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Monday, January 31, 2005
Titan first images - slideshow
The European Space Agency has put together a slideshow of images from Titan via Cassini-Huygens. You can download the raw images from the same link.
Dave Winer Interview on WGBH
Dave Winer put up an MP3 of his interview with Tony Kahn of WGBH Boston. It was all about blogging and podcasting. Go have a listen to the MP3 here.
Firefox in the News Today 1/31/05
Firefox 1.1 delayed
ZDNet UK - UK
Firefox 1.1 will be released three months later than originally planned, according to Ben Goodger, the lead programmer on Firefox. ...
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The Inside Track on Firefox Development.
MozillaZine - USA
And, to correct a common misconception: Firefox 1.1 and onwards is developed off the same trunk codebase as other Gecko based apps such as Mozilla 1.8, Camino ...
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Firefox 1.1 to be delayed
Inquirer - England,UK
THE LEAD developer on Firefox, Ben Goodger, has told fans that the next version of Firefox is going to be a bit late. Version 1.1 ...
Firefox / Mozilla / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia - UK
... advisories affecting it. Details have been released about several vulnerabilities in Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird. These can ...
Note: These have to do with versions prior to Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.5. If you are using an old verision, upgrade!
Firefox Roadmap Update
MozillaZine - USA
Ben Goodger has announced an updated roadmap for Firefox. The update calls for a Developer Preview (Alpha) release in March, a Preview ...
Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy
Slashdot - USA
... on a few good days). Hopefully firefox will not go into that Elitist arena which blocks out young developers... All that said, I ...
Upon Further Review: My 2005 Resolutions
eWeek - New York,NY,USA
Opinion: Using Firefox regularly and starting a blog are two of the items on my amended list of New Year's resolutions. ... Become a regular user of Firefox. ...
Herb Weisbaum: No Need To Stick With Internet Explorer
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA
... The editors gave top honors to the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox for its "fast, simple and secure approach to the web.". PCWorld's ...
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NYT On Yahoo's US Gains & Google's Endless Betas
Search Engine Watch - Darien,CT,USA
... Google Desktop still doesn't support Firefox indexing. ... The Google Toolbar that has been out even longer than Google Desktop still doesn't support Firefox. ...
More On The Firefox Browser Proxy Settings
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
After you have downloaded Firefox, installed it, and downloaded and installed the proxy add-on, you will note that a Proxy toolbar shows up, and that gives you ...
Podcasting in the News Today 1/31/05
Web Crossing adds Podcasting support
MacWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Web Crossing Inc. on Monday announced support for podcasting with its eponymous message board and collaboration software. The new ...
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Podcasting power New technology delivers personalized broadcasts ...
San Jose Mercury News (Subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
... And podcasting seems to hold the same disruptive potential as TiVo, giving everyone the power to listen to the radio shows they want, whenever they want. ...
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Podcasting a finalist for "Best Meme" Bloggie award
Podcasting News - Des Moines,IA,USA
... replicating idea spread about weblogs? Finalists include Flickr, Podcasting, The Grey Album, Is My Blog Burning, and Photo Friday.
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Firefox in the News Today 1/30/05
Teen is Co-Creator of Firefox Browser
LinuxInsider.com - Encino,CA,USA
At 17, Blake Ross and another Netscape programmer, David Hyatt, started a side project that became Firefox. They wanted to strip ...
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Firefox 1.1 to be delayed
DV Hardware - Netherlands
The Firefox lead enginees Ben Goodger - which also works for Google - announced last week that Firefox 1.1 will be delayed. The ...
Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks
I updated the user.js file that I created for my Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks page.
I rearranged a few things, added more coments and tried to make it a little more straight forward as to what you need to change depending on the speed of your connection. Also, whithin the comments I had linked to a Mozilla site that has moved so I changed the link.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Podcasting in the News Today 1/29/05
Podcasting Brings Radio On Demand To Your iPod
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
WNYC radio is the first National Public Radio station to participate in the relatively new technological movement called podcasting. ...
Firefox in the News Today 1/29/05
The Firefox Explosion
Blogcritics.org - USA
... of media sites, especially newspapers and trade journals, and spending lots of time closing pop-ups and missing the tabbed browsing feature of Mozilla Firefox. ...
