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gemal.dk - Mozilla - Using Mozilla in testing and debugging web sites: A good article about all the cool debugging and development features in Mozilla.

Mozilla Coffee: You can get Worldly Lizard, Lazy Lizard, Nervous Lizard, or Enviro Lizard. "Welcome Mozilla users! In an effort to support the worlds best browser and email client, RJ Tarpley's has agreed to donate half the profit of all orders from Mozilla users directly to The Mozilla Foundation."

Wired News: Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE "Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren't over. ... That was the message coming from Mozilla.org's offices in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday when it announced it would ...

Mozilla Firefox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The featured article at Wikipedia today is a huge, detailed piece on Mozilla Firefox, thus bringing together two of my favorite things. With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a small, fast, simple, and highly extensible web browser (separate from the larger ...

Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation: Most of the foundation is transferring to a (technically) for-profit, taxable corporation. The creation of the Mozilla Corporation should eliminate some of the thorny legal and tax issues that have been caused by the revenue-generating potential of Firefox and Thunderbird. The Mozilla Corporation ...

Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla: Mozilla Bumper Stickers: They're pretty cool. SomeGuy at MozillaZine has created two quality (or so me thinks) bumper stickers. Both feature our beloved Mozillasaur...

NewsMonster: This is very well-done a news aggregator built into Mozilla. It installs beautifully (completely within the browser), and seems to work like a charm. I'm still hooked on NewsGator, but the channels installed with NewsMonster by default are interesting enough that I'll keep it installed just for fun. ...

Mozilla - Wikipedia: After uncovering the truth about ping, I was determined to unearth the mystery of another engimatic Internet name: Mozilla. Wikipedia took all the fun out of it. The name Mozilla had been used internally for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. It was a contraction ...

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer: This is a good article from Slate that rings true Mozilla and Firefox are surging in the market right now. More and more, people are switching. You've probably been told to dump Internet Explorer for a Mozilla ...

Rich-Text Editing in Mozilla 1.3: Very cool. Along with NTLM (coming in 1.4), this is one more thing to which IE can no longer lay sole claim: "Mozilla 1.3 introduces an implementation of Microsoft Internet Explorer's designMode feature. The rich-text editing support in Mozilla 1.3 supports the designMode feature which ...

MozPHP: More and more, PHP is being seen as a command line and application scripting language. "MozPHP is a Mozilla PHP integration package. With MozPHP you can execute PHP scripts in Mozilla directly without the need for a local HTTP server. Currently the integration is one way, i.e. it is ...

User Agent Switcher Extension: I don't know how, why, or when I would ever use this, but it's a great example of the velocity of the development over at Mozilla. They have an extension for about anything these days. The User Agent Switcher extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds ...

What's New in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha1: The level of browser innovation going on over at Mozilla is just fantastic. 1.8 is on the horizon and includes these two choice bits: Find in This Page now also searches inside textarea and text input boxes. Finally. I've been waiting for this for ...

Firefox and the Anxiety of Growing Pains: What happens when you go from no money to lots of money? What do you owe the people that got you there? Thanks to the Google agreement, the Mozilla Foundation went from revenue of nearly $6 million in 2004 to more than $52 ...

ongoing - The Door Is Ajar: Tim Bray is anti-Microsoft and anti-Internet Explorer. One good point he makes here is this: "...even though his customers are in IE-land, he keeps up on Mozilla not only because he likes it but because Mozilla may outpace IE in the corporate world: most ...

MOOX :: Welcome to my Werxshop...: This guy custom compiles Mozilla apps for various platforms. If I'm reading his analysis (PDF) correctly, he's claiming 10-20% rendering speed increases for various Intel processors. I am currently releasing four versions, or "M" builds M0, M1, M2, and M3, of the Firefox ...

Calendar - Standards Based Calendar Client Project: Want to switch to Mozilla but can't leave behind Outlook's calendar and task list? Follow this link, and you have one less excuse. I spent five minutes with it, and I think this is another nail in Outlook's coffin. A bonus is that ...

Email Call to Action: The Mozilla Foundation is planning to give the Thunderbird project away so they can concentrate solely on Firefox. We have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny. Mozilla is exploring ...

