At St Andrews just now we're working on importing a new website design into SiteManager -- which is going very well thanks for asking -- but one task that can be a little tiresome is when adding new content that we want to make absolutely sure will only be published to a particular channel.

By default in SiteManager when you add a new content item it is added to all channels -- you can see this on the Channels tab (labeled 'Sites' in version 5.x of SiteManager) when adding content.

However, if you want to publish your content to only one channel (for example to a test channel) it can be quite a tedious task to untick all but one of the checkboxes, particularly if you're adding a lot of new content.  We current have 26 channels, so that requires unchecking 25 boxes for each item of new content.

One of the wishlist items that we've already forwarded to TerminalFour is for the addition of an "Uncheck all" button.  But in the meantime ...

Clear Fields

I've discovered an add-on for Firefox 3 (it does not work with older versions of Firefox) that does this task for you automatically.  The add-on is called Clear Fields and adds a new button to your toolbar (it actually adds a few more but you can customize the toolbar to include only the options that you require):

A drop-down arrow to the right of the icon allows you to choose from:

• Clear Text Fields
• Clear Pass Fields
• Clear Checkboxes

with the latter, obviously, being the option you require to uncheck the Channels checkboxes.

So now rather than having to click 25 times to remove each unrequired channel from the list, I now have two clicks:

1. Clear Checkboxes button
2. Select the channel that I do want

Caveat

A minor caveat about the Clear Fields add-on: it doesn't work with Firefox 3.0.1 without a little tweaking.  If you are familiar with the construction of Firefox add-ons then simply tweak the install.rdf file, otherwise wait for the upgrade.

To make the tweak do the following:

1. Download the xpi file.
2. Rename the file, adding a .zip extension to the end, i.e. clear_fields-3.0.xpi.zip
3. Open the file in WinZip (or similar archiving application).
4. Extract the contents to a location of your choosing.  You'll find a folder called chrome and two files: chrome.manifest and install.rdf.
5. Open install.rdf in your text editor of choice.
6. Change the line <em:maxVersion>3.0.0.*</em:maxVersion> to <em:maxVersion>3.0.1.*</em:maxVersion> then save the file.
7. Now use WinZip (or your archiving application of choice) to zip up those three files with no compression.  If you use compression it will not work.
8. Rename the file again, back to its .xpi (pronounced 'zippy') extension.
9. Drag and drop the file onto an open Firefox window to begin installation.

It should only take a minute or two to do this ... and now you've got the ability to untick all the channel checkboxes in one fell swoop.

The main feature of the addon is the search functionality which allows users to search their alts' bags or loot tables in an Auction-House-like frame (see screenshots). All this with multiple-realms support

Here are the authors list of features as listed on its entry page on <a href="http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/12325/">Curse</a>.

- Account-wide data summary:

• Characters' talents: only a summary, not a full build, I may implement this later on if there's demand.
• Money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grand totals for the account.
• Bag usage: see at a glance which characters should get bigger bags (bag size, free slots and types included)
• Characters' skills: skill summary on one screen, namely the 2 main professions + the 3 secondary skills as well as riding. I may add more if there's demand.
• Reputations: a list of all the reputations of the current realm's characters. You can see at a glance if all your alts are at least honored with Honor Hold if you want to get the new 2.4 blue PVP set. Suggestions on how to gring reputations will be available soon.

- View containers (bags, bank, keyring) of all alts, on all realms.

- Guild banks : You have 10 alts in 10 different guilds on the same server, all of them with access to a guild bank ? Not a problem, you can see them all here. Multiple realms supported.

- E-mail: allows you to see which alts have mail without having to reconnect them. The addon will tell you when mail is about to expire on a character. Threshold configurable (up to 15 days). Multiple realm support as well. Mails sent to a known alt (one you've logged on at least once) will be visible in the addon.

- Equipment: See the equipment of the current realm's alts in one screen. Very useful when purchasing stuff for your alts at the AH. Multiple realms supported. Right-clicking any equipment piece will allow you to find an upgrade, this feature is similar to the official wow armory feature, and is quite performant, even though it doesn't match the accuracy of the official one.

- Options: the option screen is still a bit minimal, I'll add more options along the way depending on user requests.

