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Episode 237:
Firefox 3 Downloads Huge, Google Search Tips and More!
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What's new in Episode 237
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• Senior Video Producer Brooks Rowlett joins Robert on set.
• We got a bit of grief about blowing off the iPhone. So, we talked about the iPhone. Brooks is planning on getting one. We also talk about the insane amount of downloads that Mozilla served up for its Firefox 3 Browser. OVer 8 million. WOW.
• Today's Tech Pic of the Week is from Simon of Sunnyvale, CA. It's not the expensive cinema of last week, but still really cool.
• A couple weeks ago Garnett showed off Adobe Buzzword. Scott sat down with Adobe's Director of Marketing, Erik Larson, to talk about the entire suite of Acrobat.com.
• More on the Time Warner Metering the Net story. Seems that most of you are very happy with your DSL. David in Sydney, Australia is making us extremely jealous with ADSL2+ speeds up around 18Mb/s.
• Brooks has some helpful ways to search in Google. Do math, find lyrics, search dates and define words. Robert has a Firefox Plugin that will help define words for you as well.
• And now for the viewer question:
First questions is from Fred of Stillwater, MN:
Do you have a recommendation for an inline power meter? I'd like to measure current power usage on a couple of different devices (tv, computers). I thought you had mentioned one on the show at some point.
• A cool website for you to check out: The Awesome Highlighter. Highlight a portion of a website and send a new URL to your friends or colleagues with the highlighted portion. How cool is that?
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• And Loyd will be back on the show next week. So, if you have a question for our sage of tech, email us with 'Ask Loyd' in the subject line.
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Posted by:
Dosbomber
June 19, 2008 11:47 PM
If you'd like a black background in Google, try www.blackle.com. It's the Google search engine with an energy (and eye strain) saving inverted background.
Posted by:
Graeme
June 20, 2008 7:09 AM
Hiya guys,
Great show as usual, keep up the good work, and i liked the handy tips about Google, i knew some of those but not all of them :)
Posted by:
Freyr
June 20, 2008 9:37 AM
To do percentages by hand easily try this.
In the show you wanted to see what 34% of 3498 was. Take 3498 and divide by 100, which gets you 34.98 then multiply that number by 34 to get the answer, which is 1189.32
3498=100%
1189.32=34%
34.98=1%
The key is finding out what 1% is.
Now lets try a harder math question using simple numbers. You have 700 good bolts which account for 70% of the total bolts, how many bad bolts total are there. The answer would be 300 bolts but lets do the math.
???=100%
700=70%
???=30%
???=1%
Let fill in the numbers. 700 devided by 70 equals 10.
10=1%
Now take 10 and multiply it by 30, which equals 300.
300=30%
Or take 10 and multiply it by 100 which equals 1000.
1000=100%
So our chart looks like this.
1000=100%
700=70%
300=30%
100=1%
Once you can find out what 1% is you can find the answer, be it a hard number or a percent.
Posted by:
Brooks
June 20, 2008 12:41 PM
@Freyr
Wow, thanks! I really, really appreciate you taking the time to write all that out. I will definitely use your method in a crunch when I have to do percentages by hand, but the sad, simple equation remains:
Brooks + math = astronomical disaster. ;P
Posted by:
Aaron
June 22, 2008 1:19 AM
Good episode guys, I liked it!
Posted by:
d2
June 22, 2008 12:48 PM
you guys are letting marketing directors on now? wtf happened to this show?
Posted by:
Fred
June 22, 2008 7:12 PM
@d2,
When your choice is a Marketing director or nothing, what would you go with?
Posted by:
Jim Connolly
June 23, 2008 3:31 AM
Hi guys,
Where is the dl.tv love?
It's here - FULL props to the dl.tv crew:
www.thetechnewsblog.com/2008/06/23/dltv
Jim Connolly
Posted by:
Dowta
June 24, 2008 9:38 AM
I must be an Adobe hater, but I thought it was funny for Adobe to say they liked to believe that acrobat.com was more secure than e-mail. E-mail is totally insecure so I don't think that is much of a claim.
Posted by:
Anonymous
June 26, 2008 3:37 AM
ADOBE STILL SUCKS! That's just more P.R. bla-bla-bla. Face it, the average user just wants to see or print a PDF file and THAT'S IT! Why get all that collaborative "crapware" that Adobe forces us to get when there's other better apps like Foxit instead (also for free)? Adobe is just being stupid and it looks as if Adobe has started to devolve into purveyors of just plain bad crapware not unlike what Real Player has done. Face it Adobe, lipstick on a pig is still UGLY and the pig is still "fat" (not the good phat either)!
Posted by:
Jeremy
June 27, 2008 12:33 AM
For anyone that didn't get all of those Google tips down, or don't have a place to put all the tips. All of the tips they mentioned, plus more, are here at this link:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
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