Friday, March 11, 2005

Notice: Moving the Blog

Tech.Life.Blogged has moved!

I've moved the site to /www.techlifeweb.com because it is a much easier URL to remember. If you are subscribing to my feed via feedburner, you shouldn't have to change anything. If you are using the old atom feed I broke you. Sorry about that. Hopefully I haven't lost anyone and that if you did use the old feeds you'll resubscribe.
If you are one of the unfortunates, the new feed is here.

This old site will stay around for archival purposes and of course my tips and tricks pages are still around.

Hopefully I'll like the new home and we can all continue to collaborate and communicate as we have always done.

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MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension for web developers

MeasureIt looks like an interesting tool if you are a web developer. The extension lets you put up a ruler over your web page to check alignment. Would be very helpful for editing CSS files.

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Podcasting News 3/10/05

Virgin Radio joins podcasting wave
Macworld UK - UK
By Macworld staff. The station made its Pete and Geoff breakfast show available to download earlier this week. The Virgin Radio podcast ...
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'Podcasting' Sweeps Internet
Voice of America - USA
By Brian Purchia. Podcasting is sweeping the Internet.

... Brian Russell began podcasting last August. He says it doesn't take much to get started. ...
See all stories on this topic

Sci Fi Channel Podcasting Battlestar Galactica
Podcasting News - Des Moines,IA,USA
SCIFI.COM, the site of the Sci Fi Channel, is offering fans of its new series Battlestar Galactica an unprecedented "podcast." This DVD-style audio commentary

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Virgin Radio Breaks New Ground with Podcast
E-Commerce Times - USA
"The BBC has been experimenting with podcasting, but only with weekly shows.". ... "The BBC has been experimenting with podcasting, but only with weekly shows.". ...
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Podcasting for the Plebian
Boise Weekly - Boise,ID,USA
For starters, podcasting is the revolutionary art dubbed "a grassroots rebellion" against commercial airwaves by Wired magazine, and "the TiVo of Radio" by ...

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Firefox News 3/10/05

Mozilla set to founder as focus turns to Firefox
PC Pro - UK
... At a Mozilla staff meeting last month the issue was raised and subsequent discussion 'seems to indicate that with Firefox and Thunderbird development, along ...
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Playing Tagsy - Folksonomies, Firefox & Search
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
Last week i talked briefly about Tagsy, a social bookmarking and feed management service that integrates with Firefox. The product ...

Mike Connor Concerned About Mozilla Firefox Development Process
MozillaZine - USA
... direction. Firefox, originally named mozilla/browser (after the directory in which the code lived), was different from the start. ...

Yahoo updates travel site
CNET News.com - USA
... and departure times. In addition, the Web site will support more browsers, including Firefox, Netscape and Safari. Yahoo began building ...

Problems for FireFox?
DMXzone.COM (press release) - Enschede,Netherlands
No, it's not a vulnerability for FireFox, it has to do with the lack of active FireFox developers. ... You can say that the FireFox program is heavily undermanned. ...

Google Desktop- Clever or clutter?
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
... It can also search cached web pages from Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla as well as saved dialogue from AOL 7 and AOL Instant Messenger. ...
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Google Desktop Search Tips Updated

I've updated my Google Desktop Search Tips to include info on the gold release.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Google News

Google News now lets you customize the page. This is cool. If you want to keep track of your company or your competitors or virtually anything news worthy you can edit the page and save the search item as one of the topic headers. It's like Google alerts but in real time. The customizations are saved to your computer so you'll need to set them up again if you go to another machine.
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Firefox News 3/9/05

Browser Wars: Will Firefox Burn Explorer?
Knowledge@Wharton (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Just as in the 1990s, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape's Navigator fought each other for supremacy, today Mozilla's Firefox browser is

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Firefox Is Heading Towards Trouble
OSDir - USA
Opinion: I think Firefox is the best browser on the planet, but it's not going to stay that way long unless the team behind it gets their act together sooner ...

