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Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released

June 5, 2007, 7:19 am

The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser...

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Coverage of the Navigator 9 Beta

June 6, 2007, 3:07 pm

Articles about the release of the Navigator 9 Beta have been all over the Web today. Here are the major ones that I've spotted: Slashdot: First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 Fark: Netscape releases a...

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WAMP! BAM! POW!

June 21, 2007, 5:26 pm

This morning, I needed to troubleshoot an error that was occurring in my Feed Statistics plugin when running on a Windows machine as well as under PHP 5. Since I normally do all of my development in...

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7 ways to be a better developer

April 14, 2008, 9:04 am

Over the past few months, I've been thinking about ways to become a better software developer, specifically in terms of Firefox extension development. I'm listing the ways that I came up with here;...

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URL Fixer Has Been Acquired

February 20, 2012, 6:00 am

URL Fixer, one of the first add-ons I wrote for Firefox, has been acquired! It is now being managed by the team at URLFixer.org. URL Fixer was inspired in 2006 by this Firefox bug report. Since then,...

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Convert iChat transcripts to (useable) XML

November 4, 2013, 10:49 pm

iChat (a.k.a. Messages) doesn’t store its chat logs in a format that can be (easily) parsed outside of iChat, so if you want to use your chat data for anything, you’ll need to convert those logs to...

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Introducing Reenact: an app for reenacting photos

November 9, 2015, 8:00 am

Here’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a long time: a camera app for your phone that helps you reenact old photos, like those seen in Ze Frank’s “Young Me Now Me” project. For example, this...

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Feed subscribers

February 16, 2007, 12:59 pm

Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people...

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ScribeFire Development

February 26, 2007, 8:19 am

FYI: I’ve been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I’ll be posting about its progress occasionally.

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Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

March 4, 2007, 11:44 am

I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and...

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Sorry, Austria

March 5, 2007, 11:20 am

Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.3.1; new features since 1.3 are a Czech translation and a fix so that it no longer tries to...

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ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) Updated

March 9, 2007, 12:10 pm

Version 1.4 of Performancing for Firefox has been released, and in the process, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The homepage has moved as well, from Performancing.com to ScribeFire.com. Besides...

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ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 Released

March 29, 2007, 8:12 am

ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include: Spanish translation Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here)...

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Buggy RSS feeds at Digg

April 20, 2007, 8:55 am

I just noticed a strange bug with Digg’s RSS feeds: when you subscribe to a feed for a search term (to monitor submissions of your blog posts, for example), sometimes the feed will be invalid because...

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Announcing Feedbar (Firefox extension)

April 24, 2007, 3:14 pm

About a year ago, I wrote my first RSS-related Firefox extension, RSS Ticker. It was intended to be used for getting instant notifications from a small number of feeds. As the number of feeds I follow...

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New browser extension: AutoAuth

May 8, 2007, 2:52 pm

Note: AutoAuth is now being developed by Steffan Schlein. If you would like to leave feedback, please create an issue on GitHub. AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that...

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Twits Like Me

May 10, 2007, 1:34 pm

Everybody and their mother has written a Twitter-based app, but I haven’t seen any so far that try and help you find other Twitterers that you’d find interesting, so I made one. It’s called “Twits Like...

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TubeStop

May 19, 2007, 7:57 pm

Notice: TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012 and is no longer supported. My latest browser extension, TubeStop, is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on...

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Turn your Mac OS Photos library into a Web photo album

September 27, 2020, 8:23 am

Six years ago, I released iPhoto Disc Export, a tool for exporting an iPhoto library as a standalone website. Now that iPhoto is no longer supported on the newest versions of Mac OS, I was force to...

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