May 08 2006

AllPeers Review

Posted by karthiksn

After lot of waiting Qwerty invited me to the windows beta (I will also review the Linux version if it has any changes). It looks great first you have to install it and I faced a tough problem installing it, then I came to conclusion that the problem was the sidebar extension the Firefox which was creating the problem so I went ahead and uninstalled it.

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Feb 20 2006

Confessions of a Firefox user

Posted by karthiksn

Okay I dont necessarily blog only Tech stuff sometime personal stuff is okay. So by the topic really I m gonna talk about something related to firefox but let me tell you something else also. Lastly I have been seeing that maximum of my crowd is from the topic i posted about rapidshare. Another one thing i noticed my blog has been getting dorect hits from I dont know where also some one searched Karthik Chronicles on net too. This makes me think do I have so many people coming and reading which gives me direct hit if they do read it everyday why dont they comment everyday i dunno why but also who has searched for Karthik Chronicles 2 times in past three months is someone thinking of buying a domain by that name?? I just dont know. Now lets go back to the topic.

Confessions of a Firefox user
I am very sure how came to use firefox browser. Actually if I m right Firefox was my entering to my Geek Life though i was a geek but only half with only bookish(that also not very much) knowledge. I had been reading about Firefox browser from Digit magazine and I saw many people using it by the look of it. I thought why Firefox and why not Internet Explorer. Though I always felt that IE was not the thing ,it just didnt give me what i wanted it to give me. Then when I came to chennai this year (i was transforming thats for sure; to a Geek) I asked my Dad to get me BSNL Broadband(yes I was specific I dunno why). Then when I got it i was totally unaware about intertnet and the want of the hour i thought why not i use Firefox rather than IE so thought of giving it a try digged into one of my copies of Digits magazine and found a CD with Firefox Installer, I installed it and fired it. But then waited for nearly 30-35 seconds for it to startup but after that it changed my way of browsing changed and everything became different. Though the first forum i joined was a GTA forum but in real terms it will be digit forums which I joined to become a full geek. I loaded the site and created an ID which I thought would be a nice one (Kato). Then on I became Kato realising the true power of computer and later true power of Internet. My story will go on but the confessions are of a Firefox user and not of a Internet or Computer Geek. Firefox changed lot of my thinking I installed some themes and checked out the top plugins to install(was not sure what they do but installed them). Later understood the real power of those extensions(yeah they were called extensions I came to know about that later). It was totaly Awesome. I learnt how to use the browser to its maximum. Meantime I made some friends who just increased my knowledge base(Firends:QwertyManiac a.k.a Harsh,The Incredible a.k.a Anindiya). Now I was completely a Firefox Fanboy. I loved following it blindly I just followed firefox. It was the one which has started my interest in linux(yes! as soon as I install a new hard disk I will also install linux maybe fedora core 4). I am still a faithful guy still faithful to the fox and I still belive its very cunning. But now i feel like i m being pulled to a darker side which I will reveal in one of my upcoming posts. For now this was the tale of a true Firefox fanboy.
Yeah last thing I got to say is that do expect a comprehensive Review from me on a piece of software I wont be revealing now but expect it soon…….

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Edited:for all the punctutations and I(I hate ‘I’) as said by Wilbur

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