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Monday, June 9th, 2008
With release candidate 2 for Firefox 3.0 just being released, it shouldn’t be much longer until we are blessed with the greatness that is Firefox. Mozilla is trying to set a new world record with the most software downloads in one by staging “Download Day” for the official launch of Firefox 3. The date has not yet been set but as mentioned before it should be soon.
Some of the new features include “one-click bookmarking, the smart location bar and lightning fast performance.” Security is also being amped up for the new release. “Firefox 3 includes phishing and malware protection, plus new instant site ID info.”
It couldn’t be better.
*Facts for this post were pulled directly from here
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
So I found a rather entertaining website, rinkworks.com/stupid, which has some great humor around computer repair. Here are some examples that I found on the site.
- Customer: “Is it possible to put Windows 95 on a Commodore 64?”
- Customer: “It says here that I need a 2 times CD-ROM drive. Does this mean I have to get another CD-ROM drive?”
- Customer: “I need you to tell me what browser I am using. Is it Netscape 2.0? The reason I need to know is that I have read that Netscape 2.0 distributes a virus called Java.”
So these are just a few examples. But there are some great quotes on their site. Go check it out when you get bored. Thank you Rinkworks.com!!!
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The Linksys WRT600N Dual-Band Wi-Fi Router could be the best option for you if you are looking to join the wireless-N community. It is one of the first 802.11n draft 2.0 routers that can operate on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands simultaneously. This router really stands out when streaming HD media across a wireless signal. Another great feature of this router is that it handles VOIP traffic as well so you won’t need that extra VOIP dedicated router if you use a Voice Over IP telephone service. But not everyone uses all the different features that this router showcases. In that case, for the price of this router, I would not recommend this router if you are just looking for typical internet use. This router is by far the best I have researched for streaming HD media and has the fastest connection speeds via wireless connection but also carries a hefty $200+ price tag.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Firefox 3.0, now in its Beta 2 phase, has had drastic improvements. Mozilla is using the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine that improves the overall layout and functionality of the browser. Again, being in the Beta 2 phase, Firefox 3 is still being worked on and improved. Other improvements include security improvements, ease of use, more personalization options, and the overall performance of the browser is improved. Set for official release in May of 2008, the new browser should definitely seal the deal for a lot of people who are still on the edge between Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
One of the key elements to running a blog these days is have a good RSS feed for others to subscribe to. I ran across this site, rssHugger.com, designed to help promote your blog. Its a great way for Bloggers and readers to come together and help each other out. Bloggers use RSS feeds to summarize their posts to make things easier for readers to browse through while they are looking for the topic of choice. And by subscribing to feeds and using viral marketing bloggers build their readership. rssHugger is truly a great tool and I recommend it to anyone that is looking to help promote their blog.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
For anyone that is looking to speed up load times in Firefox, here ya go….
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 20. This means it will make 20 page requests at once. I do not recommend setting this number any higher as some websites have auto ban functions that ban ips for more than 20 requests to the same page in an hour.
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