Netscape navigator as good as Firefox?

All right, this might sound funny and I don't know why I'm saying this but I am... I think that Firefox and Netscape Navigator 8.0.4 are equal...

Yes, today I found out how good Netscape Navigator 8 was. It is apparently based on firefox so I must add that it could be as good as firefox. Another thing that I seem to like the most is the rendering engine. You can render a page like how firefox renders it or you can render a page how Internet Explorer renders it.

So if you have a page that is suitable for internet explorer (for example -microsoft.com) then it is automatically going to use the IE rendering engine. Another thing that is good is that it tells you weather the site is verified or not. So its an easy way to know whether it is safe or not. I also seem to like the passcards feature, you can select which passcard to log in with.

Althought the themes are quite not good and I'd rather use Firefox or something all the time. I think that netscape could be as good as Firefox...

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Yes it's true, you can download the internet.

Yes, you can apparently download the internet! Take a look at my screenshot as I try to download the internet!

Ha, ha pretty cool isn't it?

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Google base (beta) is now officially open!

The long awaited Google base is now released ¦ http://base.google.com
¦. Google base is something very useful for many people. This is what Google
has to say about Google base.

"Today we're excited to announce Google
Base, an extension of our existing content collection efforts like web
crawl, Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video. Google Base enables
content owners to easily make their information searchable online. Anyone,
from large companies to website owners and individuals, can use it to submit
their content in the form of data items. We'll host the items and make them
searchable for free. There's more
info here."

Many people say that this is good for nothing because no "average Joe
user" is going to use this. Unfortunately I agree.

This is where find articles, ideas and all that stuff so that "the
world can access it" according to Google. But I say if nobody is going to
post an item then how is anybody going to access it? So it's got a long way
until it comes out of beta. But I figure that Google is probably going to add
more features to "First Base" (that's what Google called it in their
blog) The most traffic is probably going to be from people doing research
work (like us students)

Now to compare this with a traditional news source, by Robert Hof and Sarah
Lacy from Business week online have this to say about Google base.

They say that Google search might success, but how far can they go if they
don't have any adds. But they too say that Google has cool services. Their
very first line speculates that Google might be wanting to get a few
classified adds and so on. I agree that every company has to get money somehow
but I don't think that Google is going to stoop down that low and go for the
money instead of the quality. Although the adds do seem to get more and more,
on the search pages and G-mail. But as long as they aren't annoying little
banners or pop ups I don't think the public should mind.

Also mentioned is that classifieds are product search which is what
Google's mission is "make product search easier".

Source for slashdot article

Hof,Robert - Lacy, Sarah article

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Latest recipe

This is how your computer will look like when you read my latest recipe at tech-recipes.com. You better be saying oh my good this looks so cool in you mind! :-D . I'm pretty sure about that.

Remember if you have Windows XP then you can make you computer look like this too, without downloading stuff like Windows Blinds (from stardock) and StyleXP (from TGT soft).

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Sony DRM Rootkit

Okay so Sony is now being accused of having digital media malware in their CD's.
It is a evil program that hides behind the os. That's why it is really hard to kill! And the scary news is that more than 500 000 people are infected now! This evil thingy also creates holes in your OS (making itself like the OS) so that other viruses can easily make your computer their new home (for a long time!)! :( The good news is sony doesn't make such disks any more, and no more DRM for furture PS3 disks!!!!! Also there are free ways of how to check wheather you have the rootkit on your computer or not...

If you wan't to check if you are infected or not here are some instructions (from AlexTheBeast):

1) Right click on you desktop
2) Go to the new option and click on create a new text file
3) Then create a new file that starts with $sys$ (for example $sys$something.txt)
4) If you can't see your file after you click anywhere else on your desktop you have the DRM Rootkit installed
5) If you have the DRM Rootkit on your computer then... sue sony and become rich etc... (or atleast this is what AlexTheBeast says)

What the rootkit does is screws your $sys$ files. That's why if you create anything that has $sys$ on it it gets screwed up. The people over at symantec say this:

When SecurityRisk.First4DRM is executed, it performs the following actions:

Copies itself as the following file:%System%\$sys$filesystem\aries.sys.

Creates the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services$sys$aries

which loads the risk as a device driver when the compromised computer is started.

Hides any processes, files, folders, or registry subkeys that begin with the following string:

$sys$

Checks the name of all processes attempting to access these processes, files, folders, or registry subkeys. If the name of the process begins with the following string, it allows access:$sys$

Otherwise, the risk prevents access to the process, file, folder, or registry subkey."

According to The Register Sony BGM "suspended" production of audio 'CDs' that use XCP. Sony being a big company has given out patches to all major anti-virus companies, but still a virus is a virus is a virus! You can view sony's statement here...

But you can also get some tools with which you can scan your computer/remove the rootkit over here:

free rootkit scanning software
you can also this update to unhide the rootkit

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Working super hard on the reviews and the site design

Well folks I'm working real hard, althought you might not notice anychanges, this site is still being updated "from the inside" you might say.

My previous template had a lot of problems and apparently so does this one so I'm going to have to start from scratch to make a template that is easy to maintain and update.

Any updates will be posted here!

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Windows Live Messenger 8 (beta)

Yup, it's true Windows has started their new service called Windows live messenger 8 which is supposedly better from MSN Messenger.

And after trying it out for a while I think so too. I do have a couple of invites by the way, so if you want one just leave a comment (although you don't need an invite to test the beta version). So far there are vast improvements over it's predecessor and I seem to be liking the skin although it isn't completely to my taste.

I'll also see if I can write a review of the latest Windows Live Messenger version on tech-recipes. Or perhaps syschat as well... with lots of screenshots and so on to prove my points. Until then this article about Windows Live Messenger has to do.

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