https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/tags/review/Recent content in Review on /usrHugoen-usThu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/2010/06/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-using-firefox-and-love-the-chrome/Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/2010/06/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-using-firefox-and-love-the-chrome/<p>One word: <em>SPEED</em>.</p> <p>Seriously. I have been a long proponent and user of <a href="http://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>, having been lured into it by its relative elegance and the extension framework many moons back. Also, the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/web-development/">web development support</a> has always been far better than its competition, with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/">Firebug</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/">Web Developer</a> to name just two great reasons for it being the developer’s browser of choice.</p> <p><img alt="firefoxbrowserfreewaystocustomizeyourinternet1.png" loading="lazy" src="https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/2010/06/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-using-firefox-and-love-the-chrome/images/firefoxbrowserfreewaystocustomizeyourinternet1.png"></p> <p>The sheer number of Firefox <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/?browse=featured">add-ons and extensions</a> (about 13,000 in the last count) is staggering - and list absolute essentials such as <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/">Adblock Plus</a>, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410/">XMarks</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201/">DownThemAll!</a> This combined with the themes (I suggest <a href="http://www.takebacktheweb.org/">GrApple Yummy</a> on the Mac) has been making the web browsing experience a far better one for me than Safari.</p>https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/2009/09/15/snow-leopard-first-impressions/Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://slashusr.anupamsg.me/2009/09/15/snow-leopard-first-impressions/<p>I finally bit the bullet and installed <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Snow Leopard</a> over last weekend. I did a clean install (i.e., reformat and install afresh) - considering the significant under-the-hood <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/">changes</a> that this OS revision has.</p> <p>The basic steps I followed are:</p> <ol> <li>Cleaned up the existing Leopard install to remove applications, preference panes and documents I did not need</li> <li>Reviewed the preferences under ~/Library/Preferences as well as the application support items under ~/Library/Application Support and removed the items which were out of date or detritus from old installs</li> <li>Took an image backup using <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html">SuperDuper!</a> of the Leopard install</li> <li>Took a backup of the disk using <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html">Time Machine</a> to allow easier data restore during the installation</li> <li><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420">De-authorized</a> my iTunes to prevent increment of the install counter after reinstall of the OS</li> <li>Popped in the Snow Leopard DVD and started the install</li> <li>During installation, I used the Disk Utility to reformat the Mac OS partition</li> <li>I also did a custom install to prevent the printer drivers (over 2 GB) being installed. In addition, I selected the optional <a href="http://www.apple.com/rosetta/">Rosetta</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">Quicktime 7</a> components <em>(seriously Apple, these take less than 10 MB - why the optional tag?)</em></li> <li>Waited for around 20 minutes to have the base image installed, and then used the migration assistant to restore data from my Time Machine backup</li> </ol> <p>The install was relatively smooth, and restoring the data from my Time Machine backup also went without any issues. However, post-install, some of the glitches started appearing:</p>