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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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My Firefox has been on the acting up lately, freezing for a couple of minutes before suddenly springing back to life. I suspected it was gobbling up memory, so I checked: 519 MB of RAM? Alright, I haven't closed it for nearly 10 days now and I sometimes have over 25 tabs in it, but when I took this screenshot...
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There's been talk of the browser being a dying breed when RIAs come along, and while I agree partially, I still believe there's a place for it in the short-mid term for browsing webpages, and information, as well as for testing out RIAs. I mean, imagine if you had to download a desktop app everytime...
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Firefox User Interface Designer, Alex Faaborg, recently posted up a series of posts about a new feature slated for Firefox 3 - microformats [via Read/WriteWeb ]. What are they? Basically, they're a set of standard formats designed to help software like web browsers understand bits of information better...
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http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/dec/17/iso-funny-acronym-for-flash-revival/ After web devs have been putting up with 'web standards' being implemented slightly (or in some cases, grossly or not at all) different in the various web browsers out there, a combination of web bandwidth and computer performance...
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Ever since Microsoft gave me one of their fingerprint readers , I have never used it for anything more than logging on and off on my computer (which is quite convenient), even though it can be used for authentication on websites, programs etc. Why? Because the software doesn't work with Firefox. Ok I...