Quick details:
1. Type about:config at your Firefox address bar.
2. Type browser.search.order at the filter bar.
3. Change browser.search.order.1 to Google.
Why?
I’m a big of del.icio.us and I thought it was a great news when the official Firefox extension was made available. Now you can tag and search your saved bookmarks even more easily.
However, I dislike the idea that it wants to be the first search engine of Firefox without even getting my permission first. Google is still the place I would go to when I want to look for something. Being someone lazy to take the hands off the keyboard, I want to be able to find something quickly by just pressing CTRL+K (Firefox’s keyboard shortcut for search). If Google is not currently the search engine, I can simply press CTRL+Up repeatedly before I start the search. With Google search engine as the first choice, you’ll never miss it because the scroll stops at the top and bottom position.
Note that you’ll have to do it everytime you upgrade your del.icio.us extension. Ouch.
A new feature introduced by Google in its version 3 of Google Desktop is the “search across compters” feature. This feature is useful if you use more than a computer, as it stores your documents centrally in Google’s servers, enabling you to access your files on all your computers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has however advised you not to turn on the feature. From their website:
Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user’s computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who’ve obtained a user’s Google password.
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Google has announced the new version of its Google Desktop software. The new version 3 now lets you search files across all your computers. This new features will store your documents on Goolge’s own servers, and is only useful if you use more than one computer.
The new Google Desktop also lets you share things you find interesting in the Sidebar by right clicking on the items to send to your contacts.
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Following the decision to
stop supporting IE for Mac, Microsoft has officially announced that the company would cease the support for Windows Media Player for Mac OS X.
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Published on January 12, 2006
in Software.
Months after Firefox 1.5’s official release, Mozilla today announced the availability of Thunderbird 1.5. If you are already a user of Thunderbird 1.5 RC1, it will soon be automatically be upgraded to the final release. Users of 1.5 RC2 already have 1.5 final.
Thunderbird 1.5 introduces several new features including a software update system, spell check as you type, built in phishing detector, auto save as draft, and support for deleting attachments from email messages. Message filtering has also been improved with new filter actions for replying and forwarding. Saved search folders can now search folders across multiple accounts.
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Google has finally released the Mac version of Google Earth, which was
previously leaked to the Internet.
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Love the free Google software but hate to download them individually? Google has recently launched Google Pack that packs “a free collection of essential software” into a package that installs and updates the software with a single common interface.
So far Google has added Google Earth, Picasa, Google Pack Screensaver, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition, Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal and Adobe Reader.
I see more of Google invasion into the desktop.
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One of the nicest things I find in Firefox is the extension feature that lets developers around the world to extend its core functionalities (well, that happens to also be a room to make the browser more unstable, but let’s forget about it first). And the latest addition to the extension arena is the P2P file-sharing. Yes, the pandora box.
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Published on December 25, 2005
in Software.
Love the songs the radio plays but the DJs are always lazy to tell you the title of the songs? Tunatic is the software that can help to identify the song by listening to it.
It’s currently available as a freeware for Windows and Mac machines. Just let it listen to the songs you want to know the title of using a microphone, and within seconds you will get the title and the name of the artists.
I’ve tested it and found it to be very impressive. Although it didn’t recognize all songs that I played, but the results have been pretty accurate for songs that are popular.
Just one mismatch though. It recognized “Yesterday once more” by The Carpenters as “Every Sha La La”…
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Yahoo has recently released Yahoo Messenger 7.5 Beta. This is the first version to incorporate the new inbound and outbound calling features. The outbound feature lets you call directly from the computer to any phone number in the world, while the Phone in feature enables callers to call a number and reach a Yahoo! Messenger user.
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