Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Apple Safari Browser for Windows (Discovery)

Apple has released a beta of their Safari browser for Windows. While consider a Mac browser for Windows? According to Apple there are a number of reasons, but this is the one that caught my eye:
Blazing performance. The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer [...]

Allow Empty Subject Thunderbird Extension

My wife likes to email me urls, but doesn’t like to have to type a subject. The new Thunderbird 2.0 pops up a warning dialog when you leave the subject blank and does not provide a way to turn this warning off. This extension simply disables the empty subject line warning.
Operating System: Thunderbird 2 Extension
Price: [...]

JLC’s Internet TV (Discovery)

Jlc’s Internet TV has just reached version 1.0 final. It is a freeware program for finding and watching Internet TV channels. The program automatically finds over 1400 Internet TV channels. It has the following major features:
* Watch over 1400 online TV channels for free!* User friendly interface with inbuilt channel list.* Channel updater which keeps [...]

Remote Images in Thunderbird 2

Thunderbird 2 has taken remote image blocking to extremes. They have removed the option to allow remote images to display from the options dialog in an attempt to force users to add every address from which they they want to see images in emails to their address book. The idea of a whitelist is good [...]

Thunderbird 2 Available Now

The Mozilla folks released Thunderbird 2 last night. I haven’t had a chance to play with it as I don’t do major program updates on busy days, but it looks very good. All the nice features of Thunderbird 1.5 plus the following new features (from the release notes):
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