- Search: the most important feature of the addon, it uses an AH-like frame to display search results. You can either search bags on the current realm, on all realms, or a loot table. The loot table is a table based on AtlasLoot 4.04 which contains only item id's, and therefore keeps memory usage minimal. As an indicator, with 10 alts (+bank) + guild bank + loot table, the addon only takes 2.3 mb of memory. The addon has gained weight since the integration of some libraries, but this will ensure support for multiple languages in the future. I expect to support deDE soon.

The Search menu allows you to find items based on their name (even partial), level, type or rarity, almost like at the AH.

As of 2.4.010, it is also possible to search known recipes.

- Quest Log: See the quest logs of all your alts, as well as an indication of which alts are on a specific quest.

- Suggestions: Currently, only profession leveling suggestions are available when mousing over your current level in a specific profession. Suggestions are based on the leveling guides posted on the official US forums (credit goes to their respective authors). The addon also suggests you where to quest/grind xp depending on your character level.

Suggestions were also added for the most recent factions. More to come later.

- Auction house: You can see which auctions/bids you've placed with an alt without being logged in or being at the AH.

- Professions: You can browse all known recipes in a Thottbot like frame (see screenshot).

So now that you've skimmed the list of features, let me tell you how I use Altoholic.

With as many alts as I have and as much chaos as there is in life, I'm always forgetting which alt needs mats for what profession or I want to see if something sold in the Auction House.  I also use the account summary screen (see the above image) to tell me when a particular alt might need some play time - if they're substantially undergeared or have an extraordinary amount of rested Exp that they could burn.  On another account (with a raiding endgame Holy Priest, an endgame Enhancement Shaman and an endgame Combat Rogue), I use Altoholic to help me manage crafting upgrades or see what mat I need to farm.

Below are some of the variations I have made to what my stable of pets will emote at random intervals.

You can make these changes yourself very simply by opening the "localization LUA file" (in the pet emote addon folder) with notepad scrolling down to the English section and changing what is already there - being very very careful not to delete any of the little symbols because that will break the code - and saving it again.

Why do this? - well because it adds flavour to your game play.

Every time I see 'wrath rubs up against you' as a random emote from my pet I actually like him a little more, having real cats I get a kinda lion mane-rub fantasy flash ... (I know I know - that's weird, but still ... cool.) And I admit that I really rather disliked my scorpid until it started blowing snot bubbles and doing floozy dances for me :)

So first up we have The Warp. And that is a good example of the other part of the pet emote addon that allows you to change how a beasties family name is displayed, for example I changed the family from warpstalker to 'lizard' using the addon's in game customization - which amuses many a toon I party with because the warps name is 'Thing' (after some kids book about a crazy little pet dinosaur) anyway as a result what they see on their screens when the addon be working is 'fessran's pet lizard Thing' before every emote, and a more apt description of the bizarre and gruesome warp I cannot think of.

Okay the emote has 3 levels of random emote to express whether a pet is unhappy, content or happy - which is rather awesome.

Warp Stalker
[1] =
hisses hungrily
clambers around anxiously
snaps an insect out of the air

[2] =
waits patiently for some food.
stretches her throat upwards while searching for something to eat.
looks for water.
shakes her spines impatiently.

[3] =
grins vacantly.
cranes her neck with pleasure.
gives you a sly look.
rolls her tounge out and licks an eyeball.
flicks her tounge around her muzzle.
tosses her horns.
sniffs at the breeze.
lashes her tail-fin.
rolls one eye back to stare at you.
burps.
bares a japing maw of needle sharp fangs.
licks a scale on her flank.
stands motionless with jaws hanging open.

Scorpid
[1] =
snatches around at the air with its pinchers. Hunger!
hisses and chatters angrily.

[2] =
scurries around anxiously.
chatters with its pinchers half-heartedly.
looks unimpressed.

[3] =
waves its pinchers in the air like a cheap floozy.
scurries around excitedly.
blows a snot bubble.
gives you a weird look.
makes a zoom-zoom noise... freak.
burbles happily.
does the happy dance.

Cat (biggest selection because it is my most used pet currently)
[1] =
is going to rip Fessran's face off if the kibble is not served shortly.
roars hungrily.
eyeballs the local wildlife.
is giving you the 'starved kitten' look.
looks at you... hungry.
chews some grass and looks miserable.