Power of Google search to information on the computer hard drive
Ployer - New York,NY,USA
... The company said the product also includes support for the Firefox and Netscape browsers, Thunderbird and Netscape e-mail, and Chinese and Korean interfaces. ...
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Podcasting News 3/9/05

Virgin Radio tunes in to podcasting
Netimperative - London,England,UK
Virgin Radio is bringing clips from its breakfast show Pete and Geoff to digital audio players. From today, a half-hour edit of ...

Fitness Recording Artist MARINA Adds Workout Podcasts to ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
NEW YORK, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, March 10th, 2005 Kamen Entertainment Group added additional Walking and Cardio Workout Podcasts, Body Sculpting

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Virgin Radio starts daily podcast
BBC News - E,UK
Virgin Radio is making highlights of its breakfast show available for digital audio players in what it says is a first for "podcasting". ...
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Virgin Radio Begins Podcasting
FMQB - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
UK radio network Virgin Radio is the latest station to join in the podcasting craze. Its morning show, Pete and Geoff, will be available ...

Scifi Channel to "podcast" 'Battlestar Galactica' episodes
Reality TV World - Mansfield,MA,USA
Known as podcasting, the MP3 format is available on Sci Fi's Web site and is meant to be watched in tandem with "Battlestar Galactica" episodes leading up to ...

A Nerd's Look at Radio
Audio Graphics - Cleveland,OH,USA
"Zonk," a Slashdot contributor, reposted the BW article. Only he headlined it "How Podcasting and Satellite Changed Radio.". Read ...
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How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Radio.About.com - USA
... By the time we're done, you'll be podcasting to the world. Kind of exciting, huh?

... (Yes, you can use podcasting for profit, too.). ...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Firefox News 3/8/05

Could Firefox have assisted birth of IE7?
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... systems. The fact that the reversal came as rival browser Firefox reached 25 million downloads was no doubt entirely coincidental. ...

Enter your e-mail:
PC World - USA
The new version of GDS includes some enhancements that weren't in the initial release, including support for Firefox and the Thunderbird e-mail program, a ...

Google opens APIs in Desktop 1.0
Computer Business Review - UK
... It now also supports browsers other than Internet Explorer, namely Netscape and Firefox, as well as the Chinese and Korean languages. ...
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RSS can smooth out waves for information surfing
Houston Chronicle - USA
... FIREFOX 1.01 -- Free, Mozilla Foundation, www.mozilla.org/firefox. Most folks ... RSS feeds. Firefox refers to them as Live Bookmarks....

Mozilla can't replace Explorer
Kykernel.com (subscription) - Lexington,KY,USA
... I have a question about Mozilla Firefox - can you keep Internet Explorer if you download and use Mozilla? How does that work? Not ...
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Google Desktop Is in a Class by Itself

eWeek review of the new version of Google Desktop: Google Desktop Is in a Class by Itself

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Monday, March 07, 2005

Firefox News 3/7/05

AOL releases Firefox-based Netscape 8.0 beta.
UberGizmo - CA,USA
The free browser is based on Firefox 1.0 technology and has more security options and features including tabbed browsing and form saving. ...
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Mozilla releases Firefox update to patch spoofing vulnerability
Tech Republic (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
The Mozilla Foundation has released a Firefox update to patch a spoofing vulnerability and to fix a problem that caused Firefox 1.0 to crash.

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Firefox developer feels like throwing in the towel
Inquirer - UK
... And, though he says he may be wrong - since he doesn't actually work for Mozilla -- he reckons Firefox 2.0 is unlikely to be anywhere near viable before ...

Google officially launches desktop search
Xinhua - China
... Additional enhancements include support for the Firefox and Netscape browsers, Thunderbird and Netscape email clients and new Chinese and Korean language ...
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Software: Problems With Firefox Development?
Overclockers Club - Birmingham,AL,USA
Well, it looks like there is at least one unhappy Firefox developer out there. ... This isn't his first post about being upset with the development of Firefox....

