Digital Cheat Sheet

The bread and butter of any kind of college experience is writing papers. Some get off with relatively few, but more often than not people end up writing dozens of papers throughout their time in school. Most essay prompts are as stated "the student is to write: 'x' number of pages in 12-size, type Times New Roman font, double-spaced". Occasionally some teachers will deviate from the formula, but more often than not that is the standard and accepted font, but why?

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In the last year or so the market for web browsers has exploded. More work and advertising are being put into them and adoption rates are starting to pick up for new web browsers. Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari are starting to become the most important applications on a computer (Yes, I'm deliberately ignoring Opera). With more of our computer taking place in the cloud on websites like Gmail, Yahoo mail, Flickr, Facebook, Hulu, and Twitter having a competent, fast web browser is essential. Google has made inroads this year with their Google Chrome browser and Apple's Safari remains a favorite among Mac users, but it appears that Mozilla's Firefox has been slipping in the previous versions. While adoption is up over Internet Explorer, in terms of speed and mindshare Firefox has been falling behind.

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