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How to Grab a Screenshot of an Entire Web Page

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Web designers and marketers often need full-size screenshots for before-and-after shots and also for portfolio pieces. Fortunately, there’s many ways to create website screenshots. However, among all of the options, my favorite way to make full-length screenshots is by using Screengrab! — a Firefox Add-on.
Using Screengrab! is about as easy as it gets. Simply bring [...]

Posted in Firefox, How To, Open Source, Web Design | 4 Comments »

New Firefox Extension Does Quick Domain Lookups

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Richard Kershaw of Quality Nonsense just launched a Firefox extension that makes it super easy to lookup domain names. The extension lets you perform one click domain searches at your registrar of choice using the selected text in your browser window.
It’s super-simple: select the text for your domain search and hit the keyboard shortcut (CTRL [...]

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How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville
Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup [...]

Posted in Amazon, Content Management Systems (CMS), Firefox, How To, Open Source | 2 Comments »

How to View the Generated HTML Output from JavaScript Web Widgets

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

One of the best things to come from social networking and the so called Web 2.0 is the Web widget. Web widgets allow users to easily drop JavaScript code into their own website and instantly add content and features. Most Web widgets contain CSS ids and classes that allow the webmaster to alter the look-and-feel [...]

Posted in Firefox, How To, Web Design | 7 Comments »

Security Update Released for Firefox 2

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Mozilla released a security update for Firefox 2. The new update brings the current version to 2.0.0.1. Depending on your Firefox preferences, you will either get a popup window that looks like the image below or you’ll need to click on Help > Check for Updates… from the menu.

There were a total of five critical [...]

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Customize Your Basecamp Start Page

Monday, December 18th, 2006

37signals , the makers of Basecamp , pride themselves on building software that does less than their competitors. They take great care to deliver only the features they believe their customers need.
That’s nice.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, I’m tired of waiting for them to fix the “little things” in Basecamp. Time [...]

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Productivity | No Comments »

Google Service Links Update

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Today I updated the Google service links script to also modify the “More” box on Google.com and the search results. Now your links will appear there in addition to Gmail, Calendar, etc. Here’s a screenshot:

Click here to install the updated script. (Don’t forget you’ll need to have Greasemonkey installed.)

Posted in Firefox, Google, How To, JavaScript | 4 Comments »

Customize Your Google Service Links

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

At the top of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Docs & Spreadsheets, you’ve probably noticed links to other Google services. It’s part of Google’s push to tie its many products together. I find the links very useful. I love being able to switch between Gmail and my calendar with one click. Here’s what I’m talking about.

The [...]

Posted in Firefox, Google, How To, Just for Fun | 9 Comments »

Add a Second Inbox to Your Gmail

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Last week I finally gave up and ditched Apple Mail in favor of using Gmail all the time for both work and personal email. I had been managing my work email via IMAP, but with such a large inbox I was beginning to notice performance issues. It was time to switch. I set my Sitening [...]

Posted in Firefox, Google, JavaScript, Just for Fun, Productivity | 34 Comments »

New StumbleUpon Toolbar Enhances Google and Yahoo! Search

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

One of my favorite social media services is StumbleUpon. I like it because it’s one of the best ways to discover new websites, and it’s also perfect for marketing Web pages and websites. For some reason, StumbleUpon has the uncanny ability to drive a significant amount of traffic.
The StumbleUpon toolbar makes it very easy to [...]

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