While a good idea in theory, this Firefox add-on seems to interfere with several other important Firefox add-ons, including LastPass and StumbleUpon's toolbar. Quite a few toolbar icons also disappeared with no way to restore them. Other complaints have been that it slows down Firefox significantly, but I was not able to get that far before uninstalling the extension with extreme prejudice.
- Dave Dugal
Keyboard shortcut to close all tabs and open a predefined URL. Note: The default Alt-~ shortcut key conflicts with the default "Stumble!" keyboard shortcut in the StumbleUpon Toolbar. Be sure to disable one or the other.
- Dave Dugal
A website that backs up another website. Interesting idea, and possibly useful some day. It's like a static ScrapBook copy of a website that you can freeze in time and share with others.
- Dave Dugal
HDI's laser 3D HDTV is being fast-tracked for release in 2010, meaning that you're just months away from having stereoscopic 1,920 x 1,080 content in your living room... provided there's actually any programming to view, that is. Of course, it'll handle the 2D stuff too, and the twin RGP LCoS micro-display imagers in there ought to provide plenty of crisp imagery regardless of the source.
- Dave Dugal
From the page: "The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is a major increase in the usefulness of the mouse wheel. "Another feature involves the wheel button. Since the wheel button is not consistently used in Windows, KatMouse can use it for a kind of task switching: with a click of the wheel button you can push a window to the buttom of the stack of windows that is your desktop, making a recovered window the active window."
- Dave Dugal
The latest version of RealPlayer, called RealPlayer SP, has some fairly nice features, including the ability to save any Flash video from any site, and the ability to convert that video into either a compatible (read: "standard") video format, or into MP3.
- Dave Dugal
Nice, simple video to MP3 converter. Watch out for the Ask toolbar during installation, though. It's OK to uncheck the "Ask license agreement." The converter will still install.
- Dave Dugal
Quoth Megan Fox: "Men are scared of vaginas. And then when you give them a powerful, confident vagina, they're terrified. They don't know how to deal with it. Look I didn't figure out something special here. I wasn't born with a special vagina. All vaginas are created equal."
- Dave Dugal
We've had a few bug reports from people with both Aviary's Firefox add-on and the Noscript add-on installed. Namely, the two extensions seem to cancel each other out when they are both installed. Big problem. Well, here's a quick experimental fix that we'd love your help testing if you do have both addons installed and experienced this problem: http://web1.aviary.com/apps...
- Dave Dugal
An excellent reference site for the most commonly used HTML tags. Select the Tag from the top pull-down menu and get sample usage and all available tag options.
- Dave Dugal
Using this Mozilla Plugin Check page, all of your plugins (not add-ons) can be checked to see if they are outdated and possibly vulnerable to attack. Visit this page now!
- Dave Dugal
The Group SMS application reads the Categories from your contacts Microsoft Outlook. The Categories can be set within your Contacts on your phone, or via Outlook on a PC. Once one or more contacts are configured for one or more categories, Group SMS will prompt for a Category, then present a list of Contacts in that Category from which to choose. By default, all contacts in a category are preselected.
- Dave Dugal
Prior to Firefox 3.5, color management (the awareness of non-default color spaces -- Adobe RGB vs. sRGB -- among other things) was disabled by default. In Firefox 3.5, color management is enabled by default for images tagged with a color space.
- Dave Dugal