A newly redesigned and simplified version of my ElGuru.me site should be up and running later this weekend. The new site is actually completed, but there are some things happening behind the scenes involving the platform/server changes preventing the new site from going live at this time. This is the first step in what is going to be a major transition later this year. Ultimately what I hope to have completed by year end is having all three blogs (Firefox Extension Guru, Email Mafia and El Guru’s Blog) all converted over to WordPress.org. However, the hosting I am on now…
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The big news this week is after six months of searching, Gary Kovacs, former general manager and vice president of mobile and devices at Adobe, and employee of IBM for ten years, has been appointed as the next Mozilla Corp. CEO. Mozilla Corp. former CEO John Lilly explained why Kovacs was the most ideal replacement: We’ve talked with many people through this process — most of them were exceptionally talented in many ways. But Gary’s a special person for the CEO role, and here’s why: He’s a veteran of the Web and rich media — he’s been at the center…
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.14 – October 19, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 19, 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 – TBA
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….
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
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b7 – Late September 2010 Future Release Firefox 3.5.14 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
A while back some of my family switched their ISP from Qwest to Cox. I had recently sent an email directly to one family member and they had replied back that it went to their old ISP’s email at qwest.net. I was a bit baffled that the address was still active as it had been several months since they have switched. A bounce-back would very much welcomed here. Even more baffling though was I knew I had removed their old address and put their new address in my Thunderbird address book. I just went to send them another message and…
Just Released Firefox 3.5.13 – September 16, 2010 Firefox 3.6.10 – September 16, 2010 Firefox 4.0b6 – September 14, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b7 – Late September 2010 Future Release Firefox 3.5.14 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – Mid/Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010