The folks over at mozilla.org have been busy: New Firefox Release 1.0PR includes Live Bookmarks, which creates a bookmarks folder out of an RSS feed, and a really slick interface for finding text in a page. It does disable some older extensions, though, so look out. My main gripe is ...

Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named 'Lightning' may be worth keeping an eye on. Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. [...] Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook? A. With ...

I've begun using Mozilla Mail for personal email, and I've been quite impressed with its "junk mail filters." It appears to be a rule-based filtering system which seems awfully accurate at flagging messages as spam. Over the weekend, I got 182 emails, and Mozilla slashed this total to five by ...

silverorange pitches in with Firefox: Two great tastes that taste better together. ...I’ve been working with a collection of designers from around the world (literally - we span at least five times zones) on the visual identity of the Mozilla projects. The first big project by the team was the ...

I could kiss the developers of the Mozilla browser. They just released version 1.1, and with it, another browser finally supports the LINK tag. The LINK tag, you see, was an abandoned HTML tag. It was intended to allow a page developer to describe a page's position in the "big ...

Firefox (Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation) made $72M last year?!: I wouldn't have predicted this in a million years. The best piece of information I got out of BarCampLA was that Firefox, which is produced by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees ...

Rob showed me this list of things Mozilla does that IE doesn't. Some of the features I've come to love... #1. Tabbed Browsing #4. Link Toolbar: I've written about this before. #34. Can fill in complete forms automatically: Do you know how much faster this lets you test? It's a ...

I'm curious these days about actual browser saturation statistics. Everyone has a different story. Boing Boing reported this week that almost half of their visitors are coming in on a Mozilla-based browser. OneStat.com is reporting IE has dipped under 90% for the first time in many, many years. WebSideStory says ...

Another one for the web developer toolkit: MOZiE will simultaneously display the same page using both IE and Mozilla. A great way to shed some of your CSS woes. MOZiE is an extremely light-weight, free Windows application that allows web designers the ability to compare page rendering in Mozilla and ...

AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers: And it's done. Should have seen it coming. "It has been learned through public and private sources that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled ...

mozile: index: I installed this, and at first glance, it looks as cool as it sounds. "Mozile or Mozilla Inline Editor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser. ...

Will Mozilla Fly?: Very positive article on Firefox from a U.K. IT magazine. It took me a whole five minutes to decide to ditch Internet Explorer and switch to Firefox. Why? The learning curve is about 5 minutes at most. FireFox is simpler to use. Configuring it is easy ...

The Mozilla Foundation has cranked out new versions of three major apps today. The Mozilla Suite goes to 1.5, with enhancements to Composer, a new spellchecker, and stability enhancements. The world's greatest browser (if you ask me), FireBird, goes to version 0.7 and gets enhanced preferences, alternate stylesheets features, and ...

Mozilla FireFox has been awarded "Best In Show" at the LinuxWorld conference, which is taking place this week at the Moscone Center in 'Frisco. "The winners of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards represent the best that open source has to offer," said Warwick Davies, group vice president, IDG World Expo. ...

All sorts of FireFox news this weekend: The Fedora Core blog has posted a short preview of features expected in FireFox 1.1. Among them are instant rendering on the back button, instant application of settings changes, and enhanced tab navigation. I'm very sad to report that The 'Fox got it's ...

More evidence of a Google browser: Interesting... On April 26, 2004, Google registered gbrowser.com... Based on speculation here: Last summer, Anil Dash suggested that it would be a good move for Google to develop a Google browser based on Mozilla. Give that kid a gold star because it looks more ...

SpellBound - Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite: All those comments this morning about my spelling made me self-conscious. This works beautifully. SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea ...

Yargh! The salty sea dogs at the Mozilla Foundation have provided ye with a fine booty in the Mozilla 1.0 pre-release. Slashdot reports that they hoped that a million land lubbers might raid their download site within ten days of the release, but the scallywags reached that in only four ...

The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar: Since they can't use "Firebird," Sunbird was the next best thing, I suppose. The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the ...

