BUZZURRO

Are you a Firefox user who upgraded to 1.5 (like me), and had some extensions that don’t work anymore because not compatible with that version, and no compatibility upgrade is available yet ? Try this >>

This blog is bilingual. This post is too. If you click on the Italian flag, you can switch to its Italian version.
Since now, some posts will be bilingual.
I was born and raised in Italy, I’m mother tongue Italian, there’s where I come from.
That’s the obvious reason why I will always write in Italian too.
Italians can read the Italian version of something I will write, because not everyone is proficient in English.
“Italian version” doesn’t mean “translation”. I’m planning to write more or less the same concepts in both languages. More or less, because translation is treason.
I hope you appreciate this feature of our blog, made possible because of the software behind it.
The base software is called Wordpress, a really really WONDERFUL one, while the thing that makes bilingual posts possible is called Polyglot, and it was developed by Martin Chlupac, who I thank.

Here is a technique is explained for giving your site a Page Rank of 10. Supposedly it works. Being Buzzurro.net brand new, after one week of life it has a zero PR, and a TTLB of “insignificant microbe” or something. Here is a site with a PR of 10 for demo purposes.
If, though, you want to check a demo PR 9 site, PR 8 site, or any PR down to 5, they have it.

Anyway, I think I will NOT give this technique a try…

This USB key, if stolen, is able to send an email to the legit owner saying: hey, I’m here, here’s the IP address of the PC I’m connected to, take me back home ! Cool.

Not only…

It can be remotely controlled, so that it clears out all data it contains. Not bad.

And, who stole my laptop ?

[Via Geeksquare]

The reading of this post is reserved to geeks who use Firefox. The others may skip it.

NewsMonster is supposed to be sort of a Firefox extension that should act as a RSS reader.
Do you want my advice ? NEVER EVER install it !

Good reasons for not installing it:
- the uninstall procedure DOESN’T WORK. How would you want to install a thing you cannot uninstall ?
- After the installation, a wide sidebar appears on the right, approximately 30% the size of the window, NOT sizeable, not shrinkable.
- some of the menu items added by NewsMonster seem not to work (especially the “NewsMonster Preferences” menu item, from which, by the way, you are supposed to uninstall the product…)
- unlike other Firefox extensions, NewsMonster is not listed among the other installed extensions (via the “Tools | Extensions” menu item)
- the OPML import function doesn’t work. I tried to import my RSS feeds in OPML format, and it imported only one of them.

I successfully uninstalled it by doing the following tasks:
- closed Firefox
- deleted the c:\newsmonster folder
- under “c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome”, I deleted “newsmonster.jar”
- under “c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\components”, I deleted a group of files (*.jar, *.js) last modified at 10/23/2003, 3:13 AM
- under “c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\ subdirectories, edited every recently changed *.rdf file, trying either to delete xml tags containing the “newsmonster” string, or turning them into comments, i.e. changing tags like

<RDF:li>…newsmonster…</RDF:li>

<!–RDF:li>…newsmonster…</RDF:li–>

I’d not generally advice to do what I did for erasing NewsMonster. Don’t do this at home. You might get burned.
Instead, I’d suggest to uninstall Firefox and reinstall it.

If you want a fairly good RSS reader, try FeedDemon. It is not perfect, it has a few defects , but it’s better than many other RSS readers.

And DON’T install NewsMonster, for Heaven’s sake !