I have just set Firefox 3.06 as my default browser on Windows. This is day one of seeing if it’s up to the task of being my every task, all the time browser. Previously Maxthon fulfilled that role.
I love Maxthon–the 1.6x, Classic version, not the 2.x version. Long before Firefox offered such favorite features as tabbed browsing, integrated RSS feed reading, extensible function and UI through easy to write plugins, highlighting of search or in-page find terms, and a whole lot more, Maxthon had them. In fact, many of the features that users love most about Firefox (and Camino, for th…
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Technology | No Comments » Such a weak arguement detrays Ballmer’s own lack of belief in Vista. As a salesman he knows to sell the benefits of a product, yet the best benefit he can conjure for justifying enterprise purchasing of Vista over XP is that employees will want at work the OS they have at home.
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Technology | Comments Off I was very excited when I saw in my Stardock Impulse applications list a new one–Fences™ Clean up your desktop clutter. Unfortunately, like many other Stardock user interface and user experience customization applications (ObjectBar, ObjectDock, WindowBlinds, DesktopX), Fences doesn’t do multiple monitors well (at all, actually).
The Fences page describes the new product thusly:
Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can hel…
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Technology | 3 Comments » I’m looking for a bookmarking service to make it easier and faster for me to share interesting stories I find to my Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, and other followers. I use Ping.fm to post to those services, and I have TwitterFeed.com standing by to feed those links into Ping.fm, but I’m still missing the bookmarking service itself. So, today, in between editing an ebook and trying to figure out why chapters I edit in InCopy CS4 crash David Blatner’s copy of InCopy CS4, I’m going to be looking for a bookmark service.
I read a lot of good stories online, and find a lot of good…
Suddenly the first week of January my ability to send e-mail stopped. At first it was apparently just some of my accounts (I have several e-mail addresses, at least one for each of the publications and domains I produce), then, all of them. According to my Outlook Sent Items folder, the last message I successfully sent out was on the afternoon of Wednesday, 7 January 2009. Thereafter my Outbox began piling up.
I didn’t notice for a couple more days, when responses I’d been expecting to time-sensitive e-mail didn’t arrive.
Late in 2008 I had issues with EXIM and POP, the server…
16 January 2009 Posted in
Technology | 1 Comment » I’ve been wrestling with the well-publicized Firefox float drop bug for more than 2 years now–since before it was a well-publicized bug, since a time when even a whispered insinuation of a potential CSS rendering bug in the Holy Firefox inspired a stoning from the community. Now that many others have confirmed the existance of this bug I feel vincidated, but I’m still no closer to fixing the critical layout problem it causes on several of my sites.
Designorati.com, for instance, suffers from the float drop bug. In Mozilla-based browsers–Firefox, Flock, Camino, e…
I’m biting my nails as I write this. I’ve just disabled all the Outlook rules I created to catch and get rid of spam.
Until now I’ve used 14 separate mailbox rules, containing hundreds of conditions, to catch incoming spam e-mail, flag it as such, and either delete it outright, stick it in a “Might be Spam” folder, or bounce it back to its originating address. When you get an average of 10,000 spam messages per day across all your e-mail addresses like I do, you need something to handle them, to separte them from the legitimate mail. Outlook did that for me, albeit wi…
Do you like free?
If you follow this link, and are one of the first 100 to link back to the (original, not this) post from your blog, Jason Calacanis will give you a free license for X1.com, the computer search tool Calacanis says “blows Google Desktop software out of the water. X1 has really changed my life… much in the way Firefox did.” X1.com retails for $74.95.
Since I’m among the first 100 linkers (hehe), and I’m constantly trying out different harddrive search tools looking for a decent one, I know I’ll be using X1.com.
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15 October 2004 Posted in
Technology | 1 Comment » In a graphic design group I recently got into a discussion about application choice on the Macintosh. During this discussion, in response to the accusation that, without Apple and competition, we would “be stuck in a Windows world,’ I said the following:
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Actually, Apple’s current direction is the biggest proponent for using Windows. Apple is doing its best to force everyone to Windows by strangling the market for third-party applications developers on the Mac.
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Here, flame-worthy as it is, is what I meant by that comment:
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Every morning for the last two weeks I’ve been distressed to find my primary Windows XP system blue screened when I walk into my home office. The problem, I discovered pretty quickly, was with Safety_Net, my home network’s large backup drive.
Within the folder H:\ ImaginationBox – Primary \Daily \Sunday\ Documents and Settings\ Pariah\ Local Settings\ Temporary Internet Files\ Content.IE5\ ONBR2CHP\ was one URL file with a zero byte size and an incredibly long, useless name that began with “click%20>%2>%6e…” Everyday, when the back up software tr…
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