On Tuesday, October 5 the Phoenix area got hit with a monster of storm, which included hail. The title is bit of play-on-words and I got the idea for the title earlier today when I heard a radio commercial for Courtesy Chevrolet. They are currently having a ‘Hail of Sale’ with price reductions on all the vehicles damaged by this week’s hail storm. Hail storms are fairly rare out here. In the 17-years I’ve lived in Arizona I’ve experienced 3 hail storms. Hail on Balcony It seems as if this storm was worse than the ones we had in January….
October 9, 2010
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Firefox 4 will now have a new feature available from the context menu called ‘Paste & Go’. This option is available when pasting into either the address bar or search box. As the name implies, once the content is pasted it automatically goes to the address or displays the results for the searched term. I can’t say I am all that excited about this feature. For one thing I rarely paste via the context menu. Most of the time I either paste via CTRL+V. In the cases of addresses, this is usually after I have opened a new tab. I…
Starting with most likely the next Firefox 3.6.x update (currently scheduled for mid-October) the default set of Search Engine plugins shipping with Firefox will be changing. Microsoft’s Bing will now be included (user had to manually install this search engine plugin prior). Answers.com and Creative Commons are being removed, but can be installed manually by clicking the links here. Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia are staying put along with any other search engines the user has manually installed on their profile. New Default Search Engines installed with Firefox 3.6 Source: Mozilla Links
Just Released Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.14 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 4.0b7 – 2nd Half of September behind schedule Firefox 4.0rc1 – 2nd Half of October behind schedule Firefox 4.0 – November 2010