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August 14, 2008

Smultron and TextMate

MostĀ of the Algorithms I implement are in Java and C++. I’ve been using TextMate instead of TextEdit to write code for the past two weeks and I find TextMate is simply great for writing code in C++ and Java. The editor is fine but I somehow felt I should be using a free application for [...]

July 6, 2008

Flash Player 10

The Mac OS X web browser finally looks a lot less paranoid with the latest plugin installed. It’s currently in beta but that 3x speed boost just made me install it the moment I saw the benchmarks. I hear there are a lot 3D features in this release, waiting for Flash CS4 now.
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June 28, 2008

Confusing Navigation Bar

The urlbar, as Firefox calls it in it’s internal configuration is no longer just a URL Bar. It lets you search within a URL, the titles of browser history and of course auto-completes the URLs previously visited. This is an excellent feature if you forgot the website you visited but remember the title of the [...]

June 19, 2008

Voiding your Firefox 3 Warranty

It’s about time you get out of your shell and experimenting. So what? If you void what Mozilla warrants?You always have the option of replacing it by starting afresh. browser.urlbar is the magic keyword to make changes to anything on that new location bar mozilla has placed.
I’m pretty darn sure that most of those of [...]

June 18, 2008

Firefox 3

It’s here folks. Gecko 1.9 plus the part ugly theme. No Mozilla, the address bar needs better flow, the suggestion highlights looks dirty.

The default hideous back and forward buttons.

The better back and forward buttons which you can choose to use (View>Toolbars>Customize…>Use Small Icons) if you like.
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