Wednesday, June 20, 2007 . 9:12 PM
Before i go into another lovey dovey sweet stories of mine, i would just like to say how the world is really shrinking with the use of internet. Jus when you tot that you know everything about the internet, taddaa...so many other things juz seem to pop out of NOWHERE and leave me feeling im such a technology idiot. Labels: misc
One thing i really like is my Mozilla. I don't know about the new IE, which also has tabs.I'm a pretty satisfied and contented user of Mozilla, so much so that i can't b bothered to switch back to IE anymore. Mozilla allows users to download many applications on their Mozilla, some of which are takes up space on your Mozilla (useless, but can have..), some of them i really think are genius inventions. For example, i have installed 3 applications on my Mozilla in my home pc. 1st one was this thing called Foxmarks. Its basically an application once you opened an account with them, anywhere in the world, any pc that can go online, will enable you to see your favorite websites; website you have bookmarked. I'm sure there are other online sites that allow you to upload your favorites into their sites, so that anywhere in the world you are never far from your favorite sites. ( in case you don't bother to remember the web addresses, and of cos u need to b online to access them) But what is so different about Foxmarks is that once installed on ur MOzilla, and any Mozilla, check this out : anytime that you are using a pc (with foxmarks) and you bookmarked a website, foxmarks will automatically synchronise itself with other pcs that you have foxmarks on. That is to say, today i bookmarked a website on my home pc, tomorrow i open my pc at work and tadaa the website is there sitting nicely in my bookmarks section in Mozilla. Not only that, Mozilla allows you to keep folders and sites on the navigation area. With firefox, even those things you bookmarked on the navigation areas are synchronised with other pcs as well.
SO let me quote from Foxmarks' website,The Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer automatically synchronizes your bookmarks between two or more computers running Firefox. It also lets you access your bookmarks from any computer anytime via my.foxmarks.com. An easy-to-use wizard guides you through the quick startup process. Then Foxmarks works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks up-to-date on all your computers.
There is also another application where it runs spelling checks on what you typed on your Mozilla. I'm not sure if google does that, but im sure many other things also helped you check your spellings. But i really like this function, as it really keeps my spellings in check, like now....
Another application that i installed is FoxyTunes, it runs in the background of your Mozilla playing songs. Basically you can use it to play songs, like a song player. You can see the song being played, and retrieve info on the songs, albums, singer, lyrics etc. This is just one example, as i played a Beatles song, when i click on FoxyTunes, it brings me to another page with all the information, like youtube videos, google search, lyrics of the songs..and even hypem.com, a list of Beatles songs that you can just play straight off from the net and enjoy. I don't know about you guys. But i really enjoyed the non hussle of listening to songs without having to dl them. Sadly it's onli for usage when you are online. But everyone has internet nowadays rite? haha..
Now, FoxyTunes have even came up with allowing users to post what they are listening to onto Twitter. And in case you are living in stoneage, Twitter has been one of the hottest thing around. Notice that small orange box on the left hand side of my blog? Apparently it keeps pple updated on what you are doing in interesting ways. So now everyone knows what everyone is listening! So quoting from Twitter's website,
And to tell the truth, i haven't really figured how Twitter works hahaha..bcos i was too lazy. But go check it out. It's an interesting concept.A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!
So indeed, the world is getting smaller. Strangers are no longer really strangers. Even if im in Sg, we get to know what other pple at the other side of the world is doing, or things that are happening but not major enuff to actually be in our local newspapers. The internet is really...getting very interesting. And i can't live without it. It's time to switch to Mozilla too hee.
