Thursday, June 10, 2004

Japanese Folklore (and monsters!)
One of my overseas friends mentioned something about the Japanese Yama-uba (A monster that preys on lost travelers and other such folk). Being the Internet Connected lad I am, I plugged it into Google, and turned up a Wikipedia link on the Yama-uba - which also links to other information on Japanese cultural legends.



Time!
Finding myself with several friends currently overseas, the worldtimeserver seems like a very useful tool...

Find the time where I am




Firefoxy

I'm a big Firefox nut - I've installed it on all of my machines, and it'll probably be my browser for a long time. It's not as fast as Safari, but it's far faster than anything else I've tried (and more extensible than Safari).

Plus the fact that it's cross-platform is great - in the last year or so I've installed it on every PC I've touched (which, is only 2 or 3, but it's the thought that counts).

Today I'm going to share my list of hot hot browser extensions for Firefox.

  1. Bookmark Syncronizer (FTP)

    The Bookmark Synchronizer keeps all my machines updated with my latest and greatest bookmarks. Yes, iSync does this for Safari, but the API hasn't been opened up for other browsers (or other applications in general) to use iSync.

  2. Bugxula

    If you run a Bugzilla installation, this is a neat little tool with a lot of potential. It provides a non-web GUI for searching bugzilla. While it doesn't have as much functionality as the standard Bugzilla search page, I don't think that's a bad thing. It also might help as training wheels for those unfamiliar with Bugzilla (or scared by the query form).

  3. SessionSaver

    When I'm programming I acquire a lot of open tabs in Firefox - all the research, documentation reading, sample code searching, etc. I don't close these because, well, I might need that information again (and googling for it again is a big hassle).

    So, in order to preserve this state, I just don't shut down Firefox for the entire day (or days). Since I'm on OS X I rarely crash (and Firefox is quite solid in that regard), but if I do have to quit Firefox or restart or something, all my state is lost.

    Not so with SessionSaver. I can save my session and restore it at any time. Yes, I could use bookmarks for this, but to me this seems like a pain (and I would have to go delete the bookmarks eventually, etc... just a really big pain). SessionSaver is very cool.

Do you have a favorite Firefox Extension? Comment!