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No more Firefox

The browser boots up, and gives me a list of all those addons which need updates. Of course I'd like to have the latest version. Isn't it why I had it installed there in the first place? If its my unlucky day, even Firefox would need an update. And there is nothing I can do except wait until all those messy updates are done. Wait, there's more..After the updates comes the installation. Its very frustrating I need to use a browser quickly for 2 minutes and I need to wait for 5 minutes until Firefox is done dressing up itself. And I almost forgot, update the browser and be assured that atleast 3 out of 5 extensions wouldn't be compatible. Very, very frustrating. Chrome updates in the background. I don't care what you download as long as its from a trusted vendor. 5 seconds and its ready to browse the web, anytime of the day. Installing extensions or themes is just instantaneous with chrome, no restart required. Because at the end of the day, all I want is to have is to browse the internet. Not just keep looking at progress screens of addons getting updated. Now that Chrome has all extensions I use on Firefox, its been days since I've clicked on the Firefox browser. I've still not decided to uninstall Firefox, but then I'm getting there. P.S. When I opened Wordpress to write down this post, I was informed that Wordpress needed to update to 2.9.1. Here I go again...

Dropbox - sync your files across computers

Set up Dropbox (http://getdropbox.com) and installed it on all my laptops. Now that should keep them all synced. I always had trouble carrying around files on a USB drive. Especially when I think that USBs are meant to run operating systems and not to carry files. Now that lets me access all my synced files from anywhere in the world, not just my laptops. But then its a bit of redundancy. Why would I need to sync files across machines, when I carry my operating system with me? Dropbox is easy and lets you sync upto 2GB for free. Just download Dropbox and signup with an email address and password. The dropbox folder inside your My documents folder is just another folder, except that its synced across all your linked computers. Still haven't tried Dropbox for Ubuntu, which reminds me..I'll need make a post on the Ubuntu installation as well.

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Firefox 3.5 is out. Time for an upgrade!

The latest version of your Firefox is now out! I've been using firefox ever since it was pheonix and I never had complaints. So I guess I wouldn't come up with any right now! Firefox 3.5 makes browsing faster. And adds a lot of minor/major functionality tweaks. Makes the awesome bar, even more awesome, and Introduces private browsing at last. But you could wait until all your extensions get upgraded. But most developers have already updated their extensions and you shouldn't be surprised if most of your popular extensions would move up the upgrade ladder without much trouble. Site rendering &performance has improved a lot. Read all about their performance upgrades here! Go here for a complete list of top features. Click on help > Check for updates on your firefox browser. Or use the link below.

Posterous - Use your email to post online

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Geek Chart - where do you share online?

Geek Chart shows you where you shares most of the content. You can find thunderror's shared content on twitter, stumbleupon, delicious and loads of other web2.0 sites. Geek chart currently supports a select few of these popular sites and makes a pie chart showing where you share the most and the least. Not surprisingly, twitter comes tops my share list. Try out your geek chart and let us know where you share...Just sign up and surrender your usernames with the most popular social share sites. Thunderror's Geek Chart

Use Open Source Titanium to build your RIAs

Appcelerator's Titanium is an open source alternative to Adobe AIR to help you build your rich internet apps easily. We first saw Titanium hit the racks of the internet around December. Its three months down the line and at least we think they haven't made the noise they ought to have generated. But we haven't seen as much of Titanium as we should be? There are a few easy things which Appcelerator hasn't done yet. And correct us if we're wrong.

1. Average branding. Titanium is a great brand name, but my search on Titanium on Google brings up only one result on the first page which is relevant. Titanium Appcelerator seems to work though!
2. This is something Appcelerator has to do. Write a Wikipedia page. It is after all an open source project which needs users for it to get popular.
3. Get more people to tweet and write about it. We decided to blog about it after getting impressed with the free SDK, awesome tutorials and the wonderful twitter application, Tweetanium.
4. Get more blogs to write about Titanium. Because we really think Lifehacker should have featured Tweetanium. True many have already featured Titanium, like the Readwriteweb blog

The Titanium App is open source and cross platform.  Preview release 2 is now out and adds support to Linux as well. We think open source is the way to go and Titanium is a step in the right direction. Download the Titanium SDK here and start making your own apps. Show your support to Titanium by downloading Tweetanium Follow them here Do you disagree with the statement that Titanium has branded itself the way it was supposed to? Do you think Titanium has already got its share of fame for the period of time it has been around? Would you be willing to give up on AIR and go open source? Leave your comments!

Stopping Google Chrome from identifying you

  Using Chrome? Well..I do..since I find it to fast and light and runs as smooth as a browser should. I love my firefox too...but there are certain things which Chrome is good at. And security/privacy is not one of them.... Every install of Google Chrome comes with a unique ID which identifies the user. Removing it is not easy without help... After all..doesn't Google already know enough about you through your gmails, indexed chats, your browsing and search history, what you buy, your maps, your photos (if you use Picasa) and they already have the earth mapped up to them... UnChrome promises to do just that, to remove the unique ID (Just don't forget to close chrome before u do it)...If not anything, atleast their Icon looks cool!

Nice translator

While browsing the web, we do come across pages in other languages...Google translate is one of the best and has been my friend when I encounter such pages. Yahoo's Babelfish does a decent job as well.. But what if you wanted a lovely web 2.0 interface and just wanted to translate phrases into multiple languages? Support for language auto detect and translate as you type too? Enter Nice Translator...A smooth clean interface with the use of light shades of green makes you want to translate phrases even if you don't need them... That was quite a short post. So, ????? or rather goodbye for now...