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 far.
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 write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true && killall SystemUIServer
You can set it back to normal with the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow && killall SystemUIServer.
And remember, selling Apple computer may be a good idea, as the new MacBook Pro is already on the market.
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 TV tomorrow.
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 to c.ilias@gmail.com (or cil.ias or cili.as or ci.lias or cilia.s or c.i.l.i.a.s, etc.), and none of that Gmail address does not exist, the message will arrive in my cilias@gmail.com account.
All this does is increase my spam.
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.
Any lost bookmarks in Firefox 3?
One of the issues Firefox 3 is supposed to fix is the issue of some users losing their bookmarks. So I’m just wondering, out of all the people using the Firefox 3 Betas, have any lost their bookmarks?
Cloud computing vs. Web 2.0
I’ve been asking around, and I still can’t get answer to this question:
What is the difference between cloud computing and Web 2.0?
Filter news based on any header
A long awaited feature was landed on the Thunderbird trunk last night. It is the ability to filter newsgroup messages based on any header. You can test it by downloading and using the latest Thunderbird trunk builds.
Thanks to Joshua Cranmer for creating the patch.