I disagree with your comment on it's negative bias. There is no switch in the computer that prevents anyone from writting software. (this is both good and bad, which I will not get into b/cit is beyond the scope of this post) If you don't like the fact that we as a society will have to maintain MS Office then write a new application that will suplant MS Office, not copy it like Open Office. Give it "smart templates", add machine learning, come up with a new way to present it to the user. Build a research agent that detects waht material the user would like, etc.
The CS field is full of possibilities because we are not building with physical items but creating castles in the air.
actually I'm a Linux+ certified professional, and if you do well on the test you either did one of the three: 1. Guessed reallly well 2. Taught your self with hundreds of different machines networked together all using Linux or 3. Got Linux+ In Depth and took a class
404Browser does this for you, the Automatic Bookmark Organization feature downloads the meta tags and organizes it into groups.
404Browser its availible for windows only.
I've written an RSS Agent into my browser, 404Browser, it was really easy to write for RSS 2 cause it was the straight forward <item> <description> <pubDate> <title> ) but with atom it appears to change up the tag names to look special... (yes the NewsAgent has support for atom feeds) but why try to create an adaptation of a format that works well? why. Its pointless.
I'm just shocked that RSS hasn't caught on outside the geek-world. I've talked with the local paper (which has quite a large audience) and they still don't understand how much it would benefit their readers if they used RSS feeds, even if it was a delayed release.
With my useage of it, using PAD and RSS to inform people of new releases is the best way, as soon as I have a new release (updating the pad and rss files) users flock to my site and get the newest version, instant publicitiy.)
I'm really courious how RSS is going to be abused once it hits the fan. Email has spam what will RSS have. I'm sure its going to first be pop-ups if the RSS reader enables HTML (which that can be quickly fixed) . Also browser exploits would be exploited quicker if the RSS reader doesn't have a filter to filter non formating tags out.
Actually what you might think as credible (democrarcy is 100% right) is not always what is credible to someone else (democracy is 50% right).
I just released the newest version of my web browser today, which includes a RSS Agent where you can rank the artcles from one to five, as the articles are scored the source begins to play a role in the overall score of the item. I.e. have a rss feed that you like the articles (read them and gave most of them 4 or a 5) well the news source score will improve and it will place that story higher in the page.
404Browser
Wow you can change the name, whats so important about this "feature" sure you can go into the source code and change a few strings but why waste time and change the name? Its not going to be a different browser because you changed the name.......
Or even better... get a pc.. somehow get a refund on windows, by a CD-R filled with Mandrake, Open Office, and Gimp and OH MY YOU SPENT $7 on software....
The ignorant tax is what some people pay:
Windows (200)+ Office (400) + Photoshop (600) == 1200
now thats a big tax: 17100% tax
Microsoft is an example of this, its what the people choose, web developers didn't have to take advantage of this if they didn't like it. Average users found it acceptible so they went with the developers.
If a company creates a standard and no one uses it then the company is spinning it's wheels and the company standard will die eventually.
Sometimes it takes some steping back from your preferences and stubberness to see what the people have choosen.
I hate to burst your bubble.... but my browser does block popups for quite a while (404Browser so have many others... without the extra cost for crap you dont' need (like this new "high speed" dialup aka software and proxy).
If you don't like IE try my browser... 404Browser[^] it has automatic bookmark organization, notepad, password generator, popup blocking, ad blocking, cookie blocking (that keeps it for the existing session and deletes it after that), etc...
Try it (512kb download).
-404Browser Support
Also any comments/suggestions (other than port it to linux)/bug reports email me [its on the page]
I'm really interested to hear what should be added to it... and there is a lot of features planned for future releases of it.
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I disagree with your comment on it's negative bias. There is no switch in the computer that prevents anyone from writting software. (this is both good and bad, which I will not get into b/cit is beyond the scope of this post) If you don't like the fact that we as a society will have to maintain MS Office then write a new application that will suplant MS Office, not copy it like Open Office. Give it "smart templates", add machine learning, come up with a new way to present it to the user. Build a research agent that detects waht material the user would like, etc. The CS field is full of possibilities because we are not building with physical items but creating castles in the air.
actually I'm a Linux+ certified professional, and if you do well on the test you either did one of the three:
1. Guessed reallly well
2. Taught your self with hundreds of different machines networked together all using Linux or
3. Got Linux+ In Depth and took a class
I did a combination of 2&3 and got a 815/900
404Browser does this for you, the Automatic Bookmark Organization feature downloads the meta tags and organizes it into groups. 404Browser its availible for windows only.
Automatic Bookmark Organization (it takes meta keywords and groups them): 404Browser
I've written an RSS Agent into my browser, 404Browser, it was really easy to write for RSS 2 cause it was the straight forward <item> <description> <pubDate> <title> ) but with atom it appears to change up the tag names to look special... (yes the NewsAgent has support for atom feeds) but why try to create an adaptation of a format that works well? why. Its pointless. I'm just shocked that RSS hasn't caught on outside the geek-world. I've talked with the local paper (which has quite a large audience) and they still don't understand how much it would benefit their readers if they used RSS feeds, even if it was a delayed release. With my useage of it, using PAD and RSS to inform people of new releases is the best way, as soon as I have a new release (updating the pad and rss files) users flock to my site and get the newest version, instant publicitiy.) I'm really courious how RSS is going to be abused once it hits the fan. Email has spam what will RSS have. I'm sure its going to first be pop-ups if the RSS reader enables HTML (which that can be quickly fixed) . Also browser exploits would be exploited quicker if the RSS reader doesn't have a filter to filter non formating tags out.
Actually what you might think as credible (democrarcy is 100% right) is not always what is credible to someone else (democracy is 50% right).
I just released the newest version of my web browser today, which includes a RSS Agent where you can rank the artcles from one to five, as the articles are scored the source begins to play a role in the overall score of the item. I.e. have a rss feed that you like the articles (read them and gave most of them 4 or a 5) well the news source score will improve and it will place that story higher in the page.
404Browser
Wow you can change the name, whats so important about this "feature" sure you can go into the source code and change a few strings but why waste time and change the name? Its not going to be a different browser because you changed the name.......
Or even better ... get a pc .. somehow get a refund on windows, by a CD-R filled with Mandrake, Open Office, and Gimp and OH MY YOU SPENT $7 on software....
The ignorant tax is what some people pay:
Windows (200)+ Office (400) + Photoshop (600) == 1200
now thats a big tax: 17100% tax
Microsoft is an example of this, its what the people choose, web developers didn't have to take advantage of this if they didn't like it. Average users found it acceptible so they went with the developers.
If a company creates a standard and no one uses it then the company is spinning it's wheels and the company standard will die eventually.
Sometimes it takes some steping back from your preferences and stubberness to see what the people have choosen.
I hate to burst your bubble.... but my browser does block popups for quite a while (404Browser so have many others ... without the extra cost for crap you dont' need (like this new "high speed" dialup aka software and proxy).
If you don't like IE try my browser... 404Browser [^] it has automatic bookmark organization, notepad, password generator, popup blocking, ad blocking, cookie blocking (that keeps it for the existing session and deletes it after that), etc... Try it (512kb download). -404Browser Support Also any comments/suggestions (other than port it to linux)/bug reports email me [its on the page] I'm really interested to hear what should be added to it... and there is a lot of features planned for future releases of it.