Yeah, I cannot get the Firefox download page to come up. I thought Google was going to handle the downloads with their massive infrastructure of servers!
I recently watched the entire third season of The Office on Netflix with the Watch Instantly option. The video was crystal clear on my computer, and the sound was great, too. I have also used Watch Instantly to watch two movies on Netflix. Netflix seems to have a better selection than Blockbuster, too, so I don't mind if Netflix continues to grow, while Blockbuster loses ground. I have a broadband connection with Time Warner's cable modem so I don't have any connection problems when using the Watch Instantly feature. Later,
Mark
If you live in a country that is trying to censor everything you say, then could you somehow email your stories/blog entries to someone in another country so that they could post it to a blog for all the world to read? Of course, I am sure the government of the censored person's country would then try to trace emails, IP addresses, etc. of people reading the blog, emailing to other countries, etc. Also, I think countries like China have some way to block what goes in and out of the internet there. Is that right? Anyway, it seems like you could get your message to someone in another country somehow, and they could blog it for the world to read.
Mark
p.s. Sorry if an idea like this has already been posted. I can't read through the tons of comments above me.
Cingular offers a plan where you get unlimited text messages. I think it costs $20 to $30 more per month on your phone bill. Parents could simply pay this for their texting teens so they will never have to worry about how often their kids are texting others. I had this plan, but then I realized that I was sending less than 200 text messages a month so I downgraded to the next plan, which gave me 200 free text messages a month. Of course, the parents would still have to worry about how many minutes their kids use per month, but texting seems to be more popular than talking. I know I like texting more. Talking to someone on a cell phone always hurts my ears after a while, and the connection is still not as good as a landline. I still have a cell phone, though, and I hate it; but it comes in handy at times.
Mark
I always use the latest version of Firefox before using IE. I have updated IE, though, just because I tend to update everything on my computer so it will be safer(maybe). I have that extension on Firefox that allows you to open the page or a link in IE if you think it is not going to work correctly in Firefox. There are still certain pages that have some sort of JAVA application or some sort of Quicktime embedded video that work better in IE7 than they do in Firefox 2.0 for some reason. I am sure I could download an extension or make some sort of adjustment on Firefox that would make it work just as good with these applications so that I do not have to open IE7, but I am not that tech-savvy.
Still, I use Firefox for everything, and I hope more and more extensions are available(and updated!) for Firefox 2.0. The Firefox browser seems to move quicker and smoother than IE7. When I do bring up IE7 for some rare reason, it takes a long time to load, and I have a very fast computer so I don't know why it does that. Firefox takes a little time to load the first time I bring it up, but then it moves at lightning speed. However, there are times when I have had to close Firefox, and when I try to reopen it, I can't, and I have to go into Task Manager or restart my computer so there are still quite a few bugs that need to be worked out for both browsers. However, I think the mentality behind Firefox will always keep it better than IE.
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Yeah, I cannot get the Firefox download page to come up. I thought Google was going to handle the downloads with their massive infrastructure of servers!
I recently watched the entire third season of The Office on Netflix with the Watch Instantly option. The video was crystal clear on my computer, and the sound was great, too. I have also used Watch Instantly to watch two movies on Netflix. Netflix seems to have a better selection than Blockbuster, too, so I don't mind if Netflix continues to grow, while Blockbuster loses ground. I have a broadband connection with Time Warner's cable modem so I don't have any connection problems when using the Watch Instantly feature. Later, Mark
If you live in a country that is trying to censor everything you say, then could you somehow email your stories/blog entries to someone in another country so that they could post it to a blog for all the world to read? Of course, I am sure the government of the censored person's country would then try to trace emails, IP addresses, etc. of people reading the blog, emailing to other countries, etc. Also, I think countries like China have some way to block what goes in and out of the internet there. Is that right? Anyway, it seems like you could get your message to someone in another country somehow, and they could blog it for the world to read. Mark p.s. Sorry if an idea like this has already been posted. I can't read through the tons of comments above me.
Cingular offers a plan where you get unlimited text messages. I think it costs $20 to $30 more per month on your phone bill. Parents could simply pay this for their texting teens so they will never have to worry about how often their kids are texting others. I had this plan, but then I realized that I was sending less than 200 text messages a month so I downgraded to the next plan, which gave me 200 free text messages a month. Of course, the parents would still have to worry about how many minutes their kids use per month, but texting seems to be more popular than talking. I know I like texting more. Talking to someone on a cell phone always hurts my ears after a while, and the connection is still not as good as a landline. I still have a cell phone, though, and I hate it; but it comes in handy at times. Mark
I always use the latest version of Firefox before using IE. I have updated IE, though, just because I tend to update everything on my computer so it will be safer(maybe). I have that extension on Firefox that allows you to open the page or a link in IE if you think it is not going to work correctly in Firefox. There are still certain pages that have some sort of JAVA application or some sort of Quicktime embedded video that work better in IE7 than they do in Firefox 2.0 for some reason. I am sure I could download an extension or make some sort of adjustment on Firefox that would make it work just as good with these applications so that I do not have to open IE7, but I am not that tech-savvy. Still, I use Firefox for everything, and I hope more and more extensions are available(and updated!) for Firefox 2.0. The Firefox browser seems to move quicker and smoother than IE7. When I do bring up IE7 for some rare reason, it takes a long time to load, and I have a very fast computer so I don't know why it does that. Firefox takes a little time to load the first time I bring it up, but then it moves at lightning speed. However, there are times when I have had to close Firefox, and when I try to reopen it, I can't, and I have to go into Task Manager or restart my computer so there are still quite a few bugs that need to be worked out for both browsers. However, I think the mentality behind Firefox will always keep it better than IE.