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Yahoo! Mail Beta in Camino 1.5

The (not so new now) Yahoo! Mail Beta has never liked Safari/ Webkit. However, it used to work fine on Camino – until recently that is. I guess Yahoo! has changed some stuff, because not only does it dislike Camino now, there is no longer an option to “continue anyway” on unsupported browsers. I don’t like using Firefox on Mac (which supports the Beta), so I needed to find a way to allow the Beta interface to load.

Enter User Agent.

Install User Agent, restart Camino and use the following custom user agent string (“Other” in User Agent settings drop down), which allows the Yahoo! Mail Beta interface to load as of today:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Save it as Firefox 2.0.0.2 (Mac OS X PPC) if you like.

Enjoy.

[tags]Camino, Internet, Mac, Apple, Software, User Agent, Firefox, Mozilla, Extensions[/tags]

Somebody Gonna Get A Hurt Real Bad

Russell Peters is on a tour of India and will be performing in Delhi on Wednesday. Shock horror (seriously) – Delhi-ites have dished out the money (Delhi-ites are famous for holding out for a “pass” till the last moment) and the show was sold out in record time (or so I am told).

Another great example of the power of YouTube/ P2P/ Internet as a marketing tool, albeit the marketing is “incidental” in most cases and not planned. Peters has acquired quite a fan following all across the globe (even Oman!) thanks to clips of his performance being available on YouTube etc. What this means is that when this guy is on tour, tickets often get sold out in a couple of hours without the need of any kind of major advertising whatsoever. Such things might be common for major acts like Rolling Stones, but for a Russell Peters (with due respect) to have that kind of a effect, you can thank YouTube and P2P. Now only if the entertainment industry could learn to channelize this power properly, instead of trying to cease and desist, they would reap the benefits of more sold out shows all across the globe.

A less for independent artists as well – five simple steps towards making a living off your passion:

1) Record your performances.
2) Put them on YouTube.
3) Create a buzz.
4) Tour.
5) Profit!

It’s as simple as that 😉

Seriously, the field is wide open these days for no-name artists to become big-name artists with practically no expense whatsoever. You might see some practical examples of that coming pretty soon on a blog near you. Hint hint 😉

Coming back to the performance on Wednesday, in the rare case that someone reading this has a spare ticket, give me a buzz.

Go on…

…try wiping the smile off my face today. You won’t have much success though, I’m telling ya. Best result since that night in May 2005.

Time to spread some of the happiness. Discovered this great site where you can read online (for free) one of the cult books, 1984, the book that gave the world terms like Big Brother, Thought Police etc., and Orwell’s other works including another personal favourite, Animal Farm. A bunch of other authors on offer as well, including Grandpa William.