Blogzilla
Due to technical difficulties beyond my control (antique phone lines), I
was unable to blog yesterday. I did collect some cool and geeky links, though.
If you don’t know already, you should be using
Mozilla, the coolest browser on earth,
open-source and
popup-proof.
(Popup-killing advice compliments of
blogzilla, the Mozilla blog.)
To brighten up your Mozilla, try my favorite mozilla skin,
Orbit,
available from DeskMod. For the
truly geeky, or just those who want an easy way to clean up the cache and
history files after a long day of not-working at work, try the
XULPlanet preferences
toolbar. Note the convenient popup-killing checkbox. (I’m not sure why
you’d ever want to allow popups, but the option is there. Or just
the cool reminder of the millions of popups you’ve slain just by using a
real browser.)
On the image processing side, I discovered to my dismay that
Spinwave is forcing you to register before using their on-line image crunchers
to shrink your web images. Fortunately, I found a new site for cutting those
pesky jpegs down to size:
jpeg wizard. Gifs don’t
tend to need as much shrinking, anyway.
While on the prowl for jpegs to shrink, I found a goldmine of totally-free,
public domain images paid for by Your Tax Dollars:
freestockphotos.com. Skip
down past the quasi-religious links to the government photo repositories.