Why you should make Firefox 3 your web browser
Jun 12, 2008 Internet, Just Plain Awesomeness
I just saw this short video of some of the new features coming in Firefox 3. For anyone using Internet Explorer (you know, the blue “e” that you click on to get to my website), you might want to consider switching. Firefox 3 comes out this month, so make sure you bookmark Firefox and download it when it becomes available.
TwitterFox - a Twitter plugin for Firefox
May 30, 2008 Found Online, Internet
Anyone who uses Twitter and Firefox, check out this plugin. It puts a little Twitter Pop-up window within your browser. It’s nice to not have to deal with a separate program or have to constantly refresh the Twitter.com page.
So far, it’s been pretty good. You can see just replies made to you in a separate tab if you want, as you can with direct messages. If you want to make the window go away, you just click the “t” in the status bar. Pretty good stuff!
Here is a screenshot (click to enlarge):
Go grab it here.
Podcasts - What I listen to
May 22, 2008 Internet, Technology
Let me just tell you how much I love podcasts. “Podcasts”, you say? Yes. A podcast is basically like a radio show, only it is distributed over the internet through mediums like iTunes. They are free, and every time a new episode comes out, it automatically downloads to your computer/iPod/mp3 player. There are podcasts for any subject you can think of. Tech, sports, finance, news, comedy… all are represented well!
So, here are the ones I listen to (with links, some straight to iTunes):
TWiT - A round table discussion of the week’s biggest tech stories and industry news
Macbreak Weekly - See above, just all things Macintosh
Net @ Night - Looking at new trends in internet-related things
Diggnation - Video podcast, covers the most “dugg” stories from Digg.com
Phone Taps - A radio station in New York pranks phone calls people
Best of YouTube - Popular Youtube videos.
Totally Rad Show - Video reviews of movies, tv, and video games
Geek Brief - a daily 5-minute video podcast covering tech trends
Maccast - One guy talks about all things Macintosh
Sure, I know these are mostly geeky, but whatever. That’s me! So head over to iTunes and browse the Podcast category. They are all free, and you are sure to find something you’ll like!
Tags: apple, ipod, podcast, Technology
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-19
May 19, 2008 Internet
- trying out Mint http://www.mint.com #
- watching some trailers on the Apple TV #
- “Somewhere North” by Caedmon’s Call = one amazing song #
- Need to sell an iPod or iPhone? http://ping.fm/NuyrF #
- I’m not sure if it’s my socks today, but I think my feet stink. Sorry if that’s more than you wanted to know. #
- sorry about that last Tweet, how about something a little better… It’s a beautiful day outside! #
- @jas_on not sure about the smell outside. I will be able to answer that in just over 2 hours though! I’m going to the park after work. #
- 2/3 of my meetings canceled today. So now I just sit and wait on 5:00. #
- @dwpatrick just smear some motor oil on the side and you are set #
- Going for a walk with a friend, then trivia. Its so nice outside! #
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eBay Feedback Generator
May 15, 2008 Found Online, Internet
For anyone out there who has ever struggled to come up with a good line of feedback to leave for someone on Ebay, this tool is for you. Just make a few selections and the generator will spit out several ideas for feedback to leave for people.
TwitterSnooze! - Snooze Chatty Twitter Friends
May 5, 2008 Found Online, Internet
Have you ever opened up your Twitter only to see that someone has posted 20 things in the last 5 minutes? It’s really annoying! Well, now you can choose to “snooze” someone if they do that. With TwitterSnooze!, you can sort of “block” someone temporarily from having their Tweetsa show up in your Twitter feed.
Say for example, I was at a conference and I was Twittering every update. If you could care less about that, you could snooze me for “X” amount of days. After that time had passed, my tweets would resume showing up in your Twitter feed.
The only thing is that once the snooze time expires, I think the person you snoozed gets an email saying that you are following them again. But other than that, it looks pretty cool.
Choose (and remember) Great Passwords
Apr 30, 2008 Found Online, Internet
Here is a great article on how to choose more secure passwords for all of the websites you visit. If you are anything like me, you could probably use a boost in your security. Maybe I should stop using “1 2 3 4 5″ as my password for everything.
Anyways, here is a clip from the article on choosing the “base” part of the password:
The first letter of a phrase or song refrain. For example, if you wanted to use the famous Jackson 5 song “I Want You Back”, your base password might be “IWUB.” Remembering the password is a matter of singing yourself the song.
So once you have that, you can customize it with other info. For example, if you used “IWUB” as the base, you could take the 1st three letters of the name of the website you had a password on. So for amazon.com, your password there could be IWUBAMA. Get it?
That’s just one idea of many. For the rest, go read the article.
