Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
I found out about PNG Crush from Neil’s World. It tries various methods to make PNG graphics files smaller. I tried it out on several files and got mixed results, all of the files got smaller but sometimes only by a few bytes.…
Macworld San Francisco is a busy place with lots of new stuff. iPod shuffle, the Mac mini, and lots of new software were introduced.
The iPod shuffle is Apples entry into the flash memory based music player market. Looks good and should sell well, especially since it has the iPod name.…
The Firefox ad finally made it in the Dec. 15 New York Times. I had to zoom in on the PDF quite a bit to find my name, but here it is. (Daniel E. Greene)
I thought about buying a copy of the Times, but I decided to buy a NY Times Firefox Poster.…
After one day of using the new versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, I can say that a fresh install of the basic programs is extremely well polished and nicely done. With any install other than that, there are problems.
First, I’m never quite sure how to upgrade.…
Slashdot is reporting that Firefox 1.0 PR, Thunderbird 0.8, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.3 have been released.
Read Slashdot to find out about new features/bugs and download away.…
I’m trying out Sharp MT 2.5, yet another blog posting tool. I’ve been using w.bloggar 4.0 beta, but I just thought I’d experiment. Looks like a nice program, however, I’m not sure how well it supports XHTML tags.…
With all the holes and security problems found in Internet Explorer lately, people have been looking for alternatives. Wired has an article on alternatives to IE. PC Magazine also chimes in. Personally, I use Mozilla Firefox.
You can enhance Firefox by installing extensions to add new features.…
SETI@home is transitioning to BOINC. Last month I mentioned BOINC and how you could run several projects with one client. SETI’s client was getting a little long in the tooth, and BOINC lets new calculations be done on the data without totally rewriting the client.…
Slashdot is reporting, from various sources, that work on Internet Explorer has been restarted. I think Windows Longhorn is going to take longer than expected and Microsoft realized they can’t let their web browser stagnate that long.…
Well actually, I’ve got Gmail. librarymonk@gmail.com to exact. Gmail is Google’s new webmail service, currently in a closed beta test. What makes Gmail special is spam filtering, a fast interface, and oh yeah 1 gigabyte of storage space. Feel free to sent me email at this address, it’s not like I’m in danger of maxing out my storage quota anytime soon.…