Google launches desktop search
Red Herring - CA,USA
... The latest version also supports the Firefox and Netscape browsers. The big shift from the beta, however, is the new API access for developers. ...
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Re: Netscape 8 - First Impressions
GrabaGeek - Bressingham,UK
i have been using netscape for a zillion years... untill mozilla and then firefox .. ... everyone loves firefox and if you don't you should! ...
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Mozilla Heads To China
Information Week - USA
... of Mozilla source code in China; Sun has already created a Mozilla browser development team in Beijing to build Chinese editions of the Firefox and Mozilla ...
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New version of Mozilla Firefox browser fixes flaw
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
By PETER SVENSSON, Associated Press. NEW YORK - A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud. ...

Google desktop search leaves beta era
Silicon.com - UK
... months, now includes search capabilities for video and music files, full PDFs and web surfing history in three web browsers, including the fast-growing Firefox ...
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Podcasting News 3/7/05

Podcasting The Night Away
Forbes - USA
NEW YORK - A lot of people are buzzing about Podcasting of late. I'm not one of them. At least not yet. ... This is where Podcasting comes in. ...
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Individual audio programming
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... It's called podcasting, a term coined by British journalist Ben Hammersley a little more than a year ago. If you're not podcasting ...
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A download away from radio stardom
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... minutes. The Sicklerville resident has hundreds of listeners all over the world, using a new form of Internet radio called podcasting. ...
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Google Desktop Search 1.0: New and much-improved

Google Desktop Search 1.0: New and much-improved. Finally out of beta (even though at this time the graphic still says beta).

Desktop Search now lets you find and store:

* PDF files
* Audio (MP3, WMA, WAV and more)
* Images (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and more)
* Videos (AVI, MPG, WMV and more)
* Email from Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla, and Thunderbird
* Web pages you've viewed using Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla and Firefox browsers
* Instant Message Chats – We're still the only desktop search that indexes and lets you search all your AOL Instant Messenger chats

There are now lots of plugins available from 3rd parties. Looks awsome. I haven't had a real chance to try everything out yet but hope to do so today. Look for an updated GDS page sometime this week.
I think it is probaby worth uninstalling the Beta version and strating fresh.
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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks updated

Updated my Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks page.

Linked to the HowStuffWorks page

Added details about:
  • Merriam Webster extensions

  • Wikalong extension

  • Scribe extension

  • Getting gmail to remember you password

  • Google maps plugin



    • Also put the extensions in alphabetical order. New ones I mention will also go into this order.
    I've blogged about most of that stuff in the past and just haven't had a chance to get the page updated.
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    Podcasting News 3/6/05

    Grassroots Expands Podcasting
    Podcasting News - Des Moines,IA,USA
    Grassroots Enterprise has announced that it has launched a regular podcasting series focusing on grassroots innovation. "With legions ...

    Persian blogging round the globe
    BBC News - E,UK
    ... Derakhshan's road to podcasting began five years ago in Tehran, where he worked for a reformist newspaper.

    ... Podcasting takes its name from the Apple iPod. ...

    Dining-room DJs find forum in podcasting
    Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
    ... Podcasting, as it's called, doesn't require expensive broadcast licenses or radio towers. ... With podcasting, the audio is available on the listener's schedule. ...
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    Firefox News 3/6/05

    Walter Mossberg: Personal Technology
    Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
    ... Netscape 8.0 is based on Firefox, the open-source browser that lately has become a hot challenger to Internet Explorer. Like Firefox ...
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    Netscape Plans a Secure Browser
    Express Newsline - Mohali,India
    ... browser by launching a beta version of Netscape 8. Netscape is up against Microsoft's IE that already dominates the market with 90% share and Firefox that is...
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    We have a winner in the data disaster contest
    engadget - USA ... winning address. 2. Why does my FIREFOX reroute to microsoft.com when i click that link with the extra http:// in it? 3. The winning ...

