11 February 2008

Belated Happy Chinese New Year

Alright, I'm back from my hometown yesterday. The traffic was terrible and it took 8 hours to reach KL from Penang! A huge headache! ...

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Babbled at 7:35 PM cosmos

14 January 2008

Phoenity is back

... Phoenity. ...

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Babbled at 5:33 PM cosmos

26 September 2007

Vista-style tweaks for Firefox

Last time, I used to play a lot with the Firefox interface. The following web pages can prove it: ...

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Babbled at 8:42 PM cosmos

05 November 2006

Back to the two browsers

I'm in Kuala Lumpur now, just back from Penang two days ago. I got to admit, taking the bus to and fro is getting very exhausting these days. Sigh. ...

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Babbled at 11:41 PM cosmos

12 September 2005

Playing with portable applications

As I blogged before, I've bought a pretty cheap 512Mb USB Flash drive from PC fair last month. It's really a great gadget for me to store my lecture notes, ...

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Babbled at 3:00 PM cosmos

08 July 2005

Firefox Secrets

Cheah Chu Yeow is the man! Though he hasn't been blogging much last few months, but he's sure capable to produce such wonderful book for everyone. Also not forgetting Asa ...

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Babbled at 2:38 PM cosmos

17 June 2005

Breast in Phoenity?

... This is really one of the funniest user comments I've ever read. Who would have thought of that? This comment is posted on my theme's comments page on Mozilla Update ...

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Babbled at 8:34 PM cosmos

18 January 2005

Firefox logo mania

... I think I did this two months ago but I couldn't remember. Anyway, I won't keep it on my hard drive for long. My hands got itchy at that time, ...

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Babbled at 8:29 PM cosmos

11 December 2004

First steps in theme design

I remember before I started making themes for Phoenix, I don't know anything at all about icons design and theme design. At that time, I have never even created a ...

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Babbled at 8:19 PM cosmos

11 November 2004

Personal review of Firefox 1.0

... After two years of using Firefox, I have never actually write a thorough review of this browser. Okay, I am not a tech specialist or journalist but somehow I feel ...

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Babbled at 8:14 AM cosmos

09 November 2004

Firefox 1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released! ...

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Babbled at 10:51 PM cosmos

31 October 2004

The inverted Firefox experiment

Would anyone like to conduct an experiment? A very simple experiment? ...

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Babbled at 9:45 PM cosmos

More Malaysian Firefox fans

This time, I found more fans, thanks to Kar Soon's initiative. This proves that most Malaysian Firefox fans are partygoers! ...

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Babbled at 8:44 PM cosmos

24 October 2004

Firefox 1.0 party in Malaysia

I couldn't believe my eyes. Someone named karsoon has initiated a party in Malaysia! The location hasn't been settled yet, but I don't see Penang listed there, unfortunately. Even more ...

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Babbled at 9:20 PM cosmos

17 October 2004

Malaysian Firefox fans

After days of searching, I'm quite disappointed to find only a few Malaysian Firefox fans: ...

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Babbled at 6:57 PM cosmos

10 October 2004

Malaysians and Firefox

I always wonder, am I the only Malaysian involved in this Firefox mania? I asked myself this question ever since the release of Phoenix 0.1, about two years ago. If ...

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Babbled at 7:08 PM cosmos

30 September 2004

Smart icon sizing

I've spent the last few days updating the Phoenity theme for Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR. Again, I found few more interface glitches during the process. I also had some problems ...

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Babbled at 9:21 PM cosmos

19 September 2004

'Address' label for address bar

Last two weeks, David Tenser quoted: ...

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Babbled at 6:38 PM cosmos

15 September 2004

Spreading Firefox

Wow. These days, Firefox is spreading so fast! So many things happened and I'm so slow to catch up. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is now available, and I encourage ...

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Babbled at 8:17 PM cosmos

07 September 2004

Conceptual Firefox

... Oh no, my right hand gets itchy again. That means I need to draw something. Anything, as long as it's art. If there's a paper and pencil around, my hand ...

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Babbled at 8:20 PM cosmos

23 August 2004

Firefox Dust 2

Last month, I wrote about some dusts I found in Firefox. I supposed it's a good read for most Firefox users. However, it is only the scratch of the surface. ...

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Babbled at 8:41 PM cosmos

15 August 2004

Mozilla verses

The first ever Mozilla build I've downloaded is Mozilla 0.8. At that time, I have only half years of computing experience. I was quite excited to discover an easter egg ...

