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Firefox performing better on Linux

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In March, I wrote about Firefox’s woeful performance with some javascript heavy sites. I am happy to say, Firefox is performing much better on these sites now that I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibson and Firefox was upgraded. This contrasts with the fact that Firefox seems to be crashing a lot more on […]

Microsoft Search Finally Relevant?

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Emails have been coming through touting the new capabilities in Live Search and at our division meeting, the VP said internal tests had shown live as relevant, if not more relevant than Google. There were some eyebrows raised at that comment, but he
did say this was the first time Microsoft’s internal tests had found this. […]

Gmail Not Working

Monday, October 30th, 2006

I have been having problems accessing my Gmail account this morning. Mostly, I haven’t been able to bring up the webpage to login. I did log in and send a couple of emails before it went down again. I have another email account, so it isn’t that big of a deal. In fact, I kind […]

Syncing Thunderbird Contacts and Calendar Across Multiple Computers

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I found a web page today that talks about syncing your contacts and calendar (via the lightning extension) through the use of extra folders on an IMAP email account. I installed the lightning extension and the synckolab extension and tried to get going but ran into the same error on both windows and linux - […]