Archive for 'browser' Category
Thoughts on Firefox RC2
15 October 2006Firefox is now nearing the version 2.0 milestone, with the second release candidate being released last week and positive reviews already starting to surface on the net. The development team have apparently already started focusing their efforts on the next version (3.0) and are soliciting requests for features, you can even download alpha builds for […]
Firefox Crop Circle
16 August 2006As always when perusing the internet I am convinced that there are too many people out there with way too much time on their hands, a case in point are the twelve students from Oregon State who spent a great deal of time creating the firefox crop circle…
Planned in under two weeks and completed in […]
Cleaning up the desktop
10 August 2006If you are like me and are using firefox you’ll probably have noticed that your desktop has become a bit more cluttered now that all your downloads are being sent there. I’ve recently been cleaning mine up and finding some pretty wallpapers from deviant art to brighten things up a bit. I’ve managed to remove […]
Yahoo IM and MSN Messenger Interconnect
14 July 2006This is I think the start of something really big. As of today (14-July-2006) users on MSN Messenger and Y! IM will be able to add each other to their contact lists and pass message between the two networks. I personally only have ever had one friend (hello Leah) who used the Yahoo client but […]
Zooomr - New flickr competitor
8 July 2006The zooomr site looks like it is a fairly straight forward rip of flickr (which you all know can do no wrong in my book) and from the quick look around that I’ve had I can’t see too many new and excitingfeatures which would persuade me to jump ship. You can add sound to photos, […]
NAT Translation for wordpress
6 July 2006After installing wordpress on my home server I had trouble getting access from both normal internet and within my home network, the trouble being with the Network Address Translation on my router. This article gives a good fix using the hosts file (which I didn’t even realise existed on windows).
Add the following line […]
Flock Browser
5 July 2006I installed the 0.7.1 version of the new flock browser yesterday and thought I’d post a few of my thoughts (and try out the integrated flickr features). The first thing I did upon setting up the browser was to give it my flickr account details - this is where I first ran into trouble. My […]