Comments(0) As I was just looking into signing up with Technorati I discovered the following epitaph welcoming me to their service: “Release the Spiders!”.
Well alright then. I guess there are worse ways of greeting a new comer. ;-)
Comments(0) As many interested in kicking the tires on the new Flock browser have also noticed, all default searches point to Yahoo. Flock appears to Yahoo what Firefox is to Google. I’ve never tried to switch search engines in Firefox, so I don’t know if Flock is any more or less hostile about this, but I’d be curious to know.
Which brings me to my new problem: I’ve never been a big fan of Yahoo’s services or willingness to sell out my privacy, and Yahoo search is the one that is integrated into the right-click feature of Flock despite choosing Google as your default search engine.
Hence if you really want to use Google when you right-click on a word and select “search for “, then you also need to “hack” Flock’s about:config settings. Here’s how:
Now back to the program of exploring the other features.
Comments(0) I’ve decided to put up a quick Word Press blog while I continue to wait on Joomla! to release version 1.5. If you haven’t heard about Joomla!, it is a very promising full-featured website Content Management System. However, Word Press is also a very capable platform for managing a blog and since Word Press has achieved such wide support I have decided to stop waiting (I’m also on break from school too) and put something together that I can run with for a while.
I plan to use this blog for as a place to both record my own documentation, and references to documentation and news of others that will serve to either instruct how to use Open Source Software, and Why.
That’s all for now. Just a first post. Lots to do, but time for bed.
Steven
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