http://www.techmongrel.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:41:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Firefox is attempting to set a Guinness world record with the most software downloads in 24 hours, from 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time 17 June 2008. Firefox 3 boasts 15, 000 improvements from the previous version and will, in my opinion, set the bar for all other internet browsers to ... http://www.techmongrel.com/17/firefox-3-download-day-2008/ blockquote { font-size: 10px; }Google analytics is a great tool used by web developers and web media professionals to monitor web traffic to a particular domain. The analytical data generated by Google analytics can be used to streamline a company ... http://www.techmongrel.com/22/multiple-google-analytics-accounts-on-a-single-domain/ I would like to extend my sincerest apologies for the lack of blog posts on Techmongrel recently. To be quite honest, it has been a bit of a source of shame for me and I am going to be remedying this situation soon. I am busy working on a post ... http://www.techmongrel.com/16/apologies-for-the-lack-of-blog-posts-recently/ The site has recently received a great makeover all thanks to Robin Pietersen from Noboxmedia! After a long day's work, Robin was still able to formulate a great new logo. I would therefore like to formally thank Robin for his hard work on the new design and again encourage everyone ... http://www.techmongrel.com/13/techmongrel-receives-a-much-needed-design-change/ One of the main limitations of the Nintendo Wii is its ability to perform media playback functions. There are quite a few solutions that allow you to set up quite a cool system for streaming content to your Wii, but the problem I have is that I live in South ... http://www.techmongrel.com/10/weezo-as-a-wii-media-center-lan-media-streaming/ A friend and colleague of mine, Robin Pietersen, created Noboxmedia (http://www.noboxmedia.com), which has made it to the finals of the SA Blog awards in two categories, namely best SA blog about design, and best SA blog about technology / computers / web development. He could really use your ... http://www.techmongrel.com/05/vote-for-noboxmedia-in-the-sa-blog-awards-finals/ I have always been a bit of a fanboy when it comes to Logitech audio products. Their speaker systems, in my opinion, provide great value for money along with great sound quality for both conventional audio as well as for gaming applications. Thats why, if I had some money to ... http://www.techmongrel.com/05/logitech-squeezebox-duet-control-audio-throughout-your-house/ Last year I was faced with a rather taxing problem of incorporating a single-sign on process into one of the intranets I was writing. Basically, the company did not want users to be forced to log on to the intranet after they had already logged on to the company domain, ... http://www.techmongrel.com/20/asp-c-integrated-windows-authentication-single-sign-on/ Mozilla always uses the names of real places for the code names of any new alpha release builds of the Firefox web browser. The newest in development release of Firefox has a rather apt name, Gran Paradiso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Paradiso), named after the highest peak of the Graian Alps in Italy. ... http://www.techmongrel.com/18/gran-paradiso-firefox-30-and-the-future-of-web-browsing/ Dell and canonical have paired up for a while now, with Dell making the rather gutsy move, excuse the pun, of independently pre-installing fully certified Ubuntu releases on a range of their products. Canonical also offers full commercial support for Ubuntu on all machines that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, which ... http://www.techmongrel.com/14/dell-and-canonical-ubuntu-relase-range-of-bundled-machines/