Missing your favorite extension in firefox 3 ?! – In a post last year I wrote about the nightly tester tool which can be used for overriding extension compability check.
Nightly tester tool overwrite compatibility check extension by extension, if you want to skip compatibility for all extension in Firefox3 it’s possible to switch of the compatibility check entirely:
Type “about:config” in the Firefox address bar Note: “about:config” shows configuration variable for Firefox
By-pass the warning screen Note: no complaining if altered settings gives you trouble !
In the area with list of settings variable, right click anywhere and choose New + Boolean in the pop-up Note: We want to define a new variable
Name the New Boolean “extensions.checkCompatibility” and press enter
Choose “false” as the value Note: Tells Firefox to ignore extension compatibility check
Restart Firefox
Warning: Only use the above overwrite to enable compatibility to Firefox 3 plugins.
Don’t do this with Firefox 2.x plugins unless you know how to clean up any mess you might encounter. Many of of the older Firefox 2 plugins will mess up your Firefox 3 !
Try Etherpad for a fast, free , easy and really live collaboration and chatsession
Etherpad offers basic collaboration with no bells and whistles – BUT Etherpad do really excel at what matters when you want to have a quick collaboration session – it’s fast, easy and simple !
10 sec to get an URL for a new Etherpad
give out the url to your fellow collaborators
click the url and you are ready to start writing and chat in the same etherpad
each participant entries gets a separate color
unlimited undo
text updated twice every second = you do really have a live collaboration session
elaborate or ask/answer questions via chat
revisons of the etherpad can be saved at any time
free !
no login or account , thus no time wasted on filling out forms (a planned pro/paid version will include this)
I only miss three things
simple text formatting as headlines and bulletpoints, but this should be in the pipeline.
For corporate usage a password protection would be needed(in pipeline for a pro version)
Image via WikipediaJust installed latest version of PDFCreator which creates PDF prints from any Windows program.
Use it like a normal printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. I normally use it for receipts and other stuff I might need as reference material later.
PDFCreator is hosted at sourceforge.net a good place to find free open source tools, another good option is code.google.com
Kevin Kelly has a good follow up on his post about 1000 true fans which mused about whether the long tail economy were good for anyone else than aggregators – the original post made a case for the economy of 1000 true fans.
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living
Well, it turns out that 1000 true fans were a nice thesis, but 1000 fans don’t really make a base for a living alone.
Kevin’s recent blogpost the reality of depending on true fans with actual data and info from a musician Robert Rich is interesting reading …….. not surprisingly 1000 customers a year is not enough if you only earn 10$ per transaction
As Seth Godin stated in his blog post about 1000 fans “you need to alter what you do and how you do it so that 1,000 true fans is sufficient to make you very happy”
My take – figure out how to expand from the 1000 fans, either by scaling the number of fans to 10.000+ or use the 1000 fans to reach out and get input to additional sources of income
In Robert Rich case – ask his fans for suggestion for places to expand his secondary income streams from licensing fees and references to sell his skill in studio mastering and engineering.
Wow ! – Animoto is a winner, one of the best video webservices I’ve tried so far;
Animoto produces videos that are totally custom made to the music and photos you choose, your photo’s and chosen music are analysed and the result is a unique video.
Three easy steps to produce a video
Choose photo from webaccounts like Flickr or upload from PC
Choose music from (limited) Animoto or upload your own
Initiate video production, you get an mail 7-15 min later when your video is ready
The final video looks very good – see my sample below;
30-second video are free, one full video $3 and a years full access with unlimited video $30. For a low-budget promotion video Animoto could be the answer, I will for sure use this service in one my current projects.
