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Download Firefox 3 now.

It should available for download sometime today according to mozilla developer news posting

Lets all download latest version of our favourite browser Firefox today and help set the .

Go Firefox !!!

Get your own ajax loading images…. absolutely for free.

You have choice of different styles like…. bar,snakes, arrows, flower and lots more
You have choice of colours foreground ,background and even transparent.

Why wait.. go get your own.

http://www.ajaxload.info/

If you use XAMPP for web development and have skype running at the same time. Specifically if you start Skype before you start apache, you will realize that you are getting blank page’s on your webserver. If you notice the apache console, There should be an error on the lines.


(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port)
is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs


Quick fix: Start apache before Skype(i.e. take out skype out of startup)

Better Fix: Go into Skype>Tools>Options>Advanced>Connection and Uncheck ‘Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connection‘

If you have ‘Firewall’ like I do. Open the port specified by Skype on the same options page for TCP/UDP for the best performance,.

If you have a router based NAT firewall .. then do it through the web console, or if it’s Zone Alarm or any other windows based firewall.. add the port number to exceptions.

Some usefull links

http://www.skype.com/help/guides/firewall.html
http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=148
http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t16779.html

Ever wondered how to delete files matching a certain patten from within all sub-directories in DOS (aka Windows).

Simple

At your command prompt type simply DEL /S *.ext
eg:
To delete all .bak files within D:Workspace

D:workspace>dels *.bak


But be careful.. there is no confirmation dialog.

Looks like sun hired a web designer finally.. Evidence a second cool website from Sun. Here by cool I mean simple, elegant and informative.

http://www.opensolaris.com/

Check it out for your self.

I have always felt let down as java developer about Sun websites.. They make a bad example of themselves in web. Opposed to Microsoft and Adobe who make stunning first impressions.

Sun should do more sites like this ..simple and informative.

Check it out.. I’m sure you will like the cool new look.

http://www.java.com/en/

This is got to be one hell of a car ride. I was planning on a road trip to Blue Mountains (NSW, Aus) for this upcomnig long weekend. So I started planning out my route in Google Maps and Being the lazy guy I was I never bothered to type in the state after ‘Blue Mountains’. Check out the route I got….

This may even be replicated now… Just try calculating the route now to ‘Blue Mountains’ at http://maps.google.com.au/ without typing in the state.

That will be one hell of ride even in a 007’s car…

Safari for windows is out of beta and finally usable now. I have been eagerly waiting for this release and have tried out various beta versions before. As expected beta versions had so many bugs that it was virtually unusable for some sites and on corporate networks.

I have been trying out the Safari 3.0 for a couple of days now. It is quite cool to see all the eye candy on windows xp. It looks cool and runs smooth on most standards compliant websites. Which is fine with me as I don’t go to too many IE specific crappy websites as I use firefox as my main browser.

I have just downloaded Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 and I have to say it’s so much better. Awesome bar (Address Bar) is really awesome. That is so easy to use and labels/tags for bookmars are in, which is very future thinking. It may be confusing to traditional users who would like to organize their bookmarks in folders. But believe me, just be patient it will be worth it. Once you cross hundred bookmarks it becomes really hard to manage the traditional way. I have been using labels in gmail for a while now and it’s way better than folders.

But I’m having my fingers crossed on most important of them all MEMORY BLOAT. So far it seems to be reasonable. But I will keep you posted.