Giving Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 a test run on the Mac. So far it looks nice. Extensions are broke of course but that’s to be expected with beta-ware. Tags: FireFox
...Read MoreBreakng In A New Firefox
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Gas Woes Got You Down? Going Hybrid Might Be The Right Choice For You
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Gas prices got you down? 50 miles to the gallons starting to sound reasonable to you? If you’re thinking about jumping on the hybrid bandwagon then there are a few things you should know. Take a look at this great story from Yahoo! Finanacial News that delves into the mystery behind hybrid vehicles. Yahoo! Financial:When…
...Read MoreIE7 Beta Screenshots
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Dave Shea has screenshots of the IE 7 beta Up on his site. Dave’s impression: “nothing much has been fixed”. Tags: browsers, CSS, design, internet, programming, internetexplorer7, microsoft, software, technology, web
...Read MoreKonfabulator is now free!
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On the heels of their move to Yahoo! the guys at Konfabulator are giving it away free! Nice! Konfabulator.com: “Konfabulator is now free. Yup. If you download version 2.1 you know what you’ll never ever see? That’s right a registration reminder. Fear not, there’s nothing sneaky in there, no spyware, no ads, nothing that’s keeping…
...Read MoreKonfabulator says, “Yahoo!, here we come!”
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Take a look at the front page of Konfabulator.com. Looks like they’Ve been planning this for a couple of days. Tags: internet, software, technology, web
...Read MoreYahoo! Buys Konfabulator
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Holy crap! Yahoo! bought Konfabulator! Mercury News: “Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customized information without opening a Web browser. The deal, finalized late last…
...Read MoreFirefox Issues Not Gone
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With Firefox 1.0.4 there were some issues. Oh! were there some issues. Sudden freeze ups, slow browsing, LAG!!! I thought for a while there it was maybe my computer’s configuration or the configuration of Firefox and it’s plugins causing the issue but the more and more people I talked to, the end story was the…
...Read MoreGoogle Toolbar for Firefox
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To my friends working at Google: Sorry guys. I installed and uninstalled the new Google toolbar for Firefox in less than 5 minutes. Why? It didn’t offer me anything I couldn’t already do with Firefox. Tags: Google
...Read MoreGPS For The Rest of Us
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After our recent trip down the eastern side of the Sierra, I realize how nice it would be to have a GPS unit that interacted with my laptop so we could pinpoint our exact location. Don’t get me wrong; navigating by the GPS’s little built-in map wasn’t bad. But it sure would have been nice…
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