If you are a Mac user, you probably know that Apple has shipped Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I am not going to try to review it – there’s an excellent and detailed review over on Macintouch. Many Mac users were surprised that Apple isn’t charging the full price for the upgrade that has become the norm for them; but after installing they understand why. Snow Leopard is more about omission than adding value – and in the case of Quicktime, a crippled product that should be the shame of the company. (more…)
A few hours ago, I noticed I couldn’t send email any more using Outlook when connected to my home network. A little digging shows a note on their website that states since most spam goes through Port 25, they are locking down all email from their customers using dynamic IPs – if you send through a non-verizon address, you have to switch to Port 587.
I guess I should have expected this. One of our customers had trouble receiving download information because Spamhaus is blocking our meshbox.com email. Sure enough, a Spamhaus document mentions treating all Verizon customers using Port 25 as – you guessed it – spammers.
Like most people in the tech industry, I work on multiple computers, and several of them use different anti-virus packages. On two of them, I have used Trend Micro’s Internet Security – but no more. Here is why its dangerous to use Trend Micro Internet Security . (more…)
Firefox 2.x now alerts you to the availability of Firefox 3, however it is a siren song that can run you up against some sharp and IE style rocks in compatibility. Don’t upgrade until you understand these significant issues with Firefox 3.
You cannot easily run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 at the same time, without significant and non-intuitive playing around with profiles. What are the Mozilla developers thinking? Web developers have to test their web pages with multiple browsers – who does not know this? What makes web developers howl about every new version of Internet Explorer? Let you users decide how many installations they want to run at one time.
Firefox 3 deactivates incompatible Firefox 2 compatible plug-ins, and does not offer any sort of emulation mode. This would be a non-issue if you could run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on the same computer without the hoop jumping. It was only after installing Firefox 3 that I discovered it deactivated the wonderful Addthis bookmarking tool. I use this tool many times a day because it allows me to not only bookmark pages using DIGG, Google Bookmarks and other services, but also to easily link a page to my Twitter profile. Nothing Firefox 3 adds replaces this, and its more important to me than the upgrade.
Why didn’t I visit the Mozilla user other community forums first? Because this is my first disappointment with Mozilla.
As of this date, the forums are packed with unhappy upgraders looking to downgrade to Firefox 2. If you are considering upgrading – read the firefox forums first.