I came across an excellent article – “Firefox Tweak Guide” – that shows how to make Mozilla Firefox faster and more convenient. It covers everything: from regular stuff like shortcuts and extensions, to speeding up page loading. It also summarizes a somewhat lengthy tweaking thread from MozillaZine forums.
Month: December 2004
Business for Geeks
If you are one of those techies that has to/does/plans to run a company or otherwise be closely involved in some business decissions, than you should probably scroll through Finance for Geeks and Marketing for Geeks by the same author. These several articles should help one with technical education to understand some processes in business world.
Social bookmarks with del.icio.us
del.icio.us provides a service that you might have been looking for for some time now. Essentially, it is a bookmark manager. You can register (by the way, features one of the simpliest registration forms ever), create yourself an account and use it to manage your bookmarks. Add, delete, edit, categorize, search, and all the usual operations are available. The beauty of it when compared to regular bookmarks is that you will be able to access your bookmarks from anywhere – home, school, work, mobile, etc. No synchronization needed.
Additionally, you will be able to see who else bookmarked sites that you did. You can also share you bookmarks with the world and see what world has to offer. And on top of that, RSS feeds are provided for all the accounts, so you can be notified of changes to other people’s bookmarks immediately.
If that is not enough for you to try the service, here is some more – there are integrations of this service for some browsers. For example, you Firefox can use del.icio.us pretty much as a native bookmark manager via this extensions.
I decided to give this a try too. My profile is tvset.
Statement
Watched an interesting film – “Statement” – on DVD. This one is about exciting current days life of those who used to help Nazi during the World War II. Probably not all of them, but surely some of them had all the fun, pictured in the movie. Imagine yourself being wanted by police for crime against humanities, hunted down for execution by some extremist groups (not in the movie, but nicely mentioned), looked for by relatives of your victims, and searched for by your ex-comrades who are afraid that you will let all the secrets out. Now that is some fun!
It is nice to see a European film once in a while, especially when it has to do with Europe and World War II. Somehow American movies are slightly of the ranks for me. Good story, excellent photography, and good acting by Michael Caine all make me give this movie a …
… 7 out of 10.
Home on the Range
Watched “Home on the Range” on DVD with Olga. She just loves animations and I do enjoy them too once in a while.
This one was following pretty standard Disney story line with most of the characters resembling usual Disney characters in a zillion of other animations. No surprises here. I wish they could have put more jokes in it. The ones that were there were pretty good, but they needed more.
Although this animation was pretty average, I am going to rate it as a 6 out of 10 just for the way it was drawn. I just like that two dimensional wild wild west animation type and I seem to never get enough of it.