Firefox fortune hunters: This is really, really great news. Just because Firefox is free and open source doesn't mean developers aren't cashing in on the popularity of the Mozilla Foundation's new browser. On the contrary, new businesses are cropping up to provide organizations ranging from museums to software companies to ...

Mark recently reinstalled Windows XP on his laptop. He was kind enough to keep a running diary. My Apple bias not withstanding, I find this rather funny. "34. Update driver. 35. 'This driver is not digitally signed.' OK. 36. 'This driver may cause your computer to become unstable.' OK. 37. ...

A while back, I wrote about Mozilla and the LINK tag. The LINK tag is one of the great unexplored corners of HTML. No browser ever implemented it for years (except for an obscure Mac browser called iCab), and consequently, the LINK tag is used mainly to connect CSS stylesheets ...

Firesomething: Look, I know this is a stupid extension, but it just cracks me up. I have four browser windows open right now: Mozilla Weblizard, Superphoenix, Powerlemur, and Spaceoyster. It's tough to find a laugh like that at 7:31 a.m. [This plugin] modifies the product name in the browser titlebar, ...

OpenGroupware.org Complements OpenOffice: A group of open-source folks are looking to torpedo Exchange: "'Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange take-out,' said Gary Frederick, leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project, in a statement. 'OGo is important because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. ...

Most developers would say that content binding is the domain of XSL. However, I've found there is a CSS property for binding arbitrary content to an element, and it's been around since 1998. Sadly, IE has no support for it, Netscape / Mozilla just partial, and apparently Opera is the ...

I'm interested in finding a nice, lightweight, WYSIWYG HTML editor for use by non-developers. In this scenario, as I'm sure you know, is not havig too little functionality, but having too much. I haven't found one yet that I'm comfortable unleashing on non-developer content editors. How about FrontPage or Dreamweaver, ...

Internet Explorer Takes Another Market-Share Hit: It's small, sure, but it's perceptible. Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer lost nearly a percentage point in market share in the past seven weeks and is nearing a loss of 3 percentage points since its decline first began in early June, [...] Internet Explorer dropped ...

Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy (Tim responding this time): Tim O'Reilly responds to the "Web 2.0" trademark controversy which has apparently been pretty hateful over the last week. O'Reilly also values its trademarks -- as do other companies and individuals aligned with the values of openness and sharing. (I'll note ...

Why FireFox is Blocked: Someone is trying to start a trend of blocking Firefox because they don t like their ads getting removed. The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents ...

Lindows.com - Michael's Minutes: Apparently somone found a FrontPage meta tag on one of the pages on the Lindows site, and they contacted the company about it. This announcement was made shortly after. "...we're kicking off Nvu (pronounced N-view). This product will bring to Linux a solid WYSIWYG HTML editor ...

Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...

Link Markers: CSS Generated Content: A good example of something you can do using Mozilla and Opera, but not IE. Makes me want to use XML/XSL instead of HTML.

The Mozilla Foundation has released the 0.8 release of my favorite browser. However, perhaps in order to escape withering criticism from owen ;-), they have yet again changed the name of the browser to Firefox. The new release marks a significant milestone on the development roadmap towards the highly anticipated ...

Mozilla Firefox has hit the big 1.0, and is available for download now. The update promises "Better Tabbed Browsing Controls" and "a horde of other bug fixes..." Free. For Mac OS X and others.

Extension Room :: Popup ALT Attributes: Interesting little flamewar going on over at the Mozilla Extension Room. First, here's something I didn't know: The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to ...

Is it time to put the P tag to rest? It does the exact same thing as a DIV, but it adds spacing below the tag by default. Essentially, you could have a DIV and a style rule of DIV { margin-bottom: 10px; } and it would do the exact ...

Firefox's biggest obstacle is lazy programming: Truer words have rarely been spoken. The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE.

It seems that there's always some consternation in the web design community regarding the styling of form elements. Usability studies and user observation has taught them that they shouldn't be applying styles to form controls; if you change the look of the control, it's less recognizable for novice users who ...

mozdev.org - xulmaker: index: Here's a visual IDE for creating XUL applications in Mozilla. XUL is something out on the periphery of my mind that I'm really interested in pursuing, one of these days. I think it has amazing potential down the road.

