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Tabbing Productivity

Steve Hudson thinks that claiming that tabbed browsing increases productivity is a fallacy (read his post before continuing): In the browser bitch slapping that started between the browser fanatics one...

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Is Firefox artificially increasing FeedBurner subscriber counts? I don’t...

Stephan Juhl wrote a post a few days ago claiming that Firefox‘s “live bookmarks” feature might be artificially increasing the subscriber count in FeedBurners stats: A couple of days ago Markus from AU...

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BitFox: BitTorrent for Firefox

Not yet available for download, unless you’re into installing from SVN. BitFox promises to bring bitTorrent integration to Firefox in much the same way as Opera has it now. BitFox is a Firefox...

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Link Roll Up 21/03/2007

I’ve been filling the link blog all morning with the best posts from all the feeds I follow. It’s starting to look like today won’t be a good day for me blogging, so I’m highlighting a couple of cool...

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Power Twitter

I’m just about to download and check out Power Twitter for Firefox. It promises to allow you to have: Photo sharing with embedded flickr photos Video sharing with embedded youtube videos Shared...

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O’Flaherty Episode #09 – Spaten München

Spaten München I’m pissed of at Apple iTunes. Microsoft makes good with Firefox. Facebook may yet grant my wish. You too can own a social network  and my podcasting glass is revealed. My voice decides...

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Smart Digg Button for Firefox

Derek van Vliet of Neothoughts has released the Smart Digg Buttton for Firefox. This extension sits in the status bar of Firefox and makes it really easy to see how many Diggs a particular page has...

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Google Gears and Sync Errors

Google Gears Error I’ve had Google Gears (Beta) on my system for maybe 30 minutes now and this “error” is starting to annoy me because I’ve seen it 3 times already while using Google Reader. This first...

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O’Flaherty Vidcast #02 – Auntie Akismet

Auntie Akismet! In this screencast I show you how to easily check hundreds of WordPress comment spams for false positives. Links Firefox WordPress Greasemonkey Userscripts.org Akismet Auntie Spam for...

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(Fire) Foxing Outlook

At my main machine I’ve been living more and more within Outlook (2007) as it is still one of the best PIM’s out there. However, I still rely on, and will under no circumstances give up a my web based...

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Ad Blocking Hypocrites

I was just chatting on instant messenger with a good friend of mine who was shocked to discover that I ran ads on my blog. She’d been running an ad blocker in Firefox and (like AdBlock Plus) and had...

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Popularity on Userscripts.org

Userscripts.org is a great place (the place) to get the best scripts for Greasemonkey (a Firefox plugin). I just wish.. they had some way of displaying the scripts which are recently popular. At the...

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Kill the browser please

It’s awesome that we can do so many things from inside our browsers but sometimes I don’t want to boot Firefox in order to be on UStream or Blog TV. I’ll give a big hug to the first person to come up...

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Deliberately crashing Google Chrome

One of the really cool features of Googles new browser “Chrome” is that all of the tabs (and plugins such as flash player) are run as separate processes. This gives excellent crash control as is...

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Chrome beat Opera – IE is next!! No really, it’s true I tells ya!

So everybody (including me) is talking about Google Chrome. Yeah, great big woop! It’s simply yet another browser with a number of cool features which the big boys will rip off duplicate over time. To...

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4 steps to the ultimate Google search

There’s nothing like a quick Google search for bringing information from all over the web to your eyeballs in an instant.  However as great as Google is, it doesn’t always give you the complete...

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Alabama Crimson Tide (Firefox theme)

Alabama Crimson Tide is not some “Hunt for Red October” style adaption of a Tom Clancy novel, it’s a Firefox theme for the Alabama Crimson Tide football program, a college football team team that...

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Why Spell Check Can’t Be Trusted And What Should Be Done

While writing my post about what to do with draft blog posts, I typed in the word “repurposed” into the editor and the spell checker in Firefox highlighted it as being incorrectly spelled (it’s doing...

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Browsers, OS, Mobile, Resolution – The Top 10 Of Everything

I’m sure you’ve all heard me boasting lately (probably to the point of wanting to stab me in the eye with your pen) about how happy we’ve been with the traffic that our fledgling humor site, Daily...

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Minor Rendering Differences In FireFox Beta 5

I haven’t been paying the new beta’s of Firefox 4 too much attention (except to note that beta 5 has hardware acceleration turned on by default) as I’ve become a solid Chrome user, but I have noticed...

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