CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.

The software is brought to us by the authors of Litmus, a tool that tests your websites on a set of browsers.

cool tool for windows web developers, I won’t use it for a couple of reasons, I’m a mac-a-holic and too much of an engineer to worry about pixel perfection…

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Web developers are becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of convergence of the major browser vendors. We need a level playing field! CSS is a powerful technology. Many of its more advanced features go unused by web developers because of Explorer’s poor support of CSS standards.

don’t know how much it helps…

(Via .)

Hats off to Hong Jen Yee. Forget catching tigers by the tail — this clever coder and friends have put together an extension able to tame the might of Internet Explorer within a humble Firefox tab. Magic. Operation is as simple as it gets.

• Install it
• Go to a site
• Right click and scroll to ‘View this page in IETab’

And the greatest chuckle? IE now has tabbed browsing in Firefox before it has it natively.

This is really cool, I bet Lance could really use this.

(Via SitePoint’s Design Blog: Pixel Perfect.)

For future reference, here’s a laundry list of steps I took to get Mom’s computer working and secured from evil software.

Since my last post about patching Windows using Knoppix before connecting it to the net, a new study has come out that finds the time until intrusion is as little as 4 minutes for a fresh Windows XP machine.

Wow 4 min. The real question is… is this better then the last update?? Why is it that this os doesn’t ship locked up with the firewall active?

(Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O’Reilly Network Weblogs.)

Got other suggestions and advice? Post up in their comments. This great advice, what would their list be for Macs…

(Via Engadget.)

USA Today technology columnist Kevin Maney complained last week about having been hit hard by a Windows virus on his home computer:

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Anger about this stuff is spreading as fast as the viruses. At our end-of-summer block party, I mentioned to a group of neighbors that a virus had crashed our PC. Instantly, every one of them launched into stories about unstoppable blitzes of adware (which throws pop-up ads on your screen, or worse) and spyware (which can find stuff on your PC and send it somewhere) and computers brought down by viruses

The message I get is that people are fed up with the vulnerability of Windows. They are increasingly willing to consider other options. And, for whatever reasons, Apple Computer’s Macintosh and Linux-based computers hardly get infected or invaded at all.

“For whatever reasons” is the key point I tried to make in “Broken Windows” back in June. The reasons why are subject to argument. But you can’t argue about the net effect: Windows users, especially with their home computers, are plagued by insidious malware; everyone else is not.

Read the rest of this post and the Broken Windows from june

(Via Daring Fireball.)

The FTC releases a helpful guide to avoid the lure of phishers.

(Via internetnews.com: Top News.)

I just was setting up a computer here at home while I was blogging. Did you know that Computer Associates is giving away a free 12-month license to their anti-virus and firewall program if you visit the Microsoft Protect site? I just used that site to protect this new PC and it was really great. Turned on the firewall automatically, and did some other stuff too. Highly recommended that you visit this site from every computer you own (and email it to your friends, especially the ones that keep getting spyware and viruses).

Thanks Scobble

(Via The Scobleizer Weblog.)

CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox: “EvilStein writes “According to this article, “CERT recommends that Explorer users consider other browsers that are not affected by the attack, such as Mozilla, …”

This is a big recommendation, if you use windows consider other BROWSERS, unless you like having your credit card numbers looked for, being infected with viruses that have no good intentions.

(Via Slashdot.)