Rants N’ Jibes

MOZILLA Firefox is undoubtedly one of the favourite among the sea of browsing software.

Its FREE, FAST and SECURE

AT 1300 PST (2000 GMT) on 17 June they released the 3.0 version of FIREFOX and it was havoc.

The servers handling the downloads were crushed by the load of people trying to get their hands on the new version.

Within 24 hours of the release firefox claims around 8 million downloads.

The correct data is being scrutinised and will be then sent to the Guinness World Records organisation for the record declaration.

Announced Friday, Facebook is joining hands in an effort to making it easier for people to share their personal profile online.

This came as a result of growing interest among the users for such portability needs. Internet social networking giant, MySpace has also announced their launch of such a feature. While MySpace allows users to use their profiles in only a few websites, facebook has announced that the facebook profile can be carried to any site that wants to host them.

The actual portability will be possible after several weeks.

Google Inc, the internet search leader has last year created a network that will make it easier to share music, picture, hangouts and the likes. Its Open Social. While MySpace has joined OpenSocial, Facebook has not.

Facebook widget application will get a new boom with the portability kicking in. This is because developers stand to gain more now that the profiles will be used even outside of the site!

Albert Hoffman is a swiss chemist. He invented the hallucinogenic drug LSD. He died of a heart attack at his Basel home at the age of 102.

He first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal properties of a plant fungus (ergot fungus). He ingested some of it by accident and felt its hallucinogenic effects. On which, he commented saying “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”. It was soon used as a common street drug by 1960. LSD is not addictive which makes it very different from other drugs.

The continued abuse of this drug forced countries to make it illegal. LSD is claimed by many researchers to be aiding as a psychotherapeutic drug. However, none of these claims have been officially accepted and this still remains a schedule 1 drug with no medical use.