I was recently invited by the Beta Development Team of Mylivesearch and it turned out that they are not yet supporting Firefox or Safari. Turned out that you will need to download a plugin to use the service. A search engine that needs a plugin to work? What? I don’t get it.
Ok… Now what? Guess I’ll have to wait till they support other browsers and hopefully other OSs.
–aj
Pingdom is offering 1 year of free monitoring service. Hurry, offer ends tomorrow!
What you get…
Sign up now. Wait, you must use Firefox - other browsers won’t work. 
–aj
I was in contact with Godaddy’s customer service regarding a domain issue yesterday. Also, I have been receiving lots of “legit” emails from their customer service department when I got an email (see below) asking me to complete some online form.
It didn’t look suspicious at that time. So, long story short - I clicked the link (good thing I was using Firefox). Guess what? Firefox popped a message that the site is a forgery (see below). It was! WTF?!
If I was using Internet Explorer 6 or below (yes I do have those installed. For testing sites), it would have not detected it. And it would have been a disaster!
Firefox saves the day for me from a common phising attack again. 
Anyways, if you are still using IE6 or below, I strongly suggest you download and use Firefox from hereon. It is far more safer to browse the web.
Let me save you some time looking for it - here, download it now.
Take care.
–aj
Browsershots released a new version where you can test how your website will look in different browsers. The only catch is that you have to wait in a… well… very long queue (the site is getting popular by web designers). What you can do is bookmark the site to check the results at a later time.
Check it out.
–aj
This Firefox Extension is a tool to back up your profiles, extensions, themes, etc… Very useful if you use multiple browsers from multiple systems (work/office/home). You can even use FEBE to transfer your existing stuff from Netscape 9 to Firefox (vice-versa). Very helpful.
Remember this, you will only realize the importance of backup when it’s already too late. So, word from the wise (take it from me, i lost tons of stuff because of Windows’ crashes!) - backup your gazillion Firefox extensions now (before it’s too late).
Here’s a writeup from the Firefox site:
FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
Backups can be performed on demand or scheduled for daily, weekly, or monthly unattended runs.
A comprehensive debug mode allows for troubleshooting complex platforms.
Version 4.0 supports Windows XP and Linux/Unix.
Version 5.0 (in beta - available at http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/febe/febe50.html) supports Mac OS X also. In addition, user-defined backups will allow for backing up most any data from most any application (including Thunderbird).
Ok, after you read this - download it here.
Have a crash-free weekend.
–aj
Browser wars in our midst again folks. First Mozilla announced Firefox version 3 (yes, it’s coming!), then Netscape 9 launched their social browser (added sharing so-so features) and finally, last month we heard about a rumor of IE8 (err, ok…).
Now, after watching the keynote and reading all the Apple rumors and tech previews last Sunday - this is the only one I didn’t expect. Apple’s Safari 3… on Windows XP and Vista!
The screenshot above is running on my… ehem… Windows XP (added it to my net apps on the desktop). 
Steve Jobs demoed the new browser and it showed to be many times faster than IE7 and 1.5 faster than Firefox 2. Wow! Hello Opera… (Busy on Wii and other devices?), where are you?
Next. So, after how many years, Apple decided to re-design the look and feel of Apple.com. Apple.com is now matching the interface of Quicklook and iPhone (nothing new on the iPhone, sigh). I can say Apple.com is quite a re-design (from white to black) and I like it!
Lastly, I think the iChat presentation was funny. I don’t know about you but you’ve got to watch the WWDC keynote to appreciate it. Here’s a glimpse of iChat (they’re making fun of Steve Balmer and I was LMAO!). Fun and cool at the same time!
Ok, stop reading. Watch the keynote here now! I’m assuring you, you’ll have a lot of fun.
–aj
Most (if not all) of the eskwela.com team members uses either a Macbook/Powerbook/iBook or Ubuntu. They really don’t like using Windows unless it’s really necessary (like developing XackMail) and these guys weally (really) love OSX and Linux.
Yes, you are right. I use Windows XP (which was pre-loaded with the notebook I got, so what?). And don’t you try to belittle me, I love Macs too! Ha!
Actually, I’m saving for a MacBook Pro (I can also run Ubuntu and Windows here you know). But there are tons of other priorities than that so I leave it the way it is for now. 
One of my job at eskwela.com is quality testing. I use different versions of IE (Internet Explorer) and a very good tool for this is MultipleIEs.
For those who doesn’t know, (yes) you can actually install all versions of IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 on one machine. It works fine (don’t crash now, please) on my machine together with the new (or old) IE7.
Why don’t you give it a try.
Disclaimer: Use at your own risk. hehehe… Good luck!
–aj
I gave out the next batch of emails that were requested here, here and here. Enough! haha… Just kidding. I think I have unlimited invites now. Me thinks that everyone I sent successfully registered and is using Joost. Way to go!
I don’t know about you, but I still think Joost is the future of (web)TV and in my own opinion, aside from Email, Instant Messaging (IM) and the Internet, Joost is going to be another killer app. I can see it now expanding it’s functionality to a variety of mobile devices… Imagine the possibilities!
Another thing is that I am quite sure of is that a lot of XUL developers are thinking of (might already even coding) Joost extensions (using XUL - same as Firefox extensions) as I write this. Sad thing though, the real-estate inside Joost is very limited and I still have to see how they will fit extensions unobtrusive to the GUI (graphical user interface).
Words on the web is spreading too that Joost is preparing to launch (so stay-tuned). You will have to expect a lot of TV ads at Joost in the next couple of days as a lot of advertisers as well as media companies are seeing the potential of the product. Google/YouTube acquisition soon? Hmm…
Lastly, to people who still doesn’t have invites. Sorry I’m a little bit swamped. Hehehe… But, you can still comment here. Don’t forget to leave me another message after getting the invite how Joost is working for you. Thanks.
–aj
The open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.
