Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox 1.0
Whew, my browsing experience is once again complete...Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox 1.0 Preview Release
Whew, my browsing experience is once again complete...Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox 1.0 Preview Release
Will the announcement of Bloglines Web Services mark the end of the "RSS killed my bandwidth" cries? Will every aggregator out there start to use this instead of relentlessly pounding each individual site every two minutes? It might be a little early to call this 'winning', but hey, I'm an optimist.
Mostly, I just wanted to say I told you so.
Sprint PCS, my current cell phone provider, has apparently finally started listening to J$'s pleas.
When connecting to the PCS internet portal on a Sunday, you get one click access to NFL scores, for each game being played.
About damn time, they used to make navigating to the NFL scores an 5 minute exercise in frustration.
Seriously, once I started giving away Gmail accounts, I got OCD for removing the UI clutter that is the "You've got invites!" bar.
Now, when I spool them out, I don't even get a 24 hour respite, I get 6 more within minutes. I can't check my mail without spending 10 minutes doling out invites.
Seriously, folks, just make the damn thing public already and stop giving out infinite invites, you're killing my office productivity.
Is your clean house OCD this bad?
Spool those gmail invites. Nobody likes UI clutter. (via ForeverGeek)
So the internet is all abuzz with the news of the latest Firefox release, officially titled "Firefox Preview Release".
As previsouly mentioned this release contains some nifty built in RSS aggregation features. They've made some tweaks since I last played with it, making the livemarks show up as a different color bookmark, and moving the 'Subscribe to this site' button show up in the bottom right corner, rather than bottom left. However, there still seems to be no update notification or polling-interval settings available. Bummer.
Oh yeah, the other cool new feature that I love: color-coded URL bar based on http vs. https protocol. I know most browsers will alway show a little lock in one corner or another, but this is just a huge, in your face, can't miss it, "you're secure" notification that you don't even have to look for. I actually got all paranoid the other day when using an old .9 release instead of the nightly, thought my https server was all hosed up, since the URL bar was white. Never going back.
Okay, this is very cool stuff. Does bloglines have an API like that I can use?
From A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys:
Don't ever try to force the issue, or make crazy demands that he choose between his computer and you. Remember, his computer has been there for him his whole life; you are a new interloper he hasn't quite grasped yetI almost fell out of my chair laughing as I was reading that.
Because it's true.
It's hard to overestimate the sheer joy that Boomer & TJ hosting NFL Primetime bring to my life every Sunday evening during football season. Today, while bringing up the live gamecast for the Browns game (damn the DirectTV monopoly on football. I want government intervention!), I found another great espn.com gem - The NFL Primetime HQ
Boomer, TJ, Mort, Ditka, and even loudmouth Sean Salisbury all sitting in a room, watching umpteen football games, and throwing running commentary into a chat window. Throw in the "Big Play Tracker" bot, and it makes a perfect companion to the gamecast window.
It's my new dream in life to spend one Sunday in that room.
Junk Folder: I call mine 'Stuff'.
JR posts a nice rant about who marketers should really be looking to please. My personal favorite part:
Influencers use weird crap. They use Macs and Linux, Mozilla, and other eminently hackable systems.They, and I like to consider myself part of 'they', use things that are cool.
And to segue, it's seems that everyone's noticing that RSS may not be quite perfect, which has been a been crunch on the horizon for awhile. I guess RSS has made it past JR's 7% (which I think is a drastically high number for the alpha-geeks, but at least it's prime). Adam Curry gets the award for the first dork to stand up and scream BITTORRENT! As soon as I saw Scoble's post, I knew this was a matter of time, like waiting for the 'imagine a Beauwolf Cluster of gameboy advances running Linux!' comment. Does Bittorrent really scale to files that are a few kilobytes?
What about last-modified headers? What about blindly denying based on poorly-behaved user-agent strings? Am I the only person that's ever heard of Akamai? We're talking about static files here, updated a few times per day. If you're a small website, the hits to your feeds are probably the only thing stroking your hit-counting ego, and if you're big time buck up and do some work to fix it. Slashdot recently implemented some crazy RSS throttling magic. If you're getting more RSS hits than Slashdot, then spend a few measly grand and add a dozen blind-stupid HTTP caching appliances to your rack, set the content timeout to something ridiculously long like 10 minutes, and watch your webservers load drop back to nothing. Or wait for RssFeedSuperSite.com(my guess), which will just be a bank of a hundred blind-stupid HTTP caching appliances and a few guys laughing all the way to the bank.
"how many times have I looked for a Debian install CD that has megaraid/aacraid and e1000/tg3 drivers built in?" Never again, thankfully. via random($foo)
Ok, while I'm raving about gmail, I have to say that the creation of new filters is quite less than ideal.
I want all the messages from:J$ OR to:J$ to get the 'hive' label. To accomplish that, I have to create two separate filters, since the to: and from: search fields are AND'd together, rather than OR'd.
That's just evil. I want choices. AND or OR. And XOR, of course.