Monday, November 14, 2005

Pocket PC Favorite Utilities

In my ongoing efforts to get organized, a project that I'll likely take to my grave, I have purchased an HP 1955 Pocket PC. My good friend Larry of No Blood fame, and who is a nut for such things, sent me this list of utilities for the gadget. From this list, I have investigated the first 2, and have bought them both. So I am assuming that the list, in its entirety, is worthwhile in the extreme. So here it is.

PocketInformant
Fitaly
iSilo version 4.x
HPC Notes Standard Edition:
ListPro
Pocket Launcher
Resco Explorer 2005
ProTone Voice Recorder
WordBook Dictionary & Thesaurus 3.6
1-Calc

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Firefox Gains Ground Against Internet Explorer


Its hard to imagine that an internet browser that is built into the code of the Windows operating system could be losing ground to one that needs to be downloaded and installed. But this is the case according to the recent statistics below.


Firefox's global usage share has reached 11.5 percent, says One Stat. Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice for the vast majority of the online world, commanding 85.45 percent, based on reports from over 2 million users.

In the United States and Canada, however, Firefox is much more popular. Just over 14 percent of US net-surfers use Firefox as their primary browser, compared to 80.73 percent for IE. Almost 17 percent of Canadians prefer Firefox to 78.52 percent in favor of IE.