· August 12, 2008 at 5:31 am · Hot Web Topics, Personal
Tags: addons, E-mail, help, Mozilla, skins, themes, thunderbird
Continuing the e-mail trend from yesterday, today I thought I would share some of my favorite Firefox add-ons and themes. Listing the add-ons I use with Thunderbird is an easy task. Why? Well… there are only two of them.
Quicktext - Keep a list of pre-written messages to use in your e-mails. It also accepts variables so personalizing a static message with information you have in hand is easy to do.
Minimize to Tray - This extension minimizes Thunderbird to the system tray on the task bar. This way I can keep Thunderbird running without it getting in the way when I don’t need it.
There are only a handful of themes really worth checking out too. Here are a few of my favorite themes for Thunderbird:
Azerty ‘mail - Brighter and unique icons, but still keeps the same look and feel.
Charamel - A tan colored Thunderbird theme that is awesome, except for a few little things here and there that keep me from using it 24/7.
Silvermel - A silver port of Charamel, same look (and bugs) - just a different color.
The rest of the popular themes out there all look like Apple/Mac clones (insert yawn here), and do we really need more than one of those? I think not. Really wish DeviantArt had some better ones too, but they seem to be a little lacking with the Thunderbird skin section.
· January 31, 2008 at 7:03 am · Hot Web Topics, Online Tools, Popular Posts
Tags: addons, google calendar, Greasemonkey, guide, help, tips, tricks
Ever since I did the Google Reader guide people have been asking me to do another post like that about some other service. I do use Google Calendar a lot as well so here are a few Google Calendar tips and tricks that you might actually get some use out of.
Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Calendar
· March 26, 2007 at 7:21 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: addons, broke, deleted, extensions, Firefox, Mozilla, themes
Mozilla has taken a lot of a good extensions and tossed them in the trash. Why? I don’t really know. There is somewhat of an explanation for their actions here - but it doesn’t tell me too much. I have been a big Firefox fan for a long time, but this was just a stupid move.
I have gotten a lot of people saying that some links on my Firefox blog, FirefoxFacts.com are broken now because of this. I’ll be doing my best trying to fix their mess and finding alternative links to themes and extensions. The thing that sucks if for many of these extensions I am the number one source, so finding an alternative might be harder than I thought.
Maybe it is my fault as well, maybe I was stupid to think that Mozilla wouldn’t be clueless enough to eliminate that many quality extensions. Maybe I shouldn’t have kept giving them credit and linking back to them?
Maybe I’ll get started on Opera Facts? Ok - no reason to take it that far yet.
Was your extension deleted by Mozilla? If so - send me an E-mail and I’ll be happy to highlight you on Firefox Facts. As long as you have an alternative hosting solution setup for the extension or theme I’ll be happy to highlight you.
Update: Looks like links are coming back - or so I am being told via E-mail. I have been talking with several people from Mozilla and they promise they the broken links should only be a temporary thing as they work the bugs out of the new system. Mozilla, you won me back over again! Thanks for getting it fixed quickly!
