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Dress-up your Firefox

John Alberts — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:54:01 +0000

I just stumbled across a Mozilla Labs project called Personas. It’s light-weight theming for Firefox that can be changed without restarting the browser. After you install Personas, you get a new menu entry Tools->Personas for Firefox, where you can quickly change the persona you are using. From what I can tell, Personas seem to change the your browser toolbar and menu font colors and usually add a lightweight background picture. According to the website, the project has been going since Dec 2007, so there’s a lot of Personas to choose from. I guess I’m a little slow sometimes.

One thing that is really cool is you can visit the personas gallery and see a bunch of different personas and when you hover your cursor over a persona, your browser will temporarily use that persona. If you want to use that persona now, just click on it and it’s your active persona.

Here’s a quick little clip that shows what Personas does.

Capture your screen in seconds

Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music

John Alberts — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:45:35 +0000

Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music.

Just found this website tonight for playing music online for free. It’s a community based service where you can have friends to share music with. It’s kind of like Last.fm and Pandora, but with a much nicer interface. It seems to load very quickly and the music seems like decent quality.

New Stats Plugin

John Alberts — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:21:05 +0000

So I figured what the heck, I might as well install some stats software if I ever plan on updating my blog. So, I just installed a Google Analytics plugin. Of course, I’ll have to wait a bit for it to start showing some stats.

Upgrade to WP2.7

John Alberts — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:07:53 +0000

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. Boy, the admin interface is much cleaner and polished looking. The default theme is very nice. It’s amazing how much work goes into a free product.
Now I just really need to start blogging more.

What the Flock?

John Alberts — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:00:32 +0000

My last post was my first in a long time with the Flock browser’s blog editor. It has a feature that you can drag and drop images into your post and also into a section it calls ‘webclips’. I assumed that this would use the WP API to upload the image to my server when I published the post. Unfortunately, it just directly linked the image from the Gentoo website. This is very sad, because I’m sure a lot of people are using this thing to post to their blog, and they don’t realize they are stealing bandwidth from the servers that they grabbed the images from.

Shame on Flock for this. They should at least show a popup the first time that you drag an image, to warn the user what this does and that it is a bad practice to steal bandwidth like that.