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A Podcast for the Few

I have been listening to the software engineering radio podcast for a few months now it covers a number of topics on current software engineering trends and has interviews with different developers. I enjoyed the recent episode on dynamic languages for static minds, which applies so well to me, although I still haven’t been converted [...]

wikidPad

For a while now I have been waiting for tomboy to be ported to windows because I am stuck in windows land for now because of my sound problem. However on the net it is always talked about having tomboy for Windows but no one has ever released anything that could be considered usable. So [...]

Junk eBay and Bank Accounts

Over the last week or so I have found out something that most people have probably known for a long time, eBay is great way to get rid of junk from you home. If you have stuff in your hows that you you don’t use any more, and I know we all do. That game [...]

Firefox Spellchecker

In my tradition of telling you all about great extensions that I find for Firefox. I announce the Spelchecker SpellBound which allows you to spell check input fields in Firefox. Which is great for people like me who use bulletin boards and blogs. It’s not in update.mozilla.org yet but it is stable from what I [...]

Firefox Tab Extensions

I have been using a advanced tab extension for Firefox lately which I have found very useful for tweaking the way Firefox uses tabs. You can find it here, screenshots are in japanese but you’ll get the idea. A fantastic extension for anyone who wants a bit more from their browser.

Firefox 0.9 released

Just a quick note that one of my favorite browsers, firefox, has just released another version, 0.9. It is by far the best browser available for windows and in which I do all my browsing here at work. So with a download footprint of just under 5mb who whouldn’t at least want to give it [...]

aaNet price hike

It is a sad day today I logged my beloved aaNet Forums only to find that the cheapest adsl provider in Australia will nolonger be so cheap :(. Thankfully for me already being signed up I wont have any price increases but if anyone after July 31st when the new prices come in wont be [...]