Friedbeef’s Tech

An Interview with a Firefox Evangelist

If you’re a Firefox user like 52% of this site’s visitors, you would have probably heard of ‘Spread Firefox’, which is a community aimed at promoting the use of Firefox as alternative browser among the general Internet population. I recently managed to catch up with one of its active members, South African Firefox evangelist [...]

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21 Days Left To Immortalize Yourself in Firefox 2.0

World Firefox Day was launched on in the middle of last month, in conjunction with it’s birthday. If you convert someone over to this fantastic browser, you and your friend’s names will be placed, and immortalized on the ‘Firefox Friends Wall’, which will be part of Firefox 2.0. This offer is only open until [...]

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7 Ways To A Better World Cup Experience

Ah, World Cup season is upon us. 32 countries, 3 billion raving fans, all part and parcel of the largest sporting event in the world. Not that anyone needs help getting into the spirit of the beautiful game, but here are 7 ways to do it the high tech way. 1. Yahoo (Konfabulator) [...]

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PC World’s Best 100 Products of 2006

PC World has released a comprehensive list of this year’s best products… Aside from the usual suspects like Ipods, Firefox, and Tivo’s, there were some interesting inclusions this year worth checking out: SideStep.com Travel Site (free) Shopping for bargain flights can be a hassle. But SideStep.com collects air fares from multiple sources; you simply check off boxes [...]

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Firefox Flicks

Firefox continues to break new ground when it comes to grassroots marketing. It’s army of volunteers chip in because of their love for the browser, and such is their marketing clout and that among other things, they have taken out full spread 2 page ads in the New York Times, recorded countless video testimonials, [...]

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