Category Archives: The Web
RSS Reading versus Site Hopping
I have a confession to make. I don’t really go visiting websites anymore. For the past month, I’ve just been using my RSS feed reader (Google Reader) for most of my daily reads and research. Why not? It’s a very streamlined process to get the low-down on what’s new and fresh without the fuss of having to load. I used to have bookmarks folders for all my daily reads and open them all in tabs. Now, while I love Firefox, it is still a resource hog. And opening around 60 tabs will eat up a hell of a lot of RAM and bandwidth. It isn’t really a great option.
Firefox Quick Tip: The Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet
Life is one of those things that you can’t play through “God mode.” But at least in most computing chores, you can. Or at least have a cheat sheet handy. As for Firefox, yes, you can cheat and hack your way through most of the work. I’ve been featuring mostly add-ons and tweaks here that I think I haven’t really finished creating a list of all the keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Firefox. Especially with the mouse shortcuts since I’m a self-professed keyboard ninja. In any case, here’s the Firefox Cheat Sheet. It’s a comprehensive list of shortcuts from the general shortcuts, navigation, text display, and search shortcuts, and mouse …
Firefox Quick Tip: Tweak Your Title Bar
Titlebar Tweaks offers a simple feature but it may suffice for those who want to further customize how their browser looks like without the hassles of going down to the level of code. It lets you do any of the following tweaks with your title bar: Display the browser name before the page title Display only the browser name or page title Replace the browser name in the titlebar with your own text If you’re like me who maximize tab browsing, then you may find having the page title an overkill since you already have the page title on your tab. So why not beautify your browser a bit and …
Web Raid: How to Become an M&M
My sister passed this site to me. Apparently something to keep you busy during office downtimes. I could only wonder if there are people dream of becoming an M&M or even those who think “I wonder what I looked like if I was an M&M.” In any case, if it just so happens that you have wondered so (or if I’ve been devilish enough to put the thought in your mind), here’s an actual site that lets you become an M&M. Hehe. Or at least make your own M&M character. Planet M&M is a website that lets you do a heck of a lot of stuff aside from creating your …
Web Raid: Plan Meetings with the World Clock Meeting Planner
This might come in real handy for those who do a lot of traveling or dealing with clients and personnel abroad. With the different time zones and daylight saving time in effect, scheduling can be a real problem. I’ve already featured some world clocks here before but here’s another tool for your arsenal. The World Clock Meeting Planner is an online tool that helps you choose a common schedule from different timezones. It lets you pick up to four different timezones or cities at once and a date. It would then show you the times from each city synchronized and presented in neat tables side by side. It even lets …
Firefox Quick Tip: Make Find Case Sensitive by Default
This may come in handy for those who always look for exact matches including case. Sure you can always just click on the “Match case” check box in the Find bar. But for those who always use the feature, this little tweak will make sure that little box is checked by default. Access the about:config page. Find the accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive preference name Double-click on it to change the integer value to 1 Click on OK Close the about:config page/tab The changes take effect instantly I, myself, chose to leave it in the default setting for flexibility.
Firefox Quick Tip: Supercharge Your Sidebar with All-in-One Sidebar
For those of you who have used Opera, you might miss its great sidebar control features. Firefox is more of a toolbar type of guy and the sidebar’s mostly used up by add-ons and the default options to access the bookmarks or history. I haven’t really tried out this add-on previously but now that I’ve installed it, I think it’ll stay on my system for now. All-in-One Sidebar lets you access Firefox’s panels in the sidebar – bookmarks, history, downloads, extensions and themes, page info and page source. You can also reposition the sidebar quickly from one side to the other. And it’s got loads of enhancement features like assigning …
Tech News: Gmail Allows 20MB Attachments
Great news for Gmail users. Gmail is now allowing bigger file attachments up to 20 MB in size. I know this has been on the news since yesterday but I just finally got it in my account. Here’s the news bit from the Gmail’s What’s New page: Increased attachment limit– 20 MB! Now you can start sharing more of those home videos, large presentations and files you just can’t seem to get smaller. We have doubled the allowable attachment size to 20 MB to make your Gmail space even more useful. So that’s another reason to celebrate. I could now send heftier files like video and image-laden PDF files over …
Tech News: Feedburner Goes to Google
The scuttlebutt has now been confirmed, Web giant Google is acquiring Feedburner, the RSS management service that lets users keep track of RSS feed subscriptions even monetize it through ads. TechCrunch wrote the following story: Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years. With this news, we’ll …