Archive for October, 2006:

How to Make Firefox 2 Start for You!


Published on October 25th, 2006
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Jason Ruyle

Year: 2006
Author: Jason Ruyle
Platform: Other
Category: Utility
Publisher: Mozilla, Inc.

Rating: 5 out of 5

It seems that when it comes to browsers there are always tricks that we never really hear about. The developers of software seem to be thinking ahead of the actual released versions of their product. I [...]

Rethinking Design and User Interface


Published on October 25th, 2006
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Jef Raskin - Summary of The Humane Interface:
I’ve just started to read this book and thought it would be an interesting read for others.  The above said link is a general overview of what the book is about and links to other great book reviews by the author.
This book was mentioned recently at an ajax [...]

Collection of Time Tracking Tools


Published on October 20th, 2006
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In just about any industry it is important to be able to track your time on tasks.  Tracking your day can not only help with billing of clients, but also to help make your future days more efficient.  Below is an ever growing list of sites that either offer software, tools for time tracking, or [...]

Internet Explorer 7 released


Published on October 18th, 2006
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Internet Explorer 7 is ready for download.  The latest from the internet explorer blog:
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday [...]

Mediacom not connecting to Yahoo!


Published on October 16th, 2006
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This is quite strange.  Mediacom, my isp and cable provider, is lagging out when attempting to connect to the yahoo! servers.  I’ve never seen this kind of problem before, strange.

Blogging Extension for Firefox 2


Published on October 16th, 2006
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Deepest Sender 0.7.8
Year: 2006
Version: 0.7.8
Author: David Murray
Platform: Other
Category: Publishing
Publisher: Firefox 2
Price: FREE
Rating: 4 out of 5

Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (Atom) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Note [...]

Deepest Sender Addon


Published on October 16th, 2006
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Deepest Sender 0.7.8, by David Murray, released on Oct 5, 2006
Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (Atom) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. [...]

GreaseMonkey Extension for Firefox 2


Published on October 15th, 2006
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GreaseMonkey

Year: 2006
Version: 0.6.5.20060727
Author: Aaron Boodman
Platform: Other
Category: Utility
Publisher: youngpup.net
Price: FREE

Rating: 5 out of 5

I try and keep up to date on just about everything that goes with computers, the internet, and web development. Well GreaseMonkey is a very popular tool that is used by many, but it wont install with [...]

Earthquake Rocks Hawaii


Published on October 15th, 2006
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Hawaii - Yahoo! News

I just read that hawaii was hit at 7:07 a.m. local time with an earthquake.  I was just at that location less than a month ago on my honeymoon.  I’m glad to hear that there are no injuries.  Ironically, Kailua Kona is where the main airport is [...]

Google Blog Search Pinging Service API


Published on October 8th, 2006
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Google has released a new service for users who frequently update their blog to programattically inform Google Blog Search of their changes.  You can view their information page at:
http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html
RPC endpoint: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Google publishes the results every 5 minutes in its changes.xml file

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