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Apfelgluck

Member since: Sep 15th, 2009

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Dear Microsoft, please keep your lousy mitts off my Firefox install (Download Squad)

Oct 18th 2009 6:03AM OK, I'm not aware of that. Anyway, like crossing the road, always better to have a look at the traffic than to trust the only red/green light, always better as well to check installed plugins... and the remaining of the computer :)

Dear Microsoft, please keep your lousy mitts off my Firefox install (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2009 3:29PM That's because it has been added to Mozilla's Add-ons Blocklist :
https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/

Dear Microsoft, please keep your lousy mitts off my Firefox install (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2009 3:25PM Not to mention 'Google Earth Plugin" installed de facto with ... Google Earth.
I think it's about time Firefox sets a permission request for ANY plugin install.

David Lynch's Interview Project blog launches Oct. 20 (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2009 6:06AM That's the America I love, that's the America all French love.

Google's Street View trike goes where no Street View has gone before (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2009 6:03AM A simple trike... with thousands of dollars' worth of photo equipment : I just love that combination of old simple traditional stuff (though when the wheel was invented it wasn't then so traditional!) and modern technology: yeps, big hands don't make their way through needles :)

Microsoft's Ballmer expects Windows 7 effect on new system sales to be "not huge" (Download Squad)

Oct 12th 2009 4:19AM Perhaps one thing Ballmer has learned from Google is a sleeker communication behaviorism. Less enthusiast less sincere less spontaneous, but radically more efficient to the extend of hypocrisy implied. It's not that Google is more intelligent but rather that they are smarter in terms of seduction, like "follow me if you want, as you like it, I don't care". It works!

Keeping your OS patched isn't enough (Download Squad)

Oct 12th 2009 4:12AM The article is not limited to Adobe Reader! As I understand it the general idea is to stay vigilant not only regarding OS updates but applications - mainly those intensively used and mare particularly those accessing the Web - as well. It's a good thing to have this reminded.

As for Adobe Reader, I use it and have always found alternatives to be of lesser rendering quality and lacking advanced options. Also, these alternatives have had as well their lot of flaws, Foxit as well.

Last but not least, There are fashions of love and haste, and being anti-Adobe is of those, like anti-Microsoft. This attitude is relevant IMO of either childishness and/or follwers of the pack. Think free, gentlemen!

Google Street View released for Canada and the Czech Republic (Download Squad)

Oct 12th 2009 4:01AM "There's something surreal about finding your own house in Google Maps, then actually looking at your front door."
So true! And viewing one's past house, door, windows as well.. I've spent a few years of my childhood in a nice little place in a nice little street in a nice Swiss city, and "street-viewing" that very house, in that very city of Lausanne, and then moving around, streets, avenues, squares, parks, as if I was actually there, almost physically, was indeed surreal. I dare say, an exceptional experience!

Microsoft Security Essentials leaves beta, available for download 9/29/2009 (Download Squad)

Sep 29th 2009 4:57AM EDIT : sorry for previous comment, I made a copy/paste mistake ...

My post was, is, this one:
What about privacy concerns :
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/info/privacy.aspx?mkt=en-us
Should I be doubtful?

Microsoft Security Essentials leaves beta, available for download 9/29/2009 (Download Squad)

Sep 29th 2009 4:52AM You can easily find the wallpaper on Google Images with search = "virtual insanity". Found one anyway sized 1280x1024, saw 1024x768, other sizes not sure! I sort of like (like like love) this wallpaper as well :)