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Firefox 3 World Record was a success

July 4th, 2008

That’s right, with over 8 million downloads within 24 hours, a new Guinness World Record was set with the title of “Most software downloaded in 24 hours.” If you downloaded Firefox 3 on the download day, you can brag for being part of a world record. Congratulations for the Mozilla team for the victory!

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.

Spread Firefox

After releasing Firefox 3, nearly 30 million people have downloaded it, compared to the mere few million who promised to download it on the download day. I too, am a happy Firefox 3 user at the moment. You can also read about the ins and outs of the new a better Firefox at SitePoint.

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Firefox 3 is here!

June 18th, 2008

Alrighty folks, it’s time to grab your copy of Firefox 3, now! Stats are showing that over 5 million people have already downloaded, why not join the fun?

Firefox aims for a Guinness World Record on June 17th!

June 9th, 2008

Download Day 2008

Firefox 3 is looming in the distance with tens of thousands of fixes and new features, so it surely will be a nice upgrade from 2.x and lower versions. Now Mozilla asks everyone to help them set a new Guiness World Record; most software downloaded in 24 hours. To do this, you’ll need to download a copy of Firefox 3 on the download day. You can throw up a Firefox party at your school or workplace, collect pledges, and invite people to social networking groups at places like MySpace and Facebook. More info on getting involved.

So far, a nice number of 945,676 1,083,334 people all around the world have promised to download Firefox 3 when it’s time. Want to make a promise? Do it now.

Update:

Mozilla has announced a release date: June 17th. Be sure to be around that day, and download you own piece of Firefox 3 ownage!

Affraid of visiting MySpace?

June 9th, 2008

Then here’s you solution. One of the best.

And MySpacers, don’t take it too seriously.

Free Photoshop eBook from SitePoint

May 28th, 2008

That’s right, free of charge and no obscure oddities. SitePoint is offering a free copy of their eBook The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques. Go grab yours!

It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need download this book.

School and other major things.

May 17th, 2008

I haven’t written anything in a while. In fact, I haven’t done anything constructive in a while, except reading for exams.

I hope to get a design done for the summer holidays, I hope I begin writing more, but even more I hope I someday graduate from high school. I put school and other “real life” things before my blog. Eventhough I love designing and writing the occasional blogpost, I need to work off-blog for a while (which I’ve been doing for the past few weeks).

Sorry to dissappoint you, but expect to see more activity during the summer. In the meanwhile, you can help me build my about page. Thanks.

Gears of War: Justified Locust killing

April 30th, 2008

Hehe, I read this from my feed reader.

An independent group holding a Gears of War Crimes Tribunal at the Coalition of Ordered Governments headquarters Wednesday to assess whether Delta Squad members Colonel Hoffman, Marcus Fenix, and Dominic Santiago had committed atrocities against the Locust Horde found the three super-soldiers’ actions justified.

And yet again, WP 2.5.1

April 28th, 2008

The WordPress team has released another new version of WordPress for everyone to upgrade to. I’ll be upgrading once I’ve got the time in my hands.

Rdegree upgraded to WordPress 2.5

April 19th, 2008

WordPress banner

Alrighty, rdegree has been upgraded from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.5. It went very well. No problems or random hickups so far. And it took around merely 10 minutes—excluding download and upload times with FTP of course.

I like the new interface in the admin panel, although some options and buttons have been moved to quite odd places. I’ve also upgraded my offline version, so I can continue creating the design and keep the two synchronized. And all plugins work fine, no need to wake up creators for new versions.

Is the internet getting old and rugged?

April 17th, 2008

Some of you must’ve heard about this, but I just found it. I just love these scientists, they’ve been researching on a grid system, capable of transmitting information quite a bit faster than the normal connections people use when surfing the net.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

Times Online

Yeah, I was awestruck by that statement. And I thought I had a speedy connection. I can already imagine real-time FPS matches with hundreds, even thousands of players. Lag-free! And think about file-sharing. Gigs after gigs, in mere seconds.

Of course, the system is still quite young. Oh well, you can always hope.