Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 27, 2008 by CyberNet.

I definitely wasn’t expecting to see this today, but it looks as though the WebKit team has pushed hard to get a public nightly build of the Safari browser out that gets a perfect score on the Acid3 test. This is hot on the heals of Opera’s announcement yesterday that they currently have an internal build of their own browser that is successfully passing the test.

I downloaded and got the latest Windows nightly build running so that I could try it out for myself, and as you can see in the screenshot above it scores a perfect 100/100 on the test. One thing that I’m still trying to figure out is why the Lego-like block with the question mark appears next to the upper-left corner of the neon green box. It could have something to do with this problem that the WebKit team talked about:

We have a slight glitch in the text rendering that is likely to be fixed soon (patch in progress). Also, the animation is required to be smooth. On typical machines, if you look really closely, you can see a small glitch in the animation on test 26 because 26 is designed to be a performance test. However, we think we are faster than all other browsers on test 26. What constitutes a smooth animation is somewhat subjective.

So Apple is the first one to have a public build of their browser that achieves a perfect score on the Acid 3 test. Now the question is what will be the first released browser that fully supports it? Maybe hell will freeze over and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will take the cake?

WebKit Blog Announcement
Thanks Nate for the tip!

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I was browsing through Wikipedia today when I came upon their Blue Screen Of Death article. It was a lot of fun to read but one thing that really struck me as interesting was this about:mozilla “Easter Egg” that they mention. The Book of Mozilla has been something that even the first version of Netscape has had in it. You can pull it up in Firefox/Netscape by typing in about:mozilla into the Address Bar and pressing Enter.

There are currently three different passages from The Book of Mozilla:

–December 10, 1994: Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released–

• This verse announces the birth of the beast (Netscape) and warns bad coders (up to Netscape 3, when you watched the HTML source code with the internal viewer, bad tags blinked).

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

–March 31, 1998: the Netscape Navigator source code was released–

• The source code is made available to the legion of thousands of coders of the open source community, that will fight against the followers of Mammon (Microsoft Internet Explorer).

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)

–July 15, 2003: AOL closed its Netscape division and the Mozilla foundation was created–

• The beast died (AOL closed its Netscape division) but immediately rose from its ashes (the creation of the Mozilla foundation and the Firebird browser, although the name was later changed to Firefox).

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Even Internet Explorer has a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) Easter Egg in version 4 and above that apparently mocks Mozilla. If you have Windows XP SP2 installed you will have to type res://mshtml.dll/about.moz into the address bar otherwise you can just type about:mozilla. After entering that into an address bar you will receive a blank blue screen which is probably meant to relate Firefox to the BSoD. 😉

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Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.

–News–

Hulu Rolls Out New Features
Last week Hulu rolled out a number of new features to make your online viewing experience better. Amongst the additions are adaptive bitrate streaming that will tailor the video quality to your available bandwidth, thumbnail previews when navigating an episode using the slider, a bigger player, and more. They also talk about their stance on HTML5, and why it’s not a viable option for them right now.

Mozilla’s Plans for Firefox 4
Mozilla is targeting November 2010 as the ship date of Firefox 4, which will be faster, sleeker, and include a bunch of new stuff that developers can play with. They are hoping to have hardware acceleration in this milestone release, and will offer 64-bit versions of the browser for both Windows 7 and Mac OS X users.

–News in Brief–

Steam for Mac Released; Portal Free for Limited Time
Mac gamers can now download popular games from the online distribution service called Steam, and Portal will be offered free until May 24th.

SnagIt 10 Released with Better Aero Capturing Options
The new version of SnagIt, a paid image capturing app, includes several new features including three different options for capturing the Aero glass borders.

AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Goes Until 2012
Apple has confirmed that AT&T has exclusive rights to the iPhone until 2012.

AT&T Serves Up Most Dropped Calls According to Survey
A recent survey shows that AT&T suffers from the most dropped calls… three times more than Verizon.

Skype Offers Lower Monthly Subscriptions
New Skype subscriptions are available for over 170 different countries, and with it you can make unlimited calls to a particular country for as little as $7 per month.

–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

Bing App for Windows Mobile Does Turn-by-Turn Directions
Microsoft obviously thought that they needed to compete with Google and offer a turn-by-turn directions app on their own mobile platform. Much like Google Navigation on Android, the Bing app has voice recognition and also has voice prompts for upcoming turns.

Microsoft Office 2010 has Live Previews for Pasting
Hands-down one of my favorite features introduced in Office 2007 was the live preview capabilities. This meant that I could get a sneak peek as to what some formatting changes would look like without actually having to apply them. It appears as though Microsoft has extended this functionality to pasting in Office 2010, and given the right circumstances you can see what the pasted content will look like before pulling the trigger.

–Tips in Brief–

OneWay Offers Quick FTP Uploads for Mac Users
Upload files to an FTP or SFTP using only your right-click menu on Mac OS X.

Free Microsoft Office 2010 Mobile
Microsoft is offering Office 2010 Mobile for free, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and SharePoint.

Gmail Supports Drag-n-Drop Images in Chrome
Chrome users can start attaching images to emails simply by dragging and dropping them into the email body. According to Google this feature will be coming to other browsers as well.

TextMaker Opens DocX Files Fast
Open those Word 2007/2010 files fast with the free TextMaker app for Windows.

Extend Your Office 2010 Trial up to 6-Months
This feature was intended for corporate users, but with it you can “restart” your 30-day trial period up to 5 additional times giving you a total of 180-days to play around with Office 2010.

