Secure Login is a Firefox extension that makes signing into password protected web spaces more secure. That, I don’t really care about, although I probably should.
What I love about the plugin, though, is it actually speeds up the login process. Just clicking the little key icon it sticks in your toolbar causes the login blanks [...]

Secure Login is a Firefox extension that makes signing into password protected web spaces more secure. That, I don’t really care about, although I probably should.

What I love about the plugin, though, is it actually speeds up the login process. Just clicking the little key icon it sticks in your toolbar causes the login blanks to fill in and be submitted instantly. If you have multiple logins at one site, there’s just one additional click in the dialog window that pops up with all those loging. It also seems capable of doing its thing earlier in the page loading process than I can do manually (yes, I’m one of those people who starts trying to fill in the login blanks the instant I can see them on the page, with no regard for the 20 graphics that have to load above it and keep shoving the blanks elsewhere on the page).

Basically, WinTabber just takes the tabs from your taskbar (for all your open apps) and puts them at the top of the screen, inside a browser-like shell. What’s the big deal?
If you like to use Alt-Tab to switch between applications, you know that it likes to annoy you by sticking up 6 identical Word icons [...]

Basically, WinTabber just takes the tabs from your taskbar (for all your open apps) and puts them at the top of the screen, inside a browser-like shell. What’s the big deal?

If you like to use Alt-Tab to switch between applications, you know that it likes to annoy you by sticking up 6 identical Word icons to represent the 6 Word docs you have open - not too helpful. WinTabber lets you cycle through windows, not icons, so you can see where you’re landing.

It also seems a little faster to me, which is one of the website’s bragging points.

And lastly, if you’re trying to train yourself to keep your apps fullscreen (supposedly less distracting than having lots of little windows visible), this could help. Once you load your apps into it (you can pick and choose which ones you want to include in a session), there’s no minimizing or maximizing.

Call it speedlinking if you want - I call it a “bookmark” post because I regularly use my own site to find links to stuff I’ve come across that I checked out and loved or want to check out sometime. Here’s a batch for you:

Crop pictures online, quick and easy
See what’s showing in the top [...]

Call it speedlinking if you want - I call it a “bookmark” post because I regularly use my own site to find links to stuff I’ve come across that I checked out and loved or want to check out sometime. Here’s a batch for you:

• Crop pictures online, quick and easy
• See what’s showing in the top fold of your site in various browsers
• The Authority Bloggers Forum- great place to get suggestions, feedback, ideas and tips
• Turn your laptop into a hotspot
• SEOBook on how to tell if a link passes you any good juice
• Use iTunes Export to export your iTunes playlists and libraries intact
• Make a small station for recharging all your phones, that keeps those cords tucked away (I think I may really have to try this one)
• Resetting your master password in Mac OSX
• AskApache’s Ultimate Htaccess File Sample

I’m in the Foldera beta. It’s one of 5 billion GTD online apps I tried before deciding to go with a Wordpress blog as a GTD system. It looks like a very clean, simple, Ajaxy set up. Pretty intuitive and simple. Basically, you create folders for projects. Each folder contains a calendar, emails, files you [...]

I’m in the Foldera beta. It’s one of 5 billion GTD online apps I tried before deciding to go with a Wordpress blog as a GTD system. It looks like a very clean, simple, Ajaxy set up. Pretty intuitive and simple. Basically, you create folders for projects. Each folder contains a calendar, emails, files you upload and tasks. You can view everything in a project, or view your collected tasks from all the project folders.

In short, it looks like a very simple way to actually do everything you need with GTD.

I wonder what it’s going to cost when it’s out of beta, though. Similar things I looked at today were around $5.

I know people keep posting monster lists of keyboard shortcuts, but seriously: can you ever have enough? Ever since I started showing signs of "mouse fatigue" - the aches and pains related to mousing too much - I can’t get enough of keyboard shortcuts.
You know what else rocks about them? They’re quicker and more accurate [...]

I know people keep posting monster lists of keyboard shortcuts, but seriously: can you ever have enough? Ever since I started showing signs of "mouse fatigue" - the aches and pains related to mousing too much - I can’t get enough of keyboard shortcuts.

You know what else rocks about them? They’re quicker and more accurate for me. Sometimes I miss my target with mouse clicking. Sometimes I struggle with those teency tincy little boxes from hell that people insist on using all over the web. But sometimes I can tab to those babies, then hit enter or something, and my day is saved.

Here’s the latest list I’ve found that actually had keyboard shortcuts I didn’t know.

For the last few updates - maybe starting with Firefox 2.0 - that browser has caused me more trouble than it’s worth. It keeps caching pages when they’re all screwy, and absolutely nothing I do will force it to refresh the cache. Opera doesn’t do this. IE doesn’t do this.
I’ve spent hours and hours [...]

For the last few updates - maybe starting with Firefox 2.0 - that browser has caused me more trouble than it’s worth. It keeps caching pages when they’re all screwy, and absolutely nothing I do will force it to refresh the cache. Opera doesn’t do this. IE doesn’t do this.

I’ve spent hours and hours trying to fix things that weren’t broken, because Firefox kept showing me messed-up versions of my pages. Usually it’s page not found, but today it did something truly spectacular: it served me up a version of this site with no posts. I went into the WordPress admin panel and the posts weren’t in there, either! I went into the database, and there they all sat.

Hmm. I opened up IE - posts present and accounted for. I tried Opera - ditto. Now Firefox is acknowledging the posts if I go to them individually - except for the most recent one - but still claims there’s nothing on the home page.

Anybody know of another browser that saves sessions on crash? As far as I can figure out, Opera’s not there yet and I don’t even know if IE cares about that. That’s the only feature keeping me on Firefox right now.