Today Firefox is releasing Version 3 and they are trying to set a Guinness Book of Records for the most software downloaded in a single day. Let’s help them set a record and as a bonus get a really nice, flexible web browser at the same time.

If the link still points to Firefox 2 check here http://tinyurl.com/4e7fv5 to see when Firefox 3 will become available to you.

cheers

Adrian B

Oh, and I love the spell check function when you are blogging with children.

I’ve just spent the last hour or two cruising around Google Images, Photobucket, Flickr and a few other image sites using this new Firefox plugin called ‘PicLens’. The software converts image sites to a simulated 3 dimensional art gallery. It is nice and quick, you have heaps and heaps of images you can access and you don’t have the distraction of text around the photos. This one is well worth a play.

My only criticism so far is that when you minimise the program the gallery doesn’t continue to load while I do something else and then come back to view them. My work around was to open a second Firefox window (not a tab) and then toggle between the screens using the ‘Windows’ button. Download PicLens hereand you can get download Firefox via this page.

Have fun with it.

Adrian

As per usual, when I do an interview it is not until later that I think about a few more answers to the questions.

One of the questions in the interview related to how I get such a huge body of work from children when I only get to see them once a week.

eg Shannon’s Blog

One of the answers that I forgot to give was installing Firefox 3 into the computer lab has saved us heaps of time in ‘conferencing’ children’s writing. The biggest advantage of Firefox 3 has to be the online spell check. The kids don’t have to copy and paste from a word processing document, instead they can type straight into the browser.

Check Out Firefox 3 for Yourself

The students also love the tabbed browsing (Ctrl + T) and how fast it loads.

cheers

Adrian