Just recently I ranted about how bad it is that GMail auto-adds every possible email address it can get its hands on to your contacts, making them utterly cluttered with the most random people on the planet, including “remove me from this mailinglist” addresses and others you never want to see again.

It seems as if Google heard me (and many others): They now introduced a new section “suggested contacts” that they dump everybody and their brother’s email address into, but the people you actually want to have as contacts stay in an also newly created “My Contacts” folder.

This gives you the convenience of still adding people you email to the auto-complete feature (which, in and by itself is not so bad), while not hopelessly cluttering your contacts. Exactly what I want!

Well, thank you, Google. Read more about it on the GMail blog.

I just stumbled across a collection of very nice Firefox background images.

Some of them I’ve seen many times (like “always wear protection”, which always reminds me of the “natural mail enhancement” pic), others are new to me, but they seem to be the work of some very talented designers in the Mozilla community, so make sure to check them out.

Here you see Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, receiving the Guinness World Record certificate at the London Firefox 3 party. Awesome!

(Thanks for the link, laura)

I recently saw this on the local network at the unversity:

Well, at least the user was honest If he was aware that his iPhone would tell everybody of its existence through Bonjour? That, I don’t know.

Now it has happened: As an effect of the urgent need for a weekend, I registered with twitter. Only adding people I could think of easily, I am not “following” 37 people

Of course, my twitter experience started all peachy right off the bat, by first giving me site errors:

 
(hey, at least they are pretty)

… and then I noticed something weird about the times they show on every page:

“ungefähr 1 Stunde ago from web…” … is that… Germenglish? Englerman?

But let’s not be discouraged. They probably just started their announced maintenance window four hours early

Anyone else think I forgot to “follow” them on twitter? Leave a comment.

Userfriendly.org published a funny little picture about the second Microsoft cake:

They should have covered the Firefox 2 cake instead: After all, it still rendered in black and white

(Thanks for the link, Jean Pierre!)

The Firefox world record attempt has just weighed in with a whopping 8 million downloads (plus change) in a 24-hour period.

And, as I recently noticed, each Firefox instance carries my name among the men and women mentioned in the credits list (for my work on the Mozilla Add-ons project):

Awesome (did I mention I dig my name being spelled correctly?)

If you want to see who else is on the list, click on “About Firefox” in the help (or Firefox, on Mac) menu, then “Credits”.

Thanks to Mike Connor (who I believe put me on the list) and to everybody who made Firefox 3 such a great product.