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Thanks Gmail for giving me more spam

Google has decided that if someone sends an email to a Gmail address that is the same as yours, except for a period or few, it was meant for you; and they relay it to your mailbox.

In other words, if I have an address cilias@gmail.com (which I do not), and someone sends a message to c.ilias@gmail.com (or cil.ias or cili.as or ci.lias or cilia.s or c.i.l.i.a.s, etc.), and none of that Gmail address does not exist, the message will arrive in my cilias@gmail.com account.

All this does is increase my spam.

2008 06 15 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (7) Permalink

Video is worth a million words

Face it. Making screencasts is the cool thing to do now. Everyone is doing it. You can do it too. The Firefox Screencast Contest ends this Sunday.

2008 06 11 Chris Ilias Firefox
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Hierarchical to-do lists

If bug 194863 is fixed, I’m swtiching to Mozilla Calendar. I’ve been wanting task management software for Mac that supports hierarchical to-do lists for ages.

2008 04 07 Chris Ilias Mozilla
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Any lost bookmarks in Firefox 3?

One of the issues Firefox 3 is supposed to fix is the issue of some users losing their bookmarks. So I’m just wondering, out of all the people using the Firefox 3 Betas, have any lost their bookmarks?

2008 03 23 Chris Ilias Firefox
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Cloud computing vs. Web 2.0

I’ve been asking around, and I still can’t get answer to this question:

What is the difference between cloud computing and Web 2.0?

2008 02 26 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (13) Permalink

Filter news based on any header

A long awaited feature was landed on the Thunderbird trunk last night. It is the ability to filter newsgroup messages based on any header. You can test it by downloading and using the latest Thunderbird trunk builds.

Thanks to Joshua Cranmer for creating the patch.

2008 02 07 Chris Ilias Mozilla
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Firefox featured on CBC news Toronto

When channel surfing, I landed on a station, in which the Mozilla.com web site was prominently featured on a computer screen, while the guy sitting in front of it, was just finishing a news feature. I only caught the last sentence, “CBC news, Toronto.”

That’s all I needed. I went to the CBC Toronto web site, and viewed today’s news cast (at Six). It was a full feature on Firefox, including footage of both Senaca and the Mozilla Toronto office, as well as many interviews, including our man Shaver.

The video is on the CBC web site. The Firefox bit is around the 38:00 mark. I’ll look around for a video of just the feature on Firefox.

UPDATE: Found it on Google Video.

2008 02 01 Chris Ilias Firefox
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149 reviews without even trying it

Yesterday, on the Future Shop web site, Macbook Air had received 149 reviews, with an average rating of 2.7 out of 5.0. The funny thing: Apple only started shipping it last night. :)

2008 01 31 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (3) Permalink

Re-organizing mozilla.org/support

Now that the “Support” link on Mozilla.com is pointing to support.mozilla.com, a couple of questions come up about www.mozilla.org/support/.

Will it still exist? Yes.

What should we do with it?
That has been discussed  a bit in bug 353478. The plan is to section it by product (like the downloads page or the products page), with each product having one link to its corresponding support site. It’s not too late to disagree with that plan.

Unfortunately, both Reed and I are swamped; so if anyone wants to take on that bug, we’d love you forever and ever.

2008 01 11 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments Off Permalink

Attention Netscape users

So your browser is no longer being developed; and you’ve been told to try Mozilla Firefox. But the Import Wizard in Firefox does not list Netscape 9!

Luckily, the Firefox Support knowledge base has an article for importing from Netscape…
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Importing+from+Netscape

(If you’d like to improve the article, look at our Improving articles document.)

2007 12 30 Chris Ilias Firefox
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