Firefox 3 - Download Record Day
June 17, 2008
If you haven’t yet done it, then now is the time to try out Firefox 3! We don’t have sing it’s praises anymore. Firefox has continued to gain momentum as one of the more popular browsers on the market, and now they are going to see exactly how popular, by setting a World Record for Downloads!
Don’t be content with prepackaged browsers, step outside the box and try out what most of the professionals in the IT industry use. You’ll be surprised how you can customize Firefox to what you need it for, not for what some software giant has decided you need.
Take back the web!
Have fun with the Dolphin!
Recently we decided to venture into the world of social networking for our site Absolutely Australia. I like MySpace for what it was, FaceBook I found all those notifications of cake, beers, kisses, dragons, etc a tad annoying (used to get 100’s of them!), Bebo was a cute program, and Orkut as with FaceBook kept you hidden behind locked doors. So I went of in search of a social networking program that encompassed what I wanted, which was a little of all of them put together.
I found some pretty good social networking programs out there, but there was one that stood out, and that was Dolphin. Aside from being like everyone & wanting everything as cheap as we can get it, I am also pretty fussy about how the site renders and its accessibility. Dolphin has been pretty impressive so far. What glitches you normally get on an install, were pretty easy to fix, with the help from their contributers at the forum. The admin section is easy to configure and navigate around. There are so many plugins for it, that I am dying to try a lot of them out (including a cool template builder for members). Members can pretty much customize it to how they want, swap interests with friends, forums, chat, video, blogs, you name it…. it pretty much has everything you could want. But best yet…. if you are prepared to carry their linkage in the footer…. it’s FREE! (you can lose the branding for a licence fee).
That’s right… I said FREE ! How cool is that!
It’s being used from dating sites, to sporting clubs, to hobbiest, travel, etc. You can check out the one I am in the process of building here: Ab Oz
Link Resource Directory Script
This is TOLRA Microsystems‘ “lite” directory version. Not only provides a link exchange repository, but can add value as a resource for your website. You can also make it seamless with your website.
http://www.attitude-emedia.net/web-directory/
http://attitude-emedia.com/web-directory/
http://the-xfactor.net/resources/
http://absolutely-australia.com/linkin/
this is a ‘lite’ version that was made into a Community Services directory
http://absolutely-australia.com/services/
p.s.
have had a few clients that really like them as a site addition too.
A ‘CMS’ is nothing more than a “content management system”
http://absolutely-australia.com.au/
Absolutely Australia
This started about 3 yrs ago using Drupal. What a pain in the butt every time you wanted to do something. Read endless pages of geek talk just to figure how to do it! I got better things to do with the very little free time I have!
Then switched to Mambo. Easy to skin. Easy to set up. Most of the module add ons were fairly easy to install. But try & make it anywhere near standards, and ya spend forever tearing it apart practically file by file.
Progressed onto Joomla. Good in so many aspects. But I wanted more skin flexibility & feed abilities, and be able to import various bits of code that it wouldn’t allow for.
Always had a directory running, and as Paul (TOLRA Microsystems) & I discussed different functionalities, and ones that he has added for other users, I found that I no longer needed a CMS… because the directory script was pretty much doing everything I wanted it to do. So everything has been taken out of the CMS & put into the directory DB, which is now also a portal & self styled CMS. (after all…. a CMS is nothing more than a “content management system”).
Even after moving domains, url’s & then going live… there were so many search engines crawling all over it.
“2 thumbs up” Paul 
Dont put the bandaids away yet!, Vulnerability? Big deal! Fix it!
It’s no secret that I haven’t been looking forward to IE7… but really…. but we have to dig out the bandaids already!
Already needing to be patched for a couple of vulnerabilities (oops, no, 1 one vulnerabilty… because one of them is an Outlook Express vulnerability… and just because it’s packaged with it… we dont count the Outlook Express one as an IE7 vulnerability! 
), you can put it down to just new software. What makes me laff is that when IE6 showed the same cracks it was because it was “new”, “so popular” & then “old”. Are these going to be the same excuses with IE7?
I don’t expect perfection…. but dont go making lame @ss excuses each time. Face it Microsoft…. you can & always will be exploited. So instead of putting so much effort into excuses each time… concentrate the effort into getting the problems fixed quickly!
(now I will never get off their phishing list!)
