Get her a phone with a pre-paid plan, t-mobile has some no-frills phones available for that even at Target. The cost is.10/min if you get 1000minutes, and they last one year with rollover.
Other than web developer plugin, I recomment the color picker plugin; it is not just for colors: it displays the DOM path on the status bar, that is priceless, combined with the web developer plugin tools
They are there to exploit their monopolistic position. When I signed up, I could advertise ad $0.05 per click; their claim is that the price depends on the ad quality and on clickthrough rate, meaning that if your ad contains the keywords you selected, then it should cost less. Then, they claim that a higher click-through reduces the cost.
I could not once change the cost per click by targeting ads to keywords. What's worse, after people started clicking on my ads, costs increased, in one instance from 0.05 to 0.50 per click. Now I have no keywords costing less than $0.20 and most cost upwards of $.40
I forgot: - there is no way to create pure aliases that redirect to an external address; you have to create a user and then let the user set up its forwarding preference; as an admin you can't even set those preferences yourself, you have to instruct users how to do it which for n00bs is a pain in the ax
I have a few complaints, of course it's beta, but still
1) If you create a mailing list, it won't let you include an external email, only your domain emails 2) Mailing lists cannot have aliases 3) There is no way to provide feedback or get help, or make suggestions 4) There seems to be a problem with gmail, and it is not clear whether it's being handled or not. A number of providers are not receiving emails sent from gmail, they are lost in cyberspace and there is no trace on the providers' server logs. See this thread for reference It seems impossible to get in touch with a human at google.
It is a bit worrysoome that google is adopting monopolistic practices that all were hoping were the prerogative of other evil companies.
I just want to point out that a collapsed article view (expandable with one mouse click) can be achieved with a greasemonkey script (link with screenshot). I'm sure many will find it useful, as I did.
How about the noncommercial attribute? There is no OS equivalent (because it wouldn't be OS), but maybe the submitter wanted to provide that option as well.
Before we understate the achievement of those that created the web, let's not forget that these hypertext people initially didn't get it. Tim berners-Lee wen to a hypertext conference while he was thinking about the web, and talked about the idea of putting it all on the internet... the hypertext guys didn't think it was an interesting idea:-)
It's cheap but there are other similar solutions. The catch is that you have to pay.01/month per megabyte of storage which is not really very cheap. If you store a couple hunderd MB of pictures, that adds up to more than what you would spend, say on shieldhost.com. And you don't have email.
If you read his autobiography, you'll see that what he had in mind for a browser is to always have an editor attached that would seamlessly allow people to contribute to the web (something he mentioned in the interview as well). He coded his browser to do that, he didn't want people to have to learn HTML in order to contribute. Other browser coders (including and especially NCSA Mosaic's, then Netscape's Andreessen) didn't see that as a crucial feature.
Blogs and wikis implement that idea server-side, that's what he likes about them; it's not about the content.
Actually, I am having the opposite problem: ff downloads pdf's and shows them outside the window, rather than my preferred behavior of showing them in the same window.
from stallman's site I find this sentence, which I'm sure many will find interesting:
"I was anonymously informed that Snape kills Dumbledore around page 600 of this book, and that Snape is the "half-blood prince". (I am not sure what that means.)"
I am not sure I agree. TBL invented a system that was flexible enough to add pictures and other media to it. He was the one with the intuition of combining internet+hypertext; I find it amusing that he even went to an hypertext conference to present his idea of putting their stuff on the internet and they just didn't get why it would be useful.
The NCSA mosaic people (not just andreesen, btw) just built on that idea.
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Get her a phone with a pre-paid plan, t-mobile has some no-frills phones available for that even at Target. The cost is .10/min if you get 1000minutes, and they last one year with rollover.
... London, Ontario
Other than web developer plugin, I recomment the color picker plugin; it is not just for colors: it displays the DOM path on the status bar, that is priceless, combined with the web developer plugin tools
Nothign beats xaraya in terms of flexibility and customization. There is a workflow module in it.
