Thursday, October 26, 2006

Firefox 2.0 Tweaks already!

Lifehacker just posted a great blog about some new config settings in Firefox 2.

Some of the new tweaks include:

  • Automatic Session restore (with Form entries!)

  • Tab width before scrolling kicks in

  • Tab close buttons

  • Fetch only what you click

  • Limit RAM usage

  • Turn off chrome tooltips

For those of you on Firefox 2.0 (you mean you aren't yet?) go check it out at

Top Firefox 2 Config Tweaks

You can also visit the Mozilla about:config wikipedia page for even more tips.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Google Co-Op Custom Search Engine

So, I've been playing around with the Google Co-Op Custom Search Engine tool, that got released today.

For those who don't know me (all 5 of you who read this) I'm a Lotus Notes/Domino developer. So I thought the best search engine I could use would be for this very subject.

Here's what I've got so far:

Lotus Notes/Domino Search-O-Rama

Interestingly, it allows you to highlight results from certain sites. You can see I've added CodeStore.net, Jake Howlett's excellent Domino sites, and a few others, including Ed Brill's site.

If you know do a search, without any Domino terms, for example:

Saving a document from the web

you get back a set of documents that do relate to Lotus Notes. That's because I've "seeded" the search engine with those terms already. It's quite handy.

One thing it does allow is for collaboration, so if anyone else wants to get involved with this, just use the "Volunteer to contribute to this search engine" link on the main search page!

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

So, Google's finally managed to pull together Writely and Spreadsheets! They've just released Google Docs & Spreadsheets, kind of a central repository for all your documents and spreadsheets, and I have to say, it's pretty darn good!

As well as creating and uploading your files, it has one killer function, which is the ability to email documents into your account. Any attachment supported (Word, Openoffice, Excel) emailed as an attachment, get's detached and added to your document list. Brillant. I can see I'll be using this extensivly.

Go check it out at : docs.google.com

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