this year not only will Twitter be integrated into the People Hub, or SkyDrive integrated into the Office Hub, or internet browsing be hardware accelerated and standards compliant powered by IE9 but also there will be full multitasking on the phones. These were the main announcements made at MWC for what’s [...]

In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft today released a new version of Internet Explorer 9, the Release Candidate. This brings a host of new features from a cleaner UI, more speed improvements and better security and protection. For a full list of new features have a look at this list by Liveside. You can download [...]