Trader Mike

Speaking of Yahoo and Google’s finance pages (in the previous post), I’ve been meaning to post about a quick way to search either site. Firefox’s search bar has long been one of my most used features. I added a few search engines to the default list back in the day but I hadn’t kept up on the hundreds of search engine add-ins (OpenSearch plugins) that have been built over the years. A few weeks ago I realized that there were engines for Google Finance and Yahoo Finance. Here’s a shot of my search engine list:

After adding both engines all I need to …

Barry at The Big Picture has had it with Bloomberg.com:

That’s it — I quit. Throwin’ in the towel, given’ up, jest not worth it.

I am talking about the Bloomberg’s website. (I wont even link to it, I am so sick of it sucking so badly).

Between the incessant pop-ups, the taking over Explorer, and best of all, crashing my machine for the second morning open in a row, I simply give up. Consider this f$%* you my swan song. I plan on never mentioning the site again — at least until they clean their act up.

The damned site is almost useful, with some good content and excellent columnists. But they are simply to goddamned obnoxious (is that a …

No, I’m not flashing back to the days of R.I.F. and SchoolHouse Rock. As a follow up of sorts to yesterday’s tips for bloggers, I thought I’d offer some tips for weblog readers. Actually, much, if not all, of what I’m about to say will apply to anybody that does a lot of web surfing.

I’m now begging all of you Internet Explorer users to try Mozilla FireFox, a far superior browser.

I was just about to post a little something about the Mozilla FireBird/IE browser battle, when I noticed this: Microsoft to Quit Web Browsers for Mac.

All I can say is “wow”. First Microsoft decides not to provide anymore upgrades to IE without a whole OS upgrade, and now this. Sup with that? Seems to me they’re saying two things — Apple’s market share isn’t worth the effort, and the Windows world is locked in to IE, so they’re not pressed to improve it. Pretty bold. From what I see in my site trackers is that 34% of my visitors are still on Windows 2000, 38% are on XP, and 19% are …

OK, just a bit more on the new Mozilla Firebird browser. I’m hooked! There’s no going back to IE for me. Here are my favorite features:

Tabbed browsing. This make surfing so much easier. Just right-click a link and tell it to open in a new tab. You can keep reading the current page while the new tab loads in the background. (People on dial-up connections should really like this feature.)
Built-in pop-up blocking. I haven’t seen one of those %$#@^&&*$ ads since I installed Firebird.
Renders pages better than IE.
Increasing/decreasing the font size on pages actually works… unlike the hit & miss IE.
A nicely implemented, easily configurable search bar.
Tons of add-on components.

Here’s …

After reading Joel on Software’s glowing review of the latest Mozilla browser, I decided to try it out. I’ve been surfing with it for a couple of hours now, and I’m very impressed. To the 90.5% of you who are using Internet Explorer, you need to check out Mozilla. If the built-in pop-up stopper wasn’t enough there are several other reasons to try out Mozilla.

The first thing I noticed with Mozilla is that this site loads the way it was intended. Two weekends ago I redesigned my front page to allow the column widths to resize along with the browser’s width. Sounds simple enough, but it …