Maxing Out My Laptop For Your Reading Pleasure

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At this moment, I am really pushing my laptop to its very limits. I have several tabs in Firefox open, with some of them periodically refreshing as I wait for updates from various sites. I'm using a voice recognition program to dictate this post into a text editor. As my system slows way down, I know that I am in a serious need of a computer memory upgrade. Between Firefox and my Speech-to-Text applications, my CPU is maxed at 100% utilization. My work will get done anyway. Still, I can't wait until I can afford a more powerful machine ... run by XP, of course.

Malicious Web Sites Exploiting Internet Explorer Users

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If you're using Firefox or Opera browsers, go ahead and breath a sigh of relief because this latest security problem doesn't affect. You users of the Internet Explorer (6 and 7) need to read this!

Computer Crashes and Firefox

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If you are concerned about security of Firefox and about your computer crashes, you may want to visit diehard-software.org and get a hold of Mr. Berger's Die Hard program. As the director of Programming Languages and Systems at the University of Massachusetts, he has developed a program to prevent memory crashes and hacker attacks on your computer's memory. I wrote more about it here.

web apps and browsers

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I discovered something today as I was trying to post into Blogger and running Google's spreadsheet application. They don't like you to be signed on under different email addresses. I created a GMail address to test GMail and the Google's doc/spreadsheet apps. But I use a yahoo address for my Beta-Blogger account. But if you open both apps in one browser (in my case, Firefox 2), which ever email address is used last sign onto the application becomes the default email for both apps. Which means you lose access to one or the other. My fix? I had to open Internet Explorer for the spreadsheet and use Blogger from within Firefox. What a pain until I figure that out. Hopefully this will help you...