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  • And our costume contest winner is…

    And our costume contest winner is…

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    What do a crane game, two Iron Men, and Wall-E have in common? They’re all some of the amazing costumes you guys sent in to our First Annual Costume Contest. You’ve all picked your winners and it’s time to unveil him – or her – to the world… It was a heavily contested race and some [...]

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  • Gopher: Content > Presentation

    Gopher: Content > Presentation

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    If you spend any amount of time using the Internet as we know it today, chances are you have suffered some inconvenience from the variety of interpretations of the various "standards" used to create the web. Every web browser renders web pages slightly differently; some Flash content isn't compatible with older versions of Flash (and some versions of Flash aren't supported on some operating systems at all!), etc. If you make your living creating web content, all of those problems may be amplified several times. Doesn't it make you long for a real standard, where content is king, and presentation of said content is the same, regardless of whether you're shopping for shoes or looking for an academic journal? The Gopher protocol, created in the early 1990s, had all that, and it ain't dead yet!

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  • The Halloween Costume Contest Vote-Off Begins!

    The Halloween Costume Contest Vote-Off Begins!

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Happy post-Halloween! Thanks for sending in your costumes and thanks, most of you, for following the rules. That said, I’m proud to show you the 11 best costumes in this line-up, as judged by all of us at CG. I added one extra because we just couldn’t bear to choose between the various Iron Men [...]

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  • Mozilla to release “an app” for the iPhone soon

    Mozilla to release “an app” for the iPhone soon

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Whenever anybody from the Mozilla, the overseers of Firefox, gets to talking about iPhone apps, the geek-blooded world gets themselves all in a tizzy. As the mobile port of Firefox, otherwise known as Fennec, ticks away through the beta paces on Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Linux, iPhone owners care about only one thing: When do [...]

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  • This is what happens when your mother-in-law uses Internet Explorer

    This is what happens when your mother-in-law uses Internet Explorer

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    I removed IE from the desktop, taskbar, Start Menu, and even hid the icon in Windows Explorer. I then installed Firefox and Chrome and renamed them both “Internet.” But yet somehow my mother-in-law still found a way to use Internet Explorer and wonders why her computer runs like poo. Oh, and she wants to keep [...]

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  • Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 in June of 2008, but there's still a few of you out there who haven't upgraded, despite, if nothing else, the security improvements. So what gives? Mozilla asked the abstainers, essentially, “Why haven't you upgraded?” The answer, of course, has to do with Internet pornography. Doesn't it always?

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  • Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.

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  • For sale on craigslist: a porn laptop for $30

    For sale on craigslist: a porn laptop for $30

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    You have to give it up to this guy for being so honest. He clearly states how he has used the 8-year old laptop and is now offering it up to whoever brings him $30. That's not that bad of a deal if you look at his listing, which describes the years of dedication that went into crafting this notebook.

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  • Headline: Intel Mac users, give this optimized version of Firefox, called Shiretoko, a try!

    Headline: Intel Mac users, give this optimized version of Firefox, called Shiretoko, a try!

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Here’s a quick tip for you Mac users who are going to be downloading Firefox 3.5 today. Give this optimized version, named Shiretoko, a try. It’s only for Intel Macs, but it’s supposed to speed up boot time and whatnot. I don’t know, I use it (along with this icon pack) and, all things being [...]

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  • Optimum Online Ultra, one month later: Hope you plan to P2P a lot

    Optimum Online Ultra, one month later: Hope you plan to P2P a lot

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    It's been about a month since I subscribed to Optimum Online Ultra, the fastest Internet service in the country—sorry, Peter. Consider this a predictable, rubbish explanation of how my Internet habits—nay, my life!—have changed as a result of having a 101 megabits-down/15 megabits-up connection.

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