BCB4 – What happened, happening and will happen

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Jerry

Investors meet going on at L22
Content Management going on at L23
Bloggers’ Collective going on at L11

Various “field” collectives are going on in and around the venu

Whats coming up – UI Design is going to happen outside the L11-L12 rooms.

What to watch out for later in during the day?

Hope fully gaming collective happens
An interview with Himanshu Seth coming soon at blogosphere

and its lunch time and i’m running … Yes its free food here!!!

Last of the Mutineers Tina is here with her father

Firefox Plugin – My session

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Jerry

My session on Firefox Plugins is at L12 at 5:00pm i guess.
So if you are up reading this, drop in. There is definitely something that we could learn from each other.

bar[camp]04 – I’m ready, here i come

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Jerry

Here i’m, all ready and excited. The Blog’a'lorean’s meet was exciting, this is going to be rocking.

See ya all there for the event.

No to WWW

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Jerry

Say www.google.com and try google.com

Try www.wordpress.com and try saying wordpress.com

Definitely saying some site as xyz.com is better than www.xyz.com. Its such a nuisance. Ya its shows the WWW or World Wide Web, but we no longer require that anymore. A simple xyx.com will suffice in many cases and these days almost all the sites are now linking to http://<their-name>.com.

Its saves space, ink and say a second or two while saying too. Enter

No-www.org philosophy

No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www.domain.com.

WWW was for the 20th century and we are now in the 21st century. All the browsers completes the name by a .com or .<whatever> by Ctrl+Return key combination.

No-www has classified the entire n/w into 3 classes – A/B/C

This is the most common no-www compliance level. With class A domains, example.net and www.example.net are both valid methods of reaching this website. Many servers default to this.

Class B is currently the optimal no-www compliance level. This classification helps remind users that, while the www subdomain is accepted, it is not necessary. In Class B, www.example.net is a valid address, but it redirects all traffic to example.net.

Class C is the most stringent compliance level. According to no-www, www.example.net is an invalid subdomain. All traffic must go to example.net in order to view the site. Very few sites currently hold this classification, partially because many internet users are not yet savvy enough to drop the www every time. For that reason, this classification is not recommended for sites that serve the general public.

More Faqs at no-www

Some interesting reading – It’s Time to Drop the “www”, especially read the comments, it really throws some arguments for and against the no-www movement and some really interesting info like people who type their e-mail ids as abc@www.<some-free-mail>.com.

enjoy

Firefox Extensions that you WILL need …

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jerry

Firefox 2.0 had problems with memory usage and now with the current 2.0.0.4 version, i have no problem what so ever with the browser.

But what has been an advantage of Firefox over IE, has been the plugin database. What every you need its there. There is the Firefox Recommended Add-ons, which just takes 10 min to just install completely. There are in total 25 recommended add-ons, of that for any user these are a must : Firefox Extensions that you WILL need ...

I have the add-ons like Greasemonkey and Web Developer also installed, but they dont really matter unless you are into web development and programming. So among the recommended list this is for any one who does a decent amount of browsing.

But thats not it, there are much more cool plugins that will be of much interest for any one. Firefox Extensions that you WILL need ...

Bookmark Duplicate Detector : as the name says it all. Detects Duplicate Bookmarks when bookmarks are added and specify where is the previous URL. You can also search and delete duplicates URL already in your Bookmarks.

ColorfulTabs : This i feel is essential as its adds some much needed appeal… Try it!!! trust me you will love it.

Fasterfox 2.0.0 : Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. It stays down at the status bar and shows how much time it took for a page to load too.

Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) : Take a backup of all the extensions Firefox Extensions that you WILL need ... that you use to restore after a system crash or make xpi files to sync your office and home browsers.

FireFTP : an FTP client for your browser. This proved very useful while i was building my project site in uploading files on to the server. Very useful and i recommend this.

Link Alert : Imagine someone alerting you on what you are about to click before clicking a link, like is it and exe, a web-page or a doc.

MeasureIt : Imagine an on-screen rule, transparent and simple to use which accurately shows the measure in pixels. Recommended for page designers.

Password Exporter : Firefox can save all the passwords for you, keep a master password to activate that and all your logins will be taken care of. But what if you need to take all the passwords from your office system to home. Forget writing it down, this is the add-on that i recommend.

ScrapBook : This will make u forget saving pages by File>Save. U can highlight sentences, add notes, remove undesirable parts like ads etc and keep just the content.

Server Spy : Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (eg. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites.

Stealther : If there are times you want to surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer, then this is the right extension for you.

Usage Counter : Tells you how much time you spend in using Firefox and browsing sites.

VideoDownloader : Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube…

WellRounded : Adds a nice ‘finishing touch’ to Firefox by providing aesthetically pleasing, rounded edges to the location bar, search bar, find bar, and all manor of other toolbars on your browser…

Safari has the feature of showing page load progress in the address bar, but if you’re Firefox Extensions that you WILL need ... going to use that Feature along with WellRounded it might not be looking that good.. Well add-on for that is Fission.

Phew… that kind of winds that up. I’m quite sure there are more interesting plugins too. As i’m born lazy i stop with this list.

Jerry Mannel

Eternally alive on the Internet

Category Archives: Browsers

BCB4 – What happened, happening and will happen

Firefox Plugin – My session

bar[camp]04 – I’m ready, here i come

No to WWW

Firefox Extensions that you WILL need …