Firefox 3 releases today and the mozilla folks hope to set a new record for downloads in one day. It's supposed to be awesome and you know you've always wanted to see the internet without IE (although IE only accounts for 42% of the visitors to my church website.) So what are you waiting for...go get firefox now
Be ready for a slow download. Setting a record takes a lot of bandwidth. Also, sooner or later all your extensions will be updated, they will work again. Don't worry.
This is day 2 and post 2 But if I am realistic, I know that if I manage to keep a regular blog, it won’t be daily. So how are you, my reader to know that I have a new post up? You could visit every single day. That would look good on my stat counter, and would probably be good for my ego. But the much better answer is - via RSS.
If you don’t know what RSS is or if you do but aren’t using it you are missing out on half of the internet. RSS is what allows podcasts to work and it the quickest way to view a plethora of sites every day. (I read 30, not counting my podcasts) RSS stands for really simple syndication and it basically lets you know when blogs, podcasts, and websites are updated. It allows you to read them without actually visiting them in your browser It works much like e-mail with a headline (subject) and a preview pane that lets you read the body of the post. I prefer to get my feeds via my e-mail program. As a service to you, I’ll recommend a few excellent programs or services to help you read feeds.
I use Thunderbird as both my e-mail client and RSS reader If you are a yahoo mail user, the new format has an RSS section Gmail has a feed section (but I really don’t like it) a much better option is reader.google.com If you use Microsoft Outlook, then try News Gator which works as a plugin For Firefox users, (hopefully all of you) there are many extensions, none that I really love, but Wizz seems well supported and good
If anyone else has a suggestion they particularly love, leave it in the comment section.
I’ll end this post with the feed address of several of my favorite blogs and sites, there are no podcasts in this list
SBC related blogs
Sports related Blogs
Comedy
My Friends
Shopping
InterfaceLIFT (Cool desktop backgrounds)