Longhorn = Windows Vista … Another year or two and we might actually have more than a name from them.
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Just a little reminder that Alli from 63days.com is still telling her story for all of us. I highly recomend this read, its very humbling.
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(0)this is a grasemonkey script that gives you links on the wp-admin manage page to order the listings by any of the fields. [source]
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(0)Now that I have been using OS X for a couple months I want to do a comparison of the two major browsers for OS X, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. I will start out by saying that they are both great browsers and they each have thier own benefits. With that said …
Firefox
I have been using this browser since before version 1.0 back in my gentoo days and absolutely loved it despite its issues. Was an obvious addition to my new iBook when i got it.
Pros
- Extensions
- Huge user community
- Extensions
- Standards compliant
- On the forefront of browser innovation
- Full open source development
- Oh, and did I mention extensions?
Cons
- Slow
- Interface is a bit lacking compared to Safari
- Crashes on occasion
Safari
As the browser comes with OS X and is written by apple it is an obvious choice to at least check out if not be your first choice browser.
Pros
- Very clean interface, it IS an Apple application
- Standards compliant
- Also on the forefront of browser innovation, supporting lots of new technologies such as RSS
- Very easy to use
Cons
- Does not support extensions
As you can see my main focus on Firefox is the available extensions. It turns it into so much more than your typical browser. I use the Tabbrowser Extensions, SessionSaver, and, most importantly, the greasemonkey extions. The first two can be covered by the Saft Plugin for Safari. But the last, and most important extension does not have anything on par for Safari.
For those not in the know, greasemonkey is an extension that lets you automatically apply any DHTML script to a page based on its URL. For instance there is a script that loads on any URL that matches *mail.google.com/mail*(gmail) and rewrites the URL to use googles secure server instead of the standard for gmail which is unsecure. There is also a script that changes the mailto: links on every page to use gmail instead, a plugin to enhance flickr photo pages by adding additional information and links on each photo page. There is a script to add a link to rent a movie on netflix for each movie page on IMDB and vice versa.
After all is said and done, I *love* Safari, but the greasemonkey extension is enough to keep me from switching over from Firefox just yet.
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*update* – gravatar.com is back up now! Thanks to Pauly D for informing me.
*update* – Thanks to Alan who took the initiative and researched the domains registrar and went ahead and renewed the domain name himself. We need more people like that in the world :-)
So I just noticed today that gravatar’s have been down. Apparently there is something going on with thier domain name as you can see here …
Domain Name: GRAVATAR.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Name Server: NS3.POLARPHASE.COM
Name Server: NS4.POLARPHASE.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-HOLD
Updated Date: 16-jul-2005
Creation Date: 15-jul-2004
Expiration Date: 15-jul-2006
It is on Registrar-Hold, which basically means it wasn’t renewed and it expired on the 15th of July, 2005 and now the Registrar has control over it and probably wants alot of money to get it off of Registrar-Hold status as that is what they do, although I don’t know either way. The good news is there is afix for this problem! All you need to do is edit your gravatar.php plugin file and change “www.gravatar.com” to “64.124.231.223″ … in addition to that you can also go ahead and put that IP in your hosts file so that gravatar.com will resolve for all those sites out there that have not updated thier plugin file.
Linux users can simply open up /etc/hosts and add this line
64.124.231.223 gravatar.com
This also works for any UNIX operating systems including Mac OS X, you will need admin access to edit the file though.
For windows users the location of your hosts file depends on which version you have, however the files work the same so you can add the line above to your hosts file and it will work.
Windows XP – c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
Windows 2000 – c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\
Windows 95/98/ME – c:\windows\
Now lets all do the internet a favor and anywhere you see a site with gravatar’s that don’t work, send them this link and have them fix it so we can all have the beauty that is gravatars back and working until the domain name issues can get resolved.
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