This Week’s Best Posts

Here are this week’s most popular posts:

• How to get the most out of Sydney’s Apple store
  “Apple Store #215 opens at 367 George St on June 19, with 125 employees just itching to meet all your Mac and iPod-related needs. Our nine-point guide will help you get the most out of a visit to the three-storey store.”
• Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3
  “You already know about Firefox 3’s marquee new features, but now it’s time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn’t mention.”
• Is four beers a binge?
  “Debate is currently raging over reports that new drinking guidelines for Australia will define binge drinking as more than four mid-sized alcoholic drinks a day for men. “
• The History of Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 in Screenshots
  “Mozilla released Firefox version 1.0 to relative obscurity in November of 2004, and four short years later, the much-anticipated Firefox 3.0 will hit the streets with ambitions of setting a new world record tomorrow.”
• Top 10 Apps Worth Installing Adobe AIR For
  “Adobe AIR, a downloadable platform for running web-friendly apps on any operating system, is still pretty fresh on the market, but it already has a healthy number of applications in development or near completion.”
• Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers
  “We ran the latest editions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera 9.5, and Safari for Windows through some unscientific but highly geeky tests ourselves on a plain old Windows computer. Take a look at the full (and somewhat unexpected) results.”
• The Browser Stopwatch Speed-Tests Page Load
  “The Webmonkey site offers a snippet of JavaScript that lets you speed-test your browser yourself, and we’ve modified it and created a bookmarklet from it so you can do your own tests.”
• Four Extensions That Tweak Firefox 3’s “AwesomeBar”
  “There aren’t a whole lot of ways to configure the Smart Location bar in Firefox 3’s default options dialog—but there are a few new Firefox extensions that can do it for you.”