[2] =
flexes his claws and growls hungrily.
rumbles unhappily.
looks unsatisfied.
claws at her boots...
looks around hungry.
lashes his tail.
looks agitated and mean.

[3] =
huffs happily.
coughs up a hairball... hrrruk!
rubs up against you.
shakes his mane.
shakes his jowls, sending spittle flying in all directions.
licks a paw.
grooms quietly.
is ready and willing to eviscerate.
starts an extensive catlick.
glances around.
blows a snot bubble.
flicks an ear.
prowls back and forth.
scents the air.
twitches his whiskers.
pounces on a beetle.
flicks his tail.
slinks into the shadows.
bares his fangs.
has a stretch and yawns contentedly.
chews on her cloak.
rolls his shoulder blades and stretches.

Currently I have to put together a selection for the carrion bird (now there's a 'procrastinate-at-work' task if ever I have heard of one.)

More detail and a suggested temporary solution can be found in my main Internet blog:

http://www.fireflake.com/tech/2008/07/18/slow-loading-with-google-analytics/

Hope it helps if you're having problems with it. Unfortunately if you are experiencing it on a site you're visiting there is nothing you can do about it. I've found the easiest work around is to hit "stop" and then "go" to the page again. The scripts doesnt seem to lock the second time the page is loaded.

I was using the Mozilla Archive Format is the Firefox 2 but when Firefox 3 was relesed I decided to stay in Firefox 2 since I did not have a supported webarchive addon. ( Also there were some other addons which were not compatible ).

I first found out about this addon on the Digital Inspiration and in this post.

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Today's post celebrates the release of Firefox 3.01 today. Firefox is the best web browser currently avaible, with great loading times and a multitude of addons.

The plug-in in its current state was not designed to install on future browser versions. It's very unfortunate that just hours after YoYo Games took time to release the plug-in, it had already become obsolete. For users looking for temporary/work-around solutions, see below. At this time, there is no statement from YoYo Games to indicate if an when a new version of the plug-in will be available.

Chronic used this method to override compatibility of the plug-in:

Download the addon (YoYo.xpi, right click, save as.)
Rename from YoYo.xpi to YoYo.zip
Unzip to a new folder
Open Install.rdf in Wordpad
Find this line: em:maxVersion="3.0.*.*" />
Change it to: em:maxVersion="3.*" />

Once you're done with that close and save the file and rezip all of the files in the folder and rename it to YoYo.xpi then drag it in to a firefox window to install it (uninstall the previous version first).

Now, I'm not sure that this will 100% fix the issue, but its working for me. So do this only if you must, otherwise wait for an official solution.

For users with the nightly tester tools add-on, you shouldn't have to make any modifications, a simple press of the 'override compatibility' button should do the trick.

Anyone else have some pointers ideas for resources to check out? There are alot of technologies I need to read up on, of those mentioned on the site I only really know JavaScript and basic XML/XSLT but not the "flavours" they are using in the Firefox project.

Although this may not be stable, you can check out the bleeding edge version of the addon on github:

git clone git@github.com:wanthony/financialadvisor.git

Heute kündigte Microsoft an, dass das Addon für Portal "Portal: Still Alive" wird diesen herbst Exklusiv für  Xbox Live Arcade erscheinen und bringt mit sich neue levels und Achievments.

Man Fragt sich aber, ob die PC user von Valve einen Update für Portal bekommen oder Microsoft hat wieder mal richtig viel geld ausgegeben um die Exklusivität zu bekommen.

Eines meiner Hobbies am PC, das immer wieder die ein oder andere Stunde Zeit frisst, ist Desktop Modding - also das Anpassen von Betriebssystem und Programmen durch zusätzliche Skins, Addons und Plugins. Man könnte meinen, das so ein Custom Desktop schnell erstellt wäre ("ich installier flux zwei Skins, noch ein Wallpaper und fertig") und man daher nicht groß von einem Hobby sprechen kann. Dem wäre wohl auch so, wenn nicht andauernd neue Skins und Addons entwickelt würden - und man sich am alten Gewand nicht satt sehen würde. Da die Desktop-Modding-Szene jedoch stets sehr aktiv ist, gibt es ständig Neues zu entdecken und genügend Gründe Windows noch einmal neu anzustreichen.

