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Plurk Firefox Sidebar [Updated x2]

I recently discovered Plurk.  A micro-blogging site much like Twitter, only with more features, a cool layout and that headless thing! I’m a fan of the interactive and innovative timeline of posts.  However some people feel the timeline is a bit busy and go for the simplified mobile version.  So I decided to take a […]

TwisterMc Themes and Firefox 3 – Vote for your favorite.

With the Firefox 3 release upon us, a lot of people will be wondering about the status of my themes. So what is the status? iPox has been released. MidnightFox has been released. MidnightFoxy is in available. Miint has been released. iPox Aqua has been released. PinkHope is ready to go. HalloFF is ready for […]

How I moved my email to Gmail

A few weeks ago I took control over my email.  Not only did I clean out my inboxes, but I also converted everything over to Gmail.  Why would I do this? Always online and availabe to me. Doesn’t take up space on my webserver. The labeling system is fantastic.  I didn’t really know this until […]

WALL•E Comes to a Firefox Theme

While browsing through the Mozilla Addons site yesterday I came across the official WALL•E Firefox theme! Unfortunately the theme is Windows only. However, with a bit of investigating, I was able to extract the jar file and install it on my Mac. The theme is pretty good. WALL•E is a bit hard to see behind […]

Spice up Adium with iPhone Backgrounds

Did you know that iPhone backgrounds make great backgrounds for chat windows in Adium?  See for yourself. It’s really simple to do too.  Here’s how. 1 – Grab a cool iPhone background.  Here is the blue iPhone background I’m using. 2 – Open Adium and go to the preferences and click on the messages area. 3 – See […]

How I Got My Inbox Into Shape

I keep hearing people say that they got their inbox down to zero or their email is so organized and I never knew how they did it.  Then, last weekend, I sat down and started organizing a few messages.  Before I knew it, I was cleaning out my inbox and got it down to only a few messages. So […]

Fastest Mac Browser Test: Firefox 2, 3 and Safari

Have you checked out Dromaeo.com?  It’s a Mozilla owned site that runs a set of JavaScripts and test out how fast your browser is.  I tried it on my iMac, 1.83 Intel Core Duo with 1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, and found Firefox 3 beta 5 to be the fastest browser.  Oddly enough, Firefox […]

Welcome WordPress 2.5 And The Awesome Admin

I took the jump and have upgraded to WordPress 2.5. On the outside, there aren’t any visible differences. Well, if you see any bugs, let me know. The admin side however is completely re-vamped and so nice! There are so may things to talk about that I just don’t have time right now to go […]

Socialthing! Sidebar for Firefox

Introducing the iPhone Socialthing! sidebar for Firefox. It’s simply an extension that loads the iPhone version of Socialthing! in Firefox’s sidebar. All features are controlled by Socialthing!, I’m just bringing it into Firefox. Download the iPhone Socialthing! Sidebar extension. (REMOVED) How it works.1. Download the extension to your desktop. Then go to Tools -> Add-ons […]

Ubuntu Is One Geeky OS

I’ve finally got Ubuntu (7.10) up and running. I tried, and failed, to get it running under Paralles a while back and finally took the time to try again. This time on a Windows machine that had some extra space. Overall the install was great, but once up and running there are a lot of […]