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Gizmodo: How to piss off an xbox 360 kinect user.

Posted by nephi513 in Fun Web Sites, My Opinion on June 17, 2010

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I love this. Totally trying this out. Just need to wait tell my brother gets a kinect.

http://gizmodo.com/5565595/how-to-piss-off-an-xbox-360-kinect-user

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No 64-bit Adobe Flash for Linux! Why! Why!

Posted by nephi513 in Computers, In the News, My Opinion, Software on June 15, 2010

I can’t stand having to need hacks in Linux to get flash working. I don’t really care about the FLASH VS HTML5 fight going on, but if Adobe keeps this type of crap up, I hope HTML5 will win. Then I only have to care about a browser and no more stinking plugins that continually crash my browser. And that is on Windows or Linux.

Oh, there is my rant for the day. Thanks for listening.

Link to PC World about the news.

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Cnet interviews Mythbusters and ask for there best moments.

Posted by nephi513 in Crazy People, My Opinion on June 15, 2010

I really love the Mythbusters.  I keep Netflix around just so I can watch them when ever I fill like it.    So I couldn’t help but share this interview with video clips of some of there best moments according to them.  Can’t argue with some of the ones they have chosen.

Go check it out for yourself ->

The ‘MythBusters’ discuss their top 25 moments.

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Firefox Losing Foothold on Linux Distros?

Posted by nephi513 in Computers, In the News, My Opinion on June 15, 2010

Firefox is one of my favorite browsers, but I hate to say it is starting to lag behind.  The above title is an article written by Joe Brockmeier from Linux Magazine (Link to original article).

It talks about how Google Chrome, and Safari are probably taking it’s place.  I hate to say it, but I do like Google Chrome, and in fact it is my default web browser on all my Windows machines.  Though Firefox is still the best browser on Linux for me.

To help bluster my browser, I wanted to point out the changes that are coming.  Sort of a Mozilla Firefox 4.0 look and compare to current Chrome.

Extension

The one thing I love about Chrome is the way it does extensions.  I don’t necessarily love the extensions that Chrome currently has.  They have a long way to go before they have Firefoxs library.  But it’s simplisted is wonderful how they install and work.  Simple, clean, and interactive.

So what about Firefox.  Well they are going to solve that through an update call Jetpack.  Jetpack extensions work just like Chrome extensions.  In fact I don’t think it would be that hard to port a Chrome extension to Firefox Jetpack or vs versa.

Check out Jetpack here.

SCREEN SIZEMozilla Firefox 4.0 Mockup

While I do like how the extensions work in chrome, chromes greatest feature, is browsing screen realistate.  It does a a great job of showing more of the webpage and less of the browser.  Again though Firefox is working on that two.   Check out this picture though to see Firefox 4.0 mockups.

As you can see Firefox has great potential.

STABILITY

The last thing that is great about Chrome, is it’s stability.  If my flash crashes it only takes down that one tab.  Not the whole browser.  But again, this feature is going to also be built into Mozilla Firefox 4.0.

CONCLUSION

While Firefox my be behind, it is close to playing catchup, and I think I will be able to switch back to my browser baby as my full time browser on all OS soon.

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Free Wi-Fi from your neighbor! Well, if you live in Finland anyway.

Posted by nephi513 in Computers, In the News, My Opinion on June 14, 2010

PC World has an article on there website about how un-portected wi-fi access points might become legal to use in Finland. (Link to Article)

I just wanted to point this article out because of how important it is to secure your personal wi-fi.  You never know who is using your internet and what for.  Plus don’t use your neighbors wi-fi, it is still illegal in the States.

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