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WordPress and Jabber, sitting in a tree…

12/20/2004 – 9:11 am

It seems that Matt Mullenweg and Peter Saint-AndrÃ© have been kicking around some ideas about how WordPress and Jabber could work together. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged plugin, Web, WordPress, yahoo | Comments (3)

Firefox Inline Autocomplete

12/15/2004 – 8:51 am

Memo to myself:

To turn on inline autocomplete in the Firefox web browser…

Enter about:config in the URL field
Right-click on the page and create a new Boolean value
Enter browser.urlbar.autoFill as the preference name (note, case-sensitive: ‘F’, not ‘f’)
Set the value to true

There. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Tech | Also tagged Google | Comments (51)

Thunderbird 1.0

12/14/2004 – 12:55 pm

Get Thunderbird!

This is actually old news at this point, but the Mozilla Thunderbird mail/news/rss reader has reached version 1.0. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Tech | Also tagged Feeds, RSS | Comments (5)

Personal networking suite in your pocket

12/11/2004 – 6:25 pm

Okay, this is pretty darned cool: Metropipe has a product called Virtual Privacy Machine, which is actually a tiny (82MB) Linux distribution which boots into a virtual machine under Windows. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Tech | Comments (3)

The official Firefox 1.0 version is out. The Mozilla site seems to be overwhelmed at the moment. But I downloaded via BitTorrent, and I’m doing my part to contribute to the network (at least for the US English Windows version). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in News, Tech | Also tagged Web | Comments (2)

Petals Around the Rose

9/22/2004 – 7:55 am

I learned about this little puzzle thing called Petals Around the Rose yesterday (via BoingBoing). It’s sort of a dice game where you have to figure out how to solve the puzzle as you go, and once you know how, you can’t tell anybody else. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Fun | Also tagged Games, Java, JavaScript, Memes, Puzzles | Comments (214)

Thunderbird 0.8

9/15/2004 – 10:35 am

Everybody is all excited about the new Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate. In particular, the “Live Bookmarks” feature, which adds items from RSS feeds as special bookmarks. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech | Also tagged Feeds, Google, RSS | Comments (9)

Arrrrrgh!

9/11/2003 – 1:59 pm

Earlier this morning, XP crashed on me. “No big deal,” I thought. Until just now, when I realized that for some reason, my Mozilla bookmarks are all gone. . [...]