Peter's Place

CIO Magazine has an article about a new tool from the folks at Google for the Firefox web browser (created by the Mozilla Foundation ) that synchronizes all of your personal information contained within the browser across different computers. For instance, say that you have a desktop computer at home, and a notebook (laptop) computer that you take with you when you travel. You run Firefox on both computers. For most people, the options/settings that would be on the desktop computer wouldn't be the same as the options/settings on the notebook, especially when you're talking about a web browsing application such as Firefox. With Google's new Firefox Extension , the version of Firefox on the desktop computer will have the same settings ( bookmarks , history, cookies , etc.) as the version on the notebook computer. While there have been other attempts at creating an extension that will synchronize a user's personal data within Firefox, those extensions relied on th...

OK, so I'm back on-line. I've found a somewhat more stable living environment. This very kind person (we'll call him " D ") has allowed me to crash in his living room for the outrageous fee of helping him learn more about computers. He's kind, caring, and we have a lot in common. He has a computer but, at the moment, because he's just moving into his apartment, he has only dial-up access. Actually, the dial-up access is something that my friend, Cody , provided for me, through his AOL account (Cody works for AOL Wireless ). So anyway, now that I'm online again, hopefully I'll be updating my blog a bit more frequently. Just as I logged in to work tonight and went to my personalized Google home page, I came across this story , about how some companies (like GM ) do get the " new media " (online media), and how other companies (like the New York Times ) just plain don't get it. I'm back -- at least, for the time being. More tech,...