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110 Posts and Counting.

I am pleased to announce this is my 110th post!!! (Since 22 Feb 2005) WOOHOO~!!!! -throws confetti, pop the champagne- Okay, okay, you must be wondering why am I announcing on the 110th and not on something like the 100th post. Well, I read from an acquaintance's blog announcing her 100th post, and I wondered whether if I made it to the century mark yet. I checked, 109. So this works out to about 12 entries per month, or 3 per week. Not too bad hor?

In one of my early entries, "Good Things in Life", I did a sort of review on Mozilla Firefox. It was mostly about the the advantages on using some of the extensions. The user experience so far has been great. I can solely rely on it for all my web browsing / e-banking / e-shopping etc. As I mentioned then, the wonderful feature is the Tabbed Browsing. Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Firefox (and working in Google), did some usability studies on the tabbed browsing feature. Some of the results can be found on his weblog at this link. I learned quite a few tips from this entry and the comments. Maybe you already know these shortcut keys, but let me share with those who don't. Other than Ctrl-T which opens a new tab, and the middle-mouse-button which opens link in a new tab, you can also:

1. Ctrl-Tab: Progress from left to right of the tab strip.
2. Ctrl-Shift-Tab: Progress back from right to left.
3. Middle-mouse-button on the tab: Close the tab (you'll need to have one of the tabbing extensions, such as TabX, installed! Otherwise it'll close the whole window when you do that).
4. Doubling clicking a tab: Opens a new tab.

One of the comments is to have a [x] that appear when mouse hoover of the tab, something like Eclipse. I think that'll be quite cool! It'll be much easier than going back and forth to select the tab and close it using the [x] at the side. In fact, the Eclipse UI is quite cool too - one of the beautiful application developed using Java. =p

Elsewhere, in this week's PC Magazine, there is also an interesting article that I think is worthed mentioning - "A Computer for Every Kid". MIT Media Labs is working with AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corp, and Red Hat, to produce $100-notebooks. About 100 to 200 million machines will be distributed to children in Brazil, China, Egypt, India, and Thailand, in this One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) nonprofit venture. Like specifications of these machines: Linux OS, built-in Wi-Fi and cellular technology, 500-MHz chips, 1GB storage, under-$30 color LCD screens. I think this is a fantastic idea! It is much better than giving or selling them our old PC which we don't even want to use. Moreover, notebooks are mobile, excellent for children to bring to school or centralised location to learn how to use the various application. To get them connected to the Net, the local government can also set up centres with free Wi-Fi networks for them to utilise. Some may argue, these poor children need other more important things such as food, clothes, or better education. But I think this is a seperate issue. Other than communicating with people around the world, proper web browsing techniques will open these children to the vast knowledge the Net provides (yes its true!). It is a meaningful project which will benefit them in a different way. Something that will go a long way. Quoting the from the article, "Being poor doesn't have to mean being disconnected."

And finally, thanks for reading my 110th post!

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