Geoffrey Liu

A visual guide to Opera 10

Opera 10 is the latest installment in the Opera Browser series. It features the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, an accelerator for loading web pages on slow connections, customizable skins and many more that make this browser such a versatile web surfing application.

Unfortunately, it can be very complicated to customize Opera, since there are so many buttons and drop-downs to digest, but once you get the handle on this great web browser, it will integrate seamlessly into your online life.

I give Opera 10 an 8.5/10 rating and recommend it to anyone who hasn’t tried it out yet.

Geoffrey Liu

Top Ten Reasons why Internet Explorer 6 Sucks

We all know that fact, that IE6 sucks, or do we? Apparently, 15-20% of the online population using Internet Explorer doesn’t know. So here’s to the people using the crappy browser: Crappy page rendering- Internet Explorer 6 was introduced in a time where HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS were still emerging technologies. They’ve gotten way better now, but IE6 hasn’t. …

Geoffrey Liu

List of Swear Words in Base64 Language

For those of you who have no idea what base64 is, it’s basically a standarized code. How it is formed is that when you input a string, the program puts your input through a rule of how it’s going to be modified. The output, then, is the input put through the rule. I don’t quite understand it yet, but here’s …