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Re: You Choose the Target!

robneville73 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:30:19 -0000

AWESOME!!! I was really missing this in FF3...clicking those tinyurls from twhirl kept stomping on whatever page I had open (on Windows) and in FF2 the only way to stop it from doing that was this plugin. I wasn't aware they had it working with FF3. FWIW, on my Mac, regardless of the browser if I click on a link from anything other than the browser it forces it into a new browser window...much more natural for me.

Re: 40 Sites You Might Actually Use

robneville73 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:41:51 -0000

All right, I guess I really need to look harder at FriendFeed...I'm always so reluctant to jump on these trends because it feels like overloaded social networking.

Oh yeah....article stumbled....:)

Re: Tabbed browsing is half the solution

robneville73 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:22:33 -0000

osx has expose and spaces now in leopard to deal with the clutter factor...

at first I didn't see the point and now I can't live without it...I've set up the middle mouse button to do expose which shrinks all of your open windows so that it can tile them, allowing you to browse with your mouse to click on the one you want to switch to.

Spaces is not a new concept either, in fact it's quite prevalent in the linux world...that is, multiple virtual desktops. leopard lets you assign applications to a default "space" so what I've done is put all of my internet "stuff" on one, development on another, etc. Again, I've assigned a forth mouse button to quickly bring up an "expose" type view of my spaces and then click on the space I want to move to.

Then, to top it all off, while I'm in the "expose" type view for spaces, if I hit the middle mouse button, all of the shrunken windows displayed in the spaces view go to the expose mode within each preview area...allowing me to literally browse dozens and dozens of open windows and almost instantly get to the one I want.

This would NOT be hard to duplicate in windows.... I thought Vista had something like this? I've not tried vista yet...still too scary so I've stuck with XP at work and my other computer at home.

Re: How To Pick An RSS Reader

robneville73 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:46:23 -0000

Just FYI - Newshutch will be shutting down in 2 days according to their RSS feed...bummer.

Re: A Case Study In Practical Technology Use

robneville73 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:15:43 -0000

Great observations!

I'm a Crackberry addict so I can definitely recommend one (the Curve is wonderfully engineered little gadget).

I'm an ex- software engineer and can attest that unless they (engineers) are reigned in by someone more practical they will over-engineer something with a lot of useful features that have the unintuitive effect of making the end product less usable.