Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
From Firebird
This post is made from the Mozilla Firebird browser, at version 0.7. I discovered this browser while looking at old files on my dad's computer.
Extensions seem to be working.... kind of. I installed Undoclosetab and it works, except that it is in German for some wierd reason?!
Edit: also I am thinking of moving this blog onto my website.
Extensions seem to be working.... kind of. I installed Undoclosetab and it works, except that it is in German for some wierd reason?!
Edit: also I am thinking of moving this blog onto my website.
Monday, August 15, 2005
More ranting...
[rant]More white people wearing their Live strong thing... And what I hate even more is people who wear it and aren't even white... Its like they are like eminem or something, like they think they are something and then they arent...[/rant]
[RANT] You know what I hate... white people who wear this LiveStrong thing and are proud at the same point in time....[/RANT]
Favorite Firefox Extensions
These are my favorite Firefox extensions.
1. Undoclosetab - adds a very needed functionality in Firefox that allows closed tabs to be 'unclosed'. Install
2. Adblock - blocks annoying ads from websites. Install
3. Add Bookmark Here - allows quickly adding bookmarks in any folder by adding a menu item to that folder. Install
4. Cute Menus - adds little pictures beside all the menu items in Firefox. Install
5. SuperDragAndGo - Open things in a new tab by dragging and releasing the URL anywhere blank on the page. Install
6. IE View - allows a right click option to view current page in Internet Explorer. Install
1. Undoclosetab - adds a very needed functionality in Firefox that allows closed tabs to be 'unclosed'. Install
2. Adblock - blocks annoying ads from websites. Install
3. Add Bookmark Here - allows quickly adding bookmarks in any folder by adding a menu item to that folder. Install
4. Cute Menus - adds little pictures beside all the menu items in Firefox. Install
5. SuperDragAndGo - Open things in a new tab by dragging and releasing the URL anywhere blank on the page. Install
6. IE View - allows a right click option to view current page in Internet Explorer. Install
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Happy Birthday Pakistan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAKISTAN!
Pakistan is 58 today! Happy Independence Day to all!
Pictures from the independence day in downtown Toronto coming soon.
Pakistan is 58 today! Happy Independence Day to all!
Pictures from the independence day in downtown Toronto coming soon.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Posting from the couch
This post is made from my father's laptop from work while I am sitting in front of the TV in the family room, and the rest of the family is having dinner. My Dlink 250+ router is acting as the wireless. Here is my picture:
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Wow! Check out the right click menus in Firefox compared to Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1!!!
The right click menu is what you get when you right click on one of the tabs in the browser.
They happen to be exactly the same thing! The top menu is from Firefox 1.0.6 and the bottom one is from IE7B1. The last menu item in Firefox is an addon (undoclosetab extension). In a clean install of Firefox, even that last option will not be there and both IE and FF right click menus look the same.
Also Diggnation Episode 6 is out.
The right click menu is what you get when you right click on one of the tabs in the browser.
They happen to be exactly the same thing! The top menu is from Firefox 1.0.6 and the bottom one is from IE7B1. The last menu item in Firefox is an addon (undoclosetab extension). In a clean install of Firefox, even that last option will not be there and both IE and FF right click menus look the same.
Also Diggnation Episode 6 is out.
Copy Protection
Copy Protection is junk!!!
Those who want to pirate software and other media will continue to do so even with the copy protection in place, and those loyal, average customers who don't give about stealing music won't steal it even if there is no copy protection. So, copy protection only makes the hackers/theives more annoyed...they still don't stop.
[edit] Oh yeah.. and I signed up for Digg.com. See my profile at www.digg.com/users/abid786.
Those who want to pirate software and other media will continue to do so even with the copy protection in place, and those loyal, average customers who don't give about stealing music won't steal it even if there is no copy protection. So, copy protection only makes the hackers/theives more annoyed...they still don't stop.
[edit] Oh yeah.. and I signed up for Digg.com. See my profile at www.digg.com/users/abid786.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
IE7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx
Finally, its getting updated...AND it gets tabbed browsing too now! I think they copied a lot from Firefox's successes: tabbed browsing, search from the toolbar and RSS and CSS support.
