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Lifehacker’s top 10 Firefox add-ons

March 23, 2007

Not using Firefox yet? Get it. It is better than Internet Explorer just for the add-ons, if for no other reason. Lifehacker winnowed a long, long list down to its top 10 Firefox add-ons. The winners:

10. AutoCopy (clipboard helper)
9. CustomizeGoogle
8. Firebug (web development helper)
7. FireFTP (FTP client)
6. Greasemonkey (site-specific script manager)
5. ScrapBook (web clippings library)
4. [...]

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Textarea Backup

March 14, 2007

If, like me, you do any serious amount of writing in text boxes online (including webmail, blog commenting, etc.), Textarea Backup is a pretty useful Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It backs up your text area every ten keystrokes, ten seconds, and whenever the text area loses focus. You’ll need Greasemonkey to run it, and then [...]

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Using persistent searches in Gmail

March 7, 2007

Lifehacker links to blogger Matt Cutts, whose guide to using Greasemonkey persistent searches opens up a world of possibilities for Gmail organization. In particular, you could use persistent searches to keep a running tally of all e-mails related to a case by tailoring your search to the names, e-mail addresses, and likely subject lines involved.
Now [...]

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Lessons learned the hard way: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP (and make sure your backup system works!)

February 8, 2007

Today I spent two hours drafting a complaint. Tonight, I was getting the complaint ready to go, so I copied my summons form into the complaint document and saved the file without thinking about it. As my finger clicked the mouse button, I realized I had selected “Save,” not “Save as.” Oh shit.
Yes, that’s two [...]

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Open a bookmark in a new tab more quickly in IE

February 1, 2007

I love Firefox, but since it behaves wonky when I am using my second monitor and UltraMon, I have been using Internet Explorer 7, instead. Today I just noticed a little arrow in the bookmarks pull-down menu (see pic). If you click the arrow instead of the bookmark title, the bookmark opens in a new [...]

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Control how search engines access and index your site

January 29, 2007

The Official Google Blog says a bit about robots.txt, the file on your server that tells search engines how to access your site, what to index, and much more. From the OGB:

However, you may have a few pages on your site you don’t want in Google’s index. For example, you might have a directory that [...]

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Speeding up Time Matters

January 26, 2007

I tried to post a question to the CIC Solutions Forum, but apparently my request for tips to speed up Time Matters was objectionable:
Your post was deleted by Matt Stone.
Subject: Speeding up Time Matters?
Reason: Thank you for contributing to the CIC Solutions Forums. Your message was rejected by the list moderator because its content is [...]

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De-nag Vista

January 26, 2007

If you are already using Windows Vista (and you shouldn’t be, because your law practice is too important to subject to Microsoft’s risky first-run releases–wait for SP1, at least), you’ll have noticed it moonlights as an overbearing nanny, second-guessing your every decision. From Lifehacker, here’s how to de-nag Vista.
On the other hand, if you are [...]

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Ditch the mouse: keyboard shortcuts in Office 2007

January 26, 2007

Mousing gives you carpal tunnel syndrome, anyway. Keyboard shortcuts are of the Path [Lifehacker]. Although the new Office 2007 toolbar looks like a shiny cartoon vomited on Outlook 2003, it seems Microsoft got keyboard shortcuts right. Hit Alt, and every keyboard shortcut shows up next to the function it triggers.
Forget stop > reach > point [...]

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