Flash and other things Firefox

Firefox Firefox

Good ol' Firefox!

Flashing its awesomeness

Open Source, out of the box!

Tons of add-ons; take your pick

Slisha slow? Don't be a prick

Of features, there is no dearth

Caring for users since it's birth

This post is mainly about installing Flash for Firefox on a Linux-based machine (especially when you don't have admin privileges) and a few other things personal to my Firefox experience. Usually, in these kind of posts, we first have to write how to go about installing the concerned software. But there is no such thing as "installing" Firefox anyway -- Download. Extract. Browse! :P :D

I am sure there are several posts out there which explain the same. The heck with them!

Why you so active on FB?

Haha... yeah, that's the kind of question I am hearing a lot nowadays. Well, those who know me closely probably aren't really surprised; they have other questions to ask. This post is just an esoteric answer to this FB question. In real life, if you happen to ask me, I won't be able to give such a cogent reply. But that's how it is for normal people. :)

Why should you use Opera 11.50...

    Most of you must be using either Firefox or Chrome; very few IE and Opera. Today, I am going to brag about some features of Opera browser which may tempt you to give it a try. Of course, it has some limitations and we'll try to discuss them as well. 

Break the Break !!

Warning: This post has nothing useful. Just the thoughts of my mind.

    I am in a position in my life which I keep on confronting again and again. On one hand there is lot of work to do -- interesting work -- but on the other hand, there is this wicked mind which compels me to waste almost all the time I have on apparently useful but factually useless things like cricinfo, ebay, imdb, youtube, etc. Did you notice something? Yes, Internet is the platform on which these evils form their brotherhood! Now I guess some of my friends will understand why I am trying to run away from "on-line" services offered by this wonderful product of technology commonly known as Computer.

Windows 8 preview...

I didn't want to blog at this time of the day, but this was worth it. It's not that I am "converting" or something; I am still with Linux, but you know, those people there at Microsoft, they are doing a damn good job of fooling people. Eye Candy ! Eye Candy ! Everywhere ! Will have to wait for the "features" to go live...

My flirts this week...

Elisp, Scheme, Java, Ruby, Roadies, Splitsvilla, Steve Yegge !

    So, these are the topics which I was enlightened about last week. Although I spent more time on the latter 3 topics, I gained the least from them. Steve Yegge's blogs are fun to read and you may even (almost) get the impression that they are informative but to me, they are all but useful. Of course, if you are as jobless as me, sure, give them a shot.

Using emacs-jabber

A couple of days back, my friend Pradeep told me how to set up gtalk inside emacs using emacs-jabber. I am going to just repeat all those instructions as well as tell some of the things that I discovered.
Note: I don't know whether the following works for windows.

About shortening links

I was always amazed by the "short" links that people used in their tweets. So I searched around and I found this interesting website.

On bit.ly, you can shorten your long links and then share them. This is especially useful on twitter since you have only 140 characters to blabber.


Another famous website which does that is tinyurl.com. Although both work fine, I think bit.ly is more miserly when it comes to number of characters in the url.
Later.