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I know it has been a while since my last post and this one is kinda lame, but I wanted to help the Mozilla team out to spread the word. As you may or may not know, Firefox 3 final build was released publicly today bundled with tons of great new features; most notably a performance enhancement. What you may not know is that Mozilla is trying to break a Guinness World Record by having the most downloaded software in a 24 hour period.

To help participate, all you need to do is download Firefox tomorrow! According to the Mozzila blog

Please download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008. That’s 10:00 a.m. in Mountain View, 1:00 p.m. in Toronto, 2:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 7:00 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 9:00 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. in Beijing and 2:00 a.m. in Tokyo.

According to my web analytics, most of you have already use Firefox. Why not enhance your browser even more and help set a record simple by downloading the latest version.

I’ll keep you posted if any records are broken or if their web servers crash trying to handle the demand.

I get a lot of people coming to my website doing Google searches on this topic, so here is the answer, and it’s called Stats2Site. I myself like to use Twitter, but I realize that not everyone likes to do that (thank goodness I care about you!).

There already exist ways to get your Facebook status on your Wordpress or Drupal blog, but what if you are not using either? Lucky for you I created a PHP function that will allow you to post your Facebook status on any site regardless of the underlying CM system.

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We have all been in a situation where we have found something on the Web we would like to save to our computer but we can’t find the download button. Arrr!!! Pictures, YouTube videos, Facebook videos, MySpace music, you name it.

If I can view it on my screen why can’t I download it? Well you can, you just need the right browser.

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I ran across this a while back and never got around to writing about it. This is probably one of the most educational flash apps I have seen in a while. Universcale is a flash app that Nikon created that puts the world in which we live to the concept of “size”. It shows objects that range in size from 10^27 m to 10^-15 m. And if your not familiar with powers of 10. Thats 1000000000000000000000000000 vs. 0.000000000000001 m!

Even expressing the distance change mathematically, it is difficult to comprehend. “Our curiosity brings us to use objects visible to the naked eye as yardsticks to identify those things invisible and to give them new units of measurement. We are now capable of comparing and ranking these entities.”

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Short and simple… Digg this if you are tired of having to setup a user account and give out your information for every site you visit.

Some need it for functionality purposes, but most of them don’t.