Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Google Browser Sync

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icarus
on July 12, 2006
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If you use Firefox on more then one system and are tired of having to update your bookmarks manually or even copying the bookmarks.html around, this is the answer.
The Google Browser Sync is a wonderful extention to Firefox that syncs your bookmarks, cookies, history and even saved passwords in with your gmail account. This makes using multiple systems feel like you’re using the same one. If you’re digging around your history or marking pages as much as I do this makes it much easier to keep together.

I was using a bookmark syncronizer that used FTP to save and read the bookmarks, but that was limited to only the bookmarks and the project is no longer supported and does not work with Firfox 1.5. I’m sure there are arguments about the Google Browser Sync and privacy, things like Goolge is collecting your private information for some ultimate evil goal of world domination. I think these people watched too much Pinky and The Brain.

If you use Firefox across multiple machines (even just two) this is an invaluable extention that has at least saved me a lot of trouble.

The Kororaa Saga Continues

Published
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icarus
on July 11, 2006
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I’ve been watching this issue continue on since my original posting on it. The verdict from th FSF (Free Software Foundation) seems to be that combining the binary drivers with any other GPL code on the same disk is in violation.

Looks like it could be bad news for the Kororaa Project, which means the project is going to be canceled unless they can figure out a way to add the binary drivers separately. Off the top of my head I would say make the pre-’compiled’ binaries available that can be loaded off a USB device or floppy, if there is even a way to have the disk startup without the drivers (command line only until the drivers are loaded?).

I will defiantly still be keeping an eye on this project and really hope for the best with them.