Review highlights
very user friendly, simple and intuitive interface
3 easy steps to produce a video
Limited music available, the help section points to a couple places with free music I think they should list alternative places more prominently
In the help section you have to click every FAQ to see the answer, would suggest a show all option giving the option to scan the answers instead of reading it click by click. Tip, do read the help section – some good tips there
Direct publishing option to Youtube, blogger, facebook …
Pricing seems fair
Resulting video match the music, transitional effects and photos very well
Some users might want higher degree of control with effects and timing. Currently only option to influence result is the ability to choose which photo to spotlight and musicstyle – but it work amazingly well
I noted this comment on the official Google blog“The Visualization API provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community. It provides a common way (an API) to access structured data sources, the first being Google spreadsheets” –
It might be hinting at a forthcoming API for GoogleBase ?!
When GoogleBase were launched I thought it would be a good option for database-on-www, but apparently Google don’t want to compete in that area, GoogleBase seems to be aimed as an option to provide structured content for Google Search – leaving amazon S3 service as one of the best options currently for a database-on-www.
Trendanalyzer from former Gapminder shows up in the new Google Visualization API, providing the first appearance of trendanalyzer in Google clothing. The Visualization API were recently announced at Google code blog
Btw, I think they got it right Google, they do not just mirror the well known Microsoft functionality in Google docs, but web enable the stuff – like the new notification rule where you can see when your collaborators have modified your spreadsheets, and even learn what sheets or cells they’ve modified.
I’ve completely abandoned Microsoft Office privately and becomes more and more happy with Google docs.
A lot of extension gets disabled in Firefox3 as they do not specify version 3 as a supported version.
The Nightly Tester Tools allows you to overwrite the compatibility check in firefox 3, providing the ability to deactive compatibility checking for any firefox extension currently disabled.
The ‘make compatible’ option forces any disabled extension reactivated with next reload of firefox.
Handy until all your extension are upgraded, which in many cases may be as little as the extension needs to specify firefox3 (beta x) as supported.
Warning – not all extension will work properly, e.g. google toolbar seriously breached Firefox3 for me – I were unable to start Firefox3 after failed install of google toolbar.
In case of serious problems with an extension in Firefox3 (read; unable to start firefox3)
Start Firefox2, deactivate/uninstall the extension causing problems and you can switch back to Firefox3.
Firefox3 rocks ! The next version of firefox, firefox3 is now available in a very stable beta 4 version. I’ve been using the beta versions since beta1 and switched completely from FF2 to FF3 with betaversion 4, the performance is simply so much better in firefox3 that I live without the extension that does not work with FF3 yet ; Google toolbar being the only one I really miss in firefox3.
The performance in version 3 of firefox is superior!
I regularly have between 20-40 tabs open when scanning feeds – with firefox2 I ended up with allocated memory from 500 MB up to 1GB !. In firefox3 the normal memory usage shows figures between 300-400 MB and no climbing up of memoryusage over time, thus no noticeable memoryleaks leaks even after hours of intense browsing and webdevelopment with firefox3.
Cult of the Dead Cow is still alive; The group behind the now famous Back Orifice virus released a vulnerability scanner called Goolag Scanner – giving anyone who can download and install a program one-click access to scan sites for vulnerabilities via google !
Doing a search on google for goolag scanner shows lot of goolag news – but no goolag site until around spot #28 as today (your indvidual placement for goolag searchresults may vary due to personalized searchresults).
I guess Google have applied a huge negative factor to their site, or the explanation might simply be there’s too little goolag on goolag.org . I did though note a website with IP numbers instead of the text goolag.org appear as hit #3.
Yahoo have no problems finder the Goolag Scanner!, Yahoo returns goolag.org as #1 It should only be a matter of time before someone make a Yahoo version of Goolag scanner also, value added with yahoo new open search approach were you can get access to yahoo search results directly via an API.
I guess you can look at it positive as it gives easy access for everyone to check their website security – but as with Back Orifice we will probably see a lot of script kiddies trying this software on other sites as well ….
If you like this article you might want to read Pwdhash – one password to rule them all, giving you advice on how to have a unique password for every site you use with a login – without having to remember them all
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