Ways I Use The Firefox 3 Smart Location Bar
One of my favorite things about Firefox 3 is the speed. Or maybe the decrease in memory leaks…sorry memory fragmentation.
But the change that I have actually used the most is the new Smart Location Bar. This thing where you type the URLs:
Fascinating, right?
But there’s some serious power in there. I haven’t spent [...]
Firefox 2 and 3 Forward and Back Buttons
I have both Firefox 2 and 3 (RC2) installed on my computer. Once the final release comes out for Firefox 3, I will get rid of 2.
In the meantime, sometimes I click on the icon for Firefox 2 and sometimes Firefox 3. Apparently Firefox 3 is getting rid of the Forward/Back buttons as [...]
Netflix Million Dollar Challenge
How did I miss this for two years? Netflix is running a contest through “at least October 2, 2011 with a prize of $1 million.
But this isn’t a simple through you name and phone number in a hat and cross your fingers type of prize. You actually have to earn this one.
Netflix will [...]
Get More Readers By Speeding Up Your Blog
Slow pageloads are evil. Sometimes a poor hosting service or plan is the problem but often there are little things that can destroy your pageload times that you brought upon yourself.
I am not a power web programmer by any stretch of the imagination so this tip would definitely fit under the easy to implement [...]
The Old Big Clicking Area in the AdSense Ads
Google changed the AdSense ads by making less of the AdSense ad area clickable to prevent accidental clicks. Fair enough. In theory if the CTR drops because their are less accidental clicks, then the amount paid per click should go up because the clicks that do happen are more purposeful. Or something [...]
Gmail Feature To Easily Get All Emails For One Person
I accidentally noticed a neat feature in Gmail the other day.
If you hover over the sender of an email, you get a little pop-up. For example, hovering over the Netflix Receiving sender give me this pop-up.
Then if you select More -> Recent Conversations:
It will show all of the emails that you have sent to [...]
Doing More With Your Feed Reader - ebay
There are a few things that I have been looking for on ebay recently. I’m planning on buying a new bigger fish tank and I’m softly thinking about buying a Nokia N800 someday.
I don’t really like hanging around ebay and searching all the time, though. I noticed after typing in a few searches [...]
The MyBlogLog and Yahoo! marriage lost my photos
I don’t log into MyBlogLog much anymore so I’m a little bit behind on noticing that Yahoo! took over MyBlogLog recently. I had to log in with my Yahoo! id and then agree to link the two accounts.
Annoying. But then I was surprised to notice that somewhere during the crossover, they ate my [...]
NBC Online Videos
Did you know that you can watch a bunch of NBCs programs on your computer? I used it after watching the first season of Heroes on DVD a couple weeks ago to watch the first couple episodes of season 2 so I could start watching the shows live.
There are a ton of things that [...]
Are Your WordPress Plugins Safe?
Are you thinking about upgrading to WordPress 2.3? Make sure you stop by the WordPress Plugin Compatibility for 2.3 page. They have a list of plugins that are okay and plugins that will cause problems with WordPress 2.3.
I scanned the list and the only one that I noticed is the Popularity Contest 1.2.1 [...]