Free browser mashup
Here is a list of all of the main browsers that I use and all of their high points:
Firefox (duh) –Fast and customizable Open-source web browser from the Mozilla corperation. JavaScript rendering won’t be as good as Chrome’s until Firefox’s new Trace-Monkey JavaScript engine comes out in version 3.1, along with a few other cool stuff, such as built in privacy mode, like in IE and Chrome. It is currently the customization king, with thousands of different add-ons and skins available.
InternetExplorer –Slow, but a few of its built-in features can’t be found in other browsers, including Flash-supporting Page-zoom (to walk on walls in clubpenguin 
) and Tab-specific crashing. It is also included by default in Windows, and is evidently its core for rendering HTML, so if you somehow uninstall it, ‘MS help’ won’t render correctly. (At least that’s what happened in XP. I’m sure about Vista. )
Lynx –Text based console-browser. People can call this obsolete, but they *can’t deny* that it’s really fast and that it’s self contained (kind of) and that I am only using it as a backup browser for safe mode. Because of it’s text-only interface, it has a very small memory footprint. You may find that you like some of it’s alternatives better: Links, E-links (enhanced-links) Links ‘hacked’, w3m(I guess…)
Chrome Iron — Googles new <<mInimalizst>> browser. While it does have many of IE’s features (or does IE have many of IT’S features?) like tab-specific crashing, it also introduces a slew of new ones, such as dockable tabs, thumbnail view for recent sites, and a really good rendering engine. From wikipedia:
Google Chrome will regularly transmit usage statistics, including keystrokes, and identifies each user with a unique ID that is issued when the browser is installed. However, it is possible to prevent any personal data or record of browsing habits from being transmitted to Google by deactivating features such as “Google Suggest.” Unofficial builds, such as SRWare Iron, seek to disclude these features from the browser altogether.
I don’t know why I don’t trust google. I know you can turn the statistics features off, (as it says in the text) but I would still prefer ‘Iron’ to ‘Chrome’, since the ‘features’ seem to have been removed altogether. Another low point is it’s lack of customizability (wow: that’s a real word)
Dillo — Another minimalist browser that is *really small* . (350 kilobytes small) It’s included in many space-concious linux distrobutions because of its size. It is suprizingly customizable also. While many features don’t come out of the box (Such as tab support and non-latin character antialiasing) you can download unofficial patches to fix them. However, because of its small size, some features are just not available for it anywhere.
It appears that the project was frozen until quite recently. A new release should be coming out in a matter of weeks. Although it seems to be predominantly linux, there are windows ports available. It is a good backup browser if you hate the terminal.
Flock– Based on Firefox, from the Mozilla corperation. This one has a focus on social networking. I don’t know much about it.
Kmelon– Browser with Firefox’s rendering engine. I think that my local library uses it on its internet catalog. I just installed it yesterday, so I don’t know very much at all about it. When in doubt, go to the website. 
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Iamback
I accidentally locked my blog and forgot about it before leaving the house for a week. We didn’t have any wi-fi where I was, so I couldn’t post or even check my blog. When I came back and got all settled in, I was greeted with a friendly little ‘you-shouldn’t-be-here-go-away’ lockedblog page. So I logged in and unlocked it. Everything is back to normal now.
Anyhow, I have recently *rediscovered* development snapshots, and am now addicted to them. I know that they don’t fully replace the current stable versions of software, but they certainly add more functionality, if you are willing to pay for the lack of stability in them. I’m trying to figure out how to send my crash data back to the developers center, so I won’t be a beta-leech
PS. I think that my scratched up civilization disk has seen the light of day. )c;
iPhone Girl Conspiracy
Many of us know about the infamous iPhone girl. She is a person who took pictures of herself (or got someone else to take pictures of her) with an iPhone while it was still in the factory. She didn’t delete them, and they eventually got shipped with the iPhone. Contrary to popular belief, she was not fired. But she did leave the company and return to her family (because she was scared of being in the limelight.) Most distributed photo is embeded in the post:
One of the three original iPhone girl photos.
( As usual, I am about 2 months late for the current events hype. )c:< )
<tongue_in_cheek> And I have a theory on this that these three even older iPhone-bundled photos were taken around the same vicinity. Of course, when you get an in-focus photo of a real person, everyone forgets about those photos and leaves them in the dust. Upon close inspection of these four photos I am talking about, you will notice that there is protective wrap on all of the phones. The in-focus photo of the plastic iPhone trays shows that there are lots and lots of ugly little air bubbles in the protective wrap on the iPhones. However, the Iphone girls’ Iphone wrapping is all perfect. Has Apple finally made some quality standards to fit their grotesque-overpricing? Who cares. I still won’t buy from them.
Also, the iphone girl is showing both her hands, which means that unless she propped it up somehow, someone else was taking the photo! Is it a different person in the second and third photos?
Another thing is: Look at the sticker on the Iphone girl’s cable. It is undoubtedly the color BLUE. However, on one of the blurry zoom-in pictures, you can make out a cable of the same type that clearly has a RED sticker on it. 
Has Apple silently updated their I-cable design, or are they just trying to confuse us with bait-and-switch?
Now something else: THE PERSON ON THE THIRD BLURRY IPHONE PICTURE IS NOT WEARING GLOVES. :shocked: Was it taken by some kind of hypocritical supervisor?
And the Grand Final-E:
Do me a favor and look at THAT:
Windows XP in an Iphone Factory. I think
O: O: O: O: O: O: O:
Are they using Windows XP in an APPLE factory ?!??!? You can just barely make it out, but you can kind of tell that they have a fullscreen windows explorer running set to the ‘details’ display mode, all using the Luna Silver theme. Another sign that MS is taking over the world. Oh well. It’s the lesser of two evils.
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I think I might have an extended cd-repair guide coming up, as I embark on a quest to fix my hacked up Civilization CD.
Yet another way to waste your time
Keep in mind that when the car stopped around the beginning of the movie, the wheels were disengaged (or just melted). I assume that the motor kept churning until somewhere in-between the timewarp in the middle of the video.(Was that an explosion, or a timewarp? I couldn’t tell. ) The fact that it lasted over 2 minutes is impressive for a $5 RC car -= Lit on fire =- , IMHO.
This project is not what I would consider 'high class' either. Please don't try it at home. Or anywhere else.
–and mind the blairing Led Zeppelin music
More 'fun stuff'
“I’m perfectly normal. It’s everyone else who is different.”
Cosmic Humanists believe that there is no absolute law or ethic valid for every person on earth. –Not even the one stated.
You can enter high-ascii codes by turning on ‘num-lock’ on your keyboard, and holding down the alt key while punching in a pre-designed set of numbers with the numberpad. A notable one is ‘Alt+0160′ which, upon first glance, appears to be a plain old spacebar space, but is really a no-break space. if an '<' (literal block. It means that the text that is typed after it will show up as it is, even if it would usually be an HTML tag or something.) preceeds it, it will show up as '?nbsp;'
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