I'm on one of my "shiny object" tangents lately. The latest thing is non-Microsoft software. I don't know why, but I suddenly feel the need to be all counter-culture-ish and find alternatives to the standbys. I've been browsing with Mozilla all week, and I don't think I'll go back to ...

Notepad popups: Oh, nice. "Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed from an HTML email message or Web page regardless of browser security settings. In addition, Notepad popups can access files on a hard disk, possibilly causing stability problems in a Windows system." ...

Update: See the comments. I have found a way around this in both IE and Mozilla. I thought about deleting the post, but if taken with the comments, it's still a pretty good tutorial of how to do this. Another Update: One of our commentors points out that Mozilla 1.7 ...

Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism: Here s an article about what are being called Single Site Browsers (SSBs), or little standalone browsers that let you browse and interact with a single Web app in a desktop app-ish environment. Surf to Gmail, for instance, choose “Convert ...

Here's a link to a page at Google that appears to be written in XUL Mozilla's XML User Interface Language, designed for building client-type interfaces over the Web. (That link won't do anything in IE.) No one knows quite where this page came from or what it's doing.

Top 10 products: The top ten products in CNet's history. Coolness: Firefox is number five. [...] Firefox 1.0 brought the open-source browser into the mainstream. Some never thought Mozilla could make it as anything more than a geek badge of pride. The light, secure, and efficient Firefox is legitimately challenging ...

Mozilla Thunderbird Inline Spell Checking Test Build: Good stuff coming to Thunderbird. [...] the feature highlights potentially misspelled words with a red dotted underline (much like applications such as Microsoft Word). Users can easily pick from the top seven spelling suggestions using the context menu. This would actually be a ...

GMailCompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley. Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu. Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for ...

ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer: This is asked for so often by end users. How long before we get a Mozilla or Firebird extension for this? ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in ...

Here's a crazy little tidbit that you should probably never use on a normal web page: Thanks to RFC 2397, some browsers include the 'data:' url type, which lets you embed data resources right in your page. For instance, the image attached to this post looks like this: Mozilla folks ...

SeaMonkey News: While the Mozilla Suite split into its component parts (Firefox, Thunderbird, and Nvu), the combination of all the pieces will live on as SeaMonkey. The group is planning to deliver an Alpha version of its first release, SeaMonkey 1.0, within the next few weeks. [...] SeaMonkey contains a ...

Microsoft to pay AOL $750 million | CNET News.com: This is a bit of a downer because I thought AOL was edging closer to using Mozilla or another Gecko-based browser as their default. Seven more years on IE? That alone was probably worth the money to Microsoft. "As part of ...

Mozilla Thunderbird Gains Phishing Detection: Even more Thunderbird excellence is coming in a future release. Thunderbird will display a confirmation dialogue when the user follows a link in an email to a site that looks like it might be part of a phishing scam. The dialogue is currently triggered when ...

Sun's Mad Hatter takes crack at desktop Windows: They demoed this a LinuxWorld today, so it's back in the news. "Mad Hatter, which Sun first disclosed a year ago, is Sun's effort to dislodge Microsoft and its Windows/Office combination from the desktop PC. Like StarOffice, Mad Hatter will include a ...

Start-up launches low-cost Linux PCs | CNET News.com: With the advanced programming capabilities of Mozilla (check out XUL), I'd love to see a company unleash a couple hundred of these machines as thin clients. "The 30-person company, Linare, on Monday began selling systems for $199 with its own version of ...

I've been using Fedora for a week now, and it's really enlightened me as to what apps I use and what I don't. Since I'm having to find replacements for my Windows apps, I've learned that 90% of my app usage can be condensed to (1) Web browser, (2) email ...

What is Google cooking with Firefox?: The concept of a Google-based browser is gaining steam. I promise you that Ben Goodger knows what's going on. Someone kidnap him and force him to talk. It is all over the news that Google just hired two major software developers from the Mozilla ...

Firefox 3 to drop support for older Windows and Mac X 10.2: I think this is wise. There comes a point when you have to move upward and onward. Currently Firefox 3 is scheduled to be officially released in May 2007. When Firefox 3 is finally released it is expected ...