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More Free Internet Security [Firefox Browser]
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
... You can get the fairly new Firefox browser from Mozilla free, and it does a much better job of keeping out popups, spyware, etc. ...
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Speakeasy Bundles Firefox
Article Central - USA
(Article Central) Broadband services provider Speakeasy announced on Tuesday that it will package a customized version of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 with its self ...
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Friday, January 28, 2005
Podcasting in the News Today 1/28/05
Mix: Podcasting, Singapore, Cringely, Armor, Roulette, PSP
iPodlounge - USA
Former MTV veejay and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry plans to launch a podcasting network, "offering an edited selection of the web's best dispatches and tools ...
Who's going to make money off podcasting?
Onlamp - USA
... So, summing up, the people who will make money on podcasting will be: manufacturers of MP3 players, microphones, mixers, cables, headphones, and all other ...
Firefox in the News Today 1/28/05
Major ISP Debuts Customized Firefox
LinuxInsider.com - Encino,CA,USA
Speakeasy said it will begin offering its customers a specialized version of Firefox, an upstart Web browser and challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. ...
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Lektora Feed Aggregator Beta for Mozilla Firefox
MozillaZine - USA
Montréal-based Lektora Inc. wrote in to tell us about their new feed aggregator for Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. ...
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Q&A: Blake Ross, Creator/Project Director, Firefox
NewsForge (press release) - USA
Blake Ross of Miami, Fla., is a sophomore at Stanford University and project leader of Firefox. Ross, who is the subject of this ...
Firefox versus AdSubtract: How Not to Compete with Open Source
Onlamp - USA
... Okay then, I thought. Time to stop using AdSubtract. So I downloaded Firefox and installed it. Should have done that a long time ago. ...
Firefox tipped to topple IE
Silicon.com - UK
I use Firefox for all my general browsing but have to keep IE around for the many useful commercial sites that only work with IE. ...
Netscape browser gets an overhaul
Digit Magazine - UK
... It is officially named version 0.5.6+, and is based on Firefox version 0.9.3. Mozilla released version 1 of the Firefox browser last month. ...
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Rants & Raves
Wired News - USA
I thought I would respond to this story with my experience, and why I am a fan of Firefox but was never an Opera fan ("Opera, the Forgotten Browser," Jan. ...
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A Solid, Modern Replacement for a Windows Desktop
OSDir - USA
... such as Evolution, and the required GNOME infrastructure are available as updates to the system, as are traditional GTK applications such as FireFox and GIMP.
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Google File System
Did you know there is a Google File System?? Guess I'm a little slow because this has been around for 15 months or so. Read the detailed pdf here: Google Labs Publications: GFS
...a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high aggregate performance to a large number of clients.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Podcasting in the News Today 1/27/05
Journalism.co.uk - UK
BBC Radio has made nearly all its programmes accessible online and introduced a podcasting trial. Eighty more regular shows will ...
Special Delivery
GW Hatchet (subscription) - Washington,D.C.,USA
If you're sick of the monotony of modern radio, junior Bryan Randolph thinks he has a solution: podcasting, a fast-rising medium that exposes consumers to a ...
Firefox in the News Today 1/27/05
TechWeb - USA
On the heels of Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger moving to Google, a second Firefox...
developer has announced he's been hired by the search giant.
ISP bundles up Firefox
Silicon.com - UK
Broadband ISP Speakeasy said it will offer its subscribers a version of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web browser in hopes of appealing to a more tech-savvy ...
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Firefox in Microsoft's backyard
OSDir - USA
When we interviewed Mitch Kapor last month, the Mozilla Foundation chairman was positively shy about predicting big things for the Firefox browser. ...
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Firefox In Print
Slashdot - USA
hoovernj writes "It seems that O'Reilly is ready to release two books about Firefox in March. The first is Firefox Hacks, which ...
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O'Reilly Publishing 'Firefox Hacks' and 'Don't Click on the Blue E ...
MozillaZine - USA
Kam-Yung Soh wrote in to tell us that O'Reilly is publishing a book called Firefox Hacks in March. Aimed at power users, the book ...