Miranda IM - Einer für alle

Heute habe ich mich mal wieder mehrere Stunden (ja, ja, das Semester ist rum :-) ) daran gemacht meine persönliche Instant-Messenger-Komplettlösung mit Miranda IM zu verbessern. Das Ergebnis präsentiere ich euch hier - vielleicht überzeugt es ja den ein oder anderen sein ICQ 6, Windows Live Messenger etc. an den Nagel zu hängen und sich dem großartigen Miranda IM zuzuwenden.

Mein Vorbild beim Modden von Miranda IM war Miranda Fusion, eine sehr schönes All-Inclusive-Paket, bei dem Miranda mit allen Plugins und Skins bereits vorgefertigt zum Download bereitsteht. Warum benutze ich dann nicht gleich Miranda Fusion? Erstens hatte ich damit Performance-Probleme (hohe Speicherauslastung), zweitens: Modden macht Spaß, fertige Pakete runterladen eher nicht :-)

Also gesagt, getan: Erst einmal habe ich mir die zwei grundlegenden Addons Modern Contact List Layered und IEView (plus das dafür benötigte:  Scriver) geholt, die Voraussetzung für viele Kontaktlisten- und Nachrichten-fenster-Skins sind. Dafür habe ich mir dann  noch zwei schöne Layouts gesucht: Media Player und Simple Boxes. Anschließend wurden noch zusätzliche Messenger-Protokolle (ICQ, MSN, AIM, IRC etc. sind bereits beim Miranda-IM-Installer dabei) hinzugefügt: XFire, Skype (Skype muss dabei leider trotzdem laufen) und Jgmail (für meinen Googlemail-Account).

Fernsehprogramm, RSS-Feeds und Meta-Kontakte

Damit wäre ein schicker, ressourcenschonender  Messenger eigentlich schon fertig. Aber ich sage mal JA! zu der Frage "Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein?". Als nächstes kommen also noch einmal  3 weitere Protokolle hinzu: mTV (zum Anzeigen des Fernsehprogramms), RSSNews (siehe Bild, für RSS- und Atom-Feeds) und Meta Contacts (fasst mehrere Kontakte zusammen - sehr nützlich, wenn die Buddies wie man selbst auch mehrere Messenger laufen haben). Über das Plugin ListeningTo berichtet meine Away-Message stets was in meinem natürlich ebenfalls gemoddeten foobar 2000 gerade an Musik läuft. Und damit man nicht immer alle Addons per Hand auf dem neuesten Stand halten muss, empfiehlt sich das Plugin Updater.

RSSNews	mTV

Zusätzliche Layout-Tweaks

Nach diesen neuen Funktionen wird nochmal am Aussehen gefeilt: MyDetails fügt das eigene Avatar-Bildchen und die aktuelle Statusmeldung in die Kontaktliste ein, Tipper zeigt MouseOver-Informationen für die Kontakte, Splash Screen würdigt das eigens gemoddete Miranda mit einem passenden Start-Splash-Screen, SmileyAdd in Kombination mit dem PD&SF Smiley Theme sorgt für nette Emoticons in allen Nachrichten, dank der tollen Sprachdatei der Miranda-Wiki lernt das ganze Programm Deutsch  und zum Schluss werden einige Icons noch durch schönere Varianten aus den Icon Packs ersetzt (etwa Cristal Full oder Real Aqua).

Fertig!

Nachdem alles noch richtig konfiguriert wurde, ist von dem einstmalig häßlichen Standard-Miranda nichts mehr zu sehen. Stattdessen habe ich nun einen multifunktionalen (aber Hallo!) und schicken Messenger, mit dem ich gleichzeitig in ICQ, MSN, GoogleTalk, Skype und Xfire einloggen kann. Trotzdem bleibt die Performance-Belastung erstaunlich niedrig (unter 20 MB Speicherauslastung, meist sogar unter 10 MB!!! Skype allein hat bei mir stets über 20 MB).