Beyond Proprietary Databases: Helen Borrie on the Future of Firebird: Here's an interesting interview with one of the people behind Firebird, an emerging open-source, multi-platform database server. It's a fork of a mature commercial database called InterBase. InterBase is an enterprise-level database Firebird is the same, but better. You'll ...

Learn to Create Dynamic Web Pages in Less Than an Hour: Neat little Flash demo on using ColdFusion Components in DreamWeaver MX. It shows the tight integration resulting from the Macromedia and Allaire merger a couple years back. Another note: initially, I thought the article was lame because it was ...

Mozilla, Microsoft reps argue over the future of web scripting: Interesting article on the future of JavaScript. Do you release a new version with incremental improvements, or do you scrap it in favor of something more robust like Python or Ruby. Critics like Microsoft and Yahoo argue that certain characteristics ...

Mozilla Firebird Primer for Windows Users: A great article that explains why Firebird is a better browser than Internet Explorer. However, at one point, the author says this: I definitely do not recommend using Firebird for any actual work, since it's still in pre-release, and stability is obviously not guaranteed. ...

About Conditional Comments: A handy but pretty obscure feature of Internet Explorer. A special comment format lets only IE see certain HTML / CSS code. So make that Web page look good in Mozilla and Opera, then hide the code necessary for IE in these comments. Conditional comments have certain ...

Alex King just released Photos 4.0 (formerly known as Gallery). It's a web-based photo database for storing, cataloging, and retrieving photos, but NOT for publishing web galleries. It can import photos by the folder or one at a time, and stores a thumbnail of each image. It's designed for "Anyone ...

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Auto PopUps Dead?: He makes a good point about those sites that insist on controlling every aspect of your browser window: "Since Mozilla 0.9, most modern browsers have given users the ability to turn off self-launching windows. And most of us do just that, thereby eliminating unwanted ...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird 0.4 is out. The attachment icon (the paper clip) has been broken out to its own column (instead of being overlad on the envelope you could never see it) so you can sort on it now, and the envelope now includes "forwarded" and "replied" arrows like ...

Switching to Shrike: Brad Choate has some good comments about making Linux your primary desktop OS: While I find RedHat 9 to be a decent desktop OS for me, it’s certainly not for everyone. Yes, installation was a breeze, but general maintenance is not for the timid. For example: enabling ...

say goodbye (again) to pop-ups!: Here's why a lot of sites have managed to get around Firefox's pop-up blocking lately. A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. ...

Yesterday during the Mozilla love-in, Gadgetopia reader Tomas hipped us to the Bookmarks Synchronizer Extension. I hadn't heard of it before, but it's a great extension. Basically, you give it an FTP site, and it will upload a copy of your bookmarks. Add it to another copy of FireFox (at ...

I simply must visit Lifehacker more often; their site is chock full of good stuff today! They linked to NeedMySpace.com this week, a site that allows you to send a special "Get Lost" message to a special someone. Lots of options for images and messages so that you can get ...

If you've been following the search engine wars, the latest craze the kids are into these days is providing thumbnails of the web sites that return in search results. Google, however, sticking to the 'less is more' approach, doesn't have this feature. Chu Yeow points us to a Firefox extension ...

I saw a handy little favelet roll across the del.icio.us feed today: By far the most complicated favelet I've attempted, this one fails in MacIE, but works fine in Camino/Chimera & Mozilla, so it'll presumably be okay in other Gecko-based browsers. [...] It shows the mouse's current position in the ...

In the comments on Deane's latest bit of Spolsky-worship, I had postulated that, given the idea that thick clients for the web can provide a better experience, and Firefox's increasing market share, 2006 could become the year of XUL. There was a great link posted on digg this morning that ...

Faced with yet another round of IE exploits, people are starting to move to other browsers. For the first time ever, IE has lost market share, down 1% in the past month. "It's the first time that we've seen a sustained trend downward for them," said Geoff Johnston, an analyst ...

Testing Page Load Speed: Here's a really interesting look at what a browser does to render a Web page by the guys over at Mozilla. It brings up all sorts of stuff you may not have considered about your pages. So what happens when you go to a URL like ...

