Our friends over at mashable.com hae put together a nice graph which shows the slow, creeping demise of our favorite internet browser, Internet Explorer. We can see in 2005, IE had a commanding 90% market share. In 2006 Firefox 2.0 was released and it's been downhill ever since. Firefox 3.0 did even more damage, and Mozilla has a quarter of the market share now. With other competitors like Safari and Chrome now getting serious looks by consumers, I think we can all rejoice in the competition Microsoft is getting. Is it any wonder they're losing users in droves? A study found that IE uses about 80 MB or RAM while Firefox and Chrome were in the mid-30's. With a speedier loading time and the benefit of extensions, we can hope IE will adapt or die a painful death.

News galore, Facebook vs. myspace, PC's take a hit. Geek Vs. Nerd Vs. Dork, can you turn an ipod into an iphone? Some good picks for the week, and Evan is getting a new laptop! News galore, face book vs. myspace, PC's take a hit. Geek Vs. Nerd Vs. Dork, can you turn an ipod into an iphone? Some good picks for the week, and Evan is getting a new laptop! [podcast]http://simplifiedgeek.com/podcasts/sg_episode3.mp3[/podcast]

I guess you've got to start somewhere. Firefox can now claim a major victory in the browser wars - they have 100% market share on the entire continent of Antarctica. Seems the scientists down there are keen on speed and reliability. I don't blame them.

Recently both Firefox and my Safari browsers were feeling a little sluggish and running a little slow, needless to say it was frustrating me, so I found a little trick to clean them up and speed them up a little.  First I must say, I have left Internet Explorer off this list on purpose not only because I run a mac but it is a terrible browser; if you are still using it you need to stop today and get Firefox or Safari, they are available for PC and Mac. If you are in Firefox go to the menu bar at top and select Tools then go down and select clear private data. Check the boxes for cache and cookies, you may also select the history box if you want that cleared then select clear private data now. For Safari click on safari in the top menu, then click empty cache, after the alert pops up select empty.  Now click on safari again, and select preferences, select bookmarks (security if you are running Safari 4) select show cookies, then you can either click on remove all or select individual ones you would like removed, I would just choose to remove all. How does this speed up ...

  Most people have multiple computers in their homes, and along with that most people have a high speed internet conection, but do you have all of your computers conected to the internet? "Well I don't have enough cords to conect them all", you might say, but do not fear; we can cut down on most of those internet cords. A wireless router is the way to go to set up a home network, or connect all of your computers to your high speed conection. So you go to the store to buy your router but low and behold you can choose from, 802.11/a, 802.11/b, 802.11/g, and 802.11/n.  Do you have no idea what these mean, or which is the best one to get? First you need to think about where your wireless network will be, and how many computers you will have connected to it.  802.11/a has a high data transfer rate, usually 54 Mbit/s, an average iTunes song is 5Mbit, so if you had a download of 54Mbit/second it wouldn't take long to download the song) most high speed connections at home are not this fast, but it means you can utilize the speed of your connection and get the most out of it.  The downside to ...