No Christmas in Sweden without Donald Duck

Nice interesting read: http://www.thenewsvault.com/cgi/xtra.pl?go=12302934366

I like Donald Duck a lot over Mickey Mouse. I just love Donald Duck.. I can also do mimic of Donald Duck :D

btw, belated Merry Christmas to all.

Fennec Mobile Browser – Alpha 2

Mozilla has recently released Fennec mobile Browser’s Alpha 2 release.

more info here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081224-mozilla-releases-second-alpha-of-fennec-mobile-browser.html

Who says Footers are boring?

I was working on a web site and trying to look for few good footers.. Well, footers are not boring you can do a lot of things with footers, while I was searching on Yahoo!, I came across following link through digg.com

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/25-stylish-website-footer-designs/

25 stylish website footer designs.

101 Classic Computer Ads

Just found following web site:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/08/101-classic-computer.html

Shows 101 Classic Computer ads.. if you knows about earlier computer era.. this is must see for u all.. great stuff :)

Box and Reality

Below picture says it all

Xbox 360 Name

Following comic strip will give you idea on how Microsoft came up with name Xbox 360

http://i40.tinypic.com/xkneae.jpeg

of course its not true :)

Google’s Native Client plugin – Alternative to Microsoft ActiveX

Google has released a new experimental plugin called Native Client plugin for its browser, and Google aims to make it work on all major platforms and browsers. Google also claims that it will be a lot safer than Microsoft ActiveX.

My Note: Looking at past record with Google specially with Android, I seriously wonder how safer Native Client will be.. Google had made same claim earlier when Android was in Beta (BTW almost all products of Google are in Beta)

More info: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081209-safer-than-activex-a-look-at-googles-native-client-plugin.html

36-24-36

I was just talking about age.. dirty mind people.

Found this here: http://phatchicks.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2243721,prtpage-1.cms

Job Posting talks about Zune-Xbox and Zune-Phone

More info : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10126637-27.html

Usefulness to Career Success

Silverlight 2.0 Resize using Resized Event

I remember doing this in Silverlight 1.0, when Silverlight 1.0 released, I thought of giving it a try, I wanted to make sure that Silverlight application that I create should resize it self based on browser size. I am very much particular about width and height for the web sites and web applications, as well as for any other applications. I do not like pixel values much, I prefer working in terms of %, as it makes my application layouts dynamic and adapt to the preferred size of the user. I remember doing this kind of thing in Silverlight 1.0 using Javascript, discovering how to do it was a bit difficult but it was easy to do in Silverlight 1.0

Recently, I started writing an article for my web site http://www.learnitonweb.com/ article on Menubar in Silverlight, and I wanted to do layout in %s format or dynamic format. This time I was using Silverlight 2.0, which means using languages like C# or VB.NET, this is where I really thought it will be really easy to do that, and yes it is.. following code will do that.

in C#

public Page()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            App.Current.Host.Content.Resized += new EventHandler(Content_Resized);
        }

        void Content_Resized(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Width = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualWidth;
            this.Height = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualHeight;
        }

in VB.NET

Public Sub New()
       InitializeComponent()
       AddHandler App.Current.Host.Content.Resized, AddressOf Resized
   End Sub

   Private Sub Resized(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
       Me.Width = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualWidth
       Me.Height = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualHeight
   End Sub

Without resize you will see your Silverlight Application as follows:

Silverlight application with resizing

Windows Mobile Web Browsing

There is no good web browser available for Windows Mobile, Pocket IE is pathetic, half of things doesnt work in it, specially AJAX enabled sites, so I use Opera Mini.. but Opera Mini has its own issue, biggest issue is no copy-paste :( I really dont get it why people do not provide copy paste? including APPLE so called next gen iPhone.

anyways, Microsoft has been working on better version of Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile (IE6) you can have a look at it here - http://www.modaco.com/content/blackstone-blackstone-modaco-com/277328/modaco-custom-rom-for-blackstone-1-08-12-17-ie6-cf3-5-uc-1-19-based-more/

It does look amazing and makes browsing experience on mobile wonderful.