    Re: Netscape 8 - First Impressions
    GrabaGeek - Bressingham,UK
    ... The page loading speed is incredible; IE looks, feels, and works like garbage after trying this. I'll stay with Firefox until this is out of beta.
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    Web users at the mercy of floaters
    Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
    ... Mozilla, designer of the popular (and free) Web browser Firefox, is trying to block floater ads, but has so far been unsuccessful, said Chris Hofmann, director...
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    Saturday, March 05, 2005

    Google Weather

    Enter "weather san diego, ca" or a zip code in your Google search box and you'll get the weather in your area with graphics showing current and the next four day forcast. Only works for the US. Although, doing the same for a foreign country "weather london, england" did turn up links to sites containing that info.
    The Google grid approaches.
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    Firefox News 3/5/05

    Re: Netscape 8 - First Impressions
    GrabaGeek - Bressingham,UK
    Appears to take more space than FireFox though. ... It works in Firefox, and lookin at yer screenshot, there appears to be a lil down arrow. ...
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    eBay redirect feature comes handy for phishers
    TechWhack - Delhi,India
    ... All the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera have taken steps to fix and update their browsers to include features to inform users ...
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    Fusion: Moore's honor, Fox fix
    Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
    ... It has held true since then. A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud. ...
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    Podcasting News 3/5/05

    How Podcasting and Satellite Changed Radio
    Slashdot - USA
    prostoalex writes "Business Week magazine discusses how podcasting changes the radio industry: "Consider the basics: With no licenses, no frequencies, and no ...

    Podcasting with Your iPod Photo
    MacdevCenter - USA
    In an earlier article, "Fun iPod Tricks," I alluded to podcasting, the media-rich way to share information through weblogs. And ...

    God on the iPod
    Salt Lake Tribune - USA
    ... Using iPods or any portable MP3 player, ''podcasting'' lets people download audio programs that can be listened to whenever they like. ...
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    Friday, March 04, 2005

    Firefox News 3/4/05

    Netscape 8 based on Mozilla Firefox goes into Beta
    TechWhack - Delhi,India
    Mozilla Foundation's efforts with Firefox have started to show its affect. They have seen millions of downloads by the web users ...See all stories on this topic

    ID Theft Statistics and Firefox Flaw
    WXIA-TV - NE Atlanta,GA,USA
    ... If you are using the new Mozilla Firefox Internet browser, download the new version of the browser to fix a flaw that makes users vulnerable to an online ...

    Firefox in the fire
    Fast Company - USA
    Firefox, the red-hot alternative web browser, is approaching its first big test as a mainstream product. One of Firefox's best features ...

    Rants & Raves
    Wired News - USA
    ... 1, 2005). In the same manner, no hard evidence is given to sustain the belief that spyware and pop-ups will plague the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. ...
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    Firefox security update
    Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
    INTERNET security company Sophos has advised business and home users to update their version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser to protect against vulnerability...

    UndergroundMedia Releases Podcasting Search Plugins for Firefox
    Podcasting News - Des Moines,IA,USA
    UndergroundMedia has given Internet Explorer users one more reason to consider switching to Firefox: podcast search plug-ins! The ...

    Ad click fraud, hard to prove?
    HTML FIX IT.COM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
    ... URL from the ad, but the last time I tried to do that, I accidentally triggered the link because I have the "Super drag and go" Firefox extension installed ...
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    How to discover cool things

    Someday you will start tagging. In fact, start now. You don't even have to 'get' it yet. Just do it. Blog and tag it. And even better (ANYONE can do this even if they don't blog) LINK and tag it!!

    To discover cool things you have to have just a couple things. Good part is, they are free.

    1. Firefox
    2. Del.icio.us
    3. A passion for something and the will to learn everything you can about it

    Got it? Good. Now go to http://del.icio.us/ and click on a tag in the "all tags" column. Or, if you know a tag, type the whole thing like http://del.icio.us/tag/google in the case where you'd want to look for 'google' as a tag. Once you get your results screen, click on the "Add live bookmark" at the bottom of the screen (the icon). I like to save mine in a folder inside the Bookmark Toolbar folder. That way they are always available right at the top of the screen.
    Ok, so you don't technically have to have Firefox and live book marks. You could do this with any RSS aggregator but live bookmarks give you the advantage of quickly checking a link, looking through the latest drop-drown feeds and you'll quickly discover what people have recently been linking to in your favorite topic.
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    Merriam-Webster Online - Firefox downloads

