5 Reasons to Use the Firefox Browser
If you do any web browsing, you should definitely be browsing with Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, Chrome, or any other browser.
Firefox is growing in popularity as people are spreading the word about its excellence. It gets downloaded over 20 times per second. In July 2009, it reached over one billion total downloads. It’s only been around for five years, but it already has 25% market share. Only Internet Explorer has a higher share with 64%.
Why has this free, open-source browser attained remarkable growth? Here are five reasons.
January 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Internet
New Revelations on the Black Friday After-Thanksgiving Day Sale
It’s been exactly 4 years since I first wrote about Black Friday in 2005 (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V). Nevertheless, those memoirs are still my most popular articles across all my websites every October and November. While this annual resurgence may be indicative of the continuous validity of my prior claims, I’ve learned that my pointers aren’t so timeless after 4 years. These days, I don’t participate in Black Friday Sales.
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November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Buying and Selling, Money
What’s the Point of Twitter?
When Twitter was conceptualized and conceived in mid 2006, it was meant to be a micro-update service used internally by its creators’ team. This was how the public initially used the service—as a microblogging or lifestreaming application. You are asked to post an answer to the question “what are you doing right now?” All these are supposed to be written within a limit of 140 characters or less. Most people did just this: instead of post lengthy blog articles, they appreciated how they can share their daily goings on with their network of friends.
July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Computers