Toilet Paper Cheque

In Britain one man tried to pay his parking fees by writing a cheque on toilet paper, police officer refused and dragged him to a court, judge gave him funny punishment but at end winner is common sense.

More Info: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1096553/Payment-loo-Toilet-paper-cheque-lands-man-court.html

Xbox Arcade Live – Dash of Destruction FREE

NinjaBee recently launched game named Dash of Destruction for Xbox Arcade Live, which is available for free to download, game is pretty simple but fun to play.

You can add game here http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/offers/00000001-0000-4000-8000-00005841090B?cid=MajorNelson&partner=MajorNelson

More info here - http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/12/17/arcade-dash-of-destruction-free.aspx

Xbox Live India Offer for UNO

If you are an Xbox Live member in India, you have special holiday deal, UNO Normally costs 400 Microsoft points, but in special holiday offer, it will be available for 300 Microsoft points.

and worldwide Bomberman Live will cost 600 Microsoft points, which is normally priced at 800 Microsoft points.

4th Workshop at MPSTME – Day 2

2nd day of 4th workshop was ok ok.. less students turned up.. and students were ok ok, questions were ok asked by them, but it was good.. did ado.net with windows forms, then asp.net and ado.net with asp.net

when I ended.. Mr. Ketan Shah (Head of Student Department) presented me with a trophy, you can see the trophy attached below as in image.

would like to thank Mr. Ketan Shah, Mr. Abhinav and two more students who were with me. Thank you.

3rd Workshop at MPSTME – Day 2

2nd day of 3rd workshop was really interesting and great.. students were more enthu about learning things, and very interactive and quized me a lot, and I just love that.. and yeah no stupid questions.. all good questions. Nice students I would say.

So today we started with ADO.NET in Windows Forms, and then we did a bit of ASP.NET and ASP.NET ADO.NET and ended 3rd workshop.

2nd Workshop at MPSTME – Day 1

I was supposed to start workshop at around 2:00 PM, but due to earlier late schedule.. I started by 2:30 PM and ended by 5:00 PM.

Took basics of .NET and Intro to ADO.NET and Windows Forms.. and ended workshop for day 1.. tomorrow we will be starting more on with ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows Forms.

Tomorrow will be having really long day.. 10 AM to 5 PM… and then I got meeting. Looking forward to tomorrow.

1st Workshop at MPSTME – Day 1

I was supposed to start workshop  at 10 AM, but I reached late there by 10:20, but figured out they were also a bit late.. I assume because of me.. and we starting workshop by 10:38, I am very sorry for being late but anyways, I started my workshop with basics of .NET Framework at 10:38.

Took basics of .NET and Intro to ADO.NET and Windows Forms.. and ended workshop for day 1.. tomorrow we will be starting more on with ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows Forms.

Was planning to take few pics.. but camera battery gone down.. will catch few pics tomorrow.

Few hilarious Pranks

At bottom of page I have put the source from where I picked up the videos, they have mentioned about 2008 top videos.. but I wouldnt really agree with that.. anyways, I have just re-ordered according to my preference.

1 Butter Floor

I found this prank the most hilarious, basically because of the kind of revenge they are taking and reason behind the revenge.

2 Hair Dryer

Girls without proper hair will look ghost.. to prove that this prank works best :)

3 Wake up

If done this in right way.. this would be really great.. I have played this kind of prank.. but instead of loud sound.. we used toothpaste or shaving cream.. put it on hand of a person who is sleeping.. and then on his face you try to do few things.. and when he puts his hand on face to remove it.. its hilarious.

4 Fake Date

This is really one of the best prank you can do on someone, but issue is that, it requires a lot of time.. trap a friend by fake girl id or something.. ask him to meet up somewhere.. and surely he will come to meet up.. but dont turn up.. or you yourself only turn up.. its very hilarious.

 

5 Cereal Bird

I found this prank good.. but also a bit bad.. because there is a dead bird used.

6 Cling Film Over the Door

This is really good one.. I just wished lady had something in her hand.

7 Chicken

This is really long long video.. 50 chickens in room.. just see how you can throw out chickens out of room :P

8 Foil

This is pretty hilarious. Everything covered in foil.. when ur friend arrives and he finds it.. it will be very difficult for him to take out each and every coin out of foil and pay.

