It’s true. I’m now a FireFox user. Although Kill Bill’s Browser has thirteen good reasons to switch from Internet Explorer to FireFox, the final selling point was the sheer number of great extensions available.
Here’s all the extensions I’ve got installed:
A few of then are real blessings: ColorZilla is extremely helpful when building HTML pages from designs, CustomizeGoogle improves the already brilliant search engine, Tabs Mix Plus makes tabbed browing a dream to use, and the list goes on…
Will be interesting to see what the Internet Explorer team come out with for IE7, but for now, FireFox has become my browser of choice!
Having said that, free choice is a good thing, and websites like Explorer Destroyer seem a little irresponsible, encouraging people to add code to their websites making them inacessible to Internet Explorer users, forcing then to switch to FireFox.
Updated extensions list on 08 January 2006
Google have launched Google Analytics, an online web stats tool, allowing easy tracking of visitors and how they’re interacting with your website. It works like other similar services, such as thecounter.com, involving adding some javascript to your website.
Signing up is quick and easy, and takes under five minutes. Adding the javascript code to your website is also very simple. However, it can take up to 12 hours until you get your first reports…
Best of all, it’s completely free.
“In this era of 3ghz processors, 1gb memory, and 500gb hard drives, why is the Windows clipboard only capable of holding a single item?”
[Via Coding Horror]
Great point. This is definitely something that Microsoft need to think about improving on!
Jeff Atwood recommended clcl which I’ve been using over the past few days. This really is a fantastic little app, and has been added to the growing list of utilities I depend on day-to-day!
Curious as to what else was out there, I downloaded a few other clipboard utilities, and clcl definitely appealed the most to me. It’s small, simple and does its task very well.
Cheers Jeff!
Remember how during the whole dotcom boom domain names were advertised everywhere? Think that was all over? I did, but it seems like some companies out there are still trying to find new creative ways to drive traffic to their websites.
Today, I picked up a pair of Nike running shoes. Had to chuckle a little when I saw the soles:
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Go on, check out www.nikerunning.com, especially after they’ve made so much effort! Any other odd places people have seen domain names?
This morning I called up Orange to get conference calling enabled on my mobile phone. After some frustrations with their phone menu system, I finally managed to get through to a human who although polite, informed me that as I had not been with Orange for three months yet, he could not enable conference calling on my phone.
What’s even more bizarre, is that when I called up to get international roaming enabled on my account a couple of months ago, the customer service agent I spoke with done it instantly, and I’d only been with Orange for a couple of weeks, yet they require customers to be with them for three months before they can allow them to use conference calling. Who makes up these dumb business rules?
So now, I have to go through the hassle of calling them again in a few weeks time to get the feature enabled. At least Skype has conference calling, though it needs me on my PC, and also, using my mobile works out cheaper because of all the free minutes I get on my talk plan…