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Tech links for 3/28/06

In Firefox, Software, iPod on 28 March 2006 with no comments

Some of these maybe be old and/or outdated, but I still think they’re worth looking into. These posts won’t be as length since I’ve accumulated a lot of these over a period of a few weeks.

The Complete Guide to Backing Up iPod & iTunes Music
Using iTunes to backup your music
Firefox Search Bar Hacks - An alternative to this is adding Smart Keywords, it all depends if you can remember those keywords; otherwise, use add engines to your search bar
Life Without Mouse Tips & Tricks - Just learn a little bit at a time, then it’ll become second nature and you’ll see an increase in productivity
Create a torrent feed to keep up with your shows - this also falls under GTD, because for those without TiVo or a PVR, you don’t need to tie yourself to the network’s time slots
FindRun Robot - No need to use your mouse to sift through the Start Menu. Just press the hotkey, type in a few letters, then select the program you want to run.
Get your PC custom-made - Other than the fear of getting over a small business or individual support your computer, these are a great way to go. I haven’t had too many complaints about the systems I’ve made. (Building custom PCs is my side job.)
Using the correct image formats
PureText - Strip formatting from text and paste with one hotkey; no need to copy into notepad, paste, copy, then paste into Word. Yes, I know about the “Paste Special > As Unformatted Text” item in Microsoft Word.
Burn to the Brim
Fix Stubborn Windows Install Errors
Ten Wikipedia Hacks
10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
Are You Infected by Sony-BMG’s Rootkit?
How-To Download music videos from Yahoo with LyFOX & VLC

Firefox extensions new to me

In Firefox on 7 March 2006 with no comments

Since I use Bloglines, I didn’t know of any easier way to subscribe to new feeds - until I saw LiveLines. Wow, amazing! ScreenGrab looks cool, too, so I’m writing that down here in case I’ll have need for it.

Firefox 1.5.0.1 officially released

In Firefox on 1 February 2006 with 2 comments

Firefox just got updated to 1.5.0.1. If you haven’t gotten Firefox 1.5, I think it’s safe enough now. If you’re not sure how to update to 1.5.0.1, the picture below should help. (Note: You need to be running 1.5 in order to update this way. If you’re running an older version, you need to get the full installer.)

(via Digg)

Top 10 tips to keep that new computer spyware-free

In Firefox, Spyware on 9 January 2006 with no comments

There’s an article at ZDNet outlining 10 tips to keep spyware off your system. However, I like what was stated at Lifehacker in response to it:

To be honest, if you’re following every step you should feel pretty safe. That said, following every step is going to take up a lot of your system resources and will probably really slow down most older (and even some newer) PCs. Just remember to practice safe surfing whenever possible, and when you’ve downloaded a questionable bit of data, give it a scan before you fire it up.

If you only stick to a few sites, and don’t stray to questionable ones, you should be safe without too much extra software. Other than Firefox, I don’t have too much else running (in regards to antispyware apps) because of this. Actually, NoScript wasn’t mentioned, and I think it’s great!

Bloglines Subscribe with Greasemonkey

In Asides, Firefox, Greasemonkey, RSS on 4 January 2006 with no comments

Userscripts.org is a nice site for Greasemonkey scripts. I’m stoked because a script has made it easier for me to subscribe to Bloglines when a site has syndication feeds. (Golf clap: Kapil’s Korner)

When is Firefox 1.5 not like Firefox 1.5?

In Asides, Firefox, Funny on 21 December 2005 with no comments

Kafkaesquí has finds a small quirk with Firefox 1.5 - extensions made for it doesn’t mean it’s made for it.

Performancing for Firefox

In Blogging, Extensions, Firefox, WordPress on 20 December 2005 with 1 comment

I just installed Performancing for Firefox. Pretty cool!

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

I have my two blogs setup, and all the categories and post history show up just fine.

Gripes?

Any bold text is enclosed in “b” HTML tags rather than “strong” HTML tags. (I don’t know how to write the actual tag here - oops.)
Any italicized text is enclosed in “i” HTML tags rather than “em” HTML tags.
Categories/tags are listed in some random order. With lots of tags, it made it hard to find the one(s) I wanted to check off for this post.

I’ve gotten used to writing from the WordPress interface, using the keyboard shortcuts for the different tags and whatnot. I’ve gotten used to not having to take my hands off the keyboard, so that’s been really efficient for me. So basically, I’m not sure if I’d completely switch over to using this plugin 100% of the time (especially if a post had to do with a lot of linking and lists). For the short quicker posts, I think this is very handy.

I’m not sure what else there is, but I’m pretty impressed, especially since it supports Blogger.com, Typepad.com, LiveJournal, WordPress.com, WordPress custom, and MoveableType custom. Isn’t this plugin part of what Flock was all about?

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