The Global Geek Podcast #88 :: Fuzzy Firefox
Welcome to the GGP for another week. Wow life just seems to be getting busier and busier but doing our best to bring you a show once again.
Great show this week and we had a ton of feedback. Special thanks this week to The Herne and Eric for their MyChingo messages, listen in for that and more on the GGP number 88. And yes Firefox is fuzzy – let us know what your experience of Firefox 3 is…
Be sure to send us feedback, you can do that via email or leave us a voicemail. But if all that is too hard then a comment is tops!
Show Notes
Welcome
Tech News
- Bye Bill
- ICANN Makes Some TLD Changes
- Firefox 3
- Mac and Malware
- Microsoft XP
- Justin.tv Nabs Thief
- AP Makes their Own Copyright Laws
- WTF?
Promo Spot – The Wii Show
Applications
- Portable Start Menu: A start menu for your portable apps USB Drive
- Types: Change file associations easily in XP and Vista
- Web Forum Reader: A central application for reading and posting to forums
- Firefox 3 Portable: Firefox on the Go
- Timekeeper: Customize the system clock
Firefox Extensions
- Hide Unvisited: Deletes visited sites from awesomebar indexing on deletion of your private data
- Weave *experiemental*: Synchronize all your Firefox data between computers and instances of Firefox
GGP Mac Lab Rat
- Tofu: Split text into columns for easy reading
- Disk Aid: Turn your iPod into a portable drive across platforms
Sites and Services
- When is Good: Set up a convienient meeting time – simplist solution yet
- Acronym Finder: Find out what that acronym stands for
- TinyPaste: Tiny URL’s for text
- Wirewize: Get that home media set up humming with the right cables in the right spots for the best results
- fasteagle: Quickly look up the best that web has to offer
- Wordle: Create some stunning tag clouds
- LaunchSplash: Custom splash screens for the up and coming launch of your site
- HelloQuizzy: Take tests – time waster, but cool
Feedback
- Link to Eric’s find of a Second Life client for mobiles
Farewell
Featured Music
The Lodger
“The Good Old Days” (mp3)
from “Life Is Sweet”
(Slumberland)
Buy at Napster
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July 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 am
It seems like ARD is disabled by default?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Boy, do I sound like a dork. Good thing I don’t podcast.
I actually do already use AdBlock Plus! And it blocks a lot of stuff, but I think the ads are getting smarter or perhaps they’re formatting them differently now or something because I still get a lot of junk, especially flash ads lately. I may have to manually start blocking adservers for pages that I visit frequently…
My two hates lately are;
The New York Times website that forces you to sit through 20-30 second ad before it will display the webpage link that you clicked on.
Techmeme that has more than 1/3rd of their pages covered in ads. And they’re constantly Twittering what look like interesting links and when you click on them you get 5-10 lines of text and the rest of the page is chocked fulla ads!
Just stop it! Sheesh!
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
First of all: GO THE BLUES.
)
Disk aid: I like, i like.
.wtf etc – i do not like….there should ONLY be .doug (obviously)
Im currently on the eee which is connected up to my 17″ monitor. A little slow, but bareable. I sold my old PC (I put Vista SP1 on it, an obvious reason to sell it
Jus to let you know I AM up and running at the moment, as far away as possible from that thing they call “vista”.
Oh, and if I do dissapear it’s because the police have captured me for attempting to import lasers. Posted not last monday, but the monday before and I have still not got em! And this bloody new law is in July 1 (Yesterday!!!) Wat a waste of $38. Atlleast i still have one
Good show once again ladies(for what there was) and gentleman!
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
.doug would be cool, and the perfect place to resurrect the original http://www.doug.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20010203163900/http://doug.com/
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
@Doug I’m not sure that Dave and Keith appreciate being referred to as “ladies”…
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I am with Herne…
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 am
I relaised I normally call you “guys” meaning group (not male).
Therefore I am now the more politcally correct all import Doug!
Poor Cait!
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 am
btw – NoScript is really nice for making firefox even faster
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
@Doug… we did try and warn you about the laser thing
And I know what you mean about the guy and girl thing 
@Eric Yeah that would make sense since a lot of a web site can be script and other “crap” loading up that has not got a lot to do with actual content on the page. But these days it is getting harder to actually “see” the content without scripts running. In actual fact for me to run NoScript would even be counter productive because of the large number of sites that I review. But Great suggestion all the same.
@Herne no more a dork than I sound
July 4th, 2008 at 12:44 am
PasteBin.com – Better than TinyPaste, as it supports code highlighting and versioning!
LOVE the GGP.
July 4th, 2008 at 4:22 am
ewps… Did I say nutjob? wow! I get crazy late at night. Must have been the heatwave. I plan to watch a .NET on S60 seminar the 10th and maybe pickup the iphone 3G on the 11th. Maybe I’ll change my mind about adobe and MS.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
@theallimportant.doug for the record, you can call us “guys”, I don’t mind. Aussies use the word “guys” much more loosely (like most of our slang) than some countries. I won’t be offended, promise
July 5th, 2008 at 1:01 am
@Mr B Thanks for the tip and the accolades! Thanks mate – but without you guys it would not be half as fun!