Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Spam Spam Spam
Friday, January 5th, 2007
I received 354 spam comments on my “Rebooted!” post since 11/02/06. 354! After reading Dave Shea’s blog post “Borderline” I am now implementing a new WordPress plugin called Akismet that boasts it nearly eliminates all comment spam.
I’ll update you on the results later.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out!
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Mozilla released it today… Go get the best browser hands down at: Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Out
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
The new beta release is out. at: Mozilla Firefox Project. To update from “Beta 1″ go to Help > Check for Updates…
Again, not all extensions will work. However you can make most compatible with the “Nightly Tester Tools” extension.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Deer Park)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
A new preview version of the Firefox browser is out (1.5 Beta 1). This new version seems faster then 1.06 and I really like being able to move the tabs! However not all extensions are compatible yet.
Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
- Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
- Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
- Improvements to popup blocking.
- Clear Private Data feature
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
- Better accessibility
- Report a broken Web site wizard
- Better support for Mac OS X
- New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
- Many security enhancements.
Get it at: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/