Extensions
Okay, so after reading the bit on RSS feeds on orangefever.net, I decided to give it a try as I am also getting annoyed at going around and reading stale blogs - plus, I like to have all of my news combined in one area (hence my.yahoo.com). Anyway, so I installed Sage, an extension for Firefox for RSS and ATOM feed aggregator and it's pretty nifty. With alt-s, I've got links to sites that publish RSS feeds and by clicking on them, I generate a simple page with their articles, starting from their most recent on top. Very convenient :D In fact, I just wasted a good hour or 2 just reading news... However, my Sage would be more useful still if ppl who use blogger also publish their blogs in ATOM format (it's in your Settings->Site Feed)... And for those who have their own site, write a script that'll do the same pls??? I'm a lazy bum and I don't want to have to click my way around :D
But Firefox also has several other extensions also that might be nifty. For one, they've got a StockTicker for the browser that is pretty nifty and I know one of my business friend loves it (and so might you, you linux/firefox freak - yeah, I'm talking about you!) Personally, I like WeatherFox, which pulls forecasts from weather.com for a city of your choosing and populates them in the browser (I've got it populated in my status bar, but u can change that). Now I no longer have to access www.uwaterloo.ca/weather.html for local weather! All I have to do is glance down while checking my email :P Ahhhh, gotta love technology, makes life so much easier!
Oh yeah, I didn't win anything at the last MS seminar, so yeah, unlike what you claimed, I don't win everything!!@#
But Firefox also has several other extensions also that might be nifty. For one, they've got a StockTicker for the browser that is pretty nifty and I know one of my business friend loves it (and so might you, you linux/firefox freak - yeah, I'm talking about you!) Personally, I like WeatherFox, which pulls forecasts from weather.com for a city of your choosing and populates them in the browser (I've got it populated in my status bar, but u can change that). Now I no longer have to access www.uwaterloo.ca/weather.html for local weather! All I have to do is glance down while checking my email :P Ahhhh, gotta love technology, makes life so much easier!
Oh yeah, I didn't win anything at the last MS seminar, so yeah, unlike what you claimed, I don't win everything!!@#
posted by whoami at 3:10 AM
4 Comments:
you should try those tab extensions, like double click close or undo close tab; they're pretty useful
and yeah, get on the horse about getting people using rss cuz then it'll save me the trouble of doing it haha
tab extensions? I'll look into that... right now i use my middle finger to surf anyways (middle button click on link for opening in new tab and use middle button to close)... Undo close tab, now that's interesting...
Well, you almost win all the time! Stop yer cryin'! :p Hope your project/work is going well...I know I haven't responded to your email, but I'll get there. :D
Yeah, I'm getting greedy - I keep expecting to win something now :D And as for my project.... oh man, i'm crying... lol, i feel so incompetent! so many things to read up on - for the past few days, i've done nothing but just read and read and read (and sleep.... sooo hard to stay awake reading), but i'll elaborate on that later... sooooo exhausted right now, time to sleep....
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