February 14, 2008

Spending Valentine's Single Awareness day with Hitz.Fm

It's Valentine's morning. Unfortunately. Noot. Haha
On this sad day, at least one station is feeling me, Hitz.fm. Listen. Listen.
As DJ Rudy of the Morning Crew puts it... Its Single Awareness Day aka Sad Day. Haha
Tune in fellow Singlers as they cut off ppl getting all mushy and all! Nyahahaha
A sure make-you-day station esp with the selection of songs ;)
Ah, back to listening... I think I should holla at em "nice" deejays. LOL

February 12, 2008

Holy mamas!! its my b'day?!

I didn't know it was my b'day until one good buddy called me a 12 am sharp in the middle of the night. Kinda like last night. Anyways... I can't believe I did nothing today and its less than 10 minutes before this supposedly special day ends.
Sad. Very sad indeed.

February 10, 2008

Flash with Firefox/Opera without Installation

Since last week I've been wondering if there was a method to install Flash on only Opera without affecting Firefox. While Flash can be annoying and possibly compromise your security, you cannot deny it becoming a standard these days for so-called "interactive dynamic websites". Let's see if Microsoft's SilverLight can do any good to rival Flash.
Well, I've managed to find a workaround (credits to Fabio Varesano) without having to install. Might be useful for some of you or maybe not. In any case, this could well be informative. People behind administrative constraints might find this useful assuming they have access to the local drive where the installation of Windows is located.
Here's the workaround:

  1. Download XPI archive of the Flash Player Plugin to your hard disk. fyi, XPI archives are like ZIP files.
  2. Extract the files in the archive using WinRar or your preferred file compression app.
  3. Copy the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to %APPDATA%\Opera\Program\Plugins\
    %APPDATA% is the folder which holds your applications profiles and settings. (You can open this folder simply choosing "Start → Run → Type in %APPDATA% → OK")
  4. Restart Opera
If you want to install it on Firefox instead, here's the steps:
  1. Download the XPI archive of the Flash Player Plugin to your hard disk.
  2. Extract the files in the archive
  3. Copy the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\ where
  4. Restart Firefox
Note that these steps are obviously only for MS Windows.
Rationale behind this? Nothing really. This is just a matter of preference. Some of you might say, why go through all the trouble when there are good utilities/add-ons around the net like Adblock, Flashblock etc. Well, I want to keep Firefox flash-free; I refuse to go through installation.
Then again ,why not just use Microshit's Internet Explorer (IE) you might say... Forget IE unless you're still using version 6. What about version 7? Apparently, there are problems running this bugware browser with the latest Flash 9 esp. on crappy Vista. Like most of the "victims" around this netsphere, I still haven't found a solution. My major prob is that IE7 crashes/closes/gets raped suddenly when I open certain sites or certain pages (hell, I can't even create a new post at Blogger.com using IE7, even if there's no Flash content). Adobe's re-installation solution doesn't work. Bah.
I've a feeling them bloody buggers don't even know what's wrong or worse, what they are actually doing. I hope this is not intentional from Microshit. With the introduction of Silverlight some time ago, I don't see any reason why they won't do that. Marketing strategy eh? Someone enlighten me please.

End of Support for Netscape web browsers

AOL will officially end support of their long time legendary browser on March 1st, 2008.
This means that there'll be no more Netscape.
In their FAQ page, the development team recommended Netscape users to port to Mozilla Firefox. Apparently, full support has been given by Netscape. Does this mean the people behind the Netscape browser are moving to Firefox?
Surprising? Not really. Netscape users have been declining over the years even after being taken over by AOL. Just like the demise of AOL browsers so goes Netscape. Guess AOL is bad luck after all. Too bad. So much for all the history and its long time war with Microsoft's Buggy Explorer.
Fellow Netscape users? Time to uninstall and port to Firefox ;)
Read the announcement on their website.