Ramblings about crap in my life.
Surfing
I got on Reddit
May 12th
This is odd. I stumbled upon this, randomly posted it on Reddit, and the next day it was on the frontpage with 500 comments. Then MrBabyMan ripped it, and it landed on the Digg frontpage, and just now I found it on my favorite movie website Slashfilm. It’s a small world.
My Firefox Search Keywords
Mar 2nd
The Search Keywords feature in Firefox makes it possible to use search engines by starting a search string with a certain letter, in the address bar. For example “i die hard” searches for “die hard” on IMDb, in my browser. Search Keywords are organized as bookmarks, and can be added by right-clicking a search field, and pressing “Add a Keyword for this Search”. I use this feature for all searches, and I’m bored, so here’s my list of Search Keywords.
You install it like this:
- Right-click on my Search Keywords bookmarks file and choose “Save Link As…” Place the file somewhere on your computer.
- In Firefox, from the Bookmarks menu, choose “Manage Bookmarks”.
- From the Bookmarks Manager File menu, choose Import. Choose “Import Bookmarks from File.” Browse to and open the file you just saved.
You can see an explanation of all the keywords by left-clicking the link.
The Pirate Bay trial going well
Feb 17th
Back in January 2008, Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four of the individuals behind The Pirate Bay for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws”. The trial began yesterday, and the prosecutors are supported by companies such as Sony BMG, Universal Music & Pictures, MGM, EMI, Warner Music, Nordisk Film, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. Torrentfreak has a nice coverage of the trial, and according to the site it seems like the prosecutors ran into some problems today.
A lot of the evidence consists of screenshots, and today Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (TiAMO) pointed out that most of the trackers in these shots cannot be linked to The Pirate Bay. This led to the prosecutor Håkan Roswell dropping 50% of the total charges, i.e. all charges blaming the site for “assisting [in] copyright infringement”. Pretty impressive after 2 days in court. It amazes me that the prosecutors are so badly prepared. Yesterday Roswell could not get his PowerPoint slides running, and he didn’t know the difference between megabits and megabytes.
Replacing Firefox
Oct 29th
I stumbled upon a browser called Flock and wanted to give it a try. It’s build on the core of Mozilla Firefox, and the beta version 1.0 has just been released, for Mac and Windows. The biggest difference from Firefox is the extensive integration with popular sites, such as YouTube, uploading pictures to Facebook and flickr, adding bookmarks to del.icio.us and posting blogs with WordPress. It’s amazing how easy it is to set up, everything just works and it looks great. So far I’m also very satisfied with the built-in RSS Reader, I use Sage in Firefox, and Flock’s own seem to be easier to navigate.
So far I’m very happy with the browser, since I can access advanced features of my favorite sites in seconds.
You should check out the ‘Getting Started’ page on their own site.
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