It's been dubbed Download Day 2008 and that magical day is Tuesday, June 17, 2008, where Firefox creators want to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period. The current count of folks who have pledged to download Firefox 3 stands at 1,425,827 as I write this. The site they have set up to track how many people Pledge to download Firefox 3 during Continue Reading
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What’s New With OpenOffice.org?
OpenOffice 3.0 beta is now available for you to download and give it whirl. If you don't know what beta means, beta means it's in testing and it's not a final version. OpenOffice.org is like Microsoft Office. However, it is a free alternative that runs in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris. It might not have all the features of Microsoft Office but it has enough to Continue Reading
Zipping Files With Vista
photo credit: flattop341 I've downloaded and installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1. I've been running Vista Home Edition and Ultimate Edition for a bout one year now. The file copy, file zipping and unzipping and file deleting are sometimes super duper slow and has been discussed by many. I decided to check out what's changed with the zipping and unzipping of folders and Continue Reading
Three New Browsers Of Our Lives
There seems to be a lot to check out in the browser world lately. With Apple's automatic download of their Safari browser this week as well as the recently released Internet Explorer 8 beta1 and Firefox beta 3. It's just too munch to handle. :) But I think it's great fun. Although I favor Firefox, I love using Apple's Safari because its the closest thing for me to Continue Reading
How To Transfer Files Using FTP
photo credit: chaosinjune FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. I'll talk about FTP in the context of blogging. If you've started blogging and you need to transfer files between your computer and the computer your blog is hosted on, you'll be doing that using FTP. Why Do I Need To Transfer Files? Good question. :) Let's say you want to include audio in a blog Continue Reading