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Image viewers

2010-01-07
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An image viewer is essential to any contemporary computer, and it’s something that’s taken for granted.

It’s a really simple concept, and one which is apparently impossible for most programmers to get right. If you’re one of those image viewer programmers, drop by so I can slap you upside the head. Do you think you’re users want to launch your program to view one image and have your program stop to build 10,000 icons in that directory?

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Firefox

2009-09-10
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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

A web browser and feed reader.

  • Originally called Phoenix, then Firebird.

    • Yes, I used it way back then.

  • Shares some code with Thunderbird



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Tor

2009-05-09
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Software > Web browsers >
Internet security >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.torproject.org/

Tor can be thought of like a secure proxy.

I experimented with it during my research on Replacing Firefox.

UPDATE: Tor has been subverted for some time. I know when and how, with confirmation, but not by whom.

It must not be used for high-level security requirements (governmental, military, international) and probably even mid-level requirements (corporate, police). Little people using it as a proxy are fine.

Don’t do anything illegal with it if you’re within three degrees of a Bad Guy. So.. don’t use it for anything illegal. Remember that PRISM records everything, so that, once flagged, you can be found retroactively guilty (even by association) for past internet usage.



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