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Google hires top Firefox talent
LinuxWorld.au - St Leonards,Australia
The New Zealand engineer who spear-headed development work on Firefox, the browser that is causing Microsoft quite a few headaches, has a new job. ...
Firefox driving me crazy!!!
nvmax.com - USA
Firefox is getting on my nerves! On very freauent occasions, it seems to lag when opening a link. It can take up to 10-20 secs before ...
The Inside Track on Firefox Development.
MozillaZine - USA
In a move that I would hope should surprise exactly nobody, we're pushing back 1.1 by a little bit because of the realities of the work remaining to be done (I ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Podcasting in the News Today 1/26/05
How to Record a Podcast
MacdevCenter - USA
Call me a lemming, but once I understood what podcasting was, I jumped aboard as quickly as possible. Podcasting could be seen as ...
Firefox in the News Today 1/26/05
National ISP Offers Firefox to Customers
eWeek - New York,NY,USA
The Mozilla Foundation's popular open-source Web browser Firefox took another step forward in mainstream acceptance with the announcement that Speakeasy, a ...
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Speakeasy ISP Bundles Mozilla Firefox
Information Week - USA
Broadband services provider Speakeasy is bundling a customized version of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 in its self-install kits for residential customers. ...
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Firefox tipped to topple IE
Silicon.com - UK
But on the extra's supplied in Firefox ... ... Will I be able to replace the FireFox pop-up blocker with the Google one easilly enough ? etc ... ...
Major ISP Offers Firefox To Users
Boost Marketing - UK
Speakeasy, a Seattle-based company, have announced they are to offer a customised Firefox 1.0 browser to it's customers. They are ...
Firefox tipped to topple IE
Silicon.com - UK
Being a web designer i know that Mozilla Firefox is a very bad browser. If you visit www.Rysin.info in IE and compare it to viewing ...
Zixxo is new classifieds kid on the block
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
... end, Google-watchers had resurrected a longstanding rumor that Google is developing its own Web browser, most likely based on the open-source Firefox browser. ...
The Firefox religion
OSDir - USA
One of the questions I'm asked most frequently by innocent observers of the Firefox phenomenon is: "What's all the fuss about? It just surfs the web.". ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Google Search narcissism
For grins I did a Google search for the word 'firefox' and it looks like my Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks page is #58 in the results.
Googling 'firefox help' bring the page up to #5!
'firefox tricks' puts the page at #4.
Things get even more fun when trying 'firefox tips'. Currently at #2 with a bullet! #1 is Mozilla's page.
Hey, if you missed the February issue of Wired, Firefox is the cover story.
Podcasting in the News Today
msmobiles.com (press release) - EU
Conclusion: this new program for Pocket PC - thanks to combination of Wi-Fi and podcasting - may become a big hit and a killer application for Pocket PC ...
Louisvillian makes waves with site for podcasting
MSNBC - USA
... "Podcasting" was coined by Dannie Gregoire of Louisville ... From that, Gregoire got the idea to develop software to perform that function. He called it podcasting. ...
Podcasting Goes Corporate
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
Two signs point to rising corporate interest in podcasting. ... Anecdotally, I have heard about other companies looking at podcasting. ...
What is Podcasting?
Search Engine Journal - USA
Podcasting is quickly becoming a buzz word among the techie crowd. So what is podcasting, anyway? ... Many people liken podcasting to radio on demand. ...
Cashing in with podcasting gear
engadget - USA
Podcasting is now officially the new blogging which is officially the new black, so it's no shock that someone is already cashing in with a line of ...
Wired nominates Jobs, Apple, Pixar and Podcasting for RAVE
Macworld UK - UK
... Brad Bird, up for recognition as 'Best Film Director'; Adam Curry, who pretty much drove the concept and technology development behind Podcasting is up for ...
Podcasting brings radio to your iPOD
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
WNYC radio is the first National Public Radio station to participate in the relatively new technological movement called podcasting. ...
Will Microsoft's monoculture take the 'pod' out of podcasting?
