I just sent you all a video by a group that feel strongly for net neutrality. They are kind of weird and most of their movies are based off the girls boobs so besides that what they are saying is really fucked up. The initial phase isn’t that bad but where it is headed makes me worried.

Net Neutrality

Give it a whirl, it’s free!

And if you like the game, please Digg it!

The new version will be released shortly, I’ll be sure to let you all know when. Check the site for screenshots, videos and more details.

The UI was a little strange to me a first but it started to make more and more sense. Here’s an opening shot for first impressions.

The navigation buttons have been streamlined a bit, putting more emphasize on the back button, combining the history into one drop down and moving the Home button to the bookmarks toolbar.

One of the first things I noticed (and love) is the google suggest style address bar that queries your history based off titles and URLs.

They’ve also added a star that signifies whether you have bookmarked the page or not and it allows for a quick uninvasive way to edit your bookmark for the page.

While I find this a nice feature, I don’t believe it solves the problem of organizing your bookmarks… but rather encourages sloppiness by requiring a second click to pick a folder. I’m not sure how this will fair on the ‘mom test’.

Something I ~love~ though, is the ability to search addons without going to the mozilla site.

In conclusion, FF3 is a vast improvement that certainly increasing my web browsing efficiency. Great work guys, I look forward to the final release.

To clarify, I don’t like the downloads box to pop-up when I start a download and I want to choose where to save my file. To achieve this, I go to Firefox options:

and select your options as noted below:

To access the infamous download box in the future, use the ctrl+j hotkey combination:

It’s not ready for a public release as there are still some security issues to address (see TODO) but I wanted to get some thoughts, opinions and suggestions on this.

For those of you concerned about using the same field names as database columns, I plan to add associative arrays to allow you use different names.

i.e. something like this:

$field_names array('the_first_name','the_last_name','the_zipcode');
$column_names = array('first_name','last_name','zipcode');

Fear not my friends! There exists a fork called Project Pier, which picks up where the the free version left off.

In my opinion, the default theme shies away from the clean cut web 2.0 freshness that was activeCollab but the folks at Project Pier were friendly enough to bundle some slick themes for those who are as nitpicky as I.

Here’s the snippet I came up with:

<?
// list of ip's you wish to redirect
$ips = array('127.0.0.1');
// Sites you wish to redirect to
$sites = array('http://yahoo.com/','http://www.aol.com');
 
foreach($ips as $ip) {
    if ($ip==GetHostByName($REMOTE_ADDR)) {
        header('Location: ' . $sites[rand(0,count($sites))]);
    }
}
?>

I never really played with street view before because I wasn’t traveling to any of the supported locations, so I never really felt a connection to the information. Now that it’s in my own backyard though, I can make connections to familiar objects such as a friend’s car or even that friend (double edged sword)! The interface is very intuitive and smooth as one would expect from google. You’re given a little man that you can drag and drop. This man has a bubble that shows the picture. You can click and hold the picture to free rotate.

Google’s gotta pretty nice spread right now. They’ve undoubtedly covered some ground both literally and figuratively.

P.S. Before submitting any important form on the internet, it’s a wise idea to hit ctrl+a, then ctrl+c. That way you don’t have to write a whole post over when your browser craps out.