BayWords starts the free speech bloging movement
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
The people who brought you the Pirate Bay bring you a new blog dedicated to un-centered free speech called BayWords. The blog bosts that you will be able to post anything. The blog is undoubtedly going to cause some a lot of controversy but then again the people responsible for the Pirate Bay are used to controversy. I will keep my eyes glued to the site in the coming months, and report anything worth while.
Tags: bloging, free speech, internet
PayPal to block ‘unsafe’ browsers
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
If you are using Apple’s Safari or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and you use PayPal you might be finding your self using another browser to access your PayPal account. The reason is they are to block access to your account using those browsers and other browsers they call “unsafe”. Under this proposed action you will not be able to use any web browser that does not contain “anti-phishing protection”. This action is in direct relation to the number of instances of “phishing” attacks on it’s users.
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Tags: internet, Internet security, PayPal, phishing
Firefox 2.00.14 RC goes out to beta testers
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
The release candidate of Firefox 2.00.14 is available for download as of today for beta testers. All the rest of you keep an eye out in the next week for the final…
Now video on Flickr!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
As I logged in tonight I found that now you can upload video to Flickr! While it seems that at least right now you can only upload up to 90 seconds of video and you have to be a “pro” member (paid subscriber) this is defiantly welcome news at least for me!
Tags: Flickr, internet, photo publishing, video
The many faces of Firefox 3
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
I just installed Firefox 3 beta 5 on my Windows Vista boxx and I have to say it looks a lot different than the Mac version I am used to seeing. I am looking forward to installing in in Ubuntu to see how it differs form both the Windows and Mac versions.
Here are some screens: here, here, here, here, here, & here
Firefox 3 b5 released today
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
The final beta of Firefox 3 was released today. This final beta is “feature complete” meaning there will be no new things implemented into it, and the rest of the development work will focus on bug fixes. Mozilla says Firefox 3 is still on track for a June release.
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Going without the www
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News, Site News
For a few years now you could access this site without using the www in the URL. I found this kinda old article (Feb 24 2008) on an acquittance’s blog here. I thought about the many people who still use the now outdated sub domain to surf the net, in fact I remember telling someone to go to upload.trm96.com and they came back to me the next day and said that it did not work. Well I quickly figured out that were trying to use www.upload.trm96.com witch does not work.