    Merriam-Webster Online - Firefox downloads has all kinds of little add-ins to make your word defining life easier.
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    22,000 miles, 1 pilot, 0 stops

    22,000 miles, 1 pilot, 0 stops

    Congratulations to Steve Fossett and the entire GlobalFlyer support crew.Jules Verne would be proud.
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    Thursday, March 03, 2005

    FutureMail

    This is curious. It's a service called Future Mail. You sign up and then you can email yourself for some time in the future. FutureMail
    "FutureMail lets you send messages to yourself and have them delivered on any date and time you choose."
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    Firefox News 3/3/05

    Firefox Browser Fixes Security Flaw
    ABC News - USA
    By PETER SVENSSON. NEW YORK Mar 3, 2005 -- A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud. ...
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    Upstart Firefox reignites Web-browser war
    Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
    ... Many alternative brow?sers have been launched, but it seems like Firefox (www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) is the first to debut with a little momentum. ...
    See all stories on this topic

    Firefox 1.0.1 out, takes
    DMXzone.COM (press release) - Enschede,Netherlands
    The first update to FireFox is out. Firefox 1.0.1 aims to fix a slew of vulnerabilities. Foremost among those are domain-spoofing ...

    Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta Goes Live
    eWeek - USA
    Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla's Gecko and Microsoft's Internet Explorer ...
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    Media Sites: Say No to Pop-Ups
    Wired News - USA
    ... pop-under ads. So do AOL and EarthLink. Mozilla Firefox, the populist web browser, has a built-in pop-up ad suppresser. Not to be ...

    Camino man moves to Firefox to boost Mac progress
    PC Pro - UK
    The Mozilla Foundation has appointed has appointed a developer to work on improving the Mac version of Firefox, with spin-offs for the OS X-only Camino browser ...

    Firefox Extensions Add Great Functionality
    WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
    One of the great things about Firefox is the vast range of extensions you can add it to. These are little applications that you ...

    Gartner: Firefox Usage Will Grow Until Microsoft Chooses to ...
    MozillaZine - USA
    Last month, IT research and analysis firm Gartner issued a report entitled Firefox Usage Will Grow Until Microsoft Chooses to Respond . ...

    mis-information
    MozillaZine - USA
    ... table. The decisions around the localization policy were not about revenue, they were about consistency across the Firefox brand. ...
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    Josh Aas and Mozilla on Mac OS X
    MozillaZine - USA
    ... Much of his work will be on code that is shared between all the Mozilla applications for Mac OS X (Camino, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird). ...
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    Podcasting News 3/3/05

    Podcasting gives voice to amateurs
    Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
    When my editor asked me to try my hand at podcasting, the assignment stirred up an old fantasy I had as a kid growing up in San Francisco - to be a radio news ...
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    Grassroots Enterprise Expands Podcasting Division; Launches ...
    U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
    ... in high-impact ways to recruit, retain and mobilize stakeholders, today announced that it has expanded its already groundbreaking podcasting division by ...
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    Podcasting, attempt 2
    Corante - USA
    Still trying to get the podcast of the LSE debate thing going using this Feedburner feed. This should not be this difficult. UPDATE ...

    The New Radio Revolution
    BusinessWeek - USA
    ... Last September, when the wannabe Denver deejay started playing music on the Internet, the term for what he was doing -- podcasting -- had been around for two ...
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    Slacker Manager: Bookish tags