Also: schickt eure bisherigen Messenger in den wohlverdienten Ruhestand und baut euch euren eigenen

Wer noch eine genaue Auflistung der Plugins wünscht werfe einen Blick auf die Pluginliste (erstellt mit dem Plugin Version Info) unter "Den Rest des Beitrags lesen" ;-)

Gehört: Rise Against - Blood To Bleed (Siren Song Of The Counter Cult )

CPU:  Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9] [2 CPUs]
Installed RAM: 1536 MBytes
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP [version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3]
Shell: Explorer.exe, Internet Explorer 7.0.5730
Administrator privileges: ??
OS Languages: (UI|Locale (User/System)) : German/German | German/German
Free disk space on Miranda partition: 5015 MBytes
Miranda path: \Programme\Miranda IM
Miranda IM version: 0.7.7 Unicode
Build time: 03:12:47 on 02 June 2008
Profile path: \Anwendungsdaten\Miranda
Profile size: 2,944.00 KBytes
Profile creation date: 31 Mar 2005 at 19:54:44 (UTC +2:00)
Language pack: German (DE) [0407] v. 0.08.07.14, modified: 14 Jul 2008 at 14:28:27 (UTC +2:00)
Nightly: No
Unicode core: Yes

Active Plugins (30):
¤ advaimg.dll v.[b]0.7.1.0[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - Miranda Image services
¤ AdvSplashScreen.dll v.[b]0.1.2.1[/b] [25 May 2007] - Splash Screen
¤ avatarhistW.dll v.[b]0.0.2.10[/b] [26 Apr 2008] - Avatar History (Unicode)
¤ avs.dll v.[b]0.7.1.0[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - Avatar service (Unicode)
¤ chat.dll v.[b]0.7.5.0[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - Chat |Unicode aware|
¤ clist_modern.dll v.[b]0.7.100.35[/b] [29 Dec 2007] - Modern Contact List '07 (UNICODE)
¤ dbx_mmap.dll v.[b]0.7.6.0[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - Miranda mmap database driver
¤ Fingerprint.dll v.[b]1.1.4.0[/b] [08 Jun 2008] - Fingerprint Plus |Unicode aware|
¤ historypp.dll v.[b]1.5.1.1[/b] [03 May 2008] - History++ (2in1)
¤ ICQ.dll v.[b]0.3.10.13[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - IcqOscarJ Protocol |Unicode aware|
¤ ieview.dll v.[b]1.1.0.0[/b] [05 Apr 2008] - IEView
¤ import.dll v.[b]0.7.2.0[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - Import contacts and messages |Unicode aware|
¤ JGmail.dll v.[b]0.6.1.2[/b] [09 Mar 2007] - Jabber Protocol (GMail) |Unicode aware|
¤ listeningtoW.dll v.[b]0.1.2.2[/b] [27 Oct 2007] - ListeningTo (Unicode)
¤ MetaContacts.dll v.[b]0.14.0.1[/b] [20 Jul 2007] - MetaContacts Plugin
¤ msn.dll v.[b]0.7.1.7[/b] [02 Jun 2008] - MSN Protocol |Unicode aware|
mtextcontrolA.dll v.[b]0.0.2.0[/b] [06 Jan 2007] - Miranda Text Control [build #484]
mtextcontrolW.dll v.[b]0.0.2.0[/b] [06 Jan 2007] - Miranda Text Control [build #484]
mTV.dll v.[b]0.1.0.1[/b] [13 May 2007] - mTV
¤ mydetails.dll v.[b]0.0.1.9[/b] [22 Jun 2008] - My Details
¤ PopUp.dll v.[b]2.1.0.5[/b] [15 May 2007] - Popup Plus |Unicode aware|
¤ rss.dll v.[b]0.0.3.21[/b] [01 May 2008] - RSSNews
¤ scriver.dll v.[b]2.7.4.0[/b] [27 Apr 2008] - Scriver (Unicode)
¤ skype.dll v.[b]0.0.0.41[/b] [01 Aug 2007] - Skype protocol
¤ smileyaddw.dll v.[b]0.2.2.25[/b] [21 Jun 2008] - SmileyAdd Unicode
¤ svc_vi.dll v.[b]1.4.3.2[/b] [31 Jan 2008] - Version Information |Unicode aware|
¤ tipper.dll v.[b]0.4.0.8[/b] [27 Jun 2007] - Tipper |Unicode aware|
¤ updater.dll v.[b]0.5.3.0[/b] [29 Jul 2007] - Updater (Unicode)
¤ WhenWasIt.dll v.[b]0.3.0.3[/b] [14 Apr 2008] - WhenWasIt birthday reminder (Unicode)
¤ XFire.dll v.[b]0.1.4.4[/b] [04 Jul 2008] - XFire Protocol

by: ~samuel w.

