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Brent Hopkins (rowanrook)
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
rowanrook's Trails: firefox    (view all)
This trail will focus on the development progress of Firefox 3. Mozilla Links is a good website for news regarding all things Mozilla.
Tags: mozilla, firefox, links, good, things, ...
A trail of 4 pages
Firefox is my current obsession. It's a free, open-source web browser with some of the most advanced features available. One you have tried it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!
Tags: firefox, ons, browser, web, rowanrook, ...
A trail of 28 pages

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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Enhance Gmail Greasemonkey script incorporates Google Calendar and the Google Chat gadget directly into your Gmail account. Install it, then click the Calendar or Chat links at the top of the page to open your inline calendar or chat gadget. If you don't like the default setup of the inline layouts, you can edit the script and change a few simple values to get it looking nice (like the screenshot above, which also features Remember the Milk integration).

For example, to place the calendar on the bottom half of your window (which I prefer) rather than splitting the window vertically, open up the Greasemonkey script and edit this line in the top section, changing:

const OPEN_CAL_BELOW_MAIL=0;
...to...
const OPEN_CAL_BELOW_MAIL=1;
Likewise, I adjusted the Calendar height using:
const CAL_HT = 60;
...rather than 70 percent, which seemed to take up too much of the window. In all, though, this is a really great tool for more tightly integrating your Google Apps dashboard. Enhance Gmail is free, works with Greasemonkey and Firefox. Perhaps we'll see some Better Gmail integration in Enhance Gmail's future. Thanks Redd!
Tags: greasemonkey, gmail, cal, integration, open, ...
A trail of 3 pages
My thoughts on how the smart phone industry is missing valuable opportunities in smart phone design.
Tags: design, web 2.0, iphone, open source, internet, ...
A trail of 3 pages

    Managing my time, tasks, and personal information is a major challenge. My attention is often fractured among competing priorities. The complexity of it all can be quite overwhelming at times. In this article, I will briefly outline a few of the techniques I use in order to try to stay on top of it all. Some I have used for a long time, and others I have discovered only recently.

Tags: gmail, milk, imap, nerve, time, ...
A trail of 10 pages
This is where all my public trails are.
Tags: rowanrook, focused, trail, development, ...
A trail of 2 pages
An informative article detailing differences and similarities between Sea Monkey, Firefox, and Thunderbird.
Tags: seamonkey, thunderbird, differences, firefox, monkey, ...
A trail of 4 pages

Full Web Building References

Our references cover all Web-building technologies, including W3C standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and other technologies like JavaScript, PHP, ASP, SQL and much more.
Examples

Try-It-Yourself On-Line Examples

At W3schools you will find thousands of cut-and-paste examples.
With our on-line HTML editor you can edit the examples and experiment with the code on-line.
Tags: internet, dom, inspector, building, web, ...
A trail of 3 pages
My touchpad was driving me crazy; every time I tried to edit a document in Ubuntu Linux, my cursor kept jumping around like a grasshopper. There is a Multiverse application called Touchpad by GSynaptics which will let you change your touchpad settings or disable it. Just click Applications>Add/Remove, then type Touchpad into the search box. Oh, and make sure you have the "All Available" drop menu option set too. Check the box and click Apply. After the application installs, you will see it in your System>Preferences>Touchpad. There is one more thing you will now have to do (oddly, most applications don't require this sort of editing procedure). Open the Terminal, and type in
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Enter your admin password, then scroll down the file that opens up until you see
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
This is where you will want to add:
    Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
Click "Save" and then exit. Reboot, and now you should be able to disable/enable your touchpad with ease.
Tags: ubuntu, the, gnome, nbsp, printer, ...
A trail of 12 pages
If you use Firefox all day, as I do, you may have mastered a few of the navigational tools it offers, but there are a lot of them under the hood. You can be faster and more efficient with the browser if you learn some easy ways to use your mouse and keyboard to navigate. In this post, I’ll round up 10 tips for more efficient surfing. Quite a few of these will work in other browsers as well.
Tags: vulnerability, extensions, firefox, mode, i’ll, ...
A trail of 6 pages