ZDNet.com - USA
... Although your first podcast can, theoretically, be strung together in a day (if you believe the various podcasting recipes on the Internet), my prolonged R&D ...
'Podcasting' Allows Anyone To Become An Instant International DJ
MTV.com - USA
... Thanks to the hot medium called "podcasting," thousands of budding radio personalities are spouting off on everything from music and movies to technology ...
Corporate Podcasting
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
... I have done quite a lot of internal communication with audio. Podcasting wasn't an alternative, so we "published" the program via phone. ...
Firefox in the News Today
Reuters - USA
LONDON (Reuters) - Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own ...
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Thunderbird promises to fend off phishers
Tech Republic (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
... Firefox, the Mozilla Organization's browser software, and Mozilla Suite, its Internet application package, can already detect some phishing scams, according to ...
Lead Firefox developer jumps ship to Google
VNUNet.com - London,England,UK
Ben Goodger, lead software engineer on the team developing the Firefox web browser, has jumped the Mozilla ship and defected to Google. ...
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Mozilla's Lead Engineer Now Being Paid By Google
Search Engine Watch - USA
... front. Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Mozilla Firefox, posts on his blog that his new "source of income" is coming from Google. ...
FireFox Keeps On Blazing
eBCVG - USA
... latest figures, for the six week period between December 1 and January 15 showed a 1.5 percent drop in IE usage and a 0.9 percent rise in FireFox's. Overall ...
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Google hires lead Firefox programmer, plans for a web browser?
ÜberGizmo - CA,USA
Google has hired Ben Goodger, the former lead programmer of Firefox, the new hot web browser. Ben will continue to work on Firefox at Google. ...
Mozilla Firefox Hits 20,000,000 Downloads
MozillaZine - USA
Asa also sent us a link to the site of German computing magazine Heise , who have an article about Firefox's 20 million downloads (a Google English translation ...
Firefox Lead Now Working For Google
Slashdot - USA
by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 24, @05:51PM (#11461946). About all the press coverage Blake Ross has been getting for Firefox... ...
Mozilla Firefox Lead Engineer Joins Google
Neowin - Netherlands
Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer for the popular browser Firefox has announced that he is no longer paid by Mozilla, and has joined Google. ...
Firefox tipped to topple IE
Silicon.com - UK
... 35 million business and home internet users are predicted to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser to Mozilla's open source Firefox before the ...
Where do you listen to podcasts?
Do you listen to podcasts? Have a del.icio.us account? (I blogged about del.icio.us a few days back)
I had an idea today were we could all use the del.icio.us service in an interesting way. What you would do is create a del.icio.us link and in the 'extended' section simply put the location where you listen to podcasts. This way, everyone who links to a podcast will be listed in del.icio.us, you'll be able to see if anyone else in your area listens to the same podcast and the podcast creators could see what areas of the world were subscribing. Here is a screen shot of the del.icio.us add link page so you can see what I'm talking about.
Link to del.icio.us screen shot
My original thought was that this could be used by listeners to get together or simply find each other. Haven't quite figured out the 'how' to that but I thought I'd throw this idea out there and see what people think.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Google Desktop Search Plugin for FireFox
Ok so here is an awsome plugin for Firefox if you use Google Desktop Search. It gives you the ability to add GDS as one of your search options like this:
Which, by itself is cool. However, even more awsome is that if you use this, you can get around the stupid 10 results per page that GDS imposes.
Go check it out: amwmedia.com :: Google Desktop Search Plugin for FireFox
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Stock Ticker Mozilla Extension
Here is a handy little extension for putting a stock ticker into your status bar. Stock Ticker Mozilla Extension by Jeremy Gillick
There are versions for Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird.
Friday, January 21, 2005
San Diego Zoo Weblogs
Just found out that our wonderful world-famous San Diego Zoo has a weblog. Woot!
PCWorld.com - IE Continues to Lose Grip on Market
Firefox: 0.5 market share and climbing! Interesting article in PCWorld.com: Interesting quote:
"'Our customers tell us there are two driving forces behind switching from Windows to Linux: cost, and vendor independence,' Bancilhon told Techworld. 'Ultimately one of the ways the desktop will evolve from Windows to Linux is by replacing the applications running on top of the operating system. Once customers move to OpenOffice and Mozilla, changing the underlying OS is a no-brainer.'"
