Sunday, March 27, 2005

I so love using GreaseMonkey

I so love using GreaseMonkey the new extension for Firefox (i'm sure it can me modified for use on Netscape 8 just haven't tried yet) Hell I love it just for getting rid of those damm intellitext link crap garbage ad links that slow down webpages (see back a few weeks to read my rant on those) so if ya see one you like just make a comment here and put in a link

Happy Easter - Celebrate for he has risen

Cheers!!!!


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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Now Here Is A Extension That Will Piss Off Website Designers

I found out about this extension today, it lets you modify a webpage to look or feel how you like. I'm sure this is gonna piss some website designers off. Mind you it could leave a person open to a malicious script that could possibly hack into your computer. There is also a blog about it here


My $ 0.02 worth :)


Cheers !!!!!

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Monday, March 21, 2005

This will make me Think Twice about eating at Pizza Hut

Now I'm always surfing the net looking for weird and wonderfull stuff to rant and rave about and this one got my attention FRIGGIN' HUGELY!!!!!!! This is what you call a out of control situation with a franchise that should have head office comming down on them like ugly on an ape :) holy crap people you gotta do something about this.... HELLLOOOO HEAD OFFICE ANYONE HOME?????? I've heard of rogue employees before but a rogue franchise? this pizza hut in Apache Junction Arizona is like a bad soprano's episode.. you have to read it to belive it. management abusing employees and stealing from them and dealing drugs? sheesh.. now i'm only going by what i'm reading on this site so i'll let you read it for yourself and shake your head.....

I originally found out about this story from utterboring.com (he rocks by the way check it out) the link is on my sidebar.

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Friday, March 18, 2005

The Surfer That Came In From The Cold :)

Well I must say I am most impressed with this new version of Netscape (Ugly GUI aside, but I am getting used to it) This version i do believe will be the new killer app. After all how many browsers out there can support two rendering engines? (for the unschooled that's the guts of your web browser it takes all the weird ass html code and makes the page you are looking at) Really when you think about it it merely takes a simple mouse click to change from the Gecko engine (Netscape) to the Trident engine (Micro$oft) so really it's a moot point needing Internet Explorer. Yes it does work with Windows Update. So all you really have to do is make Netscape your default Browser and delete the shortcut on the taskbar to the windows update manager and create a new one that goes directly to Windows update and Bob's your uncle :) Of course there will be some people out there that whine about software bloat but really .... It is a beta . Who cares when you have a 100Gb Hard drive on your machine and if you got the hardware I'm pretty sure you got the bandwidth to download the install file. One thing to remember is that when comparing Netscape to Firefox is that Netscape comes with allot of extras already built in, where as Firefox you need to install extensions to get extras. Don't get me wrong I like extensions and I think it's a great thing to have. I use them allot if you look at my prior posts. I'm sure the code will be thinned down in time, I'm sure there's a phone home code built in that reports what is going on when you use it... (CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY hahahahahahahahahahaha ) thus the fatness of the code. I've come back from the dark side I almost exclusively use Netscape or Firefox now very rarely will I use Internet Explorer. Oh just remember kids just because there aren't any security holes right now doesn't mean there won't be any in the future.The more popular a browser is the more likely some wank will exploit a hole thats found in it. So happy surfing kids and make some comments I like a bit of discussion... after all that's why I ramble on here eh?

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Extensions That Work With Netscape 8

Adblock 0.5.2.039
Allow Right-Click 0.1
Autofill 0.2
Autohide 0.9.6
Bookmarks LinkChecker 0.6.8
Bookmarks Menu Button 0.2.2
ChromEdit 0.1.1.1
ColorZilla 0.6.5
Compact Menu 1.7.1.2
deskCut 0.4.1
Diggler 0.9
Disable Targets For Downloads 0.8
Download Statusbar 0.9.1
EMbuttons 1.1.0
Ext2Abc 0.2.1
Gcache 0.2.1
Google Pagerank Status 0.9.2
Image Toolbar 0.5
Inline Autocomplete 0.0.4
Jump Link 1.3.1
Launchy 3.9.0
ListZilla 0.5.1
Menu Editor 1.0
Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.20041018+
Moztweak 1.2.2b
MR Tech's Local Install 1.2.5
Nuke Anything 0.2
Openhxxp 0.1
Plain Text Links 0.2
PrefButtons 0.3.1
Print Image 0.1
Scrollbar Anywhere 0.7
Single Window 1.4
Slim Extension List 0.1
SmoothWheel 0.43.1.20041107
Sort Bookmarks 0.5.1
SpellBound 0.7.3
SpellBound Win32 Components 0.7.0
Statusbar Clock 1.6.4
Tabbrowser Preferences 0.9.96
Things They Left Out 0.1.4.2
Translate 0.6.0.3
Tweak Network 1.0
User Agent Switcher 0.6.3
Wayback 0.1.1
WeatherFox 0.5.1
Web Developer 0.9.2
xMirror 0.1.1

Fasten Your Seatbelts Time to Learn

Hokay as i was saying in my last posting I was going to learn y'all about making Firefox Extensions work with Netscape 8. To be quiet honest it's so easy it'll make you wonder why you didn't figure it out before (at least the uber geeks in the crowd will think that) first things first.... Every Extension is in reality just a fancy zip file so instead of it being called "file.zip" it's called "file.xpi" it's how Firefox and Netscape know you are trying to install a extension and not dump some crap in the program :) Inside of every extension (xpi file) there is a file called install.rdf this is a text file that can be opened and modified by any text editor. ( I use wordpad to do this but you can use anything ) first thing you have to open the xpi file with a zip program. I use winzip due to ease of use I've also associated the xpi files with winzip so that it starts when i click on the xpi file. when you have the program open just click on the install rdf file and it will open in your text editor (once you associate it with a text editing program. if you haven't done this windows will prompt you ) the next thing you want to do is look for this GUID in the file:

{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
<----------- Firefox GUID

what you will need to do is modify the GUID because this tells Netscape if it is compatible with it or not, so you have to change the GUID to this:

{3db10fab-e461-4c80-8b97-957ad5f8ea47}
<----------- Netscape GUID

Once you have done that save the file and you will be prompted to update the file with the new RDF file. That's all there is to it... Simple huh? :) if you have any problems figureing it out just send me a e-mail and i'll do my best to help you

Holy Crap where did I go?????

I betcha some people were thinking what a lame friggin' blog no updates for like a month.. and here i sit typing away trying to think of something to write. I guess you could say I had a severe case of writers block... DDDDUUUOOHHHHHH ..... Well at any rate i now have some ideas. I've been using Netscape 8 now for a while, which is based on Firefox 0.9.6 code for you uber geeks out there. but for you non geeks it just means that it's a version of firefox that has some eye candy (i.e. new look) took me forever but i finally figured out how to get extensions to work with Netscape. It would seem that not many people knew how to either judging by the amount of page views on the thread i started at the Netscape board. So i will share with all of you the magic of making Firefox extensions work with Netscape. So my next two postings will be all about the wonderful world of mozilla extensions. So fasten your seatbelts kids and start some learning :)