Out of a whim I installed the latest nightly of the upcomming Firefox release. It’s called “Deer Park” to make sure nobody mistakes it for a stable Firefox build. Though there are currently 78 bugs blocking this release, it feels quite stable. It never crashed, froze or what ever in the last two days. One of the [...]
Two weeks after getting it delivered I finished reading this book. One disappointing thing about this book is its volume. I expected it to have at least 1000 pages, but with its 607 pages it’s even shorter than “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. Nevertheless it was a fun read and as always full of magic [...]
SpellBound isn’t some new word from the world of Harry Potter. SpellBound is a spell checking plugin for Firefox, that uses the OpenOffice dictionaries. After the plugin is installed the context menu of any textfield of textarea contains a new entry “Check Spelling” which opens a small new window containing the text from the clicked [...]
The last palmOne newsletter informed me about an update for my T5. As I have confessed in some earlier post on this blog I’m a version number fetishist. So it wasn’t long before I downloaded the update and started the installation. One of the new promised features was the optimization of the filesystem. The update [...]
Google Earth is an extension of Google Maps. While Google Maps is a web application Google Earth is a Windows desktop application. When you start Google Earth you see the earth globe, which grows gradually and zooms in on USA. You can change your view manually by pressing the left mouse button and rotating the [...]