Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster
The previous post was a test of Bookmarklets in Wordpress.
I installed the Bookmarklet button in my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar. I pressed the “Press It” button while reading the Infoworld article on the publication of the exploit of the latest Microsoft vulnerability and the post that occurred was a disappointing single line link to the article.
Talk about underwhelming - I’m not sure what I was expecting really, but that certainly wasn’t it!
One of the coolest and least documented features of Firefox is the ability to set multiple sites as your home page.
How you do this is, you open the pages as tabs of a single window, then in the General Pane of the Preferences, click on the Use Current Pages button.
Now these pages all open as multiple tabs of a single window whenever you open a new window in Firefox. This is particularly useful if there are certain sites you visit regularly - these sites can be set to be opened automatically when you launch Firefox or open a new window.
Mozilla have released the preview release of Firefox - this is the final beta release before it goes to 1.0.
The Mac version download is light enough for dialup (8.4mb) while the Windows version is just 4.5mb!
I have been a fan of RSS for some time now so the building of RSS reading (using live bookmarks) right into Firefox is ideal for me.
I love the smart search in Firefox - i.e. typing “dict rss” into the address bar brings up definitions of rss from dictionary.com and the same for any other terms you type in in the format “dict” (without the inverted commas).
The ability to customise Firefox by adding themes or extensions only serves to further enhance its appeal - think Firefox is lacking in some functionality? Check out the Extensions and the chances are some developer with a like mind has developed an extension to cover this!
While the Themes allow you to change the look and feel of your favourite browser at will.
Transitive Corp of California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run “transparently” on multiple hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes.
Transitive said QuickTransit supports software written in any programming language, and that its modular architecture allows modules to be swapped in and out depending on the processor and operating system.
The company claimed QuickTransit eliminates the need to port software from one platform to another. Software applications written for one platform will run on almost any other, without any modifications to the underlying program.
This would allow, for instance, MS Exchange or SQL Server to be installed on a Linux server!
Theoretically it should allow Apple’s cool OS X software to run on PCs!
Onne Gorter, a masters student at the University of Twente has published the source code (under a GPL licence) of a databased file system along the lines of what Microsoft were trying to achieve with the recently postponed WinFS project.
Onne’s databased file system (dbfs) is implemented in KDE but Onne is looking for developers to help port this app to Gnome.
A databased file system is long overdue as it will drastically speed up file finding and expand the ways in which to search for files.
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