9 Newspaper Cover

Newspaper cover is pretty good, same as above.. just look at the end of video.. and see something interesting.

10 Fill up Room with Ballons

hmm, its ok.. but still good.. friend room completely filled up with ballons.

Source : http://www.roombuddies.com/blog/2008/12/best-pranks-to-play-on-your-house-mate-2008/

Workshop at MPSTME on .NET Framework

I am going to have four workshops in 2 days starting tomorrow, workshop is going to be at MPSTME college in Mumbai, they have a local user group running in college, starting 10 AM in morning till 2 PM and then second session from 2 PM till 5 PM.. same schedule for the next day that is Sunday as well. Topics that I am going to cover is basics of .NET Framework, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Mobile and Silverlight.

I am pretty excited about it, as it is going to be after a long break :)

26 Ways to know Your Software Development Project is Doomed

Found this link - http://www.cio.com/article/print/470103

Good one :)

10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks

I found this interesting link - http://www.yongfook.com/items/view/81/10-dirty-little-web-development-tricks

it talks about 10 dirty tricks about web development, much of it talks about PHP and other things.. but still its must read for everyone.

Microsoft launches open source blogging platform

Microsoft has recently launched open source blogging platform called Oxite, I got this new from my friend Sankool Shah - http://www.sankool.net/

It is standard compliant, extensible CMS, designed to support either blogs or larger Web sites, it also supports pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and most importantly RSS feeds at any page level which means RSS at comments also???  hmm interesting…

http://visitmix.com/ is built using Oxite.

More info - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10119017-92.html?part=rss

Oxite - http://www.codeplex.com/oxite/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20210

Article: ADO.NET with Windows Forms using Visual C#

Today, I written one more article on ADO.NET, this article is focusing on basics of programming ADO.NET, it is targeted towards students. Its like a tutorial, will take you step by step throughout the tutorial, and will help you create a small application which performs simple, select, edit and delete functionality.

You can read my article here - http://www.learnitonweb.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?contId=6&page=1

and please digg it here - http://digg.com/microsoft/ADO_NET_with_Windows_Forms_using_Visual_C

Standard and Poor’s stock index annual return 1825 to 2008

Found this interesting thing.. which has a graph showing Standard and Poor’s stock index annual return from 1825 to 2008, really interesting to see the way trend is moving, as years are passing frequency of low down of economy is increasing, kind of alarm for us.

Link - http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/09/sp-returns-and-the-r.html

Turn Image Template into HTML Page

LearnItOnWeb.com site is back, Today I written an article on Turning Image Template into HTML Page at learnitonweb.com.

here is link to it - Turn Image Template into HTML Site Template

BJP Sucks

Read this : http://josh18.in.com/showstory.php?id=355551

BJP is plain interested only in seats.. they are not at all interested in government.. sick ppl.

Chandrayan

When whole world is going forward.. we are going backward by people like... you know what I am talking about.. anyways I dont want to give that person any un-necessary limelight and move forward.

Today India successfully launched Chandrayaan - I, it will take 15 days to reach the Lunar Orbit.

more info http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081022/804/tnl-chandrayaan-i-successfully-put-into_1.html

Apple iPhone - is it really worth the hype?

Let's see why iPhone is really hyped... for just two reasons.. 1 - Apple, 2 - Good User Interface providing touch screen... are these really revolutionary things? not really.. its just that they created user interface which can be operated using fingers easily, and just gave touch screen support to the phone. I have a cell phone which has touch screen what it doesn't have it a user interface which can take advantage of the touch screen... you might think that's why iPhone is good and really worth.. well, not just look at what it doesn't have.

1 - Bluetooth

Bluetooth which has become so important for all cell phone user's in a month definitely you must be using Bluetooth once, I use it several times in a week. ok ok I do agree it has Bluetooth, but what is the use of it when it cant do anything else then allow me to talk using bluetooth headset.. it just cant allow me to send files, no dial-up netowrking.. - http://www.iphonebuzz.com/iphones-bluetooth-is-dumb-purposely-crippled-or-both-151188.php

2 - GPS

These days all phones comes GPS receiver, ok I know this is not really big disadvantage, but should have been there. I know now Apple said that they are putting GPS in it.. but is it really high priority? just look at the next one.

