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We're very pleased to announce the latest addition to the Foxiewire team Asian Angel.
With her vast knowledge and expertise in Internet software (namely Web browsers), Asian Angel will be providing insightful and informative posts and commentary on Foxiewire as well as maintaining her administrative responsibilities.
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Blackbird: African American browser, community, culture, social networking, bookmarking, news, and events.
Blackbird internet browser, a software application designed for the African American community by the African American community.
Blackbird is powered by Mozilla, which powers some of the most popular Internet browsers.

Over November 2008 the market share of Windows amongst Internet users has dropped below 90% according to Net Applications. This means that 10% of computer users can't use IE at all. Most of these users are Mac users, that tend to be financially somewhat better off, which makes this all the more reason for webmaster to make their websites standards compliant and not lock these users out. Losing 10% of your income due to poor website design can mean the end of your business in these difficult times.

I'm not that picky when it comes to desktop audio player. Typically, I just use whatever audio player that comes with my Linux distro. As long as it plays all of my audio files (with the right plugins of course), I'm good. Until most recently, when I've tried those iTunes replacements that I wrote about a while ago, I've discovered Songbird, and it quickly became my favorite audio player.

We launched the pilot Firefox in your country survey last September and received 9,506 responses, which is amazing given the length of the survey (20 questions). Since this is the first time we ran the survey, we wanted to do a test run first and targeted 7 countries: Brazil, India, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, and Australia. However, answers came in from all over the world! Given the enthusiasm, we’re definitely planning to extend the survey to more countries.