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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, November 05, 2002Chimera 0.6 is outMy favorite browser on any platform was just upgraded to version 0.6, featuring Web site password saving, new toolbar buttons, and numerous bug and stability fixes. [ Posted at 10:30 AM | Permalink ]
Monday, November 04, 2002Message Views coming to Mozilla 1.3The next version of Mozilla will include a new Mail & News feature called Message Views, which lets you saved searches to your mail folders and subscribed newsgroups. By default, several message views will be defined, including 'People I Know' (messages from people in your Personal Address Book), 'Not Junk' (which will be enabled when the spam filtering feature has landed), 'All' and 'Unread'. There's also views for each of your message labels and you'll be able to create your own views using a dialogue similar to the Search Messages UI. Here is a screenshot of the feature, and another of it being customized. [ Posted at 2:15 PM | Permalink ]
Sunday, November 03, 2002Phoenix 0.5 news, Thunderbird on holdBlake Ross says that the next Phoenix milestone, version 0.5, will take a bit longer than previous milestones. That's because 0.5 will be a transitional milestone between the early developer builds we've seen so far and the final, polished version 1.0 will be. Unfortunately, Ross also revealed that Thunderbird--the standalone email client--is on the back burner. "Thunderbird is kind of in limbo right now," he wrote. "We're thinking it may be better to drive quickly toward 1.0 and remain focused on a web browser, and then consider a mail client at that point." I disagree. [ Posted at 4:08 PM | Permalink ] Travel-o-rama I'm in the middle of seven straight weeks of travel that has thus far brought me to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and then New York again. Next up is New York, again (Tablet PC launch), Las Vegas for COMDEX, and then Sweden for NT Forum. Maybe if I do this enough I won't be so tired when I travel. Or it will kill me. Either way. [ Posted at 9:21 AM | Permalink ] Phoenix 0.4 I was away when this was released last week, but Phoenix 0.4 is out. The new milestone features better pop-up blocking and toolbar customization, IE-like ALT+D address bar selection (ala Mozilla 1.2b), and a few new themes. Good stuff. [ Posted at 9:19 AM | Permalink ] Goodbye Well, the Mac is dead. I have often argued that the only reason to consider using a Mac these days is for its excellent digital movie applications, iMovie and iDVD. But with the recent release of the Windows Movie Maker 2 beta, Microsoft has walked all over iMovie and just made it look silly, and Sonic's MyDVD 4, though not a perfect replacement for iDVD, is basically just as good. I've enjoyed playing with Mac OS X and my Macs for the past year and a half, but an interesting thing has happened over the past few months: I can no longer say I use the systems every day, as I did for a long time. As the Mac slides inevitably into irrelevance--due partially to the clueless people running the company--I'm just losing interest. You almost had me, guys. [ Posted at 9:15 AM | Permalink ] Microsoft dodges a bullet Four and a half years later, and what we get is a convicted monopolist being told simply to never do it again. What's sad about Microsoft's fate is that the company won't even be prevented from performing the same acts that got it in trouble in the first place. [ Posted at 9:10 AM | Permalink ] Doom 3 alpha leaked A massive alpha build of id's DOOM 3 has leaked to the Internet, and it's dark, moody, and scary, with horror movie-like touches. But the game is also more like Alone in the Dark than the previous DOOM games. I hope they get this one right. [ Posted at 9:06 AM | Permalink ]
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