Okay, it might only be a release candidate for Firefox 3 .. but it is the best browser I have used. It is lightning fast, the 'smart bar' for an address bar is absolutely phenomenal. Some of the best features of all the major browsers are incorporated into RC1, but it remains extremely fast. Let me give you a little tour:

1. The Fastest Browser so far.
I'm not exaggerating at all. Lifehacker has done tests on RC1, and it has turned out to be the speediest browser:

"Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple's Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2." - From Lifehacker

2. Sleek New Design
I don't know about you, but I spend a gigantic amount of time on the internet, in my web browser. So much so that I acctually care about how the browser looks around the page it is framing. Firefox 3 RC1 really delivers with much sleeker tabs, buttons, and ever the 'Back' button has been redesigned to be larger for when you need to go back. The regular buttons are take up less room and the tabs are shorter in height, which really adds some space.

3. Smart Bar
The Firefox Address bar is offically one of the coolest address bars I've seen. Like most browsers it will look through your history, and as you begin to type it will give you a list of places you've recently visited. But the cool part is the more you use it, that smarter it becomes. If you type in 'Tw' when you are going to twitter.com, and twit.tv shows up first, you simply can press the down button a few times to get to the twitter.com entry. The next time you type 'Tw' it will bring up twitter.com before twit.tv.

Firefox 3 has certainly won me over, and now I can't wait for the offical version so developers update all of their addons.

Farewell

Anyone still reading this blog, I've moved to another attempt at blogging at stu2tech.blogspot.com. Hope to see you all there!

Storage Options

Well .. I decided to let you all have a little freebie of one of my 50 Tips and Tricks for the Average User. Enjoy!

What will be your 'File System'?
People often go directly to the main hard drive for storage, but the problem with an internal hard drive is it limits how much space you can have depending on how much money you wish to spend. You an get a lot more bang for your buck with external drives. Also, if you deafult to the hard drive, space gets filled up very quickly especially if you work with images, sounds, and other types of media. A widely used technology would be the USB flash drive. Most cost around $20 and can hold a Gigabyte of space, which is fine if you are dealing with text documents. But if you only rely on USB Flash Drives, you are limited to what you can store. A whole new type of storage is an External Storage Drive. Basically an external storage drive plugs into your computer via USB or Firewire, and can hold large amounts of files. Storage drives can run up to 500 Gigabytes, and if you get a "Drobo", you get like 10 times that. A Drobo is a storage robot that you plug multiple hard drives into, and it tells you when you need to insert a larger drives. It also protect your data from damage sections of your hard drive, retrieving the data that may have been lost otherwise. Although External Drives can run up to over $200, but its well worth it when you realise all the versatility of a drive.

Apps for the iPhone?

Well its offical. Steve Jobs just recently announced that the iPhone with have an SDK so all of you who upgraded to 1.1.1 and missed your iPhone applications, you can bet on them being back. I mean the iPhone is such a advancement in cell phones... why not take it further with so apps that will possibly make it one of the most versatile phones ever!

50 Tips and Tricks for the Average User

I am going to write a Article that contains my most used 50 Tips and Tricks about the internet. If you have any you want to add email me at area62b@gmail.com