ThoughtPixels » Tech http://thoughtpixels.com Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Firefox speed dial addon http://thoughtpixels.com/2007/05/10/firefox-speed-dial-addon/ http://thoughtpixels.com/2007/05/10/firefox-speed-dial-addon/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 14:57:04 +0000 Jackie http://thoughtpixels.com/2007/05/10/firefox-speed-dial-addon/ The latest version of the Opera browser brought with it a great new feature called ’speed dial’. What that does is allow you to bookmark 9 sites all within the speed dial tab, and Opera gives you a graphical representation of those sites that you assigned to each ‘dial’. There’s a screenshot here. It looks very slick and is a great tool, very handy for keeping those oft visited sites at your fingertips.

Firefox obviously lacks this feature, but not any more! Firefox users now have the speed dial addon. Though not nearly as well presented as it is in Opera, it does what it says in the tin. It’s been working well enough for me anyway. I do use Opera too (it seems to perform a lot better on my iMac for a start), I can’t get away from Firefox and all its addons, so it’s nice to be able to use this whichever browser I’m in.

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Some time ago I owned an Apple Powerbook G4. Not a bad machine, though a little sluggish from time to time. For one reason or another I lost interest in it, and went back to my Windows desktop and laptop, eventually selling the Powerbook.

Lately my interest in the Mac world has risen again. Having Intel based processors these days, it’s opened up a whole new world of possibilites. To cut a long story short, we went to the Apple store in Sheffield yesterday, and came away with a nice shiny 20″ iMac, with wireless (mighty) mouse and keyboard.

I have my music all set up on an external drive, along with Harman Soundsticks II speakers (which are very nice, my music is sounding great), and iTunes actually runs nicely on the iMac. The windows version is a complete mess compared to this, which is why I normally wouldn’t touch iTunes with a bargepole. But I think it may become a favourite now (apart from the store at least).

So, I’ve spent the last 24 hours busily exploring new software and various gizmos (like Quicksilver and Growl). It’s opened up a whole new world. I’m sure I’ll be happily exploring new things for days and weeks to come. Oh, and if you’re a Mac user, feel free to mention your favourite bits of software in the comments, although I’ve owned a Mac before it’s been a while!

My software favourites so far are -

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