They are there to exploit their monopolistic position. When I signed up, I could advertise ad $0.05 per click; their claim is that the price depends on the ad quality and on clickthrough rate, meaning that if your ad contains the keywords you selected, then it should cost less. Then, they claim that a higher click-through reduces the cost.
I could not once change the cost per click by targeting ads to keywords. What's worse, after people started clicking on my ads, costs increased, in one instance from 0.05 to 0.50 per click. Now I have no keywords costing less than $0.20 and most cost upwards of $.40
one word for you: flashblock
I forgot: - there is no way to create pure aliases that redirect to an external address; you have to create a user and then let the user set up its forwarding preference; as an admin you can't even set those preferences yourself, you have to instruct users how to do it which for n00bs is a pain in the ax
I have a few complaints, of course it's beta, but still
1) If you create a mailing list, it won't let you include an external email, only your domain emails
2) Mailing lists cannot have aliases
3) There is no way to provide feedback or get help, or make suggestions
4) There seems to be a problem with gmail, and it is not clear whether it's being handled or not. A number of providers are not receiving emails sent from gmail, they are lost in cyberspace and there is no trace on the providers' server logs. See this thread for reference It seems impossible to get in touch with a human at google.
It is a bit worrysoome that google is adopting monopolistic practices that all were hoping were the prerogative of other evil companies.
I just want to point out that a collapsed article view (expandable with one mouse click) can be achieved with a greasemonkey script (link with screenshot). I'm sure many will find it useful, as I did.
proxy? Just use greasemonkey. Look here for examples of what can be done. I personally use the slashdot collapser, and the comment tree.
that's only becaues rc3 is not an official stable release
How about the noncommercial attribute? There is no OS equivalent (because it wouldn't be OS), but maybe the submitter wanted to provide that option as well.
You can do that with the preinstalled google box you know.
This is genious. Believe it or not, it describe quite accurately my path.
Before we understate the achievement of those that created the web, let's not forget that these hypertext people initially didn't get it. Tim berners-Lee wen to a hypertext conference while he was thinking about the web, and talked about the idea of putting it all on the internet... the hypertext guys didn't think it was an interesting idea :-)
Now the slashdot live comment tree plugin for firefox/ greasemonkey doesn't work. Can we please go back to the crappy broken html?
Xaraya is a highly extensible and customizable system. You may want to give it a look.
It's cheap but there are other similar solutions. .01/month per megabyte of storage which is not really very cheap. If you store a couple hunderd MB of pictures, that adds up to more than what you would spend, say on shieldhost.com. And you don't have email.
The catch is that you have to pay
If you read his autobiography, you'll see that what he had in mind for a browser is to always have an editor attached that would seamlessly allow people to contribute to the web (something he mentioned in the interview as well). He coded his browser to do that, he didn't want people to have to learn HTML in order to contribute. Other browser coders (including and especially NCSA Mosaic's, then Netscape's Andreessen) didn't see that as a crucial feature.
Blogs and wikis implement that idea server-side, that's what he likes about them; it's not about the content.
Good point. It's interesting to note that the "web developer" part of your proposal has already been implemented.
Isn't there a firefox extension to do that? I read yesterday about that. SHouldn't be hard to find.
Actually, I am having the opposite problem: ff downloads pdf's and shows them outside the window, rather than my preferred behavior of showing them in the same window.
from stallman's site I find this sentence, which I'm sure many will find interesting:
"I was anonymously informed that Snape kills Dumbledore around page 600 of this book, and that Snape is the "half-blood prince". (I am not sure what that means.)"
I am not sure I agree. TBL invented a system that was flexible enough to add pictures and other media to it. He was the one with the intuition of combining internet+hypertext; I find it amusing that he even went to an hypertext conference to present his idea of putting their stuff on the internet and they just didn't get why it would be useful.
The NCSA mosaic people (not just andreesen, btw) just built on that idea.