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By: Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #37

Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #37 — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:32:28 +0000

[…] - Have a computer with Samuel Jackson’s voice send someone you know a voice message to go see Snakes on a Plane August 18. Only one more week. - This week in Consumer Electronics reports that the somewhat mysterious Zune portable device will cost $299, come with WiFi and be available in three colors. Microsoft has not confirmed. - Limited offer: free Evernote or RitePen software by submitting a handwriting sample. Tablet PC readers might want to tap into this deal. - Frets on Fire is a freeware game similar to Guitar Heroes for PC [thanks Download Squad] - Yahoo and MSN suggestive selling their search when ‘google’ query is ran - reminder link: create photo stories to music with Photo Story 3 (Windows). I used this to create a story out of all our vacation photos taken along with some music. - A favorable, enthusiastic review of diigo by slacker manager has me interested in this bookmarks service. The bookmarking field is crowded but I installed the Firefox toolbar and have been using it this week. - Wanna be the William Shatner DVD club fan spokesperson? Just enter this 90 second video contest and maybe you can go where no spokesperson has gone before. - Will arcade bowling replace the real deal? Never say never. - stream media including podcasts to the PSP and Xbox 360 with TVersity - IE 7 will not be called IE7+. I just peeked at recent visitors here with Firefox and the numbers are actually down to 25% since the last time I checked in April 2006 when it was over 40%. - Get your Sesame Street book for the number 5. AOL is slashing 5,000 jobs, about one quarter of its global workforce and meanwhile is offering 5 GB of free online storage. I think the job security watch for Jason Calacanis at AOL just dropped a couple months. Think I’m already on record for giving Calacanis a max of 18-24 months. I’ll be surprised if he is still with AOL in 2008. I haven’t visited the new Netscape in a couple weeks nor am I seeing links from others to Netscaped stories. Not a good sign. He better hope the top talent he bought changes this trend. - and don’t forget AOL is now free for broadband users. If you are a paying AOL broadband member and need help on how to switch to the free plan Lori at Blogcritics has the details. In September AOL will offer most of their member-area access for free. - physical CD sales are at the lowest point since 1994 - Feedpass tries to auction its entire site, database and code on eBay and draws $4,050 max bid. Reserve not met. […]

By: Janine

Janine — Mon, 29 May 2006 09:01:13 +0000

I use Firefox and Opera…kinda switch between the two. I’ve noticed lately, after putting Opera to use a little more than in the past, it seems to be a bit faster than Firefox. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me and that there really is no difference.

One of the extensions that I like in FF is called FireFox Showcase. Don’t know if the link will show up or work, but here it is:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1810/

Also….don’t know if you’ve seen this posted anywhere yet…or even if you’ve posted it yourself here on the site. Bernie Zimmerman has a link for the upcoming release of FireFox 2.

http://www.bernzilla.com/item.php?id=674

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:15:09 +0000

I’ll have to give IRider a look. Thanks, TDavid!

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:27:34 +0000

Maxathon is (or at least was) Chris Pirillo’s favorite browser. I’ve not checked it out. I saw your review though, nice work and good detail, Sterling. My favorite browser that uses the IE control is probably iRider, see the second ever post at this blog. Setting up “rides” for your favorite paths you want people to follow is a pretty cool idea.

As for the sampling above, and to my knowledge, Site Meter doesn’t break out the various flavors of IE. I’m noticing by the graph above there is no “other” category though. I’m guessing all the other browsers combined wouldn’t make up more than 5% of the overall browsing audience. Purely a guess though.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:12:59 +0000

TDavid, in your sampling did you distinguish between Maxthon from IE? Just heard about it and reviewed it yesterday. Featurewise, an improvement over IE, but slower. I’m sticking with Firefox.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:50:32 +0000

Actually you can get full Tablet support in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird using the geckotip extension:
http://geckotip.mozdev.org/

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Newsgator and Google privacy concerns raised by Hmm reader

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:08:31 +0000

[…] Hmm reader David curiously writes (emphasis mine): I can conveniently control (and in most cases this means deny) javascript usage, cookie usage, and ad displays on a per website basis. It really enhances my browsing experience. A good example (TDavid) is that I can let makeyougohmm and sitemeter run javascript while denying javascript to the third party sites linked here that don’t respect my privacy (newsgator, google-analytics, and googlesyndication.) […]

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:01:03 +0000

David - the newsgator rating thing is pretty new and experimental here. How does Newsgator not respect your (or my) privacy? I started to write a response but realized this topic might be better served in its own post. So follow the trackback ~~above~~ in the post below and let’s discuss further.

Also want to hear what concerns you about Google Analytics and Google Syndication (adsense)?

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:00:17 +0000

I use Firefox. Reasons? First and foremost, security. While Firefox can have its share of bugs, it doesn’t support unfettered access to my system via ActiveX controls like IE does. I can’t even estimate the number of malicious hacks I’ve avoided simply by using FireFox. The other primary reason is control via plugins. I can conveniently control (and in most cases this means deny) javascript usage, cookie usage, and ad displays on a per website basis. It really enhances my browsing experience. A good example (TDavid) is that I can let makeyougohmm and sitemeter run javascript while denying javascript to the third party sites linked here that don’t respect my privacy (newsgator, google-analytics, and googlesyndication).

By: Forser

Forser — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:59:05 +0000

Myself perfer Opera, faster, more innovative, secure.

So Opera-> IE-> Firefox .. i use Firefox just to see if webpages works correct, else it is Opera all the way.