Mozilla Developers Wallpapers December 25, 2006
I thought it would be nice to have some wallpapers dedicated to the giants of opensource, to those who give so much and work so hard for all our sakes. Lauren had even deigned to make them, but she had to rush to make her plane to San Diego this afternoon. She gave the project several hours, working off a list of names I gave her yesterday, but she finished only one. She left some unfinished designs for me on a PSD, but I’m not sure yet whether I’ll use them before she gets back next week, come up with some designs myself, or just wait for her to pick up where she left off. At any rate, here’s Kevin Freitas Wallpaper, the first of some number of Mozilla Developers Wallpapers we shall make.
Top-10 Firefox Extensions for Developers December 22, 2006
1. Link Checker: Check the validity of links on any webpage.
2. Web Developer Extension: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.
3. ColorZilla: With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.
4. Measure It: Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
5. Firebug: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
6. IE View: IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer.
7. JS View: Use it to view the source code of external files.
8. Scrap Book: ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.
9. Window Re-Sizer: Resize your browser to various standard resolution sizes.
10. Table Inspector: Reveals the following information from complex data tables: summary attribute (rendered above the table), headers attribute, axis attribute, scope attribute and the abbr attribute.
Firefox TV Commercials December 20, 2006
The most wonderful thing about being a fan of the Google, Firefox, Opensource triumvirate is the fact they deserve it. They just keep coming up with ideas that make me feel good about using the Web, and that make me, a student of web marketing, impressed as hell. Never again let it be said that Idealism and Marketing don’t mix! Oh, wait… I think they call that propaganda — 