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It's times like these that I wonder about the sanity of Sony's Marketting Department, I mean we've had years upon years of terrible ads for the Playstation brand and just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it does. I think in some of these cases we were able to brush these faults off as "corporate" not getting modern trends or just trying too hard, but this? This is just too good to not bring up.

It sure seems that Sony took inspiration from a... competitor, doesn't it? I can't quite place it but every time I look at this image I have a strange case of déjà vu.

EDIT: Some users were having trouble with the links. Sorry for that everyone, they now work as they should.

For anyone who uses Firefox 3, it's quite obvious that iPlay does not share your enthusiasm for browser upgrades. When you visit the YoYo Games site, you'll have no choice to download games, and instead will be prompted to "Play Now", a feature incompatible with the world-record breaking Mozilla software.

Although the YoYo games team is taking their time to fix the problem, there are now several users have discovered work-arounds. One of Scorptek's very own programmers, ari_aaron, modified the YoYo Games .xpi plug-in installer to make it fully compatible with version 3 of Firefox. Unfortunately, after contacting YoYo Games with 'high priority' to demonstrate the easy fix, the YoYo Games staff neglected to respond to our support ticket and seemed to have ignored it altogether.

Also to our dismay, the YoYo Games website 'Terms of Service' strictly prohibits us from distributing the modified plug-in to others :(.

So the next best thing we can do is recommend an alternative work-around which keeps your browser safe and secure (un-like the common about:config 'hack' which could potentially put your web browser at risk).

1) Download the Nightly Tester Tools add-on for Firefox
2) Upon reboot (of Firefox), install the YoYo Games plug-in and click Force Install

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I thought I would also take time to mention Caniac's continuing efforts to send in news tips (so if you want to win this month's prize I suggest you get cracking). Caniac wanted to let our readers know there are some new developments to G-Flash, an oldie project long assumed dead until now.

According to Caniac, about 20 new functions have been added to the Game Maker to Flash converter, and the project now has four new members on the team. It is hopeful that with some help, the project can be brought back to life again.

Check out the G-Flash subforum here.

So, what is the difference? Just at the appearance?

Dan saya pun mulai menggerayangi browser itu... Hmm, lumayan, seperti yang ditulis simbok, ternyata Blog Editornya bekerja dengan baik. Tapi itu ketika saya coba di akun (?) saya yang di blogspot (oh, yes, I have). Ketika saya coba di blog saya yang pake hostingan sendiri, entah kenapa kok error terus. Katanya ndak isa login pake username sama password yang saya isi. Lha dalah??

Kemudian saya coba juga Feed Sidebarnya... Hmm, lumayan juga ini, ndak perlu pake Google Reader buat baca feed. Sayangnya... lantaran PC yang saya pakai di kantor ini di-Beku-Dalam-kan, setiap saya restart, feed-feed yang sudah saya add jadi hilang semua. Aneh, padahal folder instalasi sudah saya alihkan ke drive yang tidak di-Beku-Dalam-kan, tapi kok tetep ilang? Ada yang bisa bantu?

Jadi kesimpulannya, saya memang belum mencoba seluruh fitur yang ditawarkan Flock. Tapi dari dua fitur di atas yang telah saya pakai, sebenarnya juga bisa saya lakukan di Firefox, alias mbikin Firefox rasa Flock. Ya, cari aja addon-nya. Kalau mau blog editor, ada ScribeFire. Kalau mau feed reader, ada NewsFox (serta banyak yang lain-lain). Meski begitu, saya seneng pake browser ini, entah kenapa...

Thanks to focused raiders and positive attitudes(and some seasoned veterans) we were able to successfully take down the first two bosses of Zul'Aman--and only one try on each of the bosses! It's like Karazhan all over again.

With the fast reset time of ZA (only 3 days reset time), we are able to return to the instance very soon. Like... Wednesday soon. Players should be online by 7:30pm server time so we can get started asap.

Please also don't forget that Kara is scheduled for tomorrow night. A one night clear is easily obtainable and should not be hard for us to accomplish, so let's do it to it and grab some loot/badges. :)

And just another reminder... please grab the GroupCalendar addon. Information and a link for downloading can be found here.

