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My Favourite Firefox Extensions

February 5th

I know that there’s a stack of lists like this around the web, but I felt like doing one too! Below is a list of the Firefox extensions that I use quite often for a variety of reasons. Give them a spin if it floats your boat!

AdBlockPlus - Sick of ads? Even more sick of [...]

Quality of Service

January 14th

First of all, Happy New Year!
Now that the formalities are out of the way, I’ll get stuck into the post
Today’s comments are inspired a by a recent experience I had with an online form (of all things!). Being a bit of a game geek, both in the ‘build’ and ‘play’ senses, I constantly [...]

EA’s “Steam” Leaves a Bad Smell

November 10th

When Steam first hit the marketplace lots of people thought it wasn’t going to take off - and the bigger companies didn’t want it to. Over time it really gathered momentum. The bugs were being ironed out, the process was working well, and the subscriber count was going through the roof. As more time went [...]

Gadget Me Up

November 8th

I don’t know if you guys are free software gadget monkeys or not, but this stuff might be of value to those of you who use Visual Studio 2005. The guys over at SlickEdit.com, makers of the top notch SlickEdit editor, have released a stack of free gadgets for Visual Studio 2005 which are [...]

Microsoft Congratulate Mozilla

October 26th

After shipping the FireFox 2 browser, Mozilla received a present from the IE team at Microsoft. TO take a look, point your browser over here and read the story.
If I was a FireFox developer, I’d be veeeeeery wary of taking a bite of that I get the feeling I’d spend the rest of the [...]

Cyberface

October 25th

I could have squeezed this into the gaming round up that I posted a few days back, but this deserves to be shown out on its own (besides, it’s not just game-specific). I stumbled accross this last week, and it blew me away. The article, called Cyberface: New Technology That Captures the Soul from [...]

DVD Cracker Nails Apple’s iPod Code

October 25th

You gotta hand it to this guy, he says that he “doesn’t like closed systems”, which is pretty darned obvious The man, Jon Lech Johansen, who years ago cracked the DVD encryption known as CSS, and released (with two other unknowns) the software that could be used to decrypt DVDs (called DeCSS), has taken [...]

FireFox 2

October 24th

WAHOO! It’s been released Our lovable browser has had its second major version released into the wild, which is great news. I’ve been using the latest released candidate for a while, and have had no issues at all, but now it’s officially out there for all to enjoy.
Point your currently insecure/outdated browsers over here [...]

ViEmu for SQL

September 28th

Another quick note today (it’s late, and I need to sleep :)), and again it’s VIM related. The dude that made ViEmu that I mentioned a couple of days back has come up with another plugin - this time for SQL Server 2005 Managment Studio. It weighs in at a hefty USD$99.95 which, in [...]

ViEmu - are you the answer?

September 26th

After all my ranting and raving on what I think would be awesome to have as an IDE, I somehow stumbled across exactly what I was trying to describe. ViEmu looks to be the perfect combination of VIM and Visual Studio.
Well, I did get very excited when I saw it and so I downloaded and [...]

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