AOL Extends Netscape’s Support

I have good news for the loyal followers of legendary web browser Netscape Communicator. AOL recently announced they will extend their customer support from February 1, 2008 to March 1, 2008.
AOL execs said the investment necessary to get the software to the standard fans expected did not fit within AOL’s new focus as [...]

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The Music Cash Queens

I knew the music industry rakes in a lot of cash; but I had no idea female singers were getting such a large slice of the pie.
Forbes Magazine recently came up with a list of the richest women in the music world. What do you know? None other than Madonna tops the list. [...]

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Funny Quotes and Funny Sayings

Most of the quotes I read, are wisdom or inspirational oriented. That’s well and good since they have served me well over the years; specially when I’m having a very rough time.
Today it will be a little different. I’ve selected to share with you quotes which intend to make you happy [...]

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The Legendary Tutor of Chairman Mao

If you ask your next door neighbor, Who’s Zhang Hanzhi? Nine out of ten would answer immediately, “Zhang who?“
Even though she’s an invisible player of the Cold War, she played a critical role in the thawing of diplomatic relations between the United States and China during the early seventies.
Due to a series of rare [...]

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A Useful Screen Grabs Firefox Extension

If you are a regular reader of Lingua Franca, you know that I’m always curious of what’s going on in the Internet. Frequently, I discover little jewels that make a difference in the way I perform my blogging activities. For example, when I want to express a point, I include images grabbed from my computer [...]

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A World of Oranges

There is absolutely no limit to the imagination. Once it’s in your head as a concept, the next step is to convert that intangible into a physical object. In other words, make the intangible tangible.
This is what a group of people have done with oranges. They collected thousands and thousands of this citrus fruit and [...]

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Joke: Hypnosis

Since  I was a young boy, I was always afraid of dentists. My mother had to carry me by force to the dentist’s office. To this day, I still think my dentist is my most terrible enemy. I have told him, he should use hypnosis to smooth the dental visits. So [...]

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Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet

Firefox’s users have different approaches to increase their productivity while using the browser. Some will use their mouse extensively and break the sound barrier. Others prefer to use the keyboard and still break the sound barrier. Which of the two groups is better? It all depends on the preferences [...]

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Flock Surprisingly Has a New Version – 1.0.8

By random accident, I just found out that Flock has hastily churned out a new version of its very popular social browser. The number assigned to this latest version is 1.0.8.
Directly from the horse’s mouth, v1.0.8 adds a couple of bug fixes and enhancements with regards to importing in general and from Netscape specifically:

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Puns: One Day At the Stock Market

Puns  are very popular in the United States. They are used in everyday talk amongst friends, with colleagues at the office, in movies’ scripts, magazine articles and just about everywhere. If English is not your native language, let me explain what I mean by the term “pun”. A pun is a play [...]

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