It’s All Text! 1.4 (FF3.6 compatible)

I have just finished Firefox 3.6 after working like crazy since FF 3.6 came out.

It only works in FF3.6, but the statistics show that the users of It’s All Text! upgrade their browser almost immediately after a new version comes out, so I’m not worried.

At the time of this post, it hasn’t been approved, so you’ll need to download it manually from the versions page.

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An idea for an iPhone app

So Robin (my awesome wife) came up with an idea for an iPhone app.

We were watching UHF and there is a bit where a guy is trying to teach poodles to fly… by throwing them out the 3rd floor window. There was a pile poodles on the lawn of his apartment building.

She cracked up.

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MacBook Pro – Dual Graphics

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The official Apple description of the graphics in my MacBook Pro.

I’m annoyed. I’ve had my lovely late-2009 MacBook Pro with the incredible dual graphics processors for a couple months and I had the slower GPU enabled the whole time.

Apparently, you need to go into “System Preferences” -> “Energy Saver” and turn on “Graphics” -> “Higher Performance”apple kb.

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Firefox Fix

I have a tendency to switch my default browser every so often. I like playing with new toys.

I just switched from Safari to Firefox 3.5.5 and discovered I couldn’t stand the way external links open in new tabs though I wanted new-window links such as target=”_blank” to open in a new tab.

This used to work via browser.link.open_external.

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Smoking craters are good

Every wondered how to make bulletproof software? What tricks do the guys who build bank machines use to be sure their software doesn’t ever crash?

Look no further!

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