I have been running the nightly builds of Bon Echo now for a couple weeks. Last night I was presented with an interesting or as it called itself, ‘major test upgrade’ to Bon Echo 2.0 mt1. I get a dialog box explaining this in an experiment and my participation is voluntary and nothing should go wrong (famous last words) with this update, but if there are problems to use Bugzilla. So I agree to continue then I presented with this: SAMPLE END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT This isn’t a real END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE, it is just here for testing purposes. You…
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A couple week’s ago I mentioned in my entry, My Way Not Going my way, troubles with the My Way e-mail. Also I had stopped using My Way as my home page, going back to Yahoo. Today on CyberNet, Ryan Ashley reviews My Way thanks to a tip I had sent to them a while back. After using Yahoo the last couple weeks I decided I’d give My Way another chance. There were some things Yahoo just could not offer that were great with My Way. My TV Favorites, just select from the local listing you want as your favorites…
It has been 2 weeks since I moved the Blog from Blogger over here to its new home at WordPress. At first I was not sure if this was such a good idea, but I wanted to able to take advantage of the trackback features on CyberNet News. One of the things I do like about WordPress is it provides stats for your blog. I’ve been reviewing those daily and seeing a steady increase of views, that was until the 13th. On Wednesday the 13th the Adobe Acrobat vs FoxIt Reader entry alone had 87 of the total 222 views!…
Okay, not that type of airbag! Rather a new and improved crash reporting application. This will replace the similar but rather out-dated ‘Talkback’ feature most users are accustom to when a Mozilla application crashes. Like Talkback, Airbag is completely voluntary, you can provided as much (or as little) information as you would prefer to disclose. But keep in mind the more information your willing to provide the better the chances of getting the bug fixed that caused the application to crash in the first place. More technical information can be found over at mozilla links Blog.
A new feature with Thunderbird 2.0 is the ability to Tag messages. You can assign one of these five color-coded ‘default’ tags to a message by selecting the message(s) from the folder’s message list and right-clicking and selecting ‘Tag’ from the context menu: To Do Important Later Personal Work But what if these five ‘default’ tags are not what you are looking for? At the bottom of tag sub-menu is the option ‘New Tag…’. A popup box will allow you to create your own custom tag and pick the associated color. Once a message is ‘tagged’, the text as displayed…
I had read about this ‘mobile’ computer earlier on CyberNet article from back in May. What is described as a cross between a desktop and a laptop. It is bit of a monster weighing in 18 pounds which includes the 20.1 inch display, 12-cell battery and full-size detachable Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard with 10-key numeric keypad. Now it is hard to really grasp the concept of just how big this computer is when it is pictured by itself. Thanks to Laptop Magazine there are now some photos (such as the one to the right) which really put this computer’s size into…
A new feature with Thunderbird 2.0 is the ability to Tag messages. You can assign one of these five color-coded ‘default’ tags to a message by selecting the message(s) from the folder’s message list and right-clicking and selecting ‘Tag’ from the context menu: To Do Important Later Personal Work But what if these five ‘default’ tags are not what you are looking for? At the bottom of tag sub-menu is the option ‘New Tag…’. A popup box will allow you to create your own custom tag and pick the associated color. Once a message is ‘tagged’, the text as displayed…
In early July, OneStat.com, the Amsterdam-based Web statistics firm released statistics showing the popularity of the top 5 web browsers (IE, Firefox, Apple’s Safari, Opera and Netscape) in the USA, Canada, Australia along with several EU countries. The most popular browsers Worldwide (July 2006): 1. Microsoft IE 83.05% 2. Mozilla Firefox 12.93% 3. Apple Safari 1.84% 4. Opera 1.00% 5. Netscape 0.16% Most popular browsers in the USA (July 2006): 1. Microsoft IE 79.78% 2. Mozilla Firefox 15.82% 3. Apple Safari 3.28% 4. Opera 0.81% 5. Netscape 0.20% Full statics can be viewed in the OneStat article and include the…
While Windows Vista has been the center of major legal troubles (anti-trust violations) for Microsoft with the EU, they have some other lesser known lawsuits pending. These include: Forefront trademark suit, Forefront is the name of Microsoft’s future Corporate Security Software but Dexter & Chaney, a Seattle software company has used the name for more than 18 years for its construction-related software. Xbox Live patent suit, the multi-player technology used by Microsoft seems to similar to that of PalTalk Holdings Inc. Cryptography patent, now this unusual, a case Microsoft has won (but 9 years after the initial suit). Iowa antitrust…
Thanks to Ryan at CyberNet for this info. Mozilla has released a ‘Pre-Beta 1’ version of Thunderbird 2.0. Pre-Beta is kinda funky name, likely this is a release-candidate for Beta 1 since the install folder was Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1. Still hunting for release notes as well as an exact (other than mid-September) release date for the official ‘Beta 1’ There have been some changes since the last Alpha 1 Release back at the end of July. It looks as if Mozilla has given Thunderbird UI a bit of a visual refresh as well. First screenshot below shows the…