Music Organizer MediaMonkey Runs Rings Around iTunes
Popular iTunes replacement MediaMonkey does everything you’d want in a music-organizing application.
Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome [Downloads]
Windows only: Mozilla released their version 3.7 theme mockups only a few days ago, but you don’t have to wait for the 3.7 release to enjoy them—a motivated user already created a lookalike theme that you can install now.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
Installing this theme isn’t quite as simple as you are [...]
Disable Automatic Web Page Refreshing [Firefox Tips]
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Have you ever noticed how some web sites automatically reload the page every minute or two? It’s frustrating, unnecessary, and thankfully can be easily disabled in Firefox.
While there could be some valid reasons for reloading the page, most of the time it’s just a way to artificially increase pageviews—at the cost of [...]
Do You Prefer Your Email on Your Desktop or the Web? [Reader Poll]
There was a time when—if you were a serious email power-user—desktop email clients were the only way to go. Nowadays, robust web-based email applications like Gmail have completely changed things.
Photo by DJHeini.
Earlier today we mentioned that Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 is available for download, and it got us thinking: There was a time, in the [...]
Mozilla Releases Initial Design Mockups for Firefox 3.7 [Firefox]
Firefox 3.5 was only officially released late last month, but the Mozilla team has already introduced its initial Windows theme mockups for Firefox 3.7, featuring glossy, translucent buttons and a host of other potential new features.
Images via MozillaWiki. Click on any of the images for a closer look.
Though the MozillaWiki weblog stresses that these changes [...]
Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
How can I make all white backgrounds change to gray while using Firefox?
Is it possible to hook up a PS3 controller for use on a PC?
What can I use to set up a simple online system that students can use to check the availability of items they need to check out from the lab supply [...]
FasterWeb Wants To Make The Entire Web Up To Ten Times Faster In 2010
As the web matures, it’s also getting more complex. Yet much of it is still fundamentally based on things like HTML which are 30 years old. A new startup, FasterWeb, aims to bring these old technologies up to speed — as it were — making the web faster, by optimizing the old standards for doing [...]
User Script Disables Google Reader’s "Like" Feature [Downloads]
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): If the new social features in Google Reader are cluttering up your reading space, you can use a simple user script to get rid of that “Liked” feature.
The solution is a very simple user script, which can be installed with the Stylish or Greasemonkey extensions for Firefox, or even potentially adapted to [...]
Display Just the Items You Liked in Google Reader [Google Reader]
Yesterday Google Reader updated with more social features, including a “like” feature—but didn’t give you a way to view all the items that you “liked”. Reader Michel writes in with the solution.
To view a list of all the items that you liked, simply navigate to this URL in your browser to see the list of [...]
Firefox 3.5.1 Update Now Available, Fixes Security Issue [Updates]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 3.5.1 is available for download, addressing the security issue and startup bugs (as well as some stability fixes) we mentioned yesterday. (If you want to know more, you can see the full changelog here.) If you haven’t been prompted already, click on Help > Check for Updates to download and install the latest. [...]
