May 9, 2003

things that rock

First, Neil T. and Michael Fagan rock. They pointed me to several really good blog search tools. So far, BlogDigger seems to work the best for me but I haven't given enough time to rssSearch and Feedster to make a fair comparison.

Thanks to improved blog searching, I found lots of cool moz-relates info that I'd been missing with just Google, Daypop and a few big blogrolls. Below are a few pointers to some of the (I think) recent stuff that I'd missed:

Joe's additions to userContent.css which kicks serious ass. Maybe we should just ship that thing in Mozilla Firebird commented out and let people uncomment to enable some good ad-blocking. (Amusingly, and on an ad-related note, this guy reckons that Mozilla Firebird will have to start charging money or putting up ads like Opera.)

I'm not sure when this showed up but for anyone wanting to convert a Mozilla SeaMonkey extension into a Mozilla Firebird extension, this Transition from a Mozilla Package to a Firebird Extension doc at the mozdevxfly project should be a big help.

Henrik Gemal is using a nice little "off-site link" indicator icon with links over at his weblog. I really do like that and as soon as I have time I think I'll add something like that to this blog.

Mozilla Bonobo with screenshots sounds very cool (thanks to blizzard for the initial pointer.)

These bookmarklets for playing with images are pretty cool. Not sure why you'd want to drag an image around but it certainly works. The album bookmarklet seems like it could really be useful though.

Myk and Brian published Remote Application Development with Mozilla, Part 2 a few days ago and I forgot to blog about it. Remote XUL apps are definitely keeping me excited about Mozilla.

Code for enabling rich text editing for MT in Mozilla missed my radar as well. Maybe mywonderful hosts can add this to their MT installation.

Ken, over at Ken & Sarah: Our Story was looking for one of these custom keyword docs (mine, Blogzilla's, mozillanews' and Grayrest's) and maybe you were too.

Another improvement for the plug-in experience can be found at the team murder site.

And apparently someone's reading my blog :-)

update - more things that rock:

This bookmarklet.

Ben's here!.

and Glazman takes Festa down a notch.

Posted by asa at 2:46 PM

 

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