Monday, November 15, 2004
Found that GMail extension thing Steve told me about:
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
This program allows you to use your 1GB GMail account as hard drive space. With 1GB its fairly useful. I installed it and am currently uploading a Lewis Black album. The downside is that it will take a while -- like it would be to upload something of that size to your email. But for remote storage space, it works fine, since you can log into your gmail account and dl it, as the program basically emails yourself an email with the file as an attachment.
I found out that the director of Super Troopers is the same person who directs Arrested Development.
I found out that Firefox got 250,000 in donations, and that should keep it running smoothly. Microsoft isn't threatened, but lets hope they feel unthreatened, and Firefox takes over.
Firefox's main pros seem to be added functionality and great handling of pop-ups/flash image ad crap. That makes it a great alternative to IE, which has developers exploiting it, creating tons of pop-ups (relatively solved with SP2's installation), and lots of stupid flash ads. I'm afraid that at some point, the usage of Firefox will be so large that people will develop the tools necessary to create the same kind of ads (or some new kind of ads) that Firefox cannot stop.
At this point, I'm completely satisfied with my browser and I hope things stay strong with it. Supposedly Mozilla is trying to get Firefox integrated/pre-installed in new computers, but seeing as it is a nonprofit organization, it may be hard to come up with the motivation, compared to MS pushing the big bucks to keep its monopoly.
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
This program allows you to use your 1GB GMail account as hard drive space. With 1GB its fairly useful. I installed it and am currently uploading a Lewis Black album. The downside is that it will take a while -- like it would be to upload something of that size to your email. But for remote storage space, it works fine, since you can log into your gmail account and dl it, as the program basically emails yourself an email with the file as an attachment.
I found out that the director of Super Troopers is the same person who directs Arrested Development.
I found out that Firefox got 250,000 in donations, and that should keep it running smoothly. Microsoft isn't threatened, but lets hope they feel unthreatened, and Firefox takes over.
Firefox's main pros seem to be added functionality and great handling of pop-ups/flash image ad crap. That makes it a great alternative to IE, which has developers exploiting it, creating tons of pop-ups (relatively solved with SP2's installation), and lots of stupid flash ads. I'm afraid that at some point, the usage of Firefox will be so large that people will develop the tools necessary to create the same kind of ads (or some new kind of ads) that Firefox cannot stop.
At this point, I'm completely satisfied with my browser and I hope things stay strong with it. Supposedly Mozilla is trying to get Firefox integrated/pre-installed in new computers, but seeing as it is a nonprofit organization, it may be hard to come up with the motivation, compared to MS pushing the big bucks to keep its monopoly.
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