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Canada wins Gold!

Look at the score and the time left in the game… Canada vs Russia 2009 WJHC last seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfWzXbqOHM

2009 01 06 Personal Comments Off

Firefox on election day

From CNN’s TV broadcast. They use Firefox 3.

2008 11 05 Firefox
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iPhone apps – Fake Calls and Opera Mini

One of the things I love about product extendability is some of the great ideas people have. Today, I found out about a cool iPhone app called “Fake Calls“. The idea is this: You can make your iPhone simulate an incoming call. It’s great for socially awkward situations, like blind dates or bad party conversations, [...]

2008 10 31 Firefox
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Firefox product placements

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that I’ve developed a habbit: Whenever I see a browser in the media, be it television shows, commercials, screenshots on web sites, I automatically check to see what browser and OS is being used. Very often, Firefox is the browser being used. Today, on CNN.com, I saw another [...]

2008 10 05 Firefox
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Why I want a Support logo

As Tara bloggd, she and David are working on a logo for the Support project, and want input about how others define the Support project. Getting a Firefox Support logo is something I’ve wanted for a long while. Not necessarily to establish an identity for the web site, but because it lays the foundation for [...]

2008 09 24 Firefox
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The vision of Firefox Support

Amen, brother David!

2008 08 28 Firefox
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Thank you Dan Portillo

The 2008 Firefox+ Summit has clearly been a very well organized summit; and I feel bad for Dan, who has obviously been working very hard to accommodate over 300 people, despite the landslide. I just want to say a big thank you to Dan for all his hard work. I’ve had a fantastic time so [...]

2008 07 30 Mozilla Comments (1)

How to remove the shadow from Mac screenshots

Mac users may have noticed that whenever you take a screenshot of a window on Leopard, the shadow that surrounds the window is also included. If you don’t want screen captures to include the shadow, you can set Leopard not to include it. Open the Terminal application. Type the following command, and press Enter: defaults [...]

2008 07 18 Mozilla
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Video of Firefox 3 getting the Colbert bump

Here’s a link to a video of the full interview.

2008 06 19 Firefox
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Did Firefox 3 get the Colbert bump?

On the night of the Firefox 3 release, Jason Barnabe mentioned on IRC that Stephen Colbert gave Firefox the Colbert bump! It was apparently during an interview with Jonathan Zittrain. I’m sure there will be a video of this on the web, so keep your eyes open for it, as well as any reruns on [...]

2008 06 18 Firefox
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