Del.icio.us on Spotlight

I was on Digg.com today and I found this sweet new plugin for Spotlight. It’s called delimport, which allows you to search your Del.icio.us bookmarks via Spotlight. This is awesome!! I cannot wait to install this on my Powerbook. Now all I need is a way to search other users delicious bookmarks as well.

Search your desktop from Firefox

One of my good friends, Marc, sent me an email on this great Firefox extension called Horopter. Basically, it makes it so you can search the Google Desktop (which must be installed of course) using the Google search bar. Yeah… not that exciting for some but hey I love it.

WindizUpdate

Wow… there is this great site I found today by listing to the TWiT (This week in Tech) podcast. It’s called WindizUpdate and it is Windows Update for Mozilla FireFox. It seemed like this is an impossible thing to me as Microsoft is in control of the updates and I thought you could only get …

Google on your phone

Haven’t posted a relevant tip in a while so I will do the Google Mobile search capabilities. They are cool. Basically, you send google a text message and you recieve great info back. Like today I wanted the weather so I typed ‘weather omaha ne’ and sent it to GOOGL (46645) and within seconds I …

DOSBOX!!

I was on Slashdot today and someone posted a link to DOSBOX, a DOS emulation client that works in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, and FreeBSD. Happy days are here again. I MUST try this download.

Slashdot Extension

Being an avid slashdot reader, Firefox has some neat things out there to make my /. expierence more enjoyable. Not only does Firefox support RSS feed bookmark lists, but there is an extension out there for moderating posts called Slashdotter. It checks a particular user’s rating so you can get an accurate picture of what …

Firefox Config page

Found this cool thing in Firefox today, the about:config page. It allows you to view tons of global browser variables and what they are set to. It will also allow you to edit, add, or delete vars as needed.

Gmail Wiki

I found a cool link today for my Gmail account. It is a wiki all about google email. Here’s the URL: http://www.gmailwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

AdBlocking

You can block ads with Mozilla!! I can’t believe it. With the new Adblock plug-in extention for mozilla becomes very easy. Just download the Adblock extention, then when you get to a site with ads in it find out where the ad comes from and click the adblock link in the status bar. Select the …

Touch command trick

Hey, found this really eat trick you can do with touch, a Linux command that allows you to make zero byte file and update modified dates on files. Did you know that you can actually date back files with touch? Niether did I until this morning. This is great because if I mess with a …

Plugins for Mozilla

I got the new version of Firefox today and I am so excited about all the plug-ins. They have this really cool plug-in for Website development. It is really cool you can turn off CSS, have it open your favorite editor and edit HTML source. It has a HTML parser, and just everything you can …

Mozilla Middle click Tricks

My co-worker Joe told me about this neat feature on Mozilla. If you middle click a link on a page, when properly configured, the link you clicked appears in a new tab. Also when you middle click a tab in the center it automatically closes that tab.