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I first downloaded Firefox a few months ago, mostly out of curiosity and also because I was redesigning a site and had to see what it looks like in it, especially with all the buzz about FF gaining a growing share of browser market. Well, since then, it became my main browser, mostly because I like the tabbed browsing, the way CTRL+F works, etc., all the little things that add up and contribute to user experience… There are, however, some things that piss me off. There must be something in the source code that’s just not working right. Seems like some sockets are not closed after they’ve been used by Firefox or don’t know what it’s called, me not being a programmer, but gradually it gets to use most of my poor old computer’s memory, and sometimes the only way out is to kill the process and restart Firefox. Also, when a new window opens it literally freeses the whole computer for a few seconds. Sometimes it pisses me off to the point when I say, no more of that shite, I’m going back to IE. But that’s not so easy. IE doesn’t know anything about all the places I’ve been going to in the last few months - and I’m not even talking bookmarks, those can be copied/imported/whatever. Say when I start typing a URL in the address bar FF just shows the rest of it - and many of those are not even saved as bookmarks! I guess I could still hack the registry and fix the problem by copying the list of recent URLs into IE - but there’s so much of other stuff going on now that I can’t be arsed.

I normally use Firefox and have no Google bar installed there. When I need to check a site’s PR I run IE. Well, I looked at Syndk8.com today and noticed it had a PR of 6! - and it’s only about 4 months old! - Fantastic isn’t it?

I have printed this article a whle ago but never had time to read it carefully, only glanced at it. Today, while being AFK, I’ve been reading it and found out it has a ton of useful links I never noticed before. When I got back to my computer I checked the online version - some of the links have become outdated as I believe this article was written around 2003 - but it’s still a good source of RSS information. What I seem to remember reading is something about tools to scrape my site/blog and turn it into an RSS feed - but I can’t seem to find it in the online version - could the article have been changed since I printed it out or am I just too tired? LOL

I fell in love with it at first sight. I acknowledge I discovered it a bit too late - well not TOO late but I would have been happier to have learned of it and have started using it sooner. In my opinion, the Internet community still has to realize all the ways RSS can be used and how it can change the Internet as we knew it.

AdSense has updated its TOS and interface. It’s being discussed all over the SEO forums of all sorts. Not much has changed in the TOS, all the changes are viewed by most people just as G’s attempt to cover its arse some more.

As for the interface, I personally find it confusing how I don’t see the report I used to see first thing when logging in but the summary instead - it does look like it can be handy but it takes time to get used to these changes.