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Today is the release date of Firefox 3. If you’re still using Internet Explorer, today would be the perfect day to test drive the highly superior Firefox browser. As of publication of this post, the software has yet to be launched, but when it is, you’ll be able to find it here.
So far, more than 1.5 million people have pledged to download the software today in Firefox’s bid to break the Guinness world record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.
If you’re a frequent user of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Digg, or even perhaps just like tinkering around with the latest software technology, there’s a new Web browser you should try.
It’s called Flock. The browser integrates popular sites like Flickr and YouTube as well as Web mail from Google and Yahoo right into the browser. The concept is meant to save you time so you don’t have to visit and log into each individual site to get updates. It tells you if you have new mail or if a friend updated his or her Facebook profile right inside a minimal tool bar. It’ll even show you if your contacts have uploaded any new photos to Flickr and display the latest thumbnails in their photostream.
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The Ultimate Warrior recently discussed the death of Heath Ledger on his blog, Warrior’s Machete. The Warrior opines that Ledger’s death is less important than the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, which is a just statement when comparing media attention each receives.
I know my blog’s physical appearance is changing more than Linda Wachowski, but I think this time it’s for good.
I hope you like the new look. I’ve changed blog publishing software back to WordPress from Movable Type and have found a new layout I like better than the last two.
Movable Type ended up being too much of a headache. The software interface, though I initially liked it a lot, never quite worked as it should. The innards of the software — that which readers never see — was very slow to respond. And the software’s “dashboard” display never ran as designed. I’m confident it was a problem with the permission settings of the software’s folders on the servers, but that wasn’t the only problem.
No, you’ve come to the right place. The blog is undergoing a lot of changes.
Aside from the very obvious design change, the majority of changes are under the hood — things readers won’t see, but are large improvements for me, the blog writer.
Problems I was experiencing with Internet Explorer not being able to see embedded videos from YouTube or Google Video prompted me to look into new turnkey blog software.
On my home computer, which runs Vista and the latest versions of Internet Explorer 7 and Norton Internet Security, the embedded blog videos were not displaying properly when I viewed the blog in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer seems to be back to its old ways.
As I originally discussed in this postback in April, IE has some problems showing the videos I embed into posts. Instead of showing the video box with the play button ready to go, it will show only a big blank white space with a text link to YouTube or Google, where the video is stored.
The videos appear to work fine on a machine running Windows XP and IE 7, but when I test them on my home machine, which uses Vista, the video problem occurs.
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