Topic: firefox

Here's this week's show! Have a listen, and check out the download/subscribe links and detailed show notes below. Click to play This week's show is only 30 minutes long and weighs about 28MB (it’s a 128kbps MP3). You can download the file directly, listen using the streaming player above, or (BEST OPTION!!1!) subscribe to the Bit Stories podcast feed in your favorite podcast...for non-geeks to adopt it. Brian's "essential" applications on his Samsung Q1: Microsoft Office, Firefox, and Microsoft Money Is Firefo...

The Fonz is back and he's cooler than ever. According to the folks at Autoblog Green, an older and wiser Fonz is strutting his stuff in the UK in a Lexus hybrid teaching reading to the children. What's NOT cool about that? Over at Gizmodo, they have a story about the Feds trying to hold up solar implementation. Write your congressman and tell him/her what you think about such...federal employees, they can find someone to handle this. It's officially official now. Mozilla Firefox 3 is a guiness book of world re...

Here's a viral tech story out of Texas. A television station there reported last week: A new Texas law requires every computer repair technician to obtain a private investigator's license. Violators can face a $4,000 fine and one year in jail, as well as a $10,000 civil penalty. Unlicensed computer shops will have to close down until they obtain a private investigator's license. A private...

Get this. A friend of mine was on vacation last week and out of the office. Turns out he was in Vegas doing what one does in Vegas. Then he tells me this story. A bunch of his buddies and he did this thing where they each bought a car for under $1,000 and drove them to Vegas through Reno. There was a scavenger hunt along the way, but basically the whole point was to keep your vehicle on the...

So I'm sitting down to get started on a project. I'm going to make these. I'm chatting with a friend, and mention how Tim Burton-esque they are. As I will do with almost anything, I type "Tim Burton" into the search bar of Firefox, and find myself watching this on YouTube: So of course then I must go to speed-painting.com for even more of a reminder of all the creative skill and technical talent...

So I'm sitting down to get started on a project. I'm going to make these. I'm chatting with a friend, and mention how Tim Burton-esque they are. As I will do with almost anything, I type "Tim Burton" into the search bar of Firefox, and find myself watching this on YouTube: So of course then I must go to speed-painting.com for even more of a reminder of all the creative skill and technical talent...

Dunes Originally uploaded by lavachickie We headed out to the Coos Bay area Friday for camping at Sunset Bay State Park. Wonderful park with great camping. We had reserved a site just a bit over a week ago, and it was a winner thanks to our patented process (avoid playgrounds, across from but not next to bathrooms/showers, on the outside of loops and look for spaces that look to have a bit...

Dunes Originally uploaded by lavachickie We headed out to the Coos Bay area Friday for camping at Sunset Bay State Park. Wonderful park with great camping. We had reserved a site just a bit over a week ago, and it was a winner thanks to our patented process (avoid playgrounds, across from but not next to bathrooms/showers, on the outside of loops and look for spaces that look to have a bit...

Thinking down the road to this Fall and Winter.... We are thinking of organizing a small cadre of tech savy persons to visit you and your computer. They will set up Firefox on your computer, Make your computer display large print adjusted to your taste (throw those reading glasses away ). Big icons for older eyes. Have your desktop show large icons. Generally, make your computer more...

Here's this week's show! Have a listen, and check out the download/subscribe links and detailed show notes below. Click to play This week's show is about 47 minutes long and weighs about 42MB (it’s a 128kbps MP3). You can download the file directly, listen using the streaming player above, or (BEST OPTION!!1!) subscribe to the Bit Stories podcast feed in your favorite podcast...