3 - Copy Paste

No copy paste in iPhone... now I use need this almost everyday.. I get contact number, email address, web address in sms or some or the other way on my phone I need to copy it and paste it to store it in contacts or call or use browser to surf or send email.. now if copy paste it not there.. I have to remember it.. Is it so really difficult to implement Copy Paste?

4 - MMS

I know no one uses it.. but when you are talking about GPRS, EDGE, 3G then why not MMS???? I would like to send someone picture of mine over message.

5 - Auto-focus Camera

Apple has got Camera in iPhone... but it does not have auto-focus? what is the use of camera which doesn't have auto-focus? not everyone is photographer, even photographer needs auto-focus.

6 - Video Recording

iPhone got camera in it, which can take picture but it can't record the video.

7 - Battery

Yeah, battery is not replaceable at all... if your battery goes bad, send it to Apple and they will replace it for you.. they have sealed battery inside iPhone.. I wonder if my iPhone hangs what to do? I know I know Apple fan boys will say it doesn't hang like Windows Mobile or Nokia... but what if it does?

8 - Network Lock

This is really very very sad... it can operate only on particular network and it comes with 1-2 years of contracts or more... I know cracks are available.. but then you void warranty.

9 - Store Activation

Once you purchase it, you straight can't use it, you have to get it activated from Apple store and activation process is very long takes what about 15-20 minutes.

10 - Applications

iPhone now finally comes with application but what is the use of it when they can't run in the background???

Bill Gates

He has been my inspiration all the time, I have his poster in my bed room :) a great man, wise man... gave a lot of things to people. Today it was his last day at Microsoft from his day-to-day activities.

I wish Microsoft best of luck and I would like to thank Bill Gates a lot, without him today software industry wouldn't exist at all.

Thanks Bill.

PS: do check this out Farewell Speech, you can actually feel that he was almost about to cry I guess...

but really great man..

once again Thank you so much Bill Gates for creating industry.

Article: C# 3.0 New Features

Finally I am done with my first Article - here it is - http://www.learnitonweb.com/lowcom/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?contId=4&page=1

XBOX 360 or PS3?

If you are thinking about what to go for XBOX 360 or PS3? I recommed this particular link - http://www.gamespot.com/features/6191251/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1 in this they have taken screen shot from same game running on PS3 and XBOX 360 and compared the graphics.. we can clearly see XBOX 360 wins the race :)

btw am getting my XBOX 360 in coming few days :D

Grow Body Parts

this is pretty exciting news story... do read it here - Grow Body Parts - this is really awsome thing to happen in medical science... I hope its a true thing and not a scam.

Tengu - Community-Credit.com won :D

from community-credit below thing is what I have won... am pretty excited about it now.. more information about it here - Tengu

SQL Server 2008 - Table Type Parameter

This is very neat feature in SQL Server 2008 which many people really waited for...

now SQL Server 2008 has got a table type which can be passed as parameters in functions and stored procedures.

simplest example.. lets create employees table.

CREATE TABLE dbo.Employee(
EmpID int NOT NULL,
EmpName nvarchar(100) NOT NULL,
EmpEmail nvarchar(100) NOT NULL)


and create stored procedure to add new employees..

CREATE PROCEDURE NewEmployeeMS(@EmpID int,@EmpName nvarchar(100),@EmpEmail
nvarchar(100))
As
BEGIN
INSERT INTO dbo.Employee
values(
@EmpID, @EmpName, @EmpEmail)


now if I have to add record in it.. I have to execute this procedure multiple times..

now lets take example.. that I got records in another table and I have to get records from that and put it in another table.. I will go about doing it this way..

CREATE TYPE EmployeeTableType AS TABLE
(EmpID INT, EmpName nvarchar(100), EmpEmail nvarchar(100))

creating table type.. and when I create stored procedure it will take parameter as table type only..

