Archive for January, 2005
Nearly Finished
Mozoogle
Ben Goodger, the lead engineer on Mozilla firefox, announces that he now works for Google, and that his role with Firefox and the Mozilla platform will remain unchanged. bing!
Picasa 2
I’ve been using Picasa 2 now for a few days; it has gotten really slick. The interface is brilliant, and you can see some common threads creeping in from other Google apps, like the ability to ’star’ photos and to assign labels like you do in gmail. The only must-have feature that’s missing [...]
Now that comment spam is taken care of, I can get on with my life
Phil Ringnalda has a great wrap-up of the rel=’nofollow’ mini-series and the varying opinions it’s provoked. I think the most interesting thing about it is that it happened so quickly and without any of the rancour and turf-warfare that I would have expected.
I can’t imagine it having that much of an impact [...]
Ta-da
The folks behind Basecamp (which I’m currently checking out in that ‘I’ll write about this one of these months’ way) have just released a new free to-do list manager. Check it out.
Technorati tag search
Technorati’s new Tag Search is fantastic. It aggregates results from flickr, del.icio.us, and blogs. The blog tags are based on your entry categories, but you can also tag links within an entry in the same way that you add xfn links, with the rel attribute. Very interesting.
Getting and Setting Extension Preferences in firefox
There is a good tutorial at xulplanet on retrieving and modifying mozilla preferences, but there isn’t much information about creating sets of preferences when you are building an extension. The process for creating a new preference turns out to be the same one you use for modifying an existing preference. The defacto naming scheme [...]
Rubhub downtime
A hosting snafu has made rubhub unavailable for while. Hopefully it will be back up in a half hour or so.