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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 [...]

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 [...]

The vision of Firefox Support

Amen, brother David!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Video of Firefox 3 getting the Colbert bump

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

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 [...]

Thanks Gmail for giving me more spam

Google has decided that if someone sends an email to a Gmail address that is the same as yours, except for a period or few, it was meant for you; and they relay it to your mailbox. In other words, if I have an address cilias@gmail.com (which I do not), and someone sends a message [...]

Video is worth a million words

Face it. Making screencasts is the cool thing to do now. Everyone is doing it. You can do it too. The Firefox Screencast Contest ends this Sunday.

Hierarchical to-do lists

If bug 194863 is fixed, I’m swtiching to Mozilla Calendar. I’ve been wanting task management software for Mac that supports hierarchical to-do lists for ages.