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Thunderbird config

20/01/2010 – 18:32

I finally made the switch to Thunderbird. The Bat is okay but for some reason image loading in emails is really, really, really slow. There are many other minor issues… Although Thunderbird has it’s fair share too. To make it even halfway usable you need a long list of extensions, some of them experimental. SmartTemplate [...]

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Thunderbird modifications

15/10/2009 – 11:59

I finally decided to switch to Thunderbird. Having the gecko HTML engine is handy, and I have found ways to work around most of the annoyances. Add-ons: Attachment Reminder British English dictionary keyconfig Opening Words Quote Colours SmoothWheel (AMO) Note that Quote Colours does not work with 3b4 at the moment. Change the delete key [...]

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Tabs Open Relative (Modified) reaches V1.0 and goes public

03/10/2009 – 19:00

A minor update to add about:config prefs if they do not already exist and the add-on is now public (so people can find it on the add-ons site): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13626 http://soft.world3.net

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Comparison of PDF viewers

16/09/2009 – 23:14

I have been using Sumatra PDF for a while now, and while I’m mostly happy with it, I would like something with a few more features. Everyone seems to suggest Foxit, to the point where it is now the first result on Google for “pdf viewer”. Unfortunately, the rendering quality of Foxit is well below [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (4)

List of things installed by iTunes 9

15/09/2009 – 21:41

iTunes for Windows is by far the most bloated bit of software I have ever seen. The shear amount of crap it installs in unbeliveable: iTunes itself Quicktime Apple Mobile Device service Bonjour Service iPod Service iTunesHelper startup task QTTask startup task Firefox plugin iPod Classic drivers iPhone drivers Apple Software Update Grand Total: 276MB [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, windows | Comments (1)

Get rid of the flashing cursor in Firefox

07/09/2009 – 21:11

Another handy tweak: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Accessibility -> Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages = unticked The annoying blinking cursor you get when you click inside text on a web page will now be gone.

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FileTypesMan, a useful little tool

16/08/2009 – 23:17

I discovered FileTypesMan from Nirsoft today. It’s a handy little bit of freeware that gives you more control over file types than the built in Windows configuration tool. In particular, you can exclude certain types of file from the “Recent Files” list. Simply open FileTypesMan and select the type of file you want to change: [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

Tabs Open Relative (modified) Firefox add-on

14/08/2009 – 23:55

I put together a modified version of the TabsOpenRelative add-on which combines the features of that add-on with a fix for the removal of separate preferences for external links in Firefox 3.5. See the links below for more details. It is also the first thing to be posted to soft.world3.net, where I will be putting [...]

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In search of the perfect text editor

02/08/2009 – 14:21

I mainly use Notepad2 as my text editor, but it lacks a couple of useful features. In particular, there is no support for tabs and no spell checker. As with most Scintilla based editors, there is no “hard” word wrapping either (where text is wrapped to, say, column 78 with line breaks). In my quest [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

Firefox 3.5 tweaks

30/06/2009 – 18:34

Firefox 3.5 is out, and there are some new tweaks I like to have for it. Disable add-on version checking to enable add-ons which are not compatible with Firefox 3.5: 1. Go to about:config 2. Right click, select New > Boolean and enter extensions.checkCompatibility as the name. 3. Set value to False This allows you [...]

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