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Hale Observatory on Palomar Mountain, CA
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
More Picasa 2 stuff...
John Battelle has some interesting remarks about Picasa and Google's Marketing Strategy.
And PC Magazine has their Picasa 2.0 review.
And here is a comparison from Search Engine Watch: Google Picasa 2 Vs. Adobe Photoshop Album 2
Picasa 2 is here
Picasa: Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.
""With Picasa 2, we've made it easier for people to find, organize, improve and enhance their photographs, as well as create photo CDs, personalized slide shows, desktop collages and much more," said Lars Perkins, general manager at Picasa."
And they've done an awsome job. I've only started to put Picasa 2 through it's paces but I can tell you it rocks.
Here is a breakdown of the features:
Organize:
- Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa.
- Make a label.
- Add a star rating.
- Keep one picture in multiple albums.
- Password-protect collections.
Edit:
- Basic Fixes are back – and better.
- Amazing effects turn so-so pictures into works of art.
- Write captions that stay with the picture. (They become part of the EXIF info written in the picture file)
- Zoom. Pan. Tilt. Get the angle you intended.
- Fine-tune photos with Picasa's EXIF display.
Share:
- Send photos via email that are a joy to receive. (Including through GMail)
- Hello(TM) instant picture chat lets you share pictures back-and-forth in seconds.
- Put pictures on your own site, for free. (Works with Blogger via Hello(TM))
- Make beautiful slide shows.
- Move to any device or folder.
Print:
- Custom and standard sizes are now fit to print at home. (including more than 1 pic per page)
- Export pictures to popular photo processing websites.
Backup:
- Burn to CD or DVD for archive purposes.
- Give gift CDs with slide shows
- Create a network backup of your pictures.
Create:
- Turn your photos into a movie.
- Make a personalized desktop picture or screensaver.
- Create a poster.
- Make picture collages.
- View pictures on your TV with TiVo(R)
And did I mention you get all this goodness for free? Why are you still reading this??
Saturday, January 15, 2005
NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn
Congrats to the European Space Agency, NASA and everyone else involved on the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Titan. I live for this stuff. Article: NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn
Friday, January 14, 2005
Darth Tater
Hasbro's lates toy. Darth Tater!
via Boing Boing
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Error 404 : Page Not Found
This is rather amusing: ::: Error 404 : Page Not Found : www.lookitsme.co.uk :::
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Yahoo! Desktop Search review by PC Magazine
PC Magazine does a review of Yahoo! Desktop Search
YDS has almost all the features of X1 Search version 5, which will be released by the end of January, along with a Search Web button that links directly to Yahoo! search online. The main X1 features not present in YDS are support for Eudora and Mozilla e-mail clients, the ability to index offline PST files in Outlook, and support for indexing remote drives across a network
I haven't tried it yet. Since I user Thunderbird it sounds like it won't do everything I want. I'll give it a test and report back.
eWEEK Labs Review: Thunderbird 1.0
Review of Thunderbird 1.0 mail client in eWEEK Labs Review:
"The Mozilla Foundation's free Thunderbird messaging client offers a good alternative to low-end e-mail clients such as Microsoft's Outlook Express because of its extensive set of well-put-together features and broad platform support relative to free competition. Although Thunderbird's multiplatform support makes it a good option for mixed environments, its calendaring components don't measure up to groupware clients such as Outlook or Notes."
Monday, January 10, 2005
Firefox
There was news today about some vulnerabilities in Firefox. Thankfully, these only occure in versions less then 1.0. So, if you are using a version of Firefox less then 1.0 you should upgrade. To find out what version you are using, click Help - About.
Here is what SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ Mailing List has to say:
"Various vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla-based products, ranging from a potential buffer overflow and temporary files disclosure to anti-spoofing issues."
