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Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

Full Webpage Screen Capture

I've seen some chatter about the Mac utility, Paparazzi, that captures the entire length of a webpage into an image. Great product, but limited to those of us who have chosen to "walk in the light" of Mac OS X. :-D I was looking for something similar, but ...

Re-open Closed Tab

Bren posted about this a good while ago, but I get so much use out of it that I figured I'd spread it around again. If you accidentally close a tab you can bring it back from the netherworld by hitting Shift+Cmd+T (on a Mac) or Shift+Ctrl+T (on Windows). This is so ...

Firefox Search Box Keys

There are two keystrokes related to the built-in Firefox search box that I love. Ctrl-k on Windows, Cmd-k on Mac, and Ctrl-j on Linux selects the search box. Until I found this I would do Alt-D/Cmd-L to select the Location Bar, and then Tab to the search box. Once you are ...

Tab In Textarea Firefox Plugin

One thing I am regularly frustrated with is the lack of ability to enter a TAB into a web form. There are times when you want to use TAB spacing, but are relegated to hitting the spacebar a bunch of times. With Tabinta -- Tab In Textarea -- ...

What’s Your Homepage(s)

For a long time -- so long I can't remember when I started -- My Yahoo! has been my homepage. Back when Yahoo! was king they were the (possibly) the first to do a customizable portal page. Since I started using it the content I have on the ...

Domain Name Extension Completion

One of my favorite features of Firefox is the keystroke for completing domain names. For example: You use ctrl-D (on Windows or Linux) or cmd-L (on Mac) to select the address bar You type in the domain name sans extension e.g. techjive Depending on the extension (.com, .net, .org) you use the ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 2 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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