Category Archives: Software, apps

Firefox And The Greasemonkey On Its Back

Good piece by ZDNET on a Firefox add that -on lets surfers tweak sites, but is it safe? A new Firefox extension that lets people customize their experience of the sites they visit is stirring excitement among Web surfers and consternation among security experts. The extension, dubbed Greasemonkey, lets people run what’s known as a… Read More »

Website Annotation Is Back?

Techdirt points to an effort by Slate’s Paul Boutin  to Make Website Annotation Cool Again. As Techdirt points out, this idea — where surfers can add their comments to websites so that others who use the same annotation software can view them, and add their own comments — is not new. (The semi-official term is… Read More »

A Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives

Update: Nov 28, 2006… Alan in the comments tells me of Pstart, “a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks.”   Please keep the suggestions coming, either via the comments or by… Read More »

A Better Interface For My New Toy?

I’ve been playing around with CDMA2000 on my laptop, and it’s kinda fun. But the device I’m using, a PCMCIA card from Growell, comes with software that is not exactly the most beautiful or functional: And there’s not much one can do about it, as far as I can work out. I love the idea… Read More »

A New Version Of Copernic’s Desktop Search Toolbar

Just in case you haven’t heard this elsewhere, Copernic has released a new version of their excellent Desktop Search toolbar that. among other things, fully supports Mozilla Thunderbird, including indexing of Thunderbird emails, attachments, and contacts. Also announced was support for indexing Eudora emails and attachments and many exciting new features based on feedback from… Read More »