Look at their use of the word DYNAMIC--dynamic security protection through a simplified architecture that defends against malware, and new dynamic ways to protect against personal data theft from...
sure...whatever Microsoft!
Finally, its getting updated...AND it gets tabbed browsing too now! I think they copied a lot from Firefox's successes: tabbed browsing, search from the toolbar and RSS and CSS support.
Look at their use of the word DYNAMIC--dynamic security protection through a simplified architecture that defends against malware, and new dynamic ways to protect against personal data theft from...
sure...whatever Microsoft!
Friday, August 05, 2005
Montreal
Some pictures from our trip to Montreal...
We went to Montreal and Quebec City, which are both European-flavoured cities located in the province of Quebec, which was originally a territory of France (back in the 1600s). The provice of Quebec is the only province in Canada to have only French as an official language, and thus all signs are in French. Anyway, we got back on Tuesday morning at 3:30 AM, after a long drive of 8 hours from Quebec City. We spent Friday, Saturday and half of Sunday in Montreal, and spend the latter half of Sunday and Monday in Quebec City. Quebec City is about a 2-3 hour drive from Montreal, which itself is a 5-6 hour drive from Toronto.
A picture of Yasir's attempt at writing Abbu's name:
Yasir having two opposite drinks again! Compare this to the picture from Ottawa of Yasir having 2 drinks (the one at the right).
The city of Montreal from a cathedral looking south (I think) during sunset. There were also some services that were taking place during the time we were at that church.
Montreal's downtown from the Olympic Park area.
Notre Dame Basilica, of course in Montreal.
Inside the Basilica was beautiful:
The biodome had interesting life forms in it:
To see some more pictures, see Yasir's blog at: www.yasirsphere.blogspot.com, under the entry for August 2.
We went to Montreal and Quebec City, which are both European-flavoured cities located in the province of Quebec, which was originally a territory of France (back in the 1600s). The provice of Quebec is the only province in Canada to have only French as an official language, and thus all signs are in French. Anyway, we got back on Tuesday morning at 3:30 AM, after a long drive of 8 hours from Quebec City. We spent Friday, Saturday and half of Sunday in Montreal, and spend the latter half of Sunday and Monday in Quebec City. Quebec City is about a 2-3 hour drive from Montreal, which itself is a 5-6 hour drive from Toronto.
A picture of Yasir's attempt at writing Abbu's name:
Yasir having two opposite drinks again! Compare this to the picture from Ottawa of Yasir having 2 drinks (the one at the right).
The city of Montreal from a cathedral looking south (I think) during sunset. There were also some services that were taking place during the time we were at that church.
Montreal's downtown from the Olympic Park area.
Notre Dame Basilica, of course in Montreal.
Inside the Basilica was beautiful:
The biodome had interesting life forms in it:
To see some more pictures, see Yasir's blog at: www.yasirsphere.blogspot.com, under the entry for August 2.
Quebec City
These are pictures from Quebec City. Quebec City is the only fortified city north of Mexico City in North America. Quebec is also the provincial capital of Quebec, so it has a parliament also.
The Parlement du Quebec (the English word parliament comes from the French Parlement, which means 'talking' or 'speaking'):
The Montmorency Falls are higher than Niagara Falls! They are 11 kilometers north-east of Quebec City.
The Chateau Frotenac was a rich man's estate at one time. This picture is taken from La Citadelle, which is an active military base built to defend Quebec City from the British back in the 1700s.
Another picture of the Chateau Frotenac, this time from the street.
The Parlement du Quebec (the English word parliament comes from the French Parlement, which means 'talking' or 'speaking'):
The Montmorency Falls are higher than Niagara Falls! They are 11 kilometers north-east of Quebec City.
The Chateau Frotenac was a rich man's estate at one time. This picture is taken from La Citadelle, which is an active military base built to defend Quebec City from the British back in the 1700s.
Another picture of the Chateau Frotenac, this time from the street.