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WordCraft, by Alex Frankel.
Reading it now.

Latest security and stability updates!

http://www.mozilla.org/
Only the most trusted sites do not have externallink icons in front of them.

This is the Link of the Day.

http://allsolutionsnetwork.com/CH5012/
Here.

3days left in vacation including today!

Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7.
AAAAAAAAAAAA!

NO!
See my comment!
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx

AAAA!

Here’s my comment:

WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS? I’m with Firefox all the way. Don’t even try to sell the DOM inspector. Don’t even try to sell all that stuff that’s already FREE. I’m not waiting for IE7. I’m waiting for Firefox 1.1 PR, 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, and future versions.

IE7 is just a Firefox 1.0 ripoff. A wannabee. A downgraded version.

OPEN SOURCE should not be copied by other bigger companies. It should be kept to developers!

I would not be considered crazy if I said that IE7 would be like IE, but more like Firefox.

Here’s a proposition: Just make the software that you’re good at. Give the Opera/AvantBrowser/MozillaOrganization the other stuff.

And what about Thunderbird? Are you just going to upgrade your Outlook again? Please….

Now, the problem is that Firefox is already targeted for spyware in the progressing year. But then Mozilla will take action again. Open Source is good because you can tweak it and tweak it.

I wouldn’t be considered crazy if I said this, correct?

December 27, 2004: We’re not changing our strategy. —Jim Allchin

December 30, 2004: Firefox is my current choice of a Windows Web browser. It is to IE in 2004 what IE was to Netscape in 1996 – the upstart that does a better job. —Walt Mossberg

January 12, 2005: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has slipped 4.9 percentage points over the past six months, to 90.6%, the lowest in three years. —WebSideStory

January 21, 2005: The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. —Wired cover story

January 26, 2005: Firefox took another step forward in mainstream acceptance with the announcement that Speakeasy, a Seattle-based national broadband ISP, is offering a customized version of Firefox 1.0 to its customers. —eWeek

January 26, 2005: Google is gobbling up talent from the Mozilla Foundation, creators of the insurgent open-source Web browser Firefox; and the hires may feed into rumors that the search giant is quietly building an Internet Explorer-killer.

February 15, 2005: Microsoft heard you. —IE team

February 15, 2005: Firefox reaches 25 million downloads. —Firefox team

More later.

Apple Computer [Nasdaq: APPL] is probably considering to buy the financially troubled TiVo [Nasdaq:TIVO]. Apple Senior Mgmt. said that

“we strongly believe Apple has no interest in acquiring TiVo.”

TiVo Stock:

Smith Barney quotes:

“Based on Apple’s commentary, we believe a deal is highly unlikely,” said Smith Barney. “Specifically, Apple had two points that lead us to discount the current reports. First, it appears as though Apple want to stay focused on selling select proven products (e.g. iPod) rather than gambling on unknown initiatives. … Second, Apple indicated that the DVR market seems to be a commodity whereby all players will eventually have similar hardware and software longer term, which means that the DVR market really boils down to marketing and branding. Apple clearly already has a strong brand and would not gain much from acquiring TiVo. If Apple were to get into the DVR market, we believe they would build a proprietary product.”

Doug Heckman gets a $1,000 check from PCPitstop for reading the EULA’s.

Example: when you install AIM, you get this long thing where it says “Read the EULA and if you agree, click yes to continue, or no if you do not” or something like that.
There was an Easter Egg in the pitstop EULA.
It stated that “A special consideration which may include financial compensation will be awarded to a limited number of authorize licensee to read this section of the license agreement and contact PC Pitstop at consideration@pcpitstop.com .”

So Doug Heckman turned $30 into $1,000.

ONLY THIS ONE PERSON out of 3000 [that’s 1/3,000] actually read the EULA. He got the $1,000 prize.

Wait a second, you say, those take forever to read!

Exactly. But the definition of the word forever may be $1,000.

I read these all the time…never got anything like this.

http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp