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Been using Dropbox for a while, and I have to say I've had pretty much zero problems with it. I'd previously mentioned trying Badongo, and that didn't work very well at all, so Dropbox is looking pretty good! Dropbox acts as a "cloud" synchronization tool. Basically, you specify where your dropbox folder will be on a computer. Anything put in that folder is sync'd with their service, as well as with any other comptuters registered with your dropbox account. I regularly work on three different computers, and this is proving to be very handy for keeping files current. If I need to go work on the laptop somewhere, I know it has the same basic files as my main work computer. If you delete a file, it will be deleted from the other computers. This makes sense since it's a syncing utility, but at first it seemed to counteract Dropbox's claim that it's also useful for backing up data. After all, if something happens and the dropbox folder is deleted, ther...

Been messing around a bit with the new Mozilla beta browser, Minefield - and finding it a lot better than google chrome. For one thing, I've been getting weird problems in google chrome, as I'd mentioned text entry boxes (textarea) are messed, and there seems to be problems with Flash not playing. I haven't had any of those problems with Minefield. Plus it's at least as fast as Chrome. And while most extensions don't work with it yet, it's pretty much certain that they will once it's released. Still no word on extensions on Chrome. And IE? Only the clueless still use that lame pos.... too bad there's so many clueless users out there!

Went to check my bank account online (National City) and was unable to login with Firefox 3. Tried reloading several times, tried clicking the form's submit button or hitting 'enter' - nada. Worked fine (if slow as hell) on IE7. I've got work to do, so didn't try to figure out how in the world they managed to break a form submit button in FF - that's got to take some doing!

I need a break... oh well, in these times better to have too much work than none at all! Here's a handy link I stumbled on while moderating new users on a forum I admin - Stop Forum Spam is a site dedicated to ... well, you can probably guess. Anyways, specifically useful is this comma-separated list of IP addresses - you can never keep up with all the new IPs spammers are using, but this should help cut down on the number you have to deal with. The list is quite long, so you may need to paste it in segments into whatever web-based admin you're using, or convert to one entry per line, etc. Probably worth the effort though.