CREATE PROCEDURE NewEmployee(@EmployeeDetails EmployeeTableType READONLY)
As
BEGIN
INSERT INTO dbo.Employee
SELECT * FROM @EmployeeDetails
END


notice READONLY thing in parameter.. it says that table is going to be read only.. so no any update, insert, delete will be performed.. just select.. and this thing is necessary.

finally I will do this..

DECLARE @NewEmployees EmployeeTableType
INSERT INTO @NewEmployees
VALUES(1,'John McLean','JohnMcLean@contoso.com')
INSERT INTO @NewEmployees
VALUES(2,'Bob Smith','BobSmith@contoso.com')
INSERT INTO @NewEmployees
VALUES(3,'Ted Connery','TedConnery@contoso.com')
EXECUTE NewEmployee @NewEmployees

SQL Server 2008 - MERGE Function

I am quite impressed with the MERGE function.. in SQL Server 2008, which is a new feature added.

lets take a simplest example to understand MERGE Function.

let's say we got a PurchaseRecords table, in which we are storing customerId and productId and PurchaseDate...

here is code to create a table with all indexes..

IF OBJECT_ID (N'dbo.PurchaseRecords', N'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.PurchaseRecords;
GO

CREATE TABLE PurchaseRecords (ProductID int, CustomerID int, PurchaseDate datetime);
GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.indexes
WHERE name = N'IX_PurchaseRecords_ProductID')
DROP INDEX IX_PurchaseRecords_ProductID ON dbo.PurchaseRecords;
GO

CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_PurchaseRecords_ProductID
ON dbo.PurchaseRecords (ProductID);
GO

and here is the code to insert some dummy records in table.

INSERT INTO PurchaseRecords VALUES(707, 11794, '20060821'),
(707, 15160, '20060825'),(708, 18529, '20060821'),
(711, 11794, '20060821'),(711, 19585, '20060822'),
(712, 14680, '20060825'),(712, 21524, '20060825'),
(712, 19072, '20060821'),(870, 15160, '20060823'),
(870, 11927, '20060824'),(870, 18749, '20060825');
GO


now we gona have a table which is going to store information regards to CustomerPurchaseHabit..

and code for that is here..

IF OBJECT_ID (N'dbo.FactBuyingHabits', N'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.FactBuyingHabits;
GO

CREATE TABLE FactBuyingHabits (ProductID int, CustomerID int, LastPurchaseDate datetime);
GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.indexes
WHERE name = N'IX_FactBuyingHabits_ProductID')
DROP INDEX IX_FactBuyingHabits_ProductID ON dbo.FactBuyingHabits;
GO

CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_FactBuyingHabits_ProductID
ON dbo.FactBuyingHabits (ProductID);
GO


INSERT INTO FactBuyingHabits VALUES(707, 11794, '20060814'),
(707, 18178, '20060818'),(864, 14114, '20060818'),
(866, 13350, '20060818'),(866, 20201, '20060815'),
(867, 20201, '20060814'),(869, 19893, '20060815'),
(870, 17151, '20060818'),(870, 15160, '20060817'),
(871, 21717, '20060817'),(871, 21163, '20060815'),
(871, 13350, '20060815'),(873, 23381, '20060815');
GO


ok now what we want to do is.. we want to go through each records in PurchaseRecords and check whether this information exists in FactBuyingHabits or not.. if it exists then update its date if it doesnt then insert it, now if we want to do this.. we will go about creating cursor then if condition inside it and do it.. what do we get? we get result.. but cursors are very slow... in SQL Server 2008 Microsoft introduced MERGE function which allows us to do this pretty easily, and performance is increased pretty good.

and code for this is something like following:

MERGE FactBuyingHabits AS fbh
USING (SELECT CustomerID, ProductID, PurchaseDate FROM PurchaseRecords) AS src
ON (fbh.ProductID = src.ProductID AND fbh.CustomerID = src.CustomerID)
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE SET fbh.LastPurchaseDate = src.PurchaseDate
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (CustomerID, ProductID, LastPurchaseDate)
VALUES (src.CustomerID, src.ProductID, src.PurchaseDate);

Bad Captcha

This is seriously bad captcha.. I cant understand what it says...

while I was writing above post I got this captcha..

