Making your bookmarks your home page

Chris Ilias 3 Comments

Some people like to set the Firefox home page to display their bookmarks. That was easy in Firefox 2, when bookmarks were stored in an HTML file, but it’s a little tougher to figure out for Firefox 3. Not only can it be done in Firefox 3, but it works even better.

Just set your home page to the following URL:

chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul

That’s it! It doesn’t require you having to find your profile folder, and bookmark folders can be collapsed or expanded individually. Plus the search box at the top of the page will work.

Law against using the iPhone while driving

Chris Ilias 4 Comments

Yesterday, Ontario legislature passed a law banning the use hand-held devices like the iPhone or BlackBerry while driving (with exceptions for cases like headsets, etc.).

I got an iPhone as soon as it was available in Canada, and since then, it is very rare for me not to be using it while driving. But I agree with this law. Very soon after getting an iPhone I noticed a degradation in my driving, because I wasn’t concentrating on the road. I’ve had two instances in which the driver behind me honked, because I didn’t move when the traffic light turned green. No matter what the circumstance may be, we come to you to fix your Samsung and Apple Phone Repair wherever and whenever you need us, taking the hassle out of repairing your devices at the store.

Going back to driving without using my iPhone will be like trying to kill a drug addiction, but I understand why it has to be done, so I’m considering selling my iPhone, since now a days you can sell your iPhone online to avoid the hassle of in-store trade-ins and an easy and fast process. A cell phone repair may be the exact solution you need, offering you a cost-efficient way to keep your device and often results in all of your data being completely restored, but if you think your data may be lost you can ge your phone repaired in georgia by the best professionals on this, so they can repair your phone and be able to recover your valuable data,  photographs and memories for you.

7 Things

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The Swedish rockstar David Tenser tagged me.

Rules:

  1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
  2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
  3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Things:

  1. I used to work as an audio engineer at a major Toronto recording studio. I’ve worked with Big Sugar, Wide Mouth Mason, Kardinal Offishall (w/ Saukrates and Solitair), Jane Sibbery, Universal Honey; and I’ve produced a song for Pilot Speed.
  2. Before that, I played guitar and wrote songs in a band. We had a production deal, but our singer decided he’d had enough.
  3. On weekends, I play bass and bouzouki in a Greek and Macedonian traditional dance band for weddings and dances.
  4. I’m allergic to chocolate. More specifically, I sneeze whenever eating dark chocolate, but not as much with milk chocolate.
  5. I still live with my parents.
  6. Both of my parents came from the same village in northern Greece, which was part of Macedonia. My last name was given to my dad by the Greek government, when the Greeks took over.
  7. I’ve taken the Mega-Memory home study course.

Tags:

This madness must end.

iPhone apps – Fake Calls and Opera Mini

Chris Ilias 10 Comments

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, that you need to escape from. It works on a timer, and lets you customize the identity of the incoming caller.
It’s a free app until tomorrow.

Speaking of iPhone apps, it looks like Opera developed a version of Opera Mini for the iPhone and submitted it to the App Store. According to Opera Software CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, Apple blocked it due its competition with the built-in Safari browser. Shame on Apple. I hate monoplies. 🙁

Firefox product placements

Chris Ilias 3 Comments

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 instance.

It’s a little hard to tell, but there’s a Firefox icon in the bottom left of the dock, the tab has a favicon, and the search bar has a favicon. Ergo, that’s Firefox, not Safari. CNN used to use Netscape 7 in their screenshots. (Although, that could have been because of the AOL-Time Warner umbrella.)

Years ago, the Mozilla Suite was on the Simpsons:

If it hasn’t already been started, it would be cool if we had a log of all instances Firefox has appeared in the media.

Why I want a Support logo

Chris Ilias 4 Comments

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 some cooler stuff. Namely, a Firefox Support search plugin.

Imagine this: A Firefox user is having a problem with Firefox, or just has a question about how to use Firefox. Instead of visiting support.mozilla.com, he/she just calls up the search plugin in the search bar, and types the question (or put it in the Help menu).

In order for that to happen, we need a favicon.
In order for that to happen, we need a logo.

For what it’s worth, there’s already an unofficial search plugin on mycroft.