Get Firefox to speed dial webpages
Submitted on May 8th, 2007 by admin
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Firefox is an extremely popular browser, and while the download itself comes with no extra features, one of my favorite things about the browser is how many extensions are available which can add all sorts of functionality to do almost anything you want. Extension creators sometimes copy functionality available in the Opera (see BitTorrent, built-in RSS feeds, widgets, etc.) browser and add it to Firefox. One of the newest additions is the Firefox Speed Dial extension which displays screenshots of nine different webpages providing quick and easy access to any of them. While you can’t rearrange the pages’ order, it could be a worthwhile addition to those of you who do a heavy amount of web browsing.
[Via Download Squad]
Better spam management for WordPress
Submitted on May 8th, 2007 by admin
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One of the things I did before I decided to start blogging again on TipMonkies was to beef up the security around the site. While a blog is still young, you may not have many problems, but as its popularity increases, so does the chance of receiving mail and comment spam. WordPress comes with the fantastic Akismet plugin which does an amazing job at catching comment spam, but it can sometimes mislabel legitimate comments. Enter Simple Spam Filter, which allows a blog administrator to easily sort through comment spam based on common keywords found in such comments. Definitely a worthwhile addition to any running a WordPress-powered site.
[Via UneasySilence, thanks Jason!]
Sync notes, photos, and more w/ Conduit
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
Filed under Storage and Productivity and Software and Linux
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Backing up your data is extremely important, because quite frankly, you never know when your data will become corrupted. The problem with backing up data, is that it can sometimes be a little tedious. Enter Conduit, a small Linux application which makes the process very simple.
At the moment, I’ve only tried backing up my TomBoy notes to BackPack, but it’s also possible to save photos from F-Spot to Flickr, the ability to sync folders, settings files, e-mails to GMail, and more. It’s still an early release and a bit buggy, but is an excellent tool which will prove extremely helpful. Conduit is free and available only for GNU/Linux.
10 great tools to help you Twitter better
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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So you’re completely obsessed with Twitter and want to get the most you can out of your experience? How about trying some of these tools to enhance your experience!?
Share your life w/ Jaiku
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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Over the last few months, not only have I not had much time to update TipMonkies, but I also haven’t followed web 2.0 applications much at, more than likely due to the former reason, so I was very excited to get back into “the scene” and learn about a somewhat new service called Jaiku which aims to bring everything from your real life and your web life into one place. For those of you who have been using Twitter (yes, a review of Twitter is forecoming), you may find many of the same features in Jaiku, but if you’ve never used the service here’s what you should expect.
Great wallpapers for Ubuntu users
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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One of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions available today is Ubuntu, so if you’re an Ubuntu user, you may want to check out these high quality wallpapers available at Desktop Nexus. Below is a preview of three of my favorites:
[Via Digg]
Yahoo! Photos shutting down
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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As I’m sure all of you know, Yahoo! bought Flickr way back in 2005 (oh so long ago), a move which puzzled many folks since Yahoo! already ran its own photo storage and sharing service, the uncleverly named and somewhat bland Yahoo! Photos. Well, after two years of running both services side by side, Yahoo! has decided to shut down Yahoo! Photos. Normally, when something like this happens, companies tie their users to migrating their information to the new service they own, but not the case here. If for whatever reason you’ve been using Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! is being nice enough to let you export your photos to not just Flickr, but also Photobucket, recently purchased by MySpace, SnapFish, and many others. Way to please your users Yahoo! Now if only I could still use my old Flickr account instead of having to have a Yahoo! one, all your users would be happy…
Is there anybody out there?
Submitted on May 5th, 2007 by admin
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‘Cause I am! After a long (way too long) hiatus, I am back. I’ve spent the past 4 hours sorting through my email (some great suggestions btw), upgrading WordPress, fixing database bugs, and the such. Expect posting to resume TONIGHT after I get off work 
RetailMeNot will save you some money for the holidays
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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Any of you use BugMeNot, the user-contributed site to share login information for commercial sites? Well, from the same guys we now have , a free service which helps you find coupon codes for online retailers. Enter a web address, and RetailMeNot will spit out a list of coupons. Remember though all codes are user-submitted so get contributing!
9 Reasons Not to Upgrade Firefox
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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The Mozilla Foundation recently released the latest version of its Firefox browser to many praises, but is version 2.0 as great as everyone seems to think? I came upon 9 reasons not to upgrade Firefox over the weekend, which offers some interesting points as to why you may be better off waiting for 3.0. While I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the article, there are some good points made.