Saturday, January 08, 2005
del.icio.us
I've been using del.icio.us for a few weeks now. This wonderful service is available in any browser but it ROCKS in Firefox. I'll tell you how below. First, from the site:
del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
So what you do is link to things and apply tags to what you link to. You can then view all your links by going to your homepage at del.icio.us/USERNAME. You can see mine for an example: My del.icio.us links
You'll see all my links and a list of tags down the right hand side. Clicking on one of the tags will bring up all links in my del.icio.us site that contain that tag. For example all my del.icio.us Firefox links.
Now you'll see a box with related links and, the cool part, a like to other peoples bookmarks containing the same tag. This is really awsome because it quickly becomes a way for you to find other interesting sites beyond a simple Google search. These are sites that humans find relevant.
I can hear you saying "what is the relevant to Firefox?" Because all of the above is available as an RSS feed to Firefox as a Live Bookmark. You just go to your del.icio.us page and then click your browser's Live Bookmark
icon. You will be asked where to put the bookmark. I recommend the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder". Then, you just click the link and all your bookmarks flow down as LIVE RSS feeds.You could also have different Live Bookmarks for your various taged bookmarks. This would let you separate and organize them naturally. This way, all your 'Firefox' tagged items will be together and separate from all your 'digital photography' tagged bookmarks.
And, oh by the way, you can access your bookmarks from any computer with a browser!
Are you getting why this is cool yet? You have to try it.
Friday, January 07, 2005
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
Microsoft released the beta of it's new Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware application today. I decided I'd try it out.
Before you can dowload it, Microsoft suggests you verify that your copy of Windows is Genuine Microsoft Windows. I chose not to do this as I was browsing their site with Firefox and this test looks like it uses ActiveX. You can still download the app if you don't verify your Windows.
I was glad to see that I could get to this beta with Firefox, unlike Windows Update.
The download is 6.4MB, about 2MB larger than Spybot Search and Destroy.
After the install you can choose to run the application. It has some interesting features to select the first time through:
* Auto Updater: Keeps all the definitions up to date similar to your anti-virus program.
* Security Agents: Microsoft equates these to bodyguards. They monitor system, application, and Internet changes and activity for anything potentially hazardous.
* SpyNet(TM): Connects users together for sharing information about unknown spyware applications and signatures. Automatically reports potential threats identified by the AntiSpyware real-time system agents.
* Daily auto-scans: You can set it to scan everyday. 2AM is the default and you can change it after the install.
It told me a complete scan of my system would take about 30 minutes. I didn't time it but it was easily half that or less. When you are done, if it finds something, you can have it clean or quarantine it. You also have the option of setting a system restore point before it takes further action. This is a great feature because you can go back if something drastic occurs. Spybot has this feature as well.
Overall I think this product will have some traction in the market simply because once it is set people don't have to do too much more. However, running a browser like Firefox that helps avoid some of the exploits in the first place will go a long way to keeping your system safe. Also, a firewall like ZoneAlarm, even on a dial-up connection, is highly recommended because it will prompt you when anything new is on your system trying to access the Internet and then you can scan your system for problems.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
User Agent Switcher Firefox Extension
Personally I have only 1 website I cannot use with Firefox. My employer has a time capturing system that uses ActiveX so I need to use IE to access it. Really no problem because I just click the link then use the IE View extension.
User Agent Switcher Extension will make your browser 'appear' to websites as a different type. For example, you can use the safety of Firefox and when you go to websites, the site will think you are using IE. This can be cool for getting into sites that won't let you unless you have IE. The agent can be toggled on and off via the tools menu or you can add a button to your tool bar that changes to indicate you have switched the user agent.
It comes with descriptions to make your browser appear as Default, Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP), Netscape 4.8 (Windows XP) and Opera 7.54 (Windows XP).
Managing bookmarks in Firefox
Helpful article on managing bookmarks in Firefox: Smart Computing Article
Monday, January 03, 2005
forecastfox
Nifty little Firefox extension for putting the weather forcast in your status bar of your browser. Very cool because it doesn't take up any more screen real estate. Go get Forecastfox
Tsunami Relief
Google's page for news and donation information: Tsunami Relief
A new tool to browse
Nice article about Firefox evangilists: A new tool to browse | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Sunday, January 02, 2005
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
Excellent source for all kinds of information related to the tsunami and earthquake. Links to missing persons, help needed, help offered and so forth: The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog