I have heard of WOW playing geek pornstar, but I don’t think I have ever heard of a pornstar programmer.

Thanks Firefox for not opening 43,648 new windows!

Sometime we take certain things for granted. Certain things like Pop-up blockers that makes your online experiences much more pleasant. But if you want to be pedantic about it, we should thank Opera for being the first browser (among other firsts) to implement Pop-up blockers.

There are fanboys and then there are Apple Fanboys.

Personally I am anything but an Apple fanboy. I have a Unibody Macbook, which I bought one year after it came out. I waited six months after iPhone 3G came out, and almost 2 years after the first iphone release to get my iphone. But I like my Apple products the same way I am content with my Windows7 PC and Ubuntu-only laptop.

Fanboys, by definition, are irrational supporter of whatever they support. They will stay on line for days to buy the latest release of phone or laptop or movie or gaming system. This is not unique to Apple, Microsoft has its share of fanboys with Xbox and Google has its share of fanboys with Search, gmail and Chrome and Star Wars franchise has its share of fanboys with each extended, super-HD, behind-the-scene, collector-edition release.

But what makes Apple fanboys unique and why is it so easy to be an Apply fanboy? (more…)

Firefox 4 will be the biggest release in its history in terms of the amount of changes coming to the most widely used open-source software and the second most popular browser. A lot of these changes are a long time coming and Mozilla has received some flack in recent times for not being able to keep up with the pace of changes in performances and features already available in much lesser used browsers. Some even went as far as calling Firefox the new IE with its constant stability issues and lack of major updates.

Lets look at some of the exciting changes coming to Firefox 4, which is expected to be released by the end of this year. Some of these changes are already available on Minefield nightlies.

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