One the the biggest frustration to Firefox users in China is the many websites that are still coded specifically for Internet Explorer (IE).
Often there is no indication to the requirement. The transaction will just work until the very last step and simply failed. All one may get is a blank screen or an unrelated […]
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Firefox and China websites
Published November 23rd, 2005 in Free Desktop, China and Online. 0 CommentsHot on the heel of Firefox 1.5 RC1, RC2 is just released. Of course for those running 1.5, this is old news since the moment Firefox is fired up, it detects upgrade, downloads necessary files and prompts for install.
Wonder what you are missing?
Update: More on using free softwares in business at Free Biz Ware.
OpenOffice 2.0 had been officially released for a few weeks now. My beta release was upgraded last week. Yesterday, I downloaded the simplified chinese version and installed on one of the company’s computer.
Someone should setup a OpenOffice mirror in China. Took me a long time to download the whole package. Also I noticed that there […]
Firefox upgraded to 1.5RC1. I had been using Firefox beta for a while, visually and user experience wise I find nothing much different from 1.0 Firefox. The emphasis here is visually. Under the hood there are major changes, at the risk of repeating Mozilla.org, here are the changes:
Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
Faster browser navigation.
Drag […]
Trace and Merge changes with WinMerge
Published October 30th, 2005 in Free Desktop and Development. 0 CommentsWinMerge is of those application that really make a great difference in development productivity.
It look daunting to use at first sight, but don’t let the look deceive you. Once you start using it, you wonder how you send those years not having something like it.
WinMerge is a visual text file differencing and merging tool. What […]
(updated at Free Biz Ware)
Since moving from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird, the old mail had been tucked away. Today it turned out that I need a very old email to recover an old account password. A good excuse to take the time and export all the old mail to Thunderbird. (Not to mention saving the […]
The case against Open Office
Published October 5th, 2005 in Free Desktop, Open Source and Online. 0 CommentsTwo editorial commentary:
ZDNet - In defense of OpenOffice.org
eWeek -
Massachusetts Makes Dumb Move Official
A case of Microsoft doing Blog marketing? Well one can only speculate. There’s nothing new in buying media opinion, happens in the paper, happens in the blog.
At the same time, saying something controversial like what they did generate more responses (Ou admitted […]
Just two days ago I lamented that autosave must be the most sorely missed feature in web application. With Ajax it should be easy to implement it.
Look what I see on logging into GMail today,
Well, I’m not the only one having work lost that’s for sure. Good work Google.
I am switching from Password Safe to KeePass. After using Password Safe for a many months now, there are some things about it that kept nagging me to change.
First, it does not have a Chinese interface. Not that I use chinese interface on my desktop but I really like to use one that support Chinese […]
On to free development softwares
Published September 28th, 2005 in Free Desktop, Development and Open Source. 0 CommentsSince software developers are typically people in the know and are more savvy, my angle will be more of sharing and exploring ideas, tips and experiences. This is something new I’m trying.
First a quick round up of free softwares I am using and where the strong holds are still to be broken.
Category
Currently using
Free?
Open Source?
Alternative
Programming
PHP
Y
Y
Programming
Perl
Y
Y
Programming
Ruby
Y
Y
Version control
SVN
Y
Y
Version […]
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