This is another cool add-on for FireFox. With a single click in your browser window, you can generate a tinyurl from your current url. It puts it on your clipboard so you can immediately paste it where you need it. The add-on is called TinyUrl Generator. It puts a little link icon in the tray. This is soooo handy, especially when you need to post a URL to twitter, and you only have 140 characters for your post.
Here's a link to the add-on (and I used tinyUrl to make the url tiny. heh heh)
http://tinyurl.com/casdu7
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Firefox add-on: Organize Status Bar
Once you get a few Firefox add-ons in your status bar, you might like to put them in an order that works for you. "What can help me with this?", you may ask. Another add-on! Get the Organize Status Bar add-on.
It adds an option to your Tools menu and lets you set the order of your status bar items.
In mine, I have FireBug, FireSizer, Gmail Notifier, Yahoo Notifier, and TwitterFox. I have the same set up on other machines, but the order was different. It's nice to be able to order them in the same way on all of my boxes.
It adds an option to your Tools menu and lets you set the order of your status bar items.
In mine, I have FireBug, FireSizer, Gmail Notifier, Yahoo Notifier, and TwitterFox. I have the same set up on other machines, but the order was different. It's nice to be able to order them in the same way on all of my boxes.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Virtual Machines: VMWare, Virtual PC, and VirtualBox
I've used VMWare. I've used Virtual PC at work. I'm using VirtualBox at work and at home.
VMWare
VMWare was cool. I used it at college and at one employer. At the employer we used ESX server, and all of our development machines were virtual. Cool idea, but things were very slow at times.
Virtual PC
Virtual PC is good and has awesome features, like differencing disks and undo disks. Differencing disks let you make a base install, then create new machines from that in just seconds. This comes in handy when you need to spin up a new VM quickly. Undo disks let you install software to test it out, then when you close the machine, you can choose to commit your changes or go back to what you had before you started messing up your machine. :)
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is great for day to day use. I use it at work and at home. At work, I keep an Ubuntu linux VM running at only 256MB of RAM. It's fast and when I close it and save the machine state, 256MB goes to disk in a few seconds. Likewise, when I resume the machine, 256MB loads very quickly--much faster than a fresh boot. Installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox was easy. Installing it on VirtualPC took jumping through some hoops...not fun. At home, I use Ubuntu, and keep an XP VM on VirtualBox to run Quicken basically. I also use that XP box for connecting to work because the Terminal Services client in Ubuntu is a little shaky when controlling machines within machines. For instance, when I remote a work server, then inside that remote my work desktop, the mouse is crazy slow. In any case. VirtualBox is awesome. I'm really happy with it, and when given the chance, will choose it over Virtual PC or VMWare.
VMWare
VMWare was cool. I used it at college and at one employer. At the employer we used ESX server, and all of our development machines were virtual. Cool idea, but things were very slow at times.
Virtual PC
Virtual PC is good and has awesome features, like differencing disks and undo disks. Differencing disks let you make a base install, then create new machines from that in just seconds. This comes in handy when you need to spin up a new VM quickly. Undo disks let you install software to test it out, then when you close the machine, you can choose to commit your changes or go back to what you had before you started messing up your machine. :)
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is great for day to day use. I use it at work and at home. At work, I keep an Ubuntu linux VM running at only 256MB of RAM. It's fast and when I close it and save the machine state, 256MB goes to disk in a few seconds. Likewise, when I resume the machine, 256MB loads very quickly--much faster than a fresh boot. Installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox was easy. Installing it on VirtualPC took jumping through some hoops...not fun. At home, I use Ubuntu, and keep an XP VM on VirtualBox to run Quicken basically. I also use that XP box for connecting to work because the Terminal Services client in Ubuntu is a little shaky when controlling machines within machines. For instance, when I remote a work server, then inside that remote my work desktop, the mouse is crazy slow. In any case. VirtualBox is awesome. I'm really happy with it, and when given the chance, will choose it over Virtual PC or VMWare.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Firefox add-ons: Testing Resoltion for Acer Aspire One Purchase
I'm still kicking around the idea of buying an Acer Aspire One...now the 10.1". The only thing holding me back, aside from coming up with an extra $350, is the screen resolution. I'm not sure I can live with only 800 pixel vertical resolution. So, I'm using Firefox to help me make that determination.
I'm using the FireSizer add-on to set my Firefox resolution to 1024x600 (the max resolution on the AAO screen), and I'm using the Classic Compact theme to minimize the space that the button bar and menu bar take at the top. I'm doing all of my browsing in this mode. If I really can't stand it after, let's say, a month...then I'll wait for a netbook that has at least a 768 vertical resolution.
I'm using the FireSizer add-on to set my Firefox resolution to 1024x600 (the max resolution on the AAO screen), and I'm using the Classic Compact theme to minimize the space that the button bar and menu bar take at the top. I'm doing all of my browsing in this mode. If I really can't stand it after, let's say, a month...then I'll wait for a netbook that has at least a 768 vertical resolution.
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