Sunday, March 30, 2008

Firefox Title Bar Anomaly?

I've always been using Portable Firefox for web browsing. It's fast and secure. It is also bundled with other cool portable apps.

A year ago, I decided to make my Firefox look like Internet Explorer courtesy of JohnHaller.com.

Everything's working the way it should be until two days ago. I noticed that the browser title bar got changed. It was supposed to look like this:









But what I'm seeing is:








Even its About page was altered















Other catchy terms include:
Mozilla Lightningadder
Mozilla Junglebeaver
Mozilla Turboape
Mozilla Junglebaboon
Mozilla Watermule
Mozilla Firepenguin
Mozilla Turbofinch
Mozilla Spacesquid
Mozilla Lightningcrane

and so on..

I find them funny and witty. But is this some kind of joke created by Mozilla itself? A hack? Security flaw? I tried googling for answers but couldn't find any. My only guess is that it got changed when I updated Firefox.

If you are experiencing this or if you know anything about this change, feel free to add your comments.

Btw, I'm using Firefox version 2.0.0.13

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Increase your productivity

I've been out of circulation for weeks now doing a lot of offline stuff. Talk about "so many things to do yet so little time". Anyway, I'd like to share two articles on increasing your productivity.

First, any attempt on optimizing productivity would be nothing, if your tools aren't working with you. Tune your broadband to overdive. and surf/download at maximum speeds. Check out PCWorld as discusses the steps neatly.


Techbays wrote an article on how you can operate a free virtual office with Officezilla. Accoding to it's website, "OfficeZilla allows you to centralize information in a single web-place and provides collaboration features that improve group work efficiency". This tool gives you more time to dedicate on "doing things you do best".

Comments anyone?

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Shorten URLs






I usually go to TinyURL to shorten long URLs before posting it in Twitter until I found out about Fon.gs from Twixtr's founder Martin Varsavsky.

Fon.gs or Fon Get Simple is like TinyURL but with added value. It lets you choose keywords you want to show in the shortened URL thus making it a lot easier to remember.

I converted Amazon.com Music Store's long URL to http://fon.gs/music1.

And of course, here's the shorter URL of the Cool Tools on the Net : http://fon.gs/my-site