Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

People Like Email

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

At least that is what the authors of this article claim. According to the article: The survey revealed that, on average, people check their mail about five times a day, and a quarter of them cannot go without it for more than three days at a stretch. Five times a day? Try ...

Instantaneous Back and Forward in Firefox

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

As a result of reading this article about the improvements to the commonly used back and forward features in Firefox to make them "blazingly fast", I decided to go ahead and grab the most recent nightly Firefox build to try it out. After downloading the archive and unpacking it, I ...

Cool Firefox Bookmark Feature

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

I was reading through the book Firefox Hacks a little bit yesterday, and I found a pretty cool bookmark trick that I had not known about. I created a new bookmark to the page http://www.answers.com. After I created the bookmark, I went to the "Bookmarks" menu and then "Manage Bookmarks". ...

The New Blog Has Gone Live

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

I have successfully transitioned my old blog from Blogger to my own personal server. MySQL and PHP are providing the braun; WordPress is providing the beauty. Okay, that's not entirely accurate. WordPress does more than beautify the blog. In fact, I might be more impressed with WordPress than any other ...

Transitioning to WordPress

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I am currently in the process of transitioning my old blog from Blogger to WordPress. The Blogger site has been having many problems in the last 24 hours or so, and thus my transition is being slowed. That is, however, part of the reason I'm making the transition to begin ...

Why Care About a Browser?

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Since last fall, I have seen tons of articles around the web comparing Mozilla's Firefox to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Some of the articles even mention Apple's Safari or the Opera web browser. I honestly had to sit down and ask myself, "Why do I care about a web browser? Is ...