A lot of users are in the business of maximizing their screen real-estate. Whether it’s for a reason such as a small screen resolution (like me) or you just believe in visting a website instead of seeing your browser, screen real-estate is important to you. Chances are you’ve got yourself a pretty slimmed down browser with all the buttons and taskbars that you don’t need removed. I personally can’t use firefox with all the extra things that I don’t use removed. Of course, one item that I’ve never been able to remove has always been the title bar. To me personally I see no need for it. The titles of pages are written on the tabs, and I don’t really need to see the title displayed up there. If you think about the browser model (as in organizing the browser from a development point of view) then the title has no place being up above the address bar, as well as below it.

Yoono is a plugin which has been around for a couple years now and I’ve seen it both featured in the Firefox plugin directory and reviewed on a number of other websites. I guess the best way to describe it is as the Flock sidebar for Firefox, however with support for more social networks and perhaps a little better looking.

I’m a terribly forgetful person. If I’m not being constantly reminded of something, then the chances are I’ll never remember it. So it probably comes as no surprise that I have a whole lot of ways that I try and stay organized, and most of them are inter-linked. One way that I have really come to rely on is using Remember The Milk, however I don’t bother with the actual website. I’m sure it’s very well organized, but the idea of having to click multiple things, just to create a to-do list, is beyond me. I don’t want to have to organize by location or tabs, I just want to write down what I need to do. And the Remember The Milk extension for Gmail is perfect. 

This Extension is, of course, Firefox only, but is designed to work only with Gmail. What it does is add a little bar to the right side where you can store quite bits of information on things that you need to do.

This is a post from Extendably’s regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions. You can see this post in it’s original context over at Xangelo

After using Chrome for nearly 3 months now, the verdict is in. Firefox is much more usable for me considering I use it for work purposes as well as casual browsing, however I love the visual enhancements and little additives that Chrome brings. In fact I liked them so much I did what any true Firefox fan would do… find an addon to do the same thing - the best thing about Firefox that no amount of GUI additions and screen real estate can ever replace.

The Skin

One thing that always struck me whenever I start up Chrome, was the fact that it looks good. The blue gradients, subtle blue tinge on buttons and the way the font was rendered all stick out to me.

Call it the web designer in me, but Chrome looks good while being so usable. There are so many programs out there that sacrifice functionality for visual appeal or vice versa but Chrome has this perfect blend.

Not dead, just sleeping.

Seriously though, I haven’t given up on this blog, I just took a break for a week or so due to things getting a bit out of hand for me and also because I’ve been doing a lot of work on the backend of this blog.

In short, I liked the design, but wasn’t happy with its quality code-wise, so I began creating the entire site from scratch and using everything I have learnt since when I first began this site.

Progress is good so far both size and validation-wise. At this point it’s looking identical to what I currently have but is now at least 50% smaller. I’m pretty happy with that.

Anyway, you won’t see anything for a few more days, so till then I have a great competition at Hack WordPress to tell you about. Hack WordPress is one of my favourite WordPress niche blogs and I’ve followed it for some time. As a celebration of one year Kyle Eslik has the following announcement:

Yeah, yeah temporary email addresses are the solution to spam, if you used them you’d never have to worry about winning British Lotto every second day. Seriously though, who can be bothered?

So what if I get a bit of spam, junk filters are pretty decent now and It’s easier then loading up a new temporary email account.

Windows Live Wave 3 beta has been out for a few days now and its a solid release. Great new features, new look and better service integration across the whole suite.

The standout feature is of course Live Calendar which can now be accessed online and synchronised between Live Mail, Outlook and Vista Calendar.

A couple weeks ago I posted that a developer had already discovered it was possible to run Firefox GreaseMonkey Scripts in Google Chrome and released Grease Metal to do just that.

InformationWeek announced today that according to Google Chrome Engineer Ojan Vafai the idea is for the browser to support both scripts and extensions:

"There’s two different kinds of add-ons," Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome”

Today after weeks of rumours and leaks the Windows Live Wave 3 beta was released for public download and testing.

There is so much to talk about but I’ll just stick to what’s relevant, the new Live Photo Gallery and also the final release of Live Writer. Writer has always supported extensions but now includes the fully updated API for plugins, so you can get started on those.

The Extendably Resources website is finally up, but sadly is fairly patchy at this point.

The annoying thing about site maintenance is the more you do, the more you find that needs doing. Oh, and most of it isn’t anything anyone will ever notice.

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