Boston Bruins

I don't know how any of you feel about sports, but I love them! My favorite sport is hockey, which I play. I also like baseball and my favorite team is the Boston Red Sox. (World Chapions Again!!) My favorite hockey team is the Boston Bruins and they're not doing that bad, even though their "star" defenceman and captain, Zdeno Chara, sucks. Leave a comment about your favorite sports team or try out the poll that will be uploaded soon!

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-Ethan Baker
ethan.baker0@gmail.com
http://ethanbaker0.blogspot.com

New Theme

I know its not a new month, but the holiday season officially starts today. Every 3 days there will be a new music track so keep checking!

The audio controls are above the blog archives if you want to turn the sound off...look for the little Quicktime bar.

Currently Playing - Deck The Halls

Firefox 3

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today, I downloaded the Beta release of Firefox 3. Its AWESOME. Better than Firefox 2 by leaps and bounds. Its incredibly stable for a beta release and I am yet to find any bugs. Unfortunately, not many of the add-ons work, only two did in my update. Firefox 3B1 does not overwrite Firefox 2 so you could run them side by side. Firefox 3 is FAST all around. It loads web pages and launches faster than IE or Firefox 2. Heres a email I sent to one of my friends earlier today:

Chris Pirillo on Firefox 3

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Anti-virus Software

What anti-virus should I use? I personally use AVG. AVG is a free program that scans emails,files, and overall protects your computer. It updates at least twice a week so it is always up to date. There are other versions of the AVG software that you need to pay for, but they do not add much to the program. Most people use Norton. DO NOT USE NORTON! Norton just slows down the computer and takes up hard disk space.

Firewalls

There are several free firewall programs out there some are good and some just suck (like norton. I use Comodo Firewall Pro. Its free and professional quality as the name implies. The first times you launch a program with Comodo installed it asks you Allow or Deny connection to the internet? I found this annoying at first, but now it is not a big deal as it doesn't pop up as much.

I just discovered the new feature in Blogger that allows you to post entries from Google Docs. This is nice because I can save the entries and edit them more easily. I love how intuitive and innovative Blogger is becoming. The only thing that could make this better is if I could post from Microsoft Office.

New Youtube Video

Intro for Videos

Updates

1. New way to chat:
I am now using meebo chat for the webpage because it is more customizable and has more features for the site administrator. You can continue to use it just like the AIM chat.

2. Rmail
Subscribe to my RSS feed. Look in the sidebar for the email field. Enter you email address and your golden. Site updates will be delivered to your inbox.

3. Add to ...
Located right under the Rmail field , mouse over the Subscribe link and choose the service you wish to add updates to.

Hockey Update

My team won again yesterday making our record 7-0-2. We are still undefeated!!

Video Update

Due to a problem with my schedule my YouTube videos will be released every Tuesday not every Wednesday.

NAT GEO POD

clipped from photography.nationalgeographic.com

Best Thunderbird Addon

I've talked about Firefox, Mozilla's internet browser, so now I'm going to talk about Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird. Thunderbird is a basic email client only having inbox, and contacts. There is one addon that brings Thunderbird to new heights. It is called Lightning. It integrates a calendar into Thunderbird, making it work just like Outlook. If you're using Thunderbird you dhould deffinetly download this addon.

A Better Browser

I'll wager that 1 out of every 3 people that visit this site use Firefox. Firefox is the best browser out there. Many people belong to Spread Firefox (membership is free). Firefox is better than Internet Explorer. If anyone can think of anything that Internet Explorer, Opera, or Maxthon can do that Firefox can't I will be very impressed. I'll try to get the new season of Ethan's Computer... out soon. I have been recording some screencasts and am working on editing them. I will post a video every Wednesday or Thursday starting next week. If anyone has any ideas for a video, email me at ethan.baker0@gmail.com. I hope you're using Thunderbird.... but that's not here no there so so long for now, but in the meantime download Firefox and Thunderbird at http://www.mozilla.com.

Ethan
Proud user of Firefox and Thunderbird

Fun Firefoc addons

This video overviews some fun and helpful addons. I perfer Clipmarks over Scrapbook, as that is what I am posting this with.

clipped from www.youtube.com Mozilla Firefox how-to video, part 1