Posted by sujay on August 30th, 2006 — Posted in time-savers, browser, freeware
I use Firefox for almost all of my browsing except while checking my outlook webmail and participating in ClickToMeet conferencing. The webmail outlook version has more added functionality in Internet Explorer while it renders poorly in Firefox. For example, I cannot do a search on my emails using the Firefox version of webmail. It is rather annoying to open up IE just to check email instead of pressing control-T to open a new browser tab. A quick search on Google (I did not ‘google’) led me to the IE Tab plugin. Using IE Tab you can specify what sites you want to be rendered in IE and on opening the site in Firefox will open a tab rendering the page in Internet Explorer. The whole process is transparent. Yes, you can even run Windows updates! within the Firefox screen now.
If you are one of those folks trying to get your grandparents and parents to switch to Firefox just to avoid their machines from getting infected and avoid those nasty-pop-up-causing-trojans, then this is a must-use plugin
Screenshots
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Posted by sujay on August 14th, 2006 — Posted in edu tech
The actual complaint
History of Virtual Learning Environments
Michael Feldsten’s Blog
Points to remember:
1. Blackboard sues Desire2Learn in East Texas
2. Blackboard demands a Jury trial.
3. Most of E.Texas is rural.
4. Blackboard has flexed its muscle before..successfully. Read Blackboard Erases Research Presentation with Cease-and-Desist
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Posted by sujay on August 13th, 2006 — Posted in videos
The clip here is his last televised performance. Mitch Hedberg R.I.P
EW Article
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Posted by sujay on August 7th, 2006 — Posted in telecom
PC World’s Bill Machrone in his latest article draws yet another interesting analogy to Net Neutrality - the rate of delivery at the gas pumps.
The following quote is from the same article
“The only difference between the U.S. and China is that the ISPs, not the government, are blocking sites. They’re doing it for financial, not political gain, although there are some cases of ideological censorship.”
Read his article here: Demand Net Neutrality!
As long as people remain confused about the term, we’ll see more of these analogies in the future.
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