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iTunes 4.7
iTunes 4.7 is out. What's new: 1) iPod photo support, 2) search for duplicate songs, 3) Receive an "Artist Alert" when music by your favorite artists arrives on the iTunes Music Store, 4) Minimize iTunes to the System Tray.
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MileWideBack Firefox extension saves you from "complex hand-to-eye coordination"
The MileWideBack extension (update.mozilla.org listing) for Firefox popped up recently on update.mozilla.org and with a name like that I had to check it out. And whaddya know, it turns out to be yet another essential extension (as far as I'm concerned). The premise of MileWideBack is simple: you use the left-edge of the Firefox window to navigate back and forth in your tab history.
This extension allows you to navigate back and forth without requiring complex hand-to-eye coordination.
"Complex hand-to-eye coordination" may sound amusing at first, and while I can certainly hit the back and forward buttons without a thought, but if you think of it these buttons are really, really small compared to the vast wasteland that is your maximized browser window. Particularly for my case, where I like to "Use small icons" for the buttons in the Firefox toolbar to save on vertical screen real estate.
These little buttons take up really minimal space in the browser, as the screenshot below shows:
Fitt's Law would suggest that it will take a long time ("long" in relative terms) for someone to find and hit those small buttons (but somehow I get by because I'm probably on the computer way too long for my own good). MileWideBack in a sense throws Fitt's Law out the window by allowing you to navigate back and forth by simply "throwing" the mouse to the left and then right-, left- or middle-clicking. (I say Fitt's Law doesn't really apply because it takes constant time to move to the extreme left of the window when no aiming is needed.) You right-click to go back, left-click to go forward, and middle-click to reload the page.
Neat little extension, isn't it?
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6 more days to show your support for Firefox!
Update 2: Mission accomplished! Spread Firefox tells me I've got 1140 points which means 10 other people have donated via my donation link. Thanks for the show of support and, more importantly, for supporting and loving Firefox!
Update: 1 more person has donated via my donation link! Thank you, Ken Pratt! 3 more to go!
I wrote about it before but I'll write it again now as the deadline nears (6 more days). Anyway, here goes...
Show your support to Firefox if you love it by contributing to the expense of full-page Firefox ad that will be in The New York Times (leftover donations will be safe-kept by the Mozilla foundation to fund the Firefox 1.0 launch campaign, a non-profit organization). Donations are tax-deductible in the US. $30 for a normal donation, $10 if you're a student. If you've ever thought of donating to the Mozilla cause before, now is the best time as ever to do so.
And I'm throwing in 2 free WordPress weblog hosting accounts (sponsored by ReviseMedia) should you make a donation (just let me know if you're going to do so).
I'm thankful to the
56 of you who've already donated due to my exhortations. If you do donate, and you feel general goodwill towards me (heh), I ask that you donate via my donation link. If I manage to get 9 of you to do so, I'd get the faux title of "Community Champion" and get some extra perks (I really want the free Firefox t-shirt signed by the Firefox crew). -
The Straits Times says Half-Life 2 will be delayed... Right
Local (Singaporean) news publication The Straits Times has a mini-article today proclaiming "Half Life 2 Delayed". (You need to login to read the article. For that purpose, I've created a BugMeNot entry for The Straits Times.)
Publisher Vivendi and developer Valve are suing and counter-suing each other over the rights to gaming cafe usage royalties. This battle could hold up the release date by up to six months
Now, am I the one who's out of the loop or is The Straits Times publishing old news? (Insert snide comment on how The Straits Times has been trying to portray itself as a world-class newspaper here.)
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Portions of Spamx plugin for Geeklog minimally based on MT-Blacklist Updater
Part of the Spamx plugin for Geeklog (a PHP blogging script) proclaims to be based on MT-Blacklist Updater (MassDelete.Admin.class.php and Import.Admin.class.php). I hardly see the similarity though.
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