GPLFlash - Flash decoder, player and plugin: Someone pointed this out in a comment to my previous post from today. This is the homepage of the redesigned GPLFlash. GPLFlash is based on Olivier Debon's original work, which hasn't had a release since June 2000. This project is an endeavour to ...

I just got finished watching Ronald Reagan's funeral. It was very, very touching. I was intrigued by all the pagentry of it this is the first presidential funeral in 31 years, and the formality and choreography of the thing is just amazing. Anyway, at the end, Nancy was sitting ...

Current style in web design: Here's a good roundup of the current style of well-designed Web pages, and what makes them that way. For the last few years, I've seen a certain breed of page design that I loved but could never put my finger on why. This style actually ...

Here's something handy that my buddy Rob mentioned to me months ago, but that I just got around to trying: I added a new stylesheet LINK tag to the index pages, but with the "media='print'" argument. Thus, this stylesheet will be used only when the browser is rendering the page ...

Mozilla Bon Echo Alpha 1 Release Notes: The first alpha release of Firefox 2.0 is out. Some thoughts on it -- There are not a lot of new customer-facing features. There are two reasons for this, in my mind: Open-source projects are often more developer-friendly than customer/user-friendly. Spolsky has talked ...

The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance: The Google Web Accelerator is back in a more brutal form than before. In version 1.0, web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified its requests with a "X-moz: prefetch" header (as prescribed by Mozilla). Sure, everyone ...

Web Developer Extension: I don't remember where I heard about this one, but it's a peach of an extension. We've talked about the Web Developer extension for Mozilla and FireFox before, but the latest version comes with the sweetest sidebar you could ever imagine... You can open the stylesheet for ...

I'm writing this entry from my new Red Hat Fedora Core 1 machine. It's very nice. Install was as simple as Windows (simpler, probably), and it's very functional right out of the box. It had network connectivity right away, and I can browse all my Windows shares without a problem. ...

How do you future-proof contact information? It strikes me that, through the years, I migrate from one messaging platform to another, but I'm generally contacting the same people. My Mom is going to be my Mom no matter what email client I'm using. Probably true for my wife, too. So, ...

Yesterday on Kim Komando's radio show, they had some adverts about BigString.com, an e-mail service that makes some pretty astounding claims about messages sent using a BigString account: Recallable Email, which can be erased, edited, recalled or even have attachments and images "swapped out." Self-Destructing Email. Don't let your email ...

Ars Technica has an interesting blog roundup article this morning with quotes from a number of MS employees who are questioning the wisdom of keeping IE around without improving it. The saga of Internet Explorer, the piece of software that once brought the Department of Justice to the brink of ...

Here's something a little scary for anyone who uses Outlook Web Access. Watch out for the links you click in emails, because your browser may send a whole lot of information about you in the HTTP Referer header. Browsing through my log files the other day, I found this as ...

Given that Microsoft products appear to be full of security holes, more and more thought is being given to migrating to other platforms. However, this has problems of its own. Macs are expensive, and Linux isn't quite ready as a desktop platform. This leaves a lot of people in limbo ...

I'd like to make an appeal to all the developers in the world for software that doesn't install. Just give me an executable. Bundle everything up into that, or perhaps have a handful of DLLs in the same folder as the program. I get the program, I stick it in ...

I'm writing this entry from a Linux machine...but I never installed Linux. I've booted my PC off a Knoppix disc, which is a bootable Linux CD. I'm in Linux now, but I just need to pop the CD and reboot, and I'm back to Windows. You can get the CD ...

It struck me last night that there are two models of RSS aggregation: "real-time" and "stored" (yes, I just made those two terms up...). Real-time are aggregators like Mozilla's Sage extension. This model goes and gets the feed real time and displays it on-demand. In a lot of ways, they're ...

Let me play industry analyst for a second and explain why I think computer manufacturers are in deep kimshee: Hardware has vastly out-paced software. Besides gaming, there's no compelling reason to upgrade your computer. I'm still running on a 1GHz/384MB machine I had built for me two years ago. I ...

I've complained off and on about the lack of user-defined fields in Movable Type. Today was finally the day I got off my high-horse and messed with some code. Here is a method to add a new field to the MT database. The field can store whatever you like, can ...