Stuff 5

Time to do a little catch-up.

I have been seeing various problems with Norton's Personal Firewall. If you are using Personal Firewall and are having any kind of Internet connectivity problems, try disabling Personal Firewall.

FireFox 1.5.0.1 has been released.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html

Microsoft continues to release 'gadgets' for their Windows Live page. Gadgets are small programs that various programmers have developed to add functionality to the Live web page. Check out the Live page and then look at the gadgets page. Some slick stuff being developed.
http://www.live.com/
http://microsoftgadgets.com/Gallery/

Interesting article on surge protection. He has a lot of good points but he is also the president of a company that manufactures a controversial high end surge protector and thinks that any surge protector other than his is junk.
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/computer_technology/surge.html

Want to download movies and/or large files? Then you need to be looking into BitTorrent.
This is a small BitTorrent client that looks pretty good.
http://www.utorrent.com/

Excellent tutorial on shooting photos but mainly as an introduction to Photoshop. I use Photoshop Elements to do simple things but after reading this intro I am going to start playing with layers.
http://www.theswitchboards.com/articles_professionalphotos.html

This is an excellent web site for medical information/searches.
http://www.healthline.com/