One MAJOR thing that’s been bugging me is the fact that my online banking website DEMANDS that my browser be FireFox or IE on Windows or Mac, not linux. These guys are idiots. Yes, I have Internet Explorer on Linux, but I don’t want to use that.

After thinking for a while, and remembering that you can masquerade your browser to look like something else in Konqueror, I thought I’d try to do it in Firefox. I don’t use KDE, I’m a GNOME lover, so I don’t want to use Konqueror either. I want to use Firefox, and luckily it’s very configurable indeed to solve this problem.

Remember about:config command? Well, there’s a quick and easy way using about:config to mask your browser identification into whatever you want it to be. Great for any website that thinks it’s better than Firefox and demands you use something else!

Type in about:config in your browser bar, hit enter, and in the appearing window right click and hit New> String. Let the preference name be “general.useragent.override”, and the value be whatever you want it to be. Some examples are:

Googlebot/2.X (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

The Google Web crawler.

Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)

Netscape Navigator 3.0 on Windows 95.

Mozilla/3.01 (Macintosh; PPC)

Netscape Navigator 3.01 on a Macintosh.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98)

The AOL browser, based on Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01, on Windows 98.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.2; Linux 2.4.14-xfs; X11; i686)

Konqueror 2.2.2 for Linux.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1

Netscape 6.1 on Windows 98.

Opera/6.x (Windows NT 4.0; U) [de]

The German version of Opera 6.x on Windows NT.

Opera/7.x (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]

The English version of Opera 7.x on Windows XP.

And that’s it! Normally to see changes you have to restart the browser, but in this case I didn’t have to; I loaded up my online banking website and was up and rolling.

Thanks to this website for the help: http://www.ericgiguere.com/articles/masquerading-your-browser.html

Well, I can now atest (as I’m using it at this moment) it is saweet!

MUCH faster than Firefox or internet exploder, more lightweight and a far simpler interface, which I LOVE.

It is beta, and not all the javascript in Facebook works with it. But that’s the only problem I’ve found so far, si that it doesn’t like Facebook a whole lot. But the software isn’t even 12 hours old yet, so who can complain.

Get it now!

Chrome is the *MUCH* anticipated new browser from Google. Somehow Google leaked a comic book describing the software a few days ago, somehow someone leaked information saying it would be released Tues Sept 2nd, and somehow Sept 1st Google accidentally put up a Chrome webpage on the gears.google.com site that very shortly later got accidentally deleted, along with the cache of that page!

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39138/118/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client…

Amazing what you can do when you’re Google. Maybe they found the software was too buggy to be released just yet? Maybe there’s hundreds of programmers scrambling to get the code fixed before release? Maybe they’re shaving the head of the programmer that released the information they weren’t supposed to for all the world to see, because now everyone is wondering “WHERE THE HECK IS CHROME, I WANT IT!”

Or, maybe they’re just toying with us, building up momentum, trying to see what kind of power they have as a software company.

Lots, let me tell you.

It’s all over Twitter, all over the blogs, the tech sites, everyone is killing themselves to get a copy of this thing! It’s good software, or so it sounds.

Which reminds me, I really want to get a copy of the Android SDK on my HTC Touch!

Google is plastering their mark as a software company. It still amazes me how much they use Linux, from their servers, to their Android software, and yet how much they overlook the Linux desktop users. Windows will get the first taste of Chrome (so they say). Which really makes sense. After all, the browser they’re after isn’t Firefox, or Konqueror, but rather Internet Explorer. Which is used on Windows. And, after all, Windows has the most users and the most problems. Best choice for the beta release.

But I think they’re hearing the community and do plan to release a Mac AND a Linux version. Yay!

You can install their Android Emulator and SDK on Linux. Well, it’s Linux native to begin with, so that wasn’t hard.

http://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome

What do you think? Anyone found the link to download this puppy yet???

It seems like people can’t read past or before the current speech that a candidate makes.  We listen to the current sweet talk and fall for it, every time. Every daggum time! That’s why McCain is the Republican candidate.

So, as if one big idiot in office isn’t enough, McCain would be the second big idiot, and he would pick a third big idiot being Romney.

McCain calls Barak a flip-flopper, yet does he even realize how big of a flip-flopper he is???

McCain flip-flopping (contradicting his own statements):

• McCain straight talk?
• John McCain eats his own words
• McCain Flip-Flops On Ethanol
• McCain flip-flops on Social Security Privatization

So, why would we vote for someone like this?

You got me. I’m votin’ Paul.

So I’m officially retired from the dealership, Benson Cadillac Nissan now. No longer selling cars, well, for someone else that is. This is what Robert Kiyosaki calls from his Rich Dad Poor Dad books going from being an employee and the poor way of thinking, to owning a business. Do you own your own business? Or does your business own you?

Converse Motors is my auto business. I’m using a lot of techniques from Michael Gerber his book the E-Myth Revisited. This is an excellent book that *EVERY* entrepreneur should read! And I mean read!

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Stay tuned next week, as I’ll be pouring more details out to you!

Peace, bye for now
– William Bryant
http://wpbryant.com
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Quite literally, Christmas in July…

Now I enjoy Christmas, but this is an obvious example of how the season has turned into a shopping season and NOT a Christian holiday.

This was taken in Walgreens yesterday, July 6th. July!

How much time do you need to get your store ready for Christmas? We have five months at least before Christmas.

So, you now see my opinion on Christmas. It’s become too commercialized, un-Christianized, and too many people are wore out by the time Christmas comes because they’ve over shopped, over decorated, and not focused on what Christmas is all about.

It’s about family, it’s about love, and how Jesus lived to make those things important. He didn’t live so that we could shop. Yet we use that excuse.