I downloaded Flock today and it seems pretty cool. It has a built in blogging untility, which I’m testing out right now. Just a wild guess, but I’m going to say it’s based off the Firefox source, since it looks surprisingly similar.
The quarter is almost over, thank god. I’ll be happy to get back home for Christmas and hang out with all my old friends that’ll be there, unlike last time I came home when they were all gone at school, lol.
I’ve fallen victim to World of Warcraft. I think it can happen to anyone. I play on the Tichondrius (PVP) server. I’m a level 23 Gnome Warlock that goes by the name of Qwik. Look me up, give me some gold, I won’t turn it down. I just recently figured out about the battlegrounds. I wish somebody would have told me about these things sooner. They’re awesome, you go in and play capture the flag, and kill tons of horde. Anyways, I’d really recommend going to Pure Pwnage (Music) and downloading the song World of Warcraft is a Feeling. It pretty much sums up the people that get involved with WoW. Also, download all the videos; they’re a really good watch.
As far as school goes, I got put into the advanced C# class. I decided to setup a wiki for people to reference if they get stuck or something. You can check it out here. “WTF” has become the slogan for the advanced C# class. Currently we’re creating our own Integer data type. We have to overload all the operators and everything. Can you say, “WTF?”
Related: The Daily WTF
After trying to get the images on top to actually look good as a transparent gif, instead of a transparent png, I’ve decided that this site is just too cool for IE. For a web browser to not support standard features, is completely ridiculous. If you’d like to see what this page is SUPPOSED to look like. I recommend you download a new browser and use IE as a secondary web browser. Firefox is a great web browser. Opera is another good one. At least try another browser so you can see how lousy Internet Explorer really is.
Just yesterday these images of Internet Explorer 7 were released to the public. Following the current trend started by Safari and Firefox; it supports RSS feeds for faster access to information. Not surprising that it looks like a poorly done copy of Apple’s Safari which is already available.
I’m going to give it a good three days after it’s “official release” before a security patch is released.
Source: Flexbeta
To the average user, Microsoft’s recommendations to either uninstall the Netscape browser or fix a specific code in the registry makes no sense.
Most computer users have no idea how to install or even uninstall software. Trying to fix something foreign such as the registry is like reading Greek in Latin.
Then again, those who have downloaded the Netscape browser are not your ordinary users; They are on the cutting edge, the cusp. They are also the real minority.
According to figures from w3schools.com which is a site frequented by the Browser elite, Netscape is not even a pimple on a mole. For them, the real browser battle is between Microsoft IE and Firefox. Microsoft makes up 65% of use while Firefox is now up to 25%.
That is a big WOW and it doesn’t take a degree in foreign archaic languages to understand the significance.
Last May, according to the wschools.com users, Microsoft IE was booming at 82%. It has dropped 17% in a year. This is the case despite the fact that virtually every computer has IE as the default browser. This means that people are walking with their fingers. Netscape still has a chance to pick up steam. Once it gets rid of some of the bugs and the bad press, it might start to inch its way up and might cut into both Firefox and Microsoft. Still, the average user is going to continue using what comes easiest and the geeks will play with the browser that has the buzz and the stability.
You can see that due to Internet Explorer instabilities and those trying to poke holes in it, there is room for change. The browser war is far from being over. Much will depend upon the satisfaction of Apple, the maturation of AOL and competing technologies that want to be the window to the Internet world, even if their name in Latin, Greek or even English is not Windows.
(Source: BayouBuzz)
Personally I use Firefox and I love it.
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