Mom who Maps

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web Good graphics and illustration, easy explanation much like my headstart books. A basic introduction to Internet surfing... and choosing the right Browser. http://www.20thingsilearned.com/  The 20 things: 1. What is the internet? - - or, “You say tomato, i say tCP/iP 2. Cloud computing - - or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop 3. Web Apps - or, “life, liberty and the Pursuit of appiness” 4. HTML, JavasCriPt, Css and more - or, this is not your mom’s aJax 5. HTML5 - or, in the beginning there was no <\video\> 6. 3d in the browser - or, browsing with more deptH 7. A browser madrigal - or, old vs. modern browser 8. Plug-ins - or, pepperoni for your cheese pizza 9. Browser extensions - or, superpowers for your browser 10. Synchronizing the browser -or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop, part II 11. Browser Cookies - or, thanks for the memories 12. Browser...

We bought an APad a few weeks ago and here are my thumbs ups and downs of the unit that I got. Thumbs Up: 1. Wi-fi  - connects excellently to the available connections. Doesn't support proxy configurations. 2. Facebook - uses facebook mobile so the interface is quite different from the usual desktop app. For first time facebook log-in, status "<Your name> installed Android application on his/her phone." And on posts using the app, it will indicate that you updated status via Mobile Web. 3. App market -has a pre-installed app market which is APad compatible. If you try fishing for apps using the default browser, some apps can't be installed in the unit, maybe because of the difference in the screen resolution. I got a few apps installed using the this appmarket. 5. DocumentsToGo - very nice and decent app that allows me to view my pdf , doc and ppt files on the go. Quite slow though but pretty useful app. Docx and pptx formats are not supported. 4. Googlem...