Category: Technology

If you start typing text while at a webpage, Firebird will search for a link that corresponds to that text.

Additionally, if you type “/” first, the text entered will be searched through the entire text of the page.

Much quicker than going to “Edit -> Find in this Page” . . .

Water balloon bursting at 4,000 frames per second.

Neat … Looks like the open-source vector art program Sodipodi has been ported over to the Microsoft Windows platform. Now I can use it to make random artwork on both my WinXP and Linux workstations.

Looks like Spambayes has been updated to 0.9.

This version now includes an installation program for Windows users, which will install either the Outlook Addin (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the spambayes server program (for all other mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express).

For those of you using the latest edition of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser on a Microsoft Windows platform, you might want to try an optimized version of the lastet release.

These are recompiled versions of the 0.8 release code, built for specific processors. The different releases are based on the following processor types:

• G7-SSE: Athlon XP, late Duron, Pentium 4, Celeron Pentium 4, Pentium M Centrino, Athlon 64, Athlon FX
• G7: Athlon and early Duron.
• G6-SSE: Pentium III and Celeron Pentium III.
• G6: Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and early Celeron.
• G5: Pentium, K6, K6-2, K6-III, 5×86, 6×86, etc.

You can of course use a lower end build for a later processor, of course, such as the G5 when you have a brand new Athlon 64. Using later builds on earlier processors won’t actually hurt anything, but you’ll have worse performance, if not outright instability in the program.