The default Firefox 3 Mac theme does not show favicons for bookmarks you’ve added to your Bookmarks Toolbar. This is probably a decision that comes with mimicking the Safari theme which doesn’t display favicons either. Put simply, it sucks!
Thanks to Daniel Einspanjer, who wrote a Stylish style called Mac bookmark toolbar favicon, you can have all your favicons back in Firefox 3 with all their glory.
The Smart Bookmarks Bar extension which hides the names of bookmarks showing only the icon is currently not compatible with Firefox 3 Beta 5. It runs with the help of Nightly Tester Tools extension, but it is not very good at hiding the names of bookmarks. Even though it restores favicons on the Bookmark Toolbar without the use of the Stylish style mentioned above, it doesn’t work when it comes to hiding the names of bookmarks. You would have to go in to Organize Bookmarks and delete the names of bookmarks manually. You could just install the Stylish extension and delete the names manually, but you have control over the spacing between the icons with Smart Bookmarks bar.
The photo above was taken in Pupa Apple Store, Mayadrom Shopping Center, Istanbul. They are also bundling a copy of Vista Basic with every Mac purchase. How about selling Pepsi in a Coke fridge?
This one above is from the Bimeks weekend paper insert. It says Virus free with OS X. You can load Windows as well!
And the prices are so cheap(!), aren’t they? 2197 Euros + 18% Tax for a 2.4 Ghz 15″ MBP. That’s 4 grand for a Windows laptop. ;)
Here’s a desktop wallpaper I whipped up from various eboy goodies. It’s a 1920 x 1200 PNG file. Hope you like it.
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Google Spreadsheets has an outstanding feature hidden in the depths of its help pages.
It’s called GoogleLookup.
How does it work? Try this:
- Open a Google Spreadsheet
- Type Denmark in A2, France in A3 and Turkey in A4
- Select A2:A4.
- Holding the Ctrl (Win, Linux) or Ctrl+Option (Mac) button expand that selection by dragging the small blue square in the lower-right of the selection to, say, A20. Check this if you need more help.
- Surprised? You’ve seen nothing yet.
- Type capital in B2
- Again, expand that to B20.
- Then go to C2 and type =GoogleLookup(A2;B2)
- Then again, expand that to C20.
- :)))
You could also try doing different things, like typing Apple, Microsoft, Dell… in A2 and CEO in B2. Or even more!
I think this is very exciting! Microsoft should really start worrying for Office.
iPhone is now the fourth platform on the web. Linux is 0.65% and iPhone is 0.14%. That puts the iPhone in front of Windows Mobile and Symbian S60. Linux fans must be trembling. ;)
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February 22, 2008 – 20:22
If you would like to delete a particular calendar in Leopard’s iCal, you get the dialog box that’s pictured above. If you choose the “Delete and Notify” option, Mail.app launches and starts sending messages to people who you have events scheduled with.
Why can’t I just delete a calendar without notifying the whole friggin’ world that I am deleting a calendar? Hello? Apple?
Well, with a simple hack you can: Using iCal Reply Checker from John Maisey. iCal Reply Checker is an iCal add-in that gives you options for how replies to meeting invites are dealt with. Just click Add to install, then select the Do not send reply emails option, as pictured below.
Go back to iCal and try to delete the calendar. It will pop up the same dialog box, but it will not send notifications when you click Delete and Notify.
Boom! ;)
Calendar gone.
If you wish iCal to return to default behavior, just click Remove on iCal Reply Checker.
February 16, 2008 – 23:49
photo from iFixit
David Heinemeier of 37signals says on his post titled The MacBook Air could easily be the only machine:
But what I continue to be impressed with the most on the Air is simply the build quality. The MacBook Pro has OK build quality, but the regular MacBook frankly blows in this department in my mind. The plastic feels too cheap, it creaks and bends, and the black surface gets permanently smudged way too quickly. It just doesn’t feel tight in the same way the Air does.
What most people are complaining about the Air is the non user replaceable battery; right?
On the other hand it feels very well built, very tight; right?
Have you ever heard of structural rigidity?
The fact that the underbelly of this thin piece of gorgeous metal structure is one solid piece plays an outstanding role in the way that it feels so tight and well built. Most people would be complaining that it creaks and flexes and it was built like crap if it had a big deep hole at the bottom.
This is very much like the big difference in handling between a two door sports car and the convertible version of the exact same car. Most of the time, the convertible version handles like crap, because it flexes due to the absence of a roof. Oh, and it also makes all sorts of crackling noises when you run over a pothole.
To overcome this, engineers tend to equip the convertible one with extra bracing elements throughout the chassis which helps the structural rigidity, but also increases weight.
And weight helps neither handling nor portability.
