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If you’re one of the millions of people who use Firefox, the free alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, you probably know that the open-source web browser has a extension for nearly any browsing need you might have.
FirefoxOpera shows just how far you can take your customization by showing you how to download and install Firefox extensions and plugins that will give you many of the features made available by the Opera web browser.
For those who are still curious as to what Netscape is up to, Betanews.com has the beta version of the Netscape 8 web browser available for download.
This latest version of Netscape’s long line of web browsers is, in a word, ugly. The company used the popular open-source Firefox browser as it’s source, which allowed Netscape to forgo building their own software and instead simply adding whatever additional features they wanted onto the existing code base. Unfortunately, most of their additional features consist of horribly designed eye-candy and corporate-friendly “shopping” links and the like.
If anything, this beta version of Netscape 8 only proves to be a succinct example of how the company, once the dominating developer of web browsers, lost their throne to the then cleaner and simpler Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Your best bet if you’re looking for an alternative browser to Internet Explorer is to go with Opera or Firefox, both of which are clean, fast and secure choices for the average computer user.
I’ve finally let the last of my gaming magazine subscriptions lapse. There are many reasons for doing so, particularly in an internet age where information flows freely to us through websites that won’t appear in print until a month or two later.
In fact, many of the same feelings I have are laid down in an article entitled, “This is Why Your Game Magazine Sucks” from the site These Damn Machines.
Making fun of Microsoft by posting photos of computers showing the infamous “blue screen of death” is the lowest form of humor.
However, since “low humor” pretty much describes my modus operandi, up the photo goes.
An all too-true quote from Rajat Paharia at rootburn.com:
“[Music’s] transaction cost can be as low as free (depending on if I use something like iTunes or something like BitTorrent). Assuming I used BitTorrent, it’s cost me nothing and taken me no time, so there’s no inherent pressure to listen to it.
Repeat this a bunch of times, and all of a sudden, my hard drive is full of music that I’ve never heard, and the [Digital Photo Effect] starts to kick in. So what do I do? I listen to the same old albums over and over (lately Akufen), because I know I like them and that they won’t disturb me while working.”
One of the axioms of computer-upgrading is that the number of cluttered files on your hard drive will always rise to fill the amount of space you provide.