Firefox v3.0 First Impressions
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | Tech Help, Tech News | Comments Off
Browse Safe with Firefox 3
Firefox 3 was released yesterday to much fanfare. The first tallies are showing over 8 million downloads in 1 day. Of that total 269,901 were by Canadians.
Update June 19: Download total is now over 11 million, 320,000+ by Canada.
I’ve been using it for about a day, here are my initial impressions.
I don’t have any stats to back it up, but Firefox 3 seems faster. Pages come up fast, there is very little lag when switching tabs and so far the memory used by Firefox 3 is not growing by the second. Now I never had the memory issues some users of Firefox 2 have had, but, I regularly have 8-10 tabs open a time, often even more, and Firefox 3 so far seems to hang around 120-140K. Much like my old install of Firefox 2. This may be because I keep the amount of add-ons I use to a minimum, so I was never affected by the memory issues.
After installing Firefox 3 the first thing I noticed was the update interface. Thankfully Mozilla didn’t mess with the standard browser placement like Microsoft did in IE7. I also noticed that a new folder showed up on my toolbar. Firefox 3 adds a “Most Visited” folder. I’m not sure if i will use it yet, but could see how it could be useful.
I’m still learning & playing with all the new features in Firefox 3, and getting used to the new url bar, but, so far I like the new version. This is a required upgrade to all Firefox 2 users. I also strongly recommend IE users to take the plunge and give FF3 a try. I really think you will be impressed.
US Style DMCA Proposed in Canada
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | Tech News | Comments Off
On June 12th the first reading of Bill C-61 took place in the House of Commons. This is a terrible bill that takes the power of copyright law out of the hands of lawmakers and into the hands of corporations. I’ve gathered up a few links to get you up to speed on the issue. You can read them here, here & here.
You can get a simple form letter to e-mail your MP here. After e-mailing your MP make sure to drop a copy of the letter in the mail, no stamp needed, to;
Your MP’s Name
c/o House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A0A6
Completing the process takes no time at all. Our MP’s need to know that Canadians will not stand for this loony law. Check out UserFriendly’s cartoon strip for a slightly humorous slant. June 16th & June 17th strips.
Who is a failure?
Monday, June 16th, 2008 | Life, Tech News | Comments Off
Everything that I had read said that Google had adjusted their algorithms to combat link bombs, also known as Google bombs. Turns out this may, or may not be the case.
Head on over to Google and search for the term “who is a failure?“. The #1 result should look like the photo below.
This story originally broke back in February. Perhaps this isn’t a true Google Bomb, and is just an unfortunate coincidence for Mr. Bush.
Wayback Machine Fun…
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 | Life, Tech News | Comments Off
I stumbled upon the Internet Wayback Machine today. It was great fun looking back a the early days of the web. Google, MSN, NBC, CBC have all come a long way since the static web pages that we were treated to in the late 90’s.
MSN then:
And Now
Print Head Cleaning…
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | Tech Help | Comments Off
Our Canon MP390 has been printing black text poorly for a weeks. Running the cleaning application did nothing to help the poor prints. Luckily the MP390 has a removable print head. Unlike most other printer manufacturers, Canon does not build print heads into the new ink cartridges. Instead of paying for a new print head I popped it out and took it to the sink. A few minutes running under warm/hot water flushed it out. I then used a paper towel to get most of the water off of it. Make sure to not rub the print head, dab it onto a paper towel only. A can of compressed air does a good job of getting the last few droplets off the print head. After reinserting the ink cartridges, a few print head cleanings, an alignment and the printer was back printing like when it came out of the box.
Do they want to know the truth?
Monday, April 21st, 2008 | Life | Comments Off
Or is the better question, can they handle the truth? Either way residents of our little town need to let it be known that things are not o.k. I urge everyone to take this survey, and give the town the straight dope.
Here is a short clip for your viewing pleasure, and yes he is from town.
Beware the Mustache…
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | Sports | Comments Off
Update June 15th: The original video has been pulled. I’ve replaced it with a recent interview with former Blue Jay Rance Mulliniks.
I’m A Mutant!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | Tech News | Comments Off
My wife would tend to agree with that statement, but, she is a mutant as well. Hell, even our wee lass is one as well. Science Daily reports that "Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor". Scientists are doing amazing things with our DNA.
Backup your VM’s with VSS
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | Tech Help | Comments Off
I’ve been looking for an easy way to backup my VMware images since putting 3 Virtual Machines (VM’s) into production. After having my SharePoint site crash a few months ago I redoubled my efforts to find such a solution. Since I use the free VMware Server I would have to either find a script online or roll my own script. This week I had some success finding numerous scripts. After testing many of these scripts and finding none that worked the way I wanted them to, I decided to take the ideas I learned from these scripts and started writing my own.
Post to Wordpress from Word 2007…
Monday, January 28th, 2008 | Tech Help | Comments Off
While poking around Word 2007 today I realized that I could be posting from Word instead of the WYSIWYG/html Wordpress editor. What you see here is the 1st post from Word to Wordpress on my site.
Setting up the connection info is a snap. You just have to enter in the URL of your site, the info of the user you want to post as and you are on your way.
I’m not sure if I will continue using Word 2007 to post as some of the advanced options for images and post layout are a bit finicky, but it is a great way for average users to use an application they are comfortable with to post to their blogs.
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