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If you have one hour to spend, then get some popcorns/beer and start reading. This is an awesome post by a bunch of adventurers who biked to Angola. The pics and the write up is just too good to be true. I wish I could something like that.

Do mind some of the pics may be rated NSFW.

How sick a country can get :(



Read more at buddhism.kalachakranet.org

I was looking over the spreadsheet covering Mozilla’s Acid3 failures, and it struck me that very few of the fixes would substantially improve the Web or the browser. They are bugs and they will be fixed (except maybe SMIL… wtf?), but they don’t impact authors or users at all. Looks mostly like an opportunity for grandstanding about “commitment to standards.” I think testing createNodeIterator while text nodes don’t interoperate is both misguided and hypocritical.

Besides, commitment to standards is strong at Mozilla, where we don’t constantly seek to rubber stamp our own implementation.



Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog

Labels: acid 3, Firefox 3

I don't have anything against Americans, but watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader" really makes me feel low and disheartened. I have met and worked with some really sharp brains in US but people like those shown on the series really make me feel kick their ass.

Just check out some of the videos on youtube in case if you have not seen any of the episode.

I didn't know there are people who can't do a 2 * 5, tell if a rice is a grain and not a freaking food or tell Canada is north of US border ... come on give me a break

I think any random student from a third world country is much smarter than most of you guys out there on the episode. They deserve a lot from your healthy easy life.

Yes you can do that and it's made possible using the firefox plugin -> greasmoneky + You Tube H.264 script

Once the script is installed it basically injects the high-def video link below the you tube video.



The before and after after magic after taking the pill

Labels: greasemonkey, youtube

So what is Prism: The Prism Wiki explains it as:
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a "distraction free browser" because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.

Once you install the Prism Plugin (which is supported on Firefox 3 only), you'd see a new menu named "Convert Website to application" under tools menu.

Converting your choice of webpage to an application would create a shortcut like, which shows the application is nothing but a firefox rendered offline page.

"I:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe" -app application.ini -override "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\WebApps\slashdot@prism.app\override.ini" -webapp slashdot@prism.app

And finally when you'd run the application this is what you'll get. In case if the internet is down I suppose you should see the last fetched page

Labels: Firefox 3, Firefox plugins, prism