Aaaand Firefox 3.5 drops today. This post is a Three-In-One. Part One is a Firefox Overview, Part Two is how to give Firefox some (more) serious speed, and Part Three is how to stop wasting your time on the web.
Here’s your overview. I was going to write one all by myself but the Mozilla team’s great quick tour really defeats the purpose:
It’s interesting how “buying gifts” has become a universal euphamism when it comes to Private Browsing…
There are also all the usability features which are great but don’t really *innovate* as much as they follow Google’s (amazing) Chrome browser.
As someone who designs and builds websites, however, what I’m really excited about is Open Video. Open Video uses the OpenSource OGG-Theora video codec (which is included by default in Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems and available for Windows and OS X) to do some really neat stuff: Continue reading
See, apparently I need to take the Grade 10 Literacy Test. The fact that I got a 2060 on my PSATs or was the top of last semester’s IB Higher Level English class doesn’t seem to make a difference. I have to spend a morning on Thursday proving to the Province that I indeed know that a capital letter goes at the beginning of a sentence.
I understand that the Literacy Test is required, but I believe I should have had it waived: I entered the Ontario school system in Grade 11 and the test is a Grade 10 test. They waived Canadian History, Civics and Careers, and the like. Why not the literacy test? It’s a waste of time.
Then someone comes in during Period A today and asks me why I’ve been absent so much lately. Namely, the week before March Break and Thursday and Friday last week. All of these were excused. March Break had a letter to the Attendance Office and I was an organizer for the Model UN which gave me a pass. However, only one of my teachers marked me excused (Math teacher). I told all of them about MUN and I had a pass for the cruise. It’s just such a waste of time and it’ll end up on my transcript…
I was looking at Alex Rybicki’s blog (via www.stefanoforenza.com via Lifehacker) while I was reading about his technique to get the Ubuntu 9.04 Notification Scheme, OS-Notifiy (I have now actually switched to Jaunty and will have a little review when Alpha 6 comes out next thursday) in Ubuntu 8.10, the stable release.
While I was poking around on his site I found this little tool called Wordle. It reads a website’s RSS feed and creates a tag cloud. Wordle made the cloud in my banner. In fact, after searching for quite some time here it is:
Take it for a spin. It doesn’t let you download PNGs or anything but the creator encourages you to take screen captures or print to SVG for infinite scalability. While it lets you attribute it to a username (I looked in the timeline for mine, spent about half and hour, and then just looked under the ChrisTomalty username to find it) it doesn’t give any security… which is odd… or a way to look for a username without clicking on one to see their creations and filling in the username field in the URL generated by PHP and inputting your own… Strange, but overall ok.
Consider this my attribution: The tag cloud uses content from www.snoopyonskittles.com and was assembled by wonderful technology from wordle.net
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