Category: Technology

  • Macintosh 1984 – Insanely great

    “You’ve just seen some pictures of Macintosh, now I’d like to show you Macintosh in person”.

    Steve Jobs kicks of a era of computing in January 1984 and show off some mindblowing (hey, it’s 1984) graphics on a Macintosh. Brings back good ol’ memories when i was borrowing my mothers Mac and the endless hours of fun with Warlords … πŸ™‚

    Enough nostalgia and enjoy this movie-clip from 1984 when Macintosh was introduced.

    Source:

    http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov

  • Microsoft’s AntiSpyware Tool Removes IE

    spydudeYou can’t blame Microsoft for making bad applications when their new “AntiSpyware”-Tool intentionally removed Internet Explorer. The application, which currently are in BETA stage, detected Internet Explorer as spyware, and removed the program from their systems.

    Microsoft quickly pulled back the Beta version and it has now been replaced with a bit more tame version. Elias Weatherbee, a Microsoft representative, proclaimed that “It shows how powerful our AntiSpyware program is,” personally i think it said more about Internet Explorer then the power of the AntiSpyware-tool.

    Related link:

    http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

  • Speed Up Firefox

    Firefox logoI found this little neat tutorial on how to speed up our little Firefox, and it’s working remarkably good, if you’re on a high-speed connection. Sadly i don’t know who discovered and wrote the tutorial in the beginning, so thanks to whoever it was who did it!

    Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

    1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
    Scroll down and look for the following entries:

    network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining
    network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

    Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
    When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really
    speeds up page loading.

    2. Alter the entries as follows:

    Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true

    Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true

    Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

    3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it
    nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“. This value is
    the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it
    recieves.

    If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

  • A Terabyte of space for your email

    In the footsteps of Googles G-Mail with 1gb space comes the California-based iTrade Group with a free email account that allows you to store up to one Terabyte (TByte, 1000 GB) of space.

    1 TB with space allows you to store over 40 million emails, impressive indeed and it seems like iTrade allows you to store files on it as well, Jim Weiss, CEO of the iTrade Group says; “We would like to provide people with an environment to store their data and don’t have to be afraid to lose anything ever again”

    I find it hard to believe that you’ll actually get 1TB of space, especially since the email is only available though a website called Hellacious Riders… Sounds like a promotional scam, but hey – try it.

    http://www.hriders.com/

  • Google Suggest

    The innovations at google never stops. As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time. I sure hope this becomes standard in Firefox, on the other hand, someone probably wrote a extention to support it already … πŸ˜‰

    Check it out,

    http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

    Posted December 13, 2004 @ 10:21
    Check out GSuggest at,

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1055865#1055865

    Open-source communities rocks … πŸ™‚

  • The world’s oldest .com domain is …

    .. symbolics.com, at least according to this list;

    http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.txt

    Worth mentioning is that microsoft.com isn’t on that list since it was intercepted on 2nd of May 1991, was Microsoft really that late on getting on the web? … πŸ™‚

  • Thunderbird has landed.

    ThunderbirdI’m a hardcore Eudora user, I’ve been trough numerous of shit storms from Outlook-users, but I’ve stand my ground without moving a inch, because Eudora is the shit when it comes to Mail-handling, up until now.

    I was recommended by a friend (pari) to check out Thunderbird, the open-source alternative from the Mozilla Software Foundations. I’ve recently switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and judging by that experience i decided to give Tbird a try. And i can only say; switch now, switch this instant second, because Thunderbird is what mail is all about … πŸ™‚

    http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

  • 1gbit internet-connection.

    Swedish Labs2 offers 1gbit Internet-connection for private persons. MalmΓΆ, in the southern parts of Sweden, is the first city that will be able to use this functionality and the prize is set to 850 SEK (approximately 70 Euro and about 50 Dollars) a month.

    Feels kinda odd when your network-card becomes the bottleneck while browsing, i mean, i “only” got 100 mbit … πŸ˜›

    More info (in Swedish):

    http://www.labs2.se/pr/press2004113001.html