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Babbled at 10:32 AM cosmos

02 August 2004

Scrollbar tweaks

... Do you notice anything weird in the screenshot? Take a look at it carefully. It's neither the themes list nor the buttons. No, it's not a trick image or whatever. ...

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Babbled at 8:46 PM cosmos

27 July 2004

Firefox Dust

I've quietly released Phoenity 1.2 for Firefox yesterday night. It's a huge update with lots of fixes and changes, especially the bug fix with Googlebar extension. The updating process has ...

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Babbled at 2:02 PM cosmos

14 July 2004

Better browser

Firefox is truly a better browser with new features coming up for version 1.0. The recent popularity of Firefox sparks more interesting Firefox switch sites made by Firefox fans. There ...

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Babbled at 10:46 PM cosmos

12 July 2004

Bored and Bugged

The official Firefox switch web page looks boring. The official Firefox home page also looks boring. That's why we need a better Firefox landmark. And I volunteered to help out ...

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Babbled at 11:28 PM cosmos

10 July 2004

Firefox everywhere

Okay, I've added my own Firefox review and downloaded the Firefox 0.9.2 torrent file from pryan.org Mozilla Bittorrent tracker using Yet Another Bittorrent Client 2.6.8. By the way, I found ...

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Babbled at 11:01 PM cosmos

Community action

The Mozila community has been very busy lately. Mozilla 1.7.1, Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 were released altogether. Frankly speaking, I haven't download Firefox 0.9.1 yet. I guess ...

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Babbled at 1:03 PM cosmos

08 July 2004

Busy schedule

Why do I get more busy than ever? I have more work at school and more projects to be done. I still have the Phoenity theme lying on my hard ...

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Babbled at 10:48 PM cosmos

04 July 2004

Catching up

I'm really, really late. Many things happened in just few days and I'm too slow to catch up. Firefox 0.9.1 released five days ago and I haven't even download it ...

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Babbled at 9:05 PM cosmos

28 June 2004

Take Two

Kevin Gerich wrote about the new Winstripe 0.2. It's a very good read. I could actually feel its glory eventhough I didn't get my hands on it yet. Wow. I'm ...

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Babbled at 8:36 PM cosmos

27 June 2004

More Winstripe and Gmail stuff

Okay, MozillaZine forum is back to normal. Great. I read discussions about the upcoming Firefox 0.9.1 and the new Winstripe. Pretty good. At the same time, I found out that ...

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Babbled at 9:19 PM cosmos

Winstripe changes and Gmail stuff

Early morning I got online and found out that MozillaZine forum is down. Something must have happened. And I don't even know why. Maybe due to the recent changes in ...

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Babbled at 2:35 PM cosmos

19 June 2004

Homesick Winstripe

Today, I look at Winstripe again. This time, I focus on the Home icon. Before I start to experiment with this, I asked myself, what is a home? What should ...

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Babbled at 2:21 PM cosmos

16 June 2004

Firefox 0.9 installation

... I've uninstalled Mozilla Firefox 0.9RC and 0.8 from my Windows XP system. I've deleted the Firefox folder from the profiles directory, just to make sure everything starts out clean. ...

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Babbled at 10:18 PM cosmos

15 June 2004

Double Surprises

This morning, the weather was better than yesterday. I felt energetic throughout the lessons conducted in my class. After school, I went to my Pengajian Am tuition. Later, I went ...

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Babbled at 10:37 PM cosmos

13 June 2004

Winstripe Reloaded

Reload or Refresh? Internet Explorer uses Refresh. Mozilla and Opera use Reload. Both has the same meaning and function. Both has the same icon, which displays two arrows pointing in ...

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Babbled at 1:51 PM cosmos

12 June 2004

Winstripe Stoppage

... It's time for another detective work. Today, I focus on the Stop icon. It's quite a controversial icon, because it always interferes with other icons such as Delete, Close and ...

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Babbled at 2:16 PM cosmos

11 June 2004

Back to Winstripe

I've been looking at Winstripe, pixel by pixel. I feel like want to do some detective work on it. If you roughly take a look at the icons, they feel ...

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Babbled at 2:01 PM cosmos

10 June 2004

Winstripe in action

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Candidate released today!! Oh, I mean yesterday. Or maybe my time zone here is a bit different. Or maybe I'm a little late. Neil Turner already ...

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Babbled at 10:46 PM cosmos

09 June 2004

Firefox theme drama

I've been reading. A lot. About the upcoming default theme for Firefox that has been haunting quite a number of people lately. The new theme is called Winstripe, replacing Arvid ...

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Babbled at 3:19 PM cosmos

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