Tuesday, June 17, 2008

List of Firefox 3 (working) extension I use


Here's my list of extension I use in Firefox 3. I can confirm that they are available and working properly:
  • Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
  • Answers 2.2.48
  • ColorZilla
  • DownloadHelper 3.0.4
  • Firebug 1.2.0b2 (see my post on this)
  • lori (Life-of-request info) 0.2.0.20080521
  • MeasureIt
  • Password Exporter 1.1
  • StumbleUpon 3.18
  • Twitterfox 1.5.5.2
  • YSlow
  • Web Developer 1.1.6
List of extension I would like to have for Firefox 3:
  • del.icio.us
  • foXpose
  • Paste and Go
  • PicLens
  • zoomFox (although this one has no real use anymore because of the tremendous new zoom feature available in FF3)

Firefox 3, the missing link...

One thing I found missing from the new release of Firefox is a button for the toolbar that allows you to easily send the current webpage as a link. I got used to this functionality when I was still using Flock.

I found an extension that adds a Send Link button and it works just great. Maybe the final release of Firefox 3 will have the send link button included, but I don't expect it to be because release candidates normally have all functionality that a final release will have.

Get it at the Mozilla add-ons web site.

Monday, June 09, 2008

iPhones everywhere now, including The Netherlands


Good news today for people waiting everywhere to get the iPhone in their country, or waiting for a version with 3G (or UMTS/HSDPA whatever you want to call it) internet. But that's not all, it will also have a built-in GPS, nice! And for us here in The Netherlands finally legally for sale at T-Mobile shops, wonder what the price will be for the phone and the subscription plan... But I for sure want one, have an iPod Touch now and that's already great. To have internet everywhere independent from (open) Wifi networks would be very nice.

At the t-mobile site you can sign-up for a newsletter informing you on any news they release about pricing and availibility (which will be july 11).

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Serious web developers use Firebug


Really, as a serious web developer coding in (X)HTML and CSS you can't really do without the wonderful Firebug extension for Firefox (also works with Flock).

I just switched from Flock to RC1 of Firefox version 3. Wow that thing is fast, rendering, start-up, memory usage; everything got faster and better! But a lot of extensions are not yet ready for FF3, so you will have to do without them or wait until they come available.

The one extension I really need is Firebug. A quick search learned that there is a beta version (1.2) of Firebug available and it works with FF3rc1 ! Though it is still in beta, you have to be a bit careful maybe, but who really cares: you're developing, so your code is not perfect yet either, right ;) ?

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Download / install Firebug 1.2beta from official site.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The unofficial Google shell

Saw this very cool website (if you can still call it that) coming by on twitter: a command line interface for Google called goosh.org.

Screenshot (click it for larger version) of the site and the available commands:



This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page.