A text-based Web browser created at the University of Kansas. Though largely supplanted by graphical browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, Lynx is still popular among people with visual disabilities and those with very slow modem connections. See also Linux.
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- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit
- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploitText or graphicremember there use to be a link on web pages if you wanted text only or graphics.that should be put back in placein the wild?"Zero-day" means that the exploit was being used in the wild before a patch was released...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit
- [ UPDATE: See e-mail from NoScript creator Giorgio Maone on a possible mitigation ] Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices
- Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 pricesIt's about time this other shoe droppedIt's been anticipated for ages, in consideration of just how LONG the 360 has already been on the market. Even at these price points MSFT should continue to make profit on the hardware; you would think that after three years...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Could Google's Chome be death blow to Firefox?
- Could Google's Chome be death blow to Firefox?Purchasing Firefox could be a disaster.Purchasing Firefox could be a disaster. IE8 is getting close to release, and having a Firefox/Chrome transition (or worse, battle) could kill their market share if IE8 is released during the transition.Could Google's Chome be death blow to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Roboform launches Enterprise, still wondering if this Mac thing will take off.
- Roboform launches Enterprise, still wondering if this Mac thing will take off.Lynx FTW!I don't see Lynx on their unsupported page! Score!RE: Roboform launches Enterprise, still wondering if this Mac thing will take off.Not a least bit concerned. I wouldn't use a Mac for all the tea in China.Charles Boley
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Rumor Mill: All things WWDC
- Hey there, it's Jake (Jason's evil twin). It's Friday so that means I get to write my crazy rumor column today. It's also the last business day of the week before WWDC, so you can probably guess what today's installment is going to be about. So, there's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?
- There's a rumor circulating that Apple may either demo or release to developers a build of Mac OS 10.6 that's fully 64-bit clean and Intel-only. "10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on "stability and security" writes TUAW. 10.6...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Technical Support Deal Cuts Computer Maintenance Costs by 25 Per Cent
- Worcestershire Health ICT Services is pioneering the adoption of new IT infrastructure in the Worcestershire healthcare economy, working in a new five-year business partnership with Microsoft, BT Lynx, and Nortel. In 2006, there was widespread dissatisfaction with the communications and collaboration infrastructure because there were frequent problems with e-mail messaging....
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released
- Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information releasedApple products are very secureIf I were Apple I would just not worry about this because as many Apple software users know, they are secure as secure can be. I would just laugh this guy off because the perception is in play in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- IE 8 activity providers and the big sales pitch
- IE 8 activity providers and the big sales pitchI hate the addons in software...I agree with the article: I don't need or want an "activity provider". I also don't want to download a game or other software and have the google or yahoo toolbar installed in the background...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool (xpi)
- Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer, a Firefox extension, displays a Lynx view of a Web page via right-click or tool menu. With just one click and without leaving the page, preview the page you are on with a Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer. You can see what a page will look like when viewed...
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- International Clothing Retailer Promotes Remote Working With Messaging Solution
- With the business growing quickly worldwide, collaboration has become increasingly important. Ted Baker wanted to replace a UNIX-based messaging solution to give employees a solution that would better support them better outside the office. Ted Baker worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Lynx Technology to deploy a new Microsoft-based messaging...
- Case studies 2007-07-03
- Make text-browsing a snap with 20 keyboard shortcuts for Lynx
- Lynx is a full-featured text-mode browser, licensed as open source under the GNU General Public License GPL. It is also extremely keyboard-friendly -- almost everything in it can be controlled using keyboard shortcuts, many of which are undocumented and can be discovered only through experience. We look under the hood...
- Download resources 2007-05-01
- The Lynx Internet Radio Network Firefox Toolbar (xpi)
- Enjoy the ease of tuning into your favorite Lynx Internet Radio Station 24 hours a day right from your Internet Explorer browser. Whether you listen to our Classic Rock, Super 70s, Retro 80s, Classic Rock or Disco Classics stations, it's as simple as two clicks after installing your own exclusive...
- Software downloads 2007-03-15
- 90 Firefox extensions
- The ability to host extensions are one of the most powerful features of Firefox and one that makes it popular among users. But which extesnions should you install? Which are the most useful?I asked you, Firefox users, for your list of "must have" Firefox extensions. From the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- What users want (3)
- What users want (3)What users REALLY want...... is to do their jobs as easily as possible. They don't actually care about IT at all. Most users can barely cope with modern applications and we would all get a lot more done if sofwtare was *drastically* simplified. For most mundane tasks...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- No Flash or WPF/E in the Wal-Mart movie deal hurts customers
- No Flash or WPF/E in the Wal-Mart movie deal hurts customersDRM and WPF/EI think I read that WPF/E plans on supporting DRM in the first release. This isn't going to be easy as the WPF/E plugin will need to set-up a license database on non-windows platforms. It will...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- Bigger isn't better -- for carnivores
- Imagine that youre a beaver: you might find enough small prey to easily survive. Now, imagine that youre a polar bear weighing half a ton, and things should become more difficult: youll need to catch bigger preys. In Why are lions not as big as elephants?, a short press release...
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Firefox 2 crash exploit and IE7 address spoofing flaw surfaces
- Firefox 2 crash exploit and IE7 address spoofing flaw surfacesYou're arguing FF is too young to be judged?"If you want to compare products and exploits then stick with the 7.0 vs 2.0 list since they've come out at the same time. (Though I'll be interested in the time difference between...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Sony won't cut PSP price in '06
- Sony won't cut PSP price in '06Go ahead Sony, stay the courseit seems to me that Nintendo is the big winner for this year leading into the next. You've got a PSP that's sold so-so well but a UMD format that's tanked with some movie distributors and consumers, a...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
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