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In case you hadn't noticed, you now have an increasing number of choices when it comes to a vehicle (or browser) in which to surf the web….

Lifehacker pointed out earlier this month a piece in Maximum PC on the currently available major browsers. The piece takes a quick look at features on Internet Explorer (both 7 and 8), Firefox 3 & 3.1, Safari 3 & 4, Opera 9.6 and 10, and Google's Chrome.

The Lifehacker piece offers a nice comparison chart of the features of the different browsers. And to think that I felt some affection for IE6 until recently!

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By:  Greg Cruey                        Source

To know that we are ga-ga for cupcakes here in Canada and the U.S., all you have to do is check my reader stats. Consistently each week, my posts about gourmet cupcakes and cupcakes in a jar are among my top read pages (it’s true!).

Well, it seems that our affection for these hand-held cakes was so infectious that it spread to the U.K. (I can only imagine that it was lurking in the ventilation system of some transatlantic airplane). According to this article, cupcakes, long viewed as a treat for kids in England, have transitioned to be a stylish grown-up indulgence featured at weddings, adult birthday parties and posh bake shops more often. Likewise, this cake love has even spread to Italy; according to this blog, Italians are in the throes of cupcake mania, too.  (Still no reports of anyone in Europe serving them at funerals in those countries but perhaps they”ll grow into that practice in time, too.)

All I can say is — what took them so long?

By:  danamccauley                        Source