Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

How To Add Search To Google Reader

I’ve always found it odd that Google Reader has no search functionality. With search being Google’s bread and butter it is beyond me why their feed reader doesn’t have even the most basic search capability.
After looking for a solution, the best I could come up with is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It’s options […]

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Firefox Tips And Tricks

I was browsing the Mozilla website when I noticed they have their own page full of Firefox tips. There are a lot of cool little hacks but these few I thought looked particularly handy.

Force resizable frames
Display Sidebar on the right
Change the cursor for links that open in new window
Prevent sites from disabling the context […]

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Sparky - The New Alexa Toolbar For Firefox

10 years after the first Alexa toolbar hit the Internet, a new Firefox compatible version has been released, named Sparky.
Some of the features include:

Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the […]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Google Global Firefox Extension

Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing has created a neat extension for Firefox called Google Global. It allows you to quickly switch to search results from a different country without changing URL’s or manually appending search strings.
If you’re like me and are constantly checking search results from different countries then this plugin will come in […]

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Make Sure To Test Design Changes In Different Web Browsers

Whenever you make changes to your blogs design (this includes any new plugins you install), it’s a good idea to test whether those modifications are being rendered correctly by different web browsers.
Unfortunately all the major browsers render pages differently and I’ve often found the smallest change can completely mess up my blog. Most of […]

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Speedlinking - 6th April 2007

The Thinking Blog has a list of the five most addictive flash games. Be careful, you will get hooked on these.

Sugar + Flour + Game = Delicious! Thanks Ariel for finding this.

Pro Blogger talks about a new design for Google Adsense units. The change is subtle but I like it.

Menguzar has created a nice plugin […]

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Funny Firefox Commercial

Are you running Firefox?
If not maybe this ad will help you see the light.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Battered Firefox Syndrome

I reached a new level of stupidity with Firefox today. I had a heap of windows and tabs open, and my computer was running like a dog so I thought I’d open up Task Manager and see what was going on.
See for yourself.
 

It’s a testament to Firefox’s abilities for it to take this sort […]

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

How to stop websites from autoplaying audio

A few days ago I wrote about how annoying it can be when sites play sounds and music in the background. I’d never given much thought to how to avoid it other than turning off my speakers, which wasn’t an option. But the internet being the way it is I thought someone would have […]

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