Official Bing Screensaver Uses Amazing Photographs
You can now grab a screensaver that uses the same images you see on the Bing search page each day.

Sync Any Folder with Dropbox
This free tool lets you synchronize almost any folder with your Dropbox account by using symbolic links.

–Downloads–

• BurnAware Free 3.0 ^{Beta 10} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Dropbox 0.8.57 ^Experimental [Homepage] [Mirror]
• K-Meleon 1.7.0 ^Alpha [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Maxthon 3.0.10.11 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 ^RC1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Opera 10.54.3390 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Pidgin 2.7.0 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Revo Uninstaller 1.88 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Skype 4.2.0.166 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• VistaSwitcher 1.1.3 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8117 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Yahoo! Messenger 10.0.0.1264 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• ZipGenius 6.3.1.2580 [Homepage] [Mirror]

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This article was written on December 05, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Finding apps that make you more productive is always something that I look forward to, and DonationCoder is once again on top of that! Just a little while ago they started a Getting Organized Challenge to see what programmers could come up with.

My first thought was that this was going to be a roundup of existing programs, but instead they required that any submitted apps not be released prior to November 1, 2007. There are 10 programs in total, and all of them are offered completely free of charge. How can you beat that?

I think my favorite out of the bunch is Evaluweight (pictured above). It’s helpful when you’re wanting to compare, well, anything. All you have to do is specify the features you want in the left column, and assign an importance/weight to each of them. Then for each of the products you give them a score (out of 10), and the program will automagically calculate the overall score based upon all of the features. You can save all of the data to a file for easy retrieval, but what would have really been nifty is some sort of HTML export tool for people who post comparisons on websites.

Among the other programs are:

• Interruptron – Helps monitor how much time you waste because of interruptions.
• AnotherOneDone – Keeps track of how many tasks you have to do, and shows a progress bar displaying how many you’ve completed.
• HowLong2It – Counts down to a date in the future, or even one in the past. If you specify a past event, such as a wedding anniversary, it will say how many days have passed since the anniversary.
• Timer Assist – A timer that is designed to repeat at a specified interval.
• Simple Multi-Alarm Utility – Create multiple alarms to alert you of upcoming events/tasks.
• PlainTextWiki Toolkit – Lets you have wiki text support in several different text editors.
• CFDButton – Provides more filetype filters in the Open file dialog box. You can also set your favorite directories so that they are just a click away.
• MyHelp – A program where you can quickly store things that you often forget.
• JRHourlyMarker – Adds hourly markers to mirc and xchat.

View all of the apps in DonationCoder’s Getting Organized Challenge

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This article was written on May 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

We have raved about the free PhraseExpress software before, and we are going to do it again! They recently released version 4 of their application, and the enhancements it has will make you so much more productive that you’ll be wondering how you got by without using it!

The concept behind PhraseExpress is extremely simple: you type some text in an application and PhraseExpress will automatically replace that text with something else. When would that be useful? Well, I’m sure you use abbreviations all of the time without even thinking about it. Take for example a chat conversation where you type messages like BRB (be right back) or TTYL (talk to you later). You probably use those abbreviations because they are faster to type, but you can setup PhraseExpress to automatically kick the habit of sending abbreviated phrases!

The newest version of PhraseExpress has all sorts of enhancements that take the program beyond just being a simple text replacement utility:

• Formatted text and bitmaps: This is great news for people who have signatures that they automatically want inserted when composing an email or document. I’ll explain more about this below.
  
• Automatic spelling corrections: This is just like Microsoft Word because PhraseExpress will automatically correct misspellings of thousands of the most common words. Having this feature when composing emails or typing comments in a browser is extremely handy!
• Assign multiple phrases to an Autotext: With this feature you can essentially have multiple phrases assigned to a single “keyword.” Whenever you type that keyword you will be presented with a drop-down menu for you to select which phrase you would like inserted:
  
• Assign multiple Autotexts to a phrase: This is the opposite of the previous bullet because this lets you setup multiple Autotexts (or keywords as I like to call them) for a single phrase. This is useful if you have a hard time remembering what Autotext you assigned to a phrase. An example of this is seen below with the default “.com” auto replacement that is setup. If you mistype “.com” with any of the variations listed it will automatically correct it for you.
  

There is a whole lot more that is new in PhraseExpress 4, but what I have listed above are the most beneficial for me. There are a few kinks that I have noticed with the formatted text and bitmaps addition though:

• To copy a Bitmap image or formatted text into a signature you actually need to highlight it in either a browser or in a document. Then click on the PhraseExpress icon in the System Tray and select the “Create new phrase” option. This will prompt you with a dialog box to save the highlighted text, but you need to make sure the “Save text formatting” box is checked. Click here for more detailed instructions.
• Saving formatting in Firefox doesn’t seem to work, so you’ll either need to use Internet Explorer or an application that supports text formatting/bitmaps if you want to save anything besides for a plain text phrase.
• When originally seeing the image support feature I must have bypassed the word “Bitmap” in the description. I spent about 15 minutes trying to get a JPEG image to be saved in an email signature, but it just wouldn’t work. I’m guessing that the image must be saved in the Bitmap format for this feature to work properly.

There’s a lot more that you can do in PhraseExpress, which are all explained more in the manual. Here are a few of the tips that might be the most helpful for you:

• Add the current date to a phrase
• Call a phrase within another phrase
• Add manual text input to a phrase
• Create an email from a phrase
• Launch an application from a phrase
• Open a file from a phrase
• Open a webpage from a phrase
• Add a special key into a phrase

Download PhraseExpress 4

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