Mike Shaver Extends Firefox
On 3 November 2005, Mozilla announced the Extend Firefox contest to encourage developers to create or upgrade thier extensions for v1.5 of Firefox. If you’re a developer, the deadline for submission is 6 January 2005. Chris talked with Mike Shaver from Mozilla about the Extend Firefox contest and many of the cool new features in Firefox 1.5 which warrant an upgrade as soon as all your favorite extensions catch up. If you’re not a developer, this means the next several months should result in a ton of new features for Firefox so keep your eyes out for enhanced Firefox features.
The following are the show notes for the November 17rd, 2005 edition of the Chris Pirillo Show.
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Aloha from Hawaii
Yep, Chris and Ponzi are on vacation in Hawaii, enjoying the warm sun and beaches, but that won’t stop them from bringing us a new show tonight. The segments are prerecorded but they’re all new.
Chris speaks at the Podcast Expo
Y’all remember how much fun we had with Gnomenclature? At the Portable Media Expo Chris came up with these:
- FLUCKR – An individual who doesn’t reciprocate you as a friend on any social network.
- DIGG DUH – A three year-old link that suddenly gets popular again.
- CAN’TVERGENCE – An excuse that a company might give you to explain that their proprietary hardware and/or software solution is going to one day rule the world without interoperating with other devices.
- WEB 2.0 – I don’t know, and I don’t care.
- MOTHER FLUCKR – Anybody who tries to be everybody’s friend in a social networking environment.
- SKYPEE – The act of going to the restroom in the middle of a VoIP conversation without the other party knowing.
- iPODAMMIT – (1) Exclamation from someone who just purchased a new portable media product only to realize that a newer, smaller, better version was being released next month; (2) Exclamation from any company that isn’t Apple, Inc.
- PODCASTING – Um… so I think… I’ll… uh… yeah. Ya know, I think… uh… yeah, so… um… where was I? Oh yeah. Ya know when, um… like, ya know when I was going to the… uh, yeah. Um… um… I think?
- ONTARIO – Old French term for “No Restaurant or Good Coffee within Walking Distance.”
- LIBSTYNG – The pain one feels when his/her affordable podcasting service goes down without warning.
- DAWN ANDREW – A very confused Midwestern housewife who keeps getting dirty calls at 3AM.
- YAHOOTERS! – The name a restaurant chain takes when a popular search engine aquires it to “increase productivity.”
- EVIAN FLU – A disease that spreads through hotels, causing them to charge you $4 for bottled water in your room
Ask Leo
There’s tons of free and open-source software out there. Is any of it it any good? Links and other resources at http://ask-leo.com/is_free_software_a_viable_alternative.html
