Firefox 2.0 Released!

By Saulo, 5 years, 3 months ago in Technology. No Comments

The final version of Firefox 2.0 has been released today. Here are the great new features:

  • Spell check for textareas (thank you!)
  • Search engine manager
  • Updated user interface
  • Navigation arrows for when you’ve opened too many tabs
  • Updated Add-ons manager
  • And much more!

Download it now!

Google Buys YouTube, Spends $1.65 Billion

By Saulo, 5 years, 4 months ago in Technology. No Comments

After several offers from many sources, Google finally closed the deal yesterday.

Google has agreed to purchase popular video sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the two companies announced after the close of the stock market Monday. The deal marks the largest acquisition for Google in the company’s eight-year history.

I’m afraid that this acquisition will be just a merger with Google Video and YouTube will lose its unique user experience. Hopefully this won’t happen:

YouTube will retain its brand name and offices in San Bruno, Calif., the companies said, and all YouTube employees will keep their jobs. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year.

Source: BetaNews

The W3 Validator doesn’t validate PHPSESSID?

By Saulo, 5 years, 4 months ago in Technology. No Comments

Are you getting the following error from the W3C validator?

cannot generate system identifier for general entity “PHPSESSID”

This is because you are using sessions on your website and PHP adds the session ID to links on your page. If the URL already has a GET parameter, &PHPSESSID is added at the end. However, the correct code would be &PHPSESSID since for the validator the ampersand means that you are refering to a HTML entity. A quick way to fix this is to turn on the option arg_separator.output in php.ini. If you don’t have access to that file, you can use the following directive in a .htaccess file:

php_value arg_separator.output "&"

AMD to buy ATI

By Saulo, 5 years, 6 months ago in Technology. 3 Comments

Advanced Micro Devices plans to acquire graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion, a move intended to increase AMD’s mobile-computing and consumer electronics capabilities, and help battle archrival Intel.

Source: ZDNet

What’s next? Intel buying nVidia?

Firefox 1.0.1 is out!

By Saulo, 6 years, 11 months ago in Technology. No Comments

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.0.2:

  • Improved stability
  • International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode. (To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the “network.IDN_show_punycode” preference to false.)
  • Several security fixes.

Get the update here

Mozilla Firebird, a great IE alternative

By Saulo, 8 years, 3 months ago in Technology. No Comments

Have you been looking for a good browser to replace Internet Explorer? If yes, we have at least something in common.

Mozilla Firebird is a small browser that doesn’t really need to be installed and that is fully customizable. There are versions for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and a few other systems. It’s got great built-in features such as pop-up blocking, downloads manager, tab browsing mode, Google search, source viewing of pages with formatted HTML, etc. Also, there are more than 100 extensions that you can install and that will give you what you need in terms of features.
I really recommend you to try this great app! And if you do try it, let me know what you think about it!
Download Mozilla Firebird (broken link)

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