Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:57 UTC
Ten years ago, Netscape launched their Navigator Web browser. c|net is celebrating with special coverage.
I remember my first Web browser, back in 1995, was the Internet Chameleon, which apparently many early ISPs(Internet Service Providers) distributed to their customers. Chameleon supported standard HTML (back in the day when it was an infantile 2.0 that, for the record, I did use to create Web pages); however, it did not support colors or the FONT tag, so for a while I didn’t know that pages could have any background color other than the default gray. Soon, though, I found Netscape Navigator 2.0 and began using a nice, colorful and easy-to-use browser.
So, I’m a Netscape user of eight years, now—or, I should say, I’m a Firefox user. In 2003, Time Warner helped launch the Mozilla Foundation, which continues the development of the browser engine.
I always find it interesting to find old press releases and early Web pages on the Web. It’s sort of fun because I can say, “I remember when the page looked like that,” or, “I remember when that came out.” In keeping with this sense of nostalgia, take a look at the original Netscape Navigator press release from October 1994, and take a glipse through the eyes of the Wayback Machine at the Netscape Web site as it appeared in 1996 (the earliest version available).
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:14 UTC
I was hunting around today for a good RSS reader, when I found something called Pluck. It sounded interesting enough, so I decided to check it out. Boasting claims of no adware/spyware, I thought, “Well, maybe it’s okay.” Still, claims or no claims, I am always wary of freeware. Nonetheless, I wanted to see what it could do and whether it was what I wanted. In short, it wasn’t. It was a plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This planted another seed in my head. “What if,” thought I, “Mozilla has such an extension for Firefox?” So, I proceeded to Mozilla.org.
I went to the extensions page for Firefox, where I found an RSS Reader Panel extension. It works great for what I wanted. I have now placed my entire blogroll into the panel, which pulls the RSS links from any specified bookmark folder. It also provides a Feedster search bar, and it can import and export OPML files. I’m thinking about exporting my OPML files regularly and importing them into my blogroll on this site. That way, I can keep both lists in sync.
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Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:19 UTC
Today, I received an e-mail in response to my comments on Alison Overholt’s “The Google of E-mail?” from Ms. Overholt herself of Fast Company. She directed me to a page where she has posted several reader comments that she has received since her article went to press.
For the record, I did not say that Mozilla Thunderbird “has calendaring built in.” I said that it has a calendar extension available for users to install.
Alison Overholt’s article, The Google of E-mail? is now available on-line.
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:33 UTC
I just read “The Google of Email?” in the March issue of Fast Company. In this article, Alison Overholt examines flaws in Microsoft Outlook and looks for a competing e-mail client to take its place. The good alternative client, she concludes, is Bloomba. The folks at Bloomba must’ve paid her for this blatant attempt at publicity; she doesn’t review any other competitors. The major reason she recommends Bloomba is for its search features. The “powerful [search] feature makes folders largely unnecessary,” says Overholt.
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