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Archive for February, 2005

AviDardik.com is featured in Whatsup.co.il

AviDardik.com is finally featured somewhere..
My documented attempt of replacing Windows XP with Linux as my desktop OS is featured in Whatsup.co.il – Israel's premiere Linux site.
The Whatsup.co.il article is here.
Seeing visitors reading my journal is very encouraging and make the effort worth it.
If any of you, in any country, want to submit my [...]

So I’ve decided to switch to Linux. Episode 3: Building my desktop

It has been almost a week now since I did the deed.
It takes some time to build a system that suits your needs. I have to research a lot, and install components, in order to get my system to be able to do everything I could with Windows XP.

New cool Firefox extension discovered- Flagfox

I have discovered a cool new Firefox extension – Flagfox.
I found the reference at metallikop dot blog which is a pretty cool blog by itself.
What Flagfox does is simple but very cool – It displays a short icon with the national flag of the site you are visiting.
The Firefox extensions I am now using are:

All-in-One [...]

del.icio.us discovered, enjoyed and used

del.icio.us – One of the hottest new web concepts was discovered by me just a week or two ago.
The concept is amazingly simple – The site allow you to post site bookmarks, and assign one or more tags to it.
The tag is any word that you wish. For example, I've tagged Slashdot with the following [...]

Internet Explorer 7

Today at RSA Bill Gates announced that IE7 Beta would be released this summer…!
I have noticed the interesting headline at Forever geek.
The details of this announcement was discussed over at IEBlog, a blog by the Microsoft guy that's responsible for IE.
I couldn't agree more with Jeremy from Forever Geek:
"They claim they are doing this because [...]