Se siete fan di G. Calendar non potete davvero non personalizzare i vostri appuntamenti con la nuova Addon per Firefox. Ecco di seguito i passi da compiere:

1. Scaricare l'addon Stylish 0.5.7

2. Andate su http://www.naverniouk.com/design/gcal/gcal.css

3. Cliccate sull'icona Stylish in basso a destra della finestra di Firefox e scegliete l'opzione "Aggiungi file a Stylish"

Voilà, il gioco é fatto. Addesso non resta che pianificare la giornata... Buon lavoro!

The image on the left show to incorrect tooltip, the one on the right displays the correct version of the tooltip.

I finally 'solved' this issue by adding the following code after the real code that adds all the wanted information to the tooltip and just before calling GameTooltip:Show()

local line = getglobal( GameTooltip:GetName().."TextRight"..GameTooltip:NumLines() );
line:SetWidth( line:GetStringWidth()+16 );
line:SetHeight( 12 );
line:SetJustifyH( "RIGHT" );

I haven't released a new version of UberInventory yet on Curse.com, first need to do a bit more testing to see if this really resolves the issue. But so far it appears to be working

Mit Totemus hingegen kann ich einsehen, wieviele Ahnks ich habe und wieviel Fischschuppen/öl. Auch das Aufmounten und Astraler Rückruf (lieben wir ihn nicht alle?) ist standardmäßig möglich. Totemtimer, essen und trinken runden das Bild ab. Vom Aufbau erinnert das Addon dabei an Necrosis. Wie letzteres lädt sich Totemus nur, wenn man mit der entsprechenden Klasse on ist.

Total Recorder Professional v7.0 with All AddonsRecords streaming audio, mic input, line-in input, and DVD and CD sounds. The Professional Edition is the main edition from the Total Recorder product family. This edition provides many powerful functions for the recording, converting, editing, and processing of sound. With the Video Add-on, you can record from any combination of video and audio sources.

The professional Edition also includes features like the Sound Image facility, the Auto Split feature and the ability to initiate a web connection to record a scheduled web broadcast.

Siete al lavoro o in università. Avete la fortuna di avere un accesso a Internet e, dato che siete degli internauti intelligenti, utilizzate Firefox (magari la 3!). Il problema è che in questi casi le distrazioni non mancano e così potrebbe capitare di andare a giochicchiare qualche robetta in flash, scrivere sul tuo blog, guardare il tuo account Facebook o altro ancora, magari su più di un tab.

Se il caporeparto o il professore dovessero improvvisamente avvicinarsi, a chiunque piacerebbe far vedere che si è attivi e al lavoro.

Per questo esistono le cosiddette Boss Key, ovvero shortcut che permettono di nascondere la finestra attuale e farne comparire una "fake".

Panic in questo caso farà ciò che fa per voi, sostituendo, dopo aver premuto la combinazione giusta di tasti, tutti i tab al momento aperti con una pagina di Google aperta sulla ricerca "Increasing Workplace Productivity" (aumentare la produttività sul posto di lavoro)

Semplicemente geniale!

Via | Pratham.name

I had installed the Addon InfoPanel and from that moment one the tooltips displayed by both BagTips and MailTips did not like right anymore. The names of the items from either a bag or a mail message was displayed using two lines within the tooltip instead of just one. After a bit of searching I found that InfoPanel uses the pipeline character in some displayed text (plugins RaidInfo and Zone).

InfoPanel_SetText(f,
                  "%.1f |cffffff00|||r %.1f",
                  x * 100,
                  y * 100);

Somehow this has an influence of information added to tooltips and fontstrings that use the texture tag to add images to textstring

tooltip:AddDoubleLine( "  |T"..value.texture..":0|t "..key,
                       value.count,
                       r, g, b );

It appears that when you are using the method and using the code InfoPanel uses the actual width for the fontstring is not calculated correctly. To quickly workaround this I just add two spaces after the item name like so

tooltip:AddDoubleLine( "  |T"..value.texture..":0|t "..key.."  ",
                       value.count,
                       r, g, b );

and everything works again as expected.

Now I only need to fix UberInventory, because it has similar issues. Hopefully I can get those issues resolved today as well.

