Ever since I moved to Linux, I’ve been looking for a RSS reader that I like as much as Great News. I have finally found one that comes very close in Brief. Brief is a Firefox extension that adds a very simple, Great news-like feed reader to Firefox. It even stores the feeds locally for [...]
While nothing can replace parental supervision, a filtering program can help prevent stumbling across content unsuitable for your child. You can pay money for a content filter and often have little control over what it filters — some commercial filters protect from political and religious sites that upset their corporate leaders as well as from [...]
There are a number of web site you can go through to download videos from sites like YouTube to your one system, like KeepVid — but you have to wonder if such sites are tracking what you do. Clicking on the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet while on YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Break.com, Putfile, Dailymotion, Sevenload, [...]
FireBug is a must-have Firefox extension for anyone interested in web site design. It allows you to explore web pages (your own to debug or others to learn from) an an intuitive and very useful way. FireBug’s author describes the extension like this:
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or [...]
I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 over the weekend as a release candidate for the new version of my “must have” Tab Mix Plus extension had been released. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly. Several extensions had to be disabled as they were not marked as working in Firefox 2.0, but I expected that. Unfortunately [...]