The Older Geek

It’s terrific that Blogger has spruced up their blog designs, offering more choices and some much-needed flexibility and style for Blogger users. Unfortunately, Blogger blogs are notoriously slow to load and very slow to respond when scrolling down the page. Oh sure, the pages work relatively acceptably in the Internet Explorer browser, but who uses [...]

One of the best things about Firefox is the ability to incorporate “addons” to the browser. I love Firefox for this reason. An addon, or add-on, is a plugin, or a small script of software that runs within another piece of software (in this case, within Firefox). The addons can be downloaded, configured, and uninstalled [...]

A “feed” is, at it’s most basic, syndicated web content. The most common type of feed is the RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Atom is another format of feed. The RSS feed symbol is commonly displayed as a little orange boxed icon with white stripes. Graphic artists have become very creative with the symbol, and have [...]

A reader from the UK, Paddy, asked me a question regarding the Firefox browser: Firefox works perfectly on most sites i vist except my bebo page, when on bebo it often doesnt show a button or box i need to click on to change items. I have updated my addons and plugins to see if [...]

If you work at the computer all day, as I do, you learn very quickly how tiresome all the billions of hand movements can be. It becomes a chore to move from the keyboard to the mouse to the keyboard and back again. Ugh! I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, especially for the [...]

A few people have asked me a some questions about solving problems with the browser Mozilla Firefox. I think Firefox is a terrific browser: it’s safer than Internet Explorer; it’s faster; and it’s got innumerable options, themes, and addons available. However, when it has problems, it’s usually more complex than the basic Internet Explorer crash. [...]