AdBlock Plus

This one tries to block adverts from being displayed. Based on filter it decides whether or not a certain image or plugin is considered an adverts and if so it hides (or removes) the element from the page. So you never have to search between the adverts to find the content you wanted to read.

Web Developer

This one I really like. Form my daytime job I need to build web sites from time to time. But not that often that I consider myself to be an expert. This addon got tons of goodies that will help you view the layout of your site, validate your (x)HTML code, switch between style sheets and much, much more.

Just a few days ago I used it to finally make some of my web pages pass the XHTML 1.0 strict test. Of course I could have done it without using the addon, but it surely helped me getting the issues resolved much quicker, than I could have done manually.

Firebug

To be honest I haven't used this addon a lot yet, but it looks very promising. What I have seen so far looks nice. Definitely the inspect window is very powerful, on the left you see the structure of your web page and on the right it displays the related style sheet information. Within the style sheet you can see what gets inherited from other parts and gets ignored or has an override.

Combined with Web Developer Firefox becomes a very fully featured development environment for HTML designing/coding.

Flagfox

Just a little neat addon show a country flag for the sites you visit. Very funny to see, certainly when visiting web sites from larger companies, where all of there data centers are located, just as an example

www.oracle.com Finland
forums.oracle.com United States
otn.oracle.com Finland
blogs.oracle.com Singapore

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

This one I really love. For my work I travel from customer to customer. Depending on the customer I can either use my company laptop or I need to work on a machine the customer provides me. This is all fine, but every time it is a pain to the bookmarks I need to do my job. Previously I just copied the bookmarks.html file to an USB stick or mailed it to myself. But more often than not I forget to copy or mail the latest version of my bookmarks.
With this addon I can always access my bookmarks. You just add/remove bookmarks within Firefox, press a key and they get synchronized to the server. From another PC you do the same and everything gets nicely synchronized. I have been using it for about a week now and I already find myself

You need to signup for this service to make it work or move it to a private server.

Nuke Anything Enhanced

Remove sections from web pages. Useful when you want to print a web page has not implemented a style sheet for printing the page. Using the addon you can remove to side banners and all the other clutter that really does not need to get printed.

ScribeFire

ScribeFire is a blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. See also on of my earlier posts on ScribeFire.

Used ScribeFire again to post the blog message ;)

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. Just as Foxmarks you need to sign up for a service to be able to use it. So far I like it, this has brought me to some really nice pages that I would never have visited. I find myself pressing the 'Stumble!' button constantly, just wondering what comes next. It is just like an addiction, you know you need to do other stuff but just can't wait to see what gem might be lurking around the corner.

TwitterFox

Not only does TwitterFox notify you of updates to your friends' statuses of Twitter, but it also allows to you make posts to Twitter, reply to posts. I am just to lazy to visit all of the individual Twitter pages, now the updates popup when the addon checks for them.

User Agent Switcher

Fake your User Agent. Comes in handy when for instance a certain web site only will show a page when it detects Internet Explorer. Just select 'Internet Explorer' from the 'User Agent Switcher' menu and revisit the site. None the wiser :).
This addon generates errors within the Error Console of Firefox, but it seems to work regardless.

Firefox users should take some time to customize their browser.  First, some definitions within the Firefox context:

• add-on: "extend[s] Firefox, letting you personalize your browsing experience." (from Firefox Add-on Homepage)
• extension: adds new features and functionality to your browser
• theme: changes the look & feel of your browser
• dictionary: provides spell-check support for a language
• search engine: adds new search targets to the search engine box in the top right corner of the application (by default)

Start customizing your browser by heading to the Firefox Add-on homepage.   A good place to start is the Popular Add-ons listing.

Here are some useful Firefox extensions:

• Adblock Plus
• Forcastfox
• StumbleUpon
• Better Gmail 2
• Firebug
• Greasemonkey
• Sage or Sage-Too
• FireFTP
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
• Tab Counter

Add-ons usually work for most operating systems; check an add-on's notes for exceptions.  Warning: Trust your source before downloading and installing any add-on.

Further Reading:

• Wikipedia: Add-on (Mozilla)
• 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions
• Lifehacker Posts Tagged "Firefox Extensions"
• Lifehacker: Top 10 Must-have Firefox Extensions (It's a little outdated by now, but still useful.)
• Mozilla Firefox - Have It Your Way!
• 6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time
• 10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About