Firefox 3 Beta 3

Blogged on February 14th, 2008 at 4:37pm

Wow, this is impressive. The improved rendering engine of the browser suddenly makes everything seem a lot more vibrant in terms of colour, load much faster and performs some nice little rebalancing effects for colour with Cairo. I’m excited!

The only thing I’m worried about is the edition of the “Smart Bookmarks” folder to my bookmarks toolbar. It’s automatically been populated by my most visited sites, which makes me wonder whether I knew that previous versions of Firefox were collecting my browsing data. A little alarming, especially coming from the browser which is out to let us claim our privacy back.

I miss my plugins, but whatever. The only glitch I saw when installing was the fact I couldn’t scroll all the way to the bottom to see the entire list of plugins that were disabled (all of ‘em, but you can get a fix that forces them to become enabled)

Memory usage has been improved, I’m currently using 70MB out of 2048MB as opposed to between 120MB and 160MB with 6 tabs open.

The UI has been improved, sort of. I don’t like the buttons that much for back and forward, and the reload button looks tacky. I’m glad they kept the stop button the same. I hope a theme developer releases a V2 look soon.

Bookmarking pages is nice - with the button on the address bar. It would be nice if you could have something which fades to say “Page bookmarked”, though.

One last thing - I hate the large font for program headings. Sort it out, Mozilla!

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Groove Folder Synchronization

Blogged on January 12th, 2008 at 4:54pm

I’ve just started using Groove Folder Synchronization, which is a feature in Microsoft Office 2007 that synchronizes folders across the internet through workgroups. It also works a treat for locally networked computers too.

It’s been hanging around in my context menus for a while now, so I thought I might as well use it to make the annoyance worthwhile.

So far I’ve set it up between my laptop and my desktop PC, but I’m asking Alec Rust to join in too - since we’re going to be working together on version 2 of his next site - Webhost-Reviews.org.

There are a few caveats happening at the moment, like the inability to synchronize JavaScript or .htaccess files, but I’m sure I’ll fill those in later. Finally, something useful besides Word and Excel in MS Office! Well done Microsoft!

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Malaysia MP Quits over sex DVDs

Blogged on January 7th, 2008 at 8:54pm

Checking over my RSS feeds, namely the BBC one, I found this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7167497.stm

I think it sucks how people have to quit their jobs for getting their leg over. I mean, in this day and age, liberal views triumph over the old conservative ones. Paris Hilton gets paid to be a celebrity, and one could argue that her sleaze actually gave her more popularity.

Why should people who have important jobs be even more penalized? They’re making some sort of difference (hopefully for the better) instead of whoring around on daytime TV. Cut them some slack.. not in the erotic kind.

Spam.. from myself?

Blogged on January 7th, 2008 at 8:52pm

So I just received another email for viagra. Great!.. not. Only this time, it’s marked as coming from myself?! What the hell? So anyways, I’ve looked up the headers and this is what I’ve got:

Received: by 10.100.211.16 with SMTP id j16cs37362ang;        Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:13:20 -0800 (PST)

Received: by 10.67.98.15 with SMTP id a15mr2957811ugm.69.1199725999085;        Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:13:19 -0800 (PST)

This is freaky.. all my systems are secure, following a nasty encounter with spammers using my contact form a few years ago. Where can I report all this stuff? Reply in comments, please.

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New Theme!

Blogged on December 9th, 2007 at 3:36am

..at last. I’ve managed to half-assedly integrate a custom theme onto Wordpress with minimal elbow grease required. Okay, okay.. well, maybe it took me a couple of hours but here we have it! Of course, I’m not finished yet, but given it’s 2:34am and I’m on the verge of falling onto my keyboard, I think I’ll take a kip.

In other news, two drunken incidents have happened outside my house this evening so far, both of which didn’t star me in them. I’m disappointed, Surrey!

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