    Slacker Manager points to this article over on 800-CEO-READ Blog called Tagging: Making it easier to find biz book information where there is a proposal for everyone talking about business books to use businessbooks as a tag. I say tag early and tag often. Just keep your tags relavent. Slacker Manager makes the point that agreeing on a tag goes against the will of the web and I'd have to agree to a point.
    What may be worth talking about is how to tag when you have something that can be plural or something that could potentially be a verb or action.
    "Firefox" for example is a no-brainer. It is easily tagged. "Podcasting" is potentially dangerous. In my mind a "Podcast" is a show and the tag should relate to it as such. Singular. No "ing". Now if there is software that I am talking about to create podcast my thought is to tag it "Podcasting".
    Maybe we are all better served if it is tagged both ways? Same goes for "businessbooks". Do we need that "s" at the end? Will a search for "businessbook" find a article tagged with the "s" at the end? It should.
    I agree whole heartedly with the premise of "squishing" the words together. I think about this alot, living where I do. Seems much more efficient to tag something "sandiego". I know that del.icio.us would see "san diego" as 2 tags.
    I should also mention what the other articles didn't and that is pinging. If you blog you should ping. Blogger has a check box to let you automatically ping Weblogs.com when you post but another method I like is http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic.com lets you ping many places at the same time. Doing so will get your tagged items "out there" and indexed. Don't wait for the indexing engines to come crawling. Tell them there is something new.
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    CatholicInsider Podcast

    Do you listen to Catholic Insider yet? Check it out at CatholicInsider.com. Doesn't matter whether you are Catholic or not. If you enjoy a good soundseeing tour and want to learn more what is going on in the Vatican it is well worth a listen.
    And, while he's been roaming Rome, Father Vonhögen has talked Vatican Radio into posting their feeds as a Podcast! Find out more here: Vatican Radio. You'll see the XML link at the top of the page.
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    Wednesday, March 02, 2005

    NIMIQ - enclosure ripper extraordinaire

    I've been trying out a new podcast aggregator (podcatcher?) for Windows called NIMIQ. I've been using it for about a week and I really like it so far. It automatically adds my downloaded feeds into Windows Media Player (WMP 10) (works with iTunes too). Then I just sync my little mp3 player using WMP 10 and go.
    My only slight complaint is where the "hide" button is. I'd rather have a check box to minimize to system tray or just expose the hide button on the bar instead of having to go to a sub menu. Yeah, it's just an extra click but it's not needed. Go check it out.
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    Firefox News 3/2/05

    Firefox no longer hunted
    Inquirer - UK
    FIREFOX, THE OPEN sauce browser, appears to be slowing in its onslaught against Microsoft's IE browser market. According to research ...
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    Merriam-Webster Releases Mozilla Firefox Search Tools
    MozillaZine - USA
    This is a simple search engine plugin for the standard Firefox search bar that allows you to quickly look up terms in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. ...
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    Firefox 1.0.1, Mozilla Suite 1.8 Beta Released
    The Mac Observer - USA
    ... Firefox 1.0.1 provides improved stability and new security updates, including a fix for website spoofing via International Domain Names. ...
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    More Bugs Found In Firefox And Mozilla
    Designtechnica - Sherwood,OR,USA
    Vulnerabilities are found. Security firm Secunia has found eight more bugs in the popular Firefox and Mozilla web browsers. "The ...

    Deploy Firefox to all Windows computers in your enterprise with ...
    Tech Republic (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
    Once thought a product of ages past, the browser wars have been reignited in full flame with the release of Mozilla Firefox. Organizations ...

    Firefox silently adopted by many businesses
    DV Hardware - Netherlands
    Mozilla claims that many corporations have adopted Firefox, but that they keep silent about it to maintain a good relationship with Microsoft. ...

    New Linux/Open Source Portal at TechBookReport
    OSDir - USA
    ... reviews of books and software on Linux and other open source technologies, including applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox and programming ...
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    Even though Internet Explorer has got a massive 87% market share ...
    GrabaGeek - Bressingham,UK
    Now who is t blame you may ask. I believe its because of Mozilla's Firefox. The decline is not a 1:1 ratio (1% loss on IE's side isn'ta 1% gain for FF). ...
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    Podcasting News 3/2/05

    Podcasting Could be an Ad Creative's Delight
    BusinessWeek - USA
    ... podcastees don't mind the embedded message. Podcasting is a small media, I will grant you. But it's very interesting and part of ...

    Wish upon a satellite, but pay radio could be a black hole
    Australian - Australia
    ... moves into profit. Maybe it won't be worth it. The radio industry is facing another techno threat - podcasting. This involves the ...

    Magnatune: Podcasting Great Way to Expose Music
    Podcasting News - Des Moines,IA,USA
    "Podcasting allows anyone to become a radio broadcaster, thus increasing diversity and customer choice," notes Buckman. "The other ...

