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ThunderBird New Mail Icon/MozTrayBiff in OpenSUSE (10.3)

Paul — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:27:53 +0000

I got tired of the slow and feature-lacking KMail as an email client and decided to switch to Thunderbird. While I found it a very nice client, it was lacking a system tray icon for notifying of new email. So I searched the Mozilla addon’s site and found New Mail Icon for Thunderbird (also known as [...]

Internet Overhaul or Internet Chaos?

Paul — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:08:43 +0000

The BBC has reported that ICANN has voted to relax the rules on top level domains (e.g. .uk, .net, etc). What does this mean in simple English? Soon, instead of visiting coca-cola.com, you may find yourself visiting visit.coca-cola as companies will be able to purchase a top level domain to reflect their brand. In theory, [...]

What?!

Paul — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:19:53 +0000

Can anyone understand what this guy is going on about/selling that is worth the proposed BIN? There seem to be many bold claims of great earnings ($900 per month) but nothing in the way in the way of proof. Checking the site on archive.org does not really help confidence for the owner’s claims (it was [...]

Wine 1.0 has been Released!

Paul — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:34:47 +0000

17 June 2008 was an historic day for Wine: it has taken 15 years, but finally Wine 1.0 has been released. It’s the first stable release and hopefully not the last (contrary to The Register’s opinion, it still has a use) as it does indeed serve a purpose for Linux/UNIX who need to use Windows-based [...]

Firefox 3 - Awesome!

Paul — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:08:06 +0000

If I was to sum up Firefox 3 in a single word it would be “awesome”. That is not an overstatement either, only perhaps an understatement. Although I consider Firefox to be the best web browser, I can also be critical of it - especially in terms of performance. It has truly been worth the [...]

Firefox Download Day

Paul — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:47:57 +0000

It’s not long now until the release of Firefox 3 and Firefox Download Day, which is supposed to be 17 June 2008, although it’s currently not know when this “day” will start. As Mozilla Corp/Foundation is located in Mountain View, California, which is PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) then it’s possible the day will start [...]

An Example of How DigitalPoint Can Suck

Paul — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:11:12 +0000

At first, I liked DigitalPoint’s forums a lot as they can be interesting and/or amusing to read. Sometimes the discussions are even very interesting and good to get involved in, although there are obviously (in common with many forums) a lot of junk threads, usually asking the same question as many others before it. [...]

A Great Extension for Research

Paul — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:34:35 +0000

I study eCommunications and one of the latest activities is to study the online (”web”) progress of a news article over a two week period. This is quite a big task so I decided to look for some tools to help make it easier to manage the information. After browsing around the Mozilla [...]

Mozilla Social News Site

Paul — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:52:17 +0000

I normally do not pay much attention to social news websites as they are usually full of spam or, like digg, do not have the best of communities (but I will reserve my anti-digg feelings for another article). However, I did find a great one Today when checking my referral log. And the site is: [...]

Firefox 3 RC2

Paul — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:31:43 +0000

The release of Firefox 3 is getting closer. For those of you who have not tried the latest release candidate then I recommend that you do as it has many performance improvements over the current version. Admittedly, you might experience extension compatibility problems, but it won’t be long until the developers release compatible [...]