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Windows may be the most used operating system, but main fun in windows come from the vast array of free third-party software that makes life blissful in its environment. One wonderful calendar application that people easily fall in love with is Rainlendar. Rainlendar is a very simple skinable calendar that (with the right skins) can blend into any desktop settings you have. Simple, lightweight and resource unhungry solution. Since calendars, events and todos goes hand in hand, Rainlendar supports various events that you can mark off on the calendar along with a short todo list you can keep on your desktop. It allows you to import your events from Outlook, and of course, it reminds you when an event is due.

If you wanted to see more on your desktop that just a calendar and todo list, you can try out Rainmeter by the same author. My personal Rainmeter favourite is MoonShine; a neat integation of the current moon status and analog clock. Though, I did dig into the widget and added a second hand to the clock. Rainmeter’s skins are just a very wrong way of labeling widgets, as the skins define what you would have on your desktop. Though creating a widget may not be the easiest thing since notepad, you can create one using the templates and a simple text editor. This simple application looks powerful enough and lightweight enough to rival Konfabulator, provided that there were more people working on Rainmeter “skins”.

Now go ahead, spice up your desktop.

It’s one thing to notice that people don’t really see the nice red arrow on the top right corner of Firefox stating a critical update, but it’s something completely different to see people noticing it and then Mozilla fuck up. Yes, ladies and gents, I am saying that Mozilla screwed up. Though the screw up might not entirely be their fault, but it’s still happening.

What they need is a better migration for newer updates. People (including me) who updated from an older version of Firefox have been noticing some very eratic behaviours. Stop laughing, I’m serious. The erratic behaviour has nothing to do with the new release by itself. It’s the migration. So how do you get the latest and the greatest and still avoid all this?

The simple way is to just completely eradicate any trace of Firefox from your computer and start a new. New profile and everything. Which also means that you will need to set everything up from scratch.

The longer way is the following and it garuntees that you don’t have to set everything back up. So are you ready for this? You think you can handle this one? Alright, here we go.

1. Get Bookmark Backup extension for Firefox before you even update it.
2. Configure the extension to your liking and then restart Firefox.
3. Get the new Firefox.
4. Uninstall the existing one.
5. Delete the existing profiles for Firefox. (In Windows, it’s located at Documents and Settings \%username% \Application Data \Mozilla \Firefox.)
6. Install the new Firefox, and start it once.
7. Exit Firefox, and copy the backed up settings to your new profile.

And you’re done. Stupid? Useless? Yes I know.

I’m turning a full new chapter. I figured that occasionally, I would still like to rant and rave, so I left my Rant & Rave sections in case I want to utilize the therapy of those. However, I added a whole new section on which I am going to rant more about the geekiness in this body. Depending on what I feel like ranting about and when, I would rant or rave about some geekiness that I have been involved it or, just want to get them on spotlight.

Hey, you never know. You might actually like the change. If you don’t… umm.. holler. Let me know what you expect.

Things have been changing lately. You can tell by the lack of posts from me. I haven’t really felt like writing much. And don’t want everyone to really know what all I vent about occasionally. I have been thinking of clearing it all out and starting fresh. And write about something that anyone can enjoy. Something like the failed Shiyal - Cunning Reviews. It takes a good bunch of people to get something moving like that. If it’s all my movie opinions that it doesn’t sum up to anything.

On other news, I’m getting two weeks off this summer. Before you flood me with requests about me paying you a visit, let me inform you that those two weeks are already scheduled full. I’m going to visit Bangladesh during those two weeks. It may sound like a lot but when you haven’t been home for 4 years, it’s a very short time. Specially when it takes 4 days for the round trip even with an aeroplane. But, if you guys want something. Let me know. And I’ll give it a shot. Two weeks is a short time, but I’m definitely squeezing in shopping somewhere in there.