Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads

Congratulations to the everyone at the Mozilla Co and Spread Firefox!

No hurry...but in V3, can you take out the "crash every 20 minutes feature?"

Keeping Your Windows Software Updated With FileHippo Update Checker

If you're like me, you have a ton of software on your computer. I install and uninstall different pieces of software daily. One thing I've wished I had on the Windows side, that I've grown accustomed to on Linux, is automatic updates for all my software.

In Linux, you …

How To Encrypt Your Keystrokes With a Firefox Plugin

I'm always looking for better ways to secure myself and my computer. I use TOR to browse anonymously, TrueCrypt to encrypt personal files, TrackMeNot to keep Google from profiling me, a Clear Private Data plugin in Firefox so starting from a clean slate is just a right …

Google: Don't Buy a Zune

I was trying to get a Zune for my sister today but was outbid at the very end. Here's the follow up email I got from eBay...

Thanks for having my back Google.

Microsoft...You Suck

I'm waiting until October to make the switch to Linux for good, but until then, I guess I will enjoy what time I have left on a Windows machine.

It always cheers me up when I get errors like this...

So you're telling me that I got an error....when I was reporting an …

Pidgin Bug - Won't Open After It's Closed to the Sys Tray (Windows)

Well, I've now experienced my first bug in Pidgin. I don't think however that it is actually a problem with Pidgin itself because I didn't notice any trouble until I enabled the "Windows Pidgin Options" Plugin.

Basically, I have it setup so when I 'x' out of the …

Adding Popup Notifications In Pidgin

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After using this plugin for a few days, Pidgin kept locking up and I was able to track it down to Guifications...follow this tutorial at your own risk:)

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So I've been using Pidgin for not quite a week now and it really made me …

Paypal Security Key and Multifactor Authentication

After listening to an episode of Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast about the new PayPal Security Key, I promptly ordered one.

If you're not sure what the Security Key is, it's a small dongle that is linked to your PayPal and eBay accounts. It has a small screen that …

IE6 Adding Extra Space Between Navigation Lists

So I'm working on a new template for Wordpress and thought I was done...until I checked it in Internet Explorer 6.

I was using an unordered list to do my navigation, which means my CSS code looked something like this

#sidebar ul {

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 20px 0;

If Operating Systems Were Houses

What if Unix, Windows, Linux and OSX were houses?

 UNIX is the old Victorian Mansion that was the first of it's kind and set the standard for all things to come.

 It is still considered one of the most solid and stable houses ever built since it was build by compliant …

Encrypting IM With Pidgin On Windows

So I'm slowly moving away from all proprietary software that I currently use. Next on the list, Windows Live Messenger (I know, who uses that anymore, I do...or I did)

The major thing holding me back was I needed a client that supported RSA encryption since I tend to …

Easily the Coolest Grandma EVER

I was listening to Leo Laporte's Tech Guy #378 and a lady named Karen called in. Karen is a Linux using grandma who was fed up with Micro$oft's bs and took matters into her own hands.

Linux grandma FTW

http://rapidshare.com/files/49250971/linuxGrandma.mp3.html

I cut out …

Randy Jensen Online New Site Design

Finally, after years of the same old design, and...well, years of trying to force myself to create a new design. It's here!

The new design is live (randyjensenonline.com)

No Receipt, No Service: The Best Buy Way

If you want to skip all the crap and just read my thoughts on Best Buy as a company, skip towards the end to the Final Thoughts section.

I was recently given a 250Gb Western Digital hard drive as a gift. I plugged the drive in and it worked fine...for the two days. …

Bad News

Just got done listening to the new net@nite podcast and found out the Leo is not going to be at SXSW:( Turns out because his radio show was just recently nationally syndicated and he apparently has to speak at some radio conference.

Not the end of the world, but I would …

HDMI Cable Rundown

So you just got a brand new 503 Hi-Def TV and now you're about to build up your amazing home entertainment system. You've got your TV, tuner, upconverting DVD player, surround sound speakers, XBOX 360, maybe even a MythTV box to record all your favorite TV shows and …

More South By Southwest Juiciness

I had heard about this a couple days ago but didn't think anything of it. After I heard it a second time, I had to at least check it out...and boy am I glad I did.

The artists at SXSW have put together a 3.1Gig torrent file of their music. FREE. This is your chance to …

Stick It To the Cell Phone-Man

For the past couple months I've been seeing tons of articles dealing with "Confessions of a <insert cell phone company here> Sales Rep". There are tons of amazing resources and tips in these so I thought would put together a list of all the different stories for easy …

Finally Here!! ...yesterday

So we got into Austin yesterday for South By Southwest about 45 minutes late and ended up missing the first two panels after we had to go through registration. Oh, and after we stood in the wrong line for 20 minutes until we got to the front and the lady told us to go …

Saturday Recap At South By Southwest

Ok, so I've finally got some time to sit down and relax and let you guys know what's going on in Austin at the 2007 South By Southwest Interactive Festival. Here's what happened on Saturday...

Saturday - March 10

10:15 am

As I've already mentioned, we got in a bit late, …