    Podcasting from Linux
    NewsForge - USA
    ... If your distribution can handle these modest requirements, it can handle podcasting. ... The default is 128, which is probably a bit high for podcasting. ...

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    Wikalong Firefox Extension

    I've just discovered a extension for Firefox called Wikalong. It is curios and cool. May take a bit to see how totally useful it is but so far I like it.
    What it allows you to do is open up a side frame in your browser window. In that frame you can write notes. When you leave the notes, they get saved for others to see and comment on. So it is like instantly having a comments frame on any web page.
    Equally interesting is that you can go to a page and subscribe to an RSS feed of all the latest posts to any page on the web. We'll have to see how much I use it over time. Let me know how you are using it.
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    Tuesday, March 01, 2005

    Right-click Add Live Bookmark extension for Firefox

    Do you use Live Bookmarks in Firefox? They are one of the wonderful underused features of Firefox. The point of them is to have a live, drop down links to other articles in an RSS feed. Basically a kind of built in aggregator.
    Personally I find them no good as an RSS reader. I'd rather use something like Sage or Bloglines because then I get bits or all of the article instead of just the title.
    However, Live Bookmarks rock when it comes to del.icio.us as I've blogged about before.
    One other handy thing is, if you use Sage, you can feed it Live Bookmarks an it will use them in its aggregator. Sometimes even though it appears there should be a live bookmark on a page you don't get the icon in your status bar because the site designer didn't add the property correctly for auto discovery. To combat this, you can add the Right-click Add Live Bookmark extension. This extension lets you right click on any link on the page that says XML and create a live bookmark from the link.
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    Firefox News 3/1/05

    Firefox sneaks into the enterprise
    ZDNet UK - UK
    The Mozilla Foundation claims that Firefox has been adopted by large enterprises, but companies are often choosing to keep it quiet to maintain a good ...
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    Users warned over Mozilla and Firefox 'holes'
    ComputerWeekly.com - UK
    Users are being urged to upgrade to the latest versions of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers because of newly discovered security holes. ...
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    8 More Bugs Found In Firefox And Mozilla
    TechWeb - USA
    Just a day after one security firm warned of a vulnerability in Firefox and Mozilla, a rival disclosed that another eight threaten the open-source browsers. ...
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    Firefox Update Released, Market Share Still Increasing
    2000Trainers.com - USA
    While a large number of users have made the switch to Mozilla's Firefox browser due to security-related issues with Internet Explorer, the rate of adoption ...
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    Firefox update helps prevent Web site spoofing
    ComputerWorld - USA
    FEBRUARY 28, 2005 (MACCENTRAL) - The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 1.0.1, an update to its popular Web browser for multiple platforms including Mac ...
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    Mozilla / Firefox "Save Link As" Download Dialog Spoofing
    Secunia - UK
    Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into downloading ...
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    Google & Firefox's Relationship
    Slashdot - USA
    sebFlyte writes "More news from FOSDEM, this time about the depth of support for Firefox from Google. According to this article ...

    Internet Daily Caribbean site profits by partnerships
    MarketWatch - USA
    ... The number of US Web surfers who are using Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser has grown 39 percent in less than three months. ...

    Are fewer people switching to Firefox?
    PC Advisor - UK
    After an initial surge in market share gains that followed the release of Firefox 1.0 in November, the pace at which the open-source web browser is winning ...

    Firefox Uptake Continues To Grow, But Slower
    E-Commerce Times - USA
    The Firefox browser from the Mozilla Foundation has continued to gain market share and erode the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but there are ...

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    Podcasting News 3/1/05

    The joy of podcasting
    Green Bay News Chronicle - Green Bay,WI,USA
    ... are also out there. But that's not all. Coincidentally, USA Today did a feature last week about podcasting. Made possible by the ...
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    Mix: Grateful Dead, Duke, Negativland, Podcasting
    iPodlounge - USA
    ... In an article entitled "Podcasting faces growing pains," Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe looks at the struggles podcasting faces.

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