Michael Koby

Last night my friend (another Linux junkie stuck in a Windows world) showed me a small little application called Win-X-Move.  This program is probably the coolest thing since sliced bread.  It gives you the ability to move and resize windows with the ALT key and your left & right mouse buttons, just like in several Linux window managers.

• Alt+Left Mouse Button = Move window
• Alt+Right Mouse Button = Resize window

This is such a nice feature and one that I was looking to get into Windows a couple of weeks ago.  So go my friend for finding this and letting me know about it.

Yesterday Mozilla released the latest Firefox 3 beta (Beta 4) and with that release we see improvements in the memory usage of Firefox.  Firefox 2.0 has been the center of memory scrutiny pretty much since its release but that starts to see a light at the end of a dark tunnel in Firefox 3.

The people of the Firefox community have posted a couple of really nice posts that explain the memory problems and what they have done to fix them.

• Firefox 3 Memory Usage - Pavlov
• Follow Up to Pavolv’s Post on Memory Usage

These posts are a great read if you are interested in seeing performance numbers and stuff like that.  If you are not into that kind of thing, well then that’s okay, you’re not missing much.  The only thing that really matters is the fact that Firefox 3 will help quell the memory complaints a lot of people have with Firefox.

Go Firefox team!

Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a note about micro-blogging website, Pownce releasing an updated API to programmers this coming Friday.  The comments seem to be swayed towards most people disliking Pownce.  People saying things like "Let it die" and "I can do this through email, im, or something else" and I think people are either a) missing the point or b) to set in their twittering ways to give anything else a shot.

The "let it die" comments I will leave be.  These people offer no reason as to why TechCrunch should stop writing about the still very much active service, they just want to troll.  It is the other set of comments I want address.  Those comments that say things like, "I can do this with email or instant messaging.  Why do I need Pownce?" seem to really be forgetting one thing the internet is about, choice. 

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On Monday, Adobe announced the official 1.0 release of their Adobe Integrated Runtime (also known as AIR) to the public. The runtime, which has been in beta for while now, has become a platform for some popular internet applications like Pownce, Twhirl, and most recently AOL’s XDrive. The release of AIR is a big deal, but I don’t think people are making as big a deal as they could be.

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