Archive for September, 2005
· September 30, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
Did you know that even Google has jumped onto the Firefox band waggon? Maybe it isn’t with both feet riding all the way to browser town, but it is a good start. There are many Google created and Google related toolbars and extensions for Firefox out there.
Google Toolbar Beta
This is the same old Google Toolbar we once knew and loved when we were using Internet Explorer. It comes with all the fixings as well, such as: Spell Check, Auto Link, Auto Fill, Word Translator, Page Rank, and more! So if you want a lot of Google functionality right at your fingertips, the Google Toolbar is the way to go.
Googlebar
If you want to use the Google Toolbar, but want something that feels a little more “home grown” then you might check out the Googlebar. The Googlebar was created before Google released a Firefox version of its own Google Toolbar. It comes with lots of the same features, so you aren’t losing anything there. Some might even say it is better than the Google Toolbar!
Google Send to Phone
This extension from Google made for Firefox is pretty cool. The extension enables you to send short text messages of Web page content to your mobile phone. For example, you might text message yourself a phone number, an address, or directions that you find on the Web.
Google Suggest for Firefox
Google Suggest for Firefox is an extension that completes your search terms as you type them into the search box located to the right of the address bar. I have always had fun playing with the Google Suggest features, I don’t however find it very useful though. Usually when I search for something, I know what I want to type in. I don’t need Google to hold my hand there.
Have any more Google related Firefox goodies that I might have missed? Let me know, and I’ll make sure I check them out and let you know what I think!
· September 30, 2005 at 2:58 am · Odds & Ends
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Yep, I finally got a PSP as I mentioned the other day. Oh man, do I love this little thing! I’ve already loaded the newest firmware updates and have my own custom wallpaper as well. Might have to do some Web Hosting Show wallpaper for all ten of my fans out there. I’ve played with some of the video and audio features too, got to say I am impressed.
What game did I get? I picked up Lumines, and it is a addictive little thing. The reason I picked it up is because I don’t have any other puzzle games, other than on my PC. So in all, I got to say the PSP is very nice. I am not retiring my GameBoy Advance SP just yet. I don’t see any reason why I should pick up a Nintendo DS though.
What do I have to do now? I need to hook the house up with a wireless conection so I can take this thing Online. I don’t have a cellphone, I don’t have a PDA… so I am looking forward not to having to walk across the house to see if I got new mail in my Yahoo! Mail account. I’ll let you know more about that bridge when I cross it though.
· September 29, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
I know what you are thinking. This Firefox extension has to have something to do with the outdoors right? It gives you statistical information about how many trees have been cut down in your favorite forest, right? Wrong. OutSidebar brings your sidebars to the outside of the browser.
When you usually open up a sidebar within Firefox, your content window gets resized so that you can see the sidebar, right? Well with OutSidebar, your sidebar no longer resizes your content. What it does is brings your sidebar out to the left of the window, leaving your main content window alone.
This is a nice extension for folks that have a lot of desktop space and don’t like to feel like Firefox is cluttered with lots of different windows, pop ups and extensions flying at them from every direction. Yet another Firefox extension that does a simple task and does it well.
· September 29, 2005 at 5:15 am · Odds & Ends
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· September 28, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
One option in Firefox that I think a lot of folks take for granted is the fact that you can customize Firefox’s toolbars. You can do more than just make the icons smaller and drag and drop a few things here and there. With a little free time and some imagination you can really make a better browsing experience for yourself.
The first thing I usually do on a new Firefox installation is make all the icons “tiny”. Personally, I just don’t like big icons. To do that, all you need to do is right click the main toolbar, then select “Customize…”. After you have done that, you should see at the bottom of the pop up window a place to change your icons at the bottom.
From here you can: show icons, show icons and text or just show text. I have that set to just icons. To the right of that you see a check mark box that says, “Use Small Icons”. I have that selected as well.
Now that isn’t the only thing you can do from here. You can drag and drop new icons onto any of the existing toolbars you have set up. you could also take away icons you don’t use that often. You could take away everything, and just be left with the file menu if you want to be hardcore.
You can also create new toolbars or take some of the existing ones away. It is totally up to how you want to use Firefox.
· September 27, 2005 at 4:51 pm · Odds & Ends
Yeah, I just ordered my PlayStation Portable last night and it should be here tomorrow. Am I excited? You know I am. I have a feeling it will not be replacing my GameBoy Advance SP though. Instead it will hopefully just be yet another toy for me to play with.
Why the wait? Well, I am never really the first to buy anything. I like to wait things out and see how something does before I jump on the band waggon. The jumping has been done now though, so now all I have to do is wait. Man, do I ever hate having to wait for something to get here.
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