Blog Addiction

70%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Gmail Archive Scam

must read: http://www.techtalkz.com/computer-security/449241-g-archiver-gmail-archiver-scam.html

Site done

It's almost 2 months, since I have blogged about anything... I got caught up with lots of hectic schedule and lost track of many things.... I was also working very hard on a site and finally I have completed web site after a long time, here it is http://www.LearnITOnWeb.com/ - still I have not added RSS to it, but will be doing that too as well very quickly. I now have to load site with lots and lots of content and get it to good rolling.

I have been busy with lots of work these days, which I am executing very soon in a 2 months time frame.

but you will find me blogging again now.. I have managed to get back on to track and get back on to calendar and tasks - yeah this happens to me.. many times I just loss track of my calendar and task list.

btw if any of you coming to Launch 5th March 2008 - Regal Cinema, do let me know.. will meet up for sure. - more information - http://www.heroeshappenhere.co.in/

Bill Gates: the exit interview

Must read : http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/bill-gates-the-exit-interview/

Here comes another bubble

looking at the way so many web 2.0 sites coming up.. blog sites.. community sites and what not... this video justifies it all.

and like in song of the video says.. blog it blog it.. blog this song.. so here I am doing it :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

PUG Meet

I will be in Pune tomorrow (5th January 2008) and will be presenting at PUG meeting.

Topic: Building Communication Aware Applications for Windows Mobile
Abstract: In this presentation Mayur Tendulkar will show how developers can leverage the functionality provided by Microsoft Windows Mobile platform to build Communication aware application. This will include, making and receiving calls, SMS interception, Bluetooth development, using emulators and real devices
Speaker: Mayur Tendulkar

Topic: ASP.NET URL Rewriting
Abstract: URL Rewriting is process of simplifying complex URLs, which are easily remembered by users and adds a great business value to web site in terms of Search Engine Optmization
Speaker: Dhaval Faria

Time: 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Address: Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd.202, 2nd Floor, Phoenix, Bund Garden Rd., Opp. Pune Residency Club, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India

Underwater Digital Camera

you wont find me blog abotu gadgets very often.. though I am gadget freak as many of you knows...

but this thing just catches my eyes.. and looks a bit funny, you might have seen many waterproof cameras... this one is no different apart from its looks... this digital camera just makes it perfect to catch moments while ur catching up fish, shells, shark, jelly fish, etc... and u dont have to be busy holding it with one hand and pressing shutter button with another.

more info: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/02/liquid-image-intros-underwater-digital-camera-mask/

Thanks to Community-Credit for Crediting me with Artoo Potatoo

as many if you know I am very much into community contribution... I have been contributing to the community since 2000-2001, few days back I discovered a site called http://www.community-credit.com/ this site credits community contributor with stupid geeky prizes... I have won the 14th prize - Artoo Potatoo. I am now waiting for my prize to come... :D I am excited about this.. and would like to really thank Community-Credit for this.

Thank you Community-Credit and David Silverlight :D

Bye Bye Netscape

AOL announced that Netscape wont be Supported from 1st February 2008 - Source - http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/

I have a very special respect for Netscape, its because of Netscape I am what I am :)... not talking about internet... ok let me talk in a more detail... 1997 got my first internet connection that time Netscape was the only browser popular among the users, I still remember version number Netscape Navigator 4.5 and 4.6 being my mots fav that time... I used Netscape Navigator to surf web sites, check emails and many more things... one day accidently or fortunately I mistaked Composer option in Netscape as Compose for email... which incidently had the same icon and with same name and same place for writing email in netscape email program (dont remeber name but operated from same application), I thought Composer is for email, clicked on it... and I was introduced to a whole new world of HTML... and my journey begins to the programming world :), and one more respect to Netscape for coming up with javascript....

its sad to know that Netscape wont be there sooner.. which will actually mean lesser competition and might slow down the development in the browser market.. the kind of revolution you can see in IE from IE 6 to IE 7 and in next version IE 8 is because of competition from Firefox, Opera and others... hope this continues and consumers gets more out of it.

Netscape will be remembered forever.

PS: I stopped using Netscape after IE 4.1