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.
For the most part, I like the new iPhone/iPod app store: There are a lot of applications on there that could turn out to be very useful.
Others however are kind of weird, such as "hold on!":
"Compete to see how long you can hold the button!" -- riiight, so how did this end up in the productivity section exactly? Ah: "Develop your perseverance and improve your concentration skills to make you more productive!"
Well, at least it's free ;)
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.
Jean Pierre pointed out a fabulous little extension for Firefox 3 on OSX:
The firefox-mac-pdf extension embeds PDF files right in the browser, so you don't have to download them, open them with Preview.app and remove the file off your desktop afterwards. It works much like Acrobat, except it uses OSX's built-in PDFkit.
That's definitely an extension I'd like to see on AMO.
As many of you may already know, tomorrow, June 17, Firefox 3 will be released to the general public.
But that's not all: In an event called "Download Day" Mozilla is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. You can help set the record!
All you need to do is download Firefox 3 tomorrow within the first 24 hours of its release.
Need more info? Hop over to the Mozilla Blog or read the official Download Day FAQ.
Wow, that's a pretty impressive bluetooth headset. (I'd embed the video here but that function seems to be broken).
Whenever I apply somebody else's big patch to review it, I obviously go ahead and revert the changes to my local Subversion working copy afterwards. Here's the line I use to do it, maybe somebody will find it useful (though I mainly blog it not to forget it myself):
svn st -q | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs svn revert(To be honest, I also expect about 17 comments now that tell me how I can do this more efficiently, or what I didn't consider when writing this in about 5 seconds -- so, don't disappoint me, fire away! :) )