In recent weeks, several folks have asked why Flock is building a browser, not an extension, and about our relationship to the Mozilla community.

Jagan Mohan, Mozilla Web Developer

The decision of Flock to build a whole browser on Mozilla code makes perfect sense that I think this lengthy explaination is some what redundant.

The whole internet community is far from being homogenous and there are various whole large groups of users who use generic browsers for various sets of common purposes.

Thus the necessity for hundreds of browsers built around hundreds of core purposes is a reality.

One IE or Firefox won’t fit the needs of everybody.. although firefox tries to give the user the flexibility to extend and customise the functionality, it is far from perfect.

I think that a browser custom made for the blogging community like FLOCK for example would prove pioneering for others to take up to develop such niche browsers.

Hey, afterall, why can we install two or three browsers and use them all in diffferent situations?

I now have firefox, opera and flock installed and I use them ALL. There is no rule I see that I have to use just one and transfer ALL my loyality to it alone.
Bart Rockman, web application developer in Texas

One of the questions people are asking today is “Why are we releasing our code under the GPL, instead of triple-licensing it under the GPL/MPL/LGPL?”

The answer is that intellectual property issues are big complicated things that have critical business impacts. Areas to cover include: source code licensing, trademarks (securing trademarks, trademark usage policies), EULAs, third party partners code licensing, patents issues, etc. Dealing with all of these is a tremendous endeavor. I recall it taking many many months for the Mozilla Foundation to flush out its trademarks policy, for example. I suspect the discussions inside of Mozilla around the triple-licensing policy took many months as well.

The MPL made sense for Netscape in 1998 in view of their business outlook. It seems to work well for the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation. I’m not sure that it’s the right licensing scheme for Flock.

So we are taking things one step at a time when it comes to our source code licensing policies. We’ve already made a couple of big strategic decisions on the source code licensing front: (i) our code will be largely (maybe even entirely) open source, (ii) we’re putting it out to the world right now under the GPL, (iii) we’re asking contributors to assign copyrights to us. These steps mean that we are open source and provide us with the flexibility to evolve our source code licensing policies over time.

As I’ve indicated above, we are serious about working with the Mozilla community. As we work with folks at the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation and identify areas where it makes sense for our code to go back upstream, then we will relicense those pieces of code under the triple license.

Kevin Nilson, Netscape admirer

It’s interesting to read how everyone seems to define Flock in their own way (it’s just a browser; it competes with FIrefox; it’s only for bloggers and pic sharers, it’ll destroy the effort to gain marketshare on IE, etc.) I don’t do many of those things – I just want a browser to do what I want to do when I want to do it. I moved from IE to Firefox, to Camino before stumbling on Flock while reading about a plug-in to trick IE-only websites into thinking you were using IE if you visited with a Mozila-based browser (I needed to overcome MS Exchange Webmail’s bad habit of asking for a password for every iteration of an icon it was loading on a pageif you were using anything except IE). Even better, Flock soved the password demand problem without needing to install the plug-in. It seems faster and the toolbar customization organizes things to fly even faster still. Good stuff from an end user perspective. Thanks!

CNAs or Certified Nursing Assistants are in great demand. They are needed in almost every medical care facility. The CNAs are these medical persons who make sure that the ailing patients are properly taken care of under the supervision of the registered nurse.

Private duty CNA jobs in CT are highly challenging and demanding. Private Duty cna license in CT is basically handling a job as certified nursing assistants for the ailing patients, who are not admitted in the hospitals but at their homes. These patients demand for extra care and support. The nursing assistants perform various kinds of tasks and jobs for them. They are as follows :

• Keep a keen eye on the nutrition and infection control.
• Checking the vital signs of the patients (temperature, blood pressure, pulse and breathing).
• Help the patients in bathing and grooming.
• Clean their room and change the bed covers.
• Constantly giving the medication reminders to the patients.

Though, one should keep in mind that the private duty CNA jobs in CT can availed only by these, who are qualified for the same. It demands one to devote lot of time and energy in serving the ailing patients. Nursing personnel must complete the state approved training program and clear the final CNA exam (written and practical). After the successful completion of the CNA training, they receive the cna certification, which makes them eligible for any kind of certified nursing assistant jobs in the state.

According to the Connecticut Department of Labor, there will be around five hundred and thirty five job openings annually. This means, qualified and professional CNAs will be in high demand. The private duty CNA jobs in CT allow the CNA to earn $24,960 to $31,200 annually.

Apart from the private duties, a certified nursing assistant can also be positioned in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies and long term medical care unit.

Browser enthusiasts, Internet Explorer and Firefox fans alike, were pleasantly surprised when Internet Explorer 7′s new features were shown at Microsoft’s Community Technology Preview recently.

“I honestly don’t see why anyone would want to use Firefox,” Steve Ballmer is reported to have said, “especially considering it was programmed by a group of people you can’t trust.”

Internet Explorer 7 will sport several new features that we haven’t seen in Firefox yet:

* It has been confirmed that we’ll be seeing a phishing filter in IE7, this just helps prove that Internet Explorer is the safest, most user-friendly browser that there is.
* We also saw an exciting new technology called “Quick Tabs” which should increase the productivity of tabbed browsing compared to Firefox’s implementation. This allows you to view previews of each tab realtime.

Users can even set a tab group to open automatically every time they launch Internet Explorer from the Start menu, to have just the pages they want open ready for them as soon as they open the browser.
* Increased security, of course. That doesn’t mean Internet Explorer wasn’t bulletproof before, but as new types of attacks are developed Internet Explorer expands to fight against these types of malicious activity. As an example, the ActiveX technology which for some reason angers Firefox fans so much is now an “opt-in feature”.

There’s a lot more than this going on behind the scenes, for example printing support will be far beyond anything you can ever imagine. Steve Ballmer was happy to point out at a recent press conference that he would “crush Firefox with his own feet”, a promise that we are sure he will keep.

That’s all for now, remember, Spread Internet Explorer!