Finally the release date has been announced:
17th June 2008
The day Mozilla and Firefox will try to enter in the Guinnes World Record as the most downloaded software in 24 hours.
Here is available a nice screencast showing the new features of Firefox 3.
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Firefox 3 - Download Day on 17th June
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Free Software, Internet
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Wikipedia and a momentary relapse of … downtime
June 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Internet
Yesterday, while reading some old articles in Wikipedia I noticed that the website went down for few seconds. For about 20 sec no page was accessible.
Probably not much of an interesting thing, but in more than 3 years I use Wikipedia I never experience such a problem.
Eating cookies and privacy
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Internet, Privacy, Rants
Since I started being a little concerned about privacy I decided to switch my browser from "accept cookies" mode to "refuse cookies" one. Before that i was usually blacklisting those website I didn't judge (at first sight) safe or trustworthy enough, recently I decided to change this attitude, and thought that it would have been [...]
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Democratic content and political debates
May 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Internet, License, Society
There have been few noises and discussions recently about how media companies should release their content of public political debates.
As i see it, the issue is the following: Public political debates are , by definition, public and this means they should be accessible to all citizens with no discrimination. For example I guess they shouldn't [...]
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Calling into question the Bloggers’ Code of Conduct
April 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Information Technology, Internet, Rants, Society
Ok! It's been a few days now that the rumours or news about the Bloggers' Code of Conduct raised up. Articles and different point of vies are now available, and even if didn't have the time the read everything, there's enough material to start making up my mind (i said 'start')
Kathy Sierra is a well [...]
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Study claiming that p2p does not affect legal music sales in a meaningful way
February 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Information Technology, Internet, Society
The Record Indusrty Association of America (RIAA) has always pointed the illegal music downaload and piracy as the major and worst cause for themusic ondustry sales loss in recent years.
I never belived that, and probably none, with a minimun knowledge of the p2p networks and an understanding of the social phenomenon of the file-sharing, would [...]
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Stop Snap’s preview anywhere
February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Howto, Internet
Did you evere step into one of those websites/weblogs that enabled the Snap's feature of previewing the link target?
I did!
This feature starts a 'relatively small' pop-up window that contains an image preview of the URL that is linked, whenever you waive your mouse on the link. The first time i saw this thing i thought [...]
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