Vertical Tabs in Firefox are the new hotness

If you've got a big enough screen (and big enough for me is 1024x768) you might want to consider "tree style" vertical tabs in Firefox. I don't think it'll fit everyone's taste, but it suits me fine. Opera makes it pretty easy to mess with your browser's UI, but I wanted the power of Firefox[1]; luckily it seems like someone else feels the same way.

So I often have a dozen or more tabs open; having them open at the top of the browser makes them more difficult to navigate. The Tree Style Tab addon will add the tabs to the left side of your browser window in a tree. So if you open a tab from another tab, that tab becomes part of the tree. Pretty awesome.

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[caption id="attachment_4214" align="alignnone" width="522" caption="The Tree Style Tab addon"][/caption]

Points of Interest

Tree Style Tabs addon

Footnotes
[1] I really like Opera, and it's amazing to use

Another test, sorry

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WriteRoom for the iPhone quick review #apple

Just a quick update; I recently picked up WriteRoom for the iPhone, since I wanted a really, really, really basic notepad that could transfer notes back and forth between my iPod Touch and my Desktop. Turns out this was a very cool purchase. It's minimal, which I love, but it also has the ability to (among other ways to export) display your documents in a browser on your Desktop. This is by far not the most secure way to share documents, but on my closed little fortress it's no big deal.

So you turn on the temporary share in WriteRoom for the iPhone, you point your browser at the specified address, and you are presented with this..





Pretty frickin' suave. It will allow you to read documents and write documents from the browser window, so importing isn't a problem. An improvement (perhaps too much to ask) would be to have a drag and drop interface via a tiny Java applet. That could get complex though. Actually on second thought forget it, I like this app as simple as it is!

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Watchmen - Journal

Watchmen - Journal:

Watchmen - Journal A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen? Directed by: Zack Snyder Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley

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Quick'n'Dirty: Create your own local podcast in iTunes

I wrote a Quick'n'Dirty script tonight so that I could import a bunch of assorted mp3 audio files on to my iPod in the form of a Podcast.

Why?

Imagine you have a bunch of lectures by a guy at Google recorded at a university. They are available as randomly assorted mp3 audio files. Rather than suffer through trying to listen to them one by one on your iPod, you use this script to create an XML file that fakes a podcast. By creating my own fake podcast in iTunes, I can take a series of mp3 audio files, set them in a specific order, listen to each one, and have the iPod automatically discard the file when I am done.

So here's what you do under Mac OS X 10.5, with this fugly script.. dir2pod.pl

Warning: This script comes with no warranties or licenses. :)

1. Go to Apple -> System Preferences -> Sharing


2. Enable Web Sharing


3. In your Sites directory, create Podcasts


4. Make sure Podcasts has read-only permissions for everyone (use APPL-I if you need to change the permissions)


5. Move dir2pod.pl into Podcasts, make sure it is executable (APPL-I again)


6. Copy your directory of mp3 audio files into Podcasts as a subdirectory (so for example, you'd have Podcasts/Myshow if your mp3 files were in a directory named Myshow)


7. Run the following command from The Shell
   

   $ cd ~/Sites/Podcasts && ./dir2pod.pl Myshow/ > Myshow.xml



8. In iTunes, go to Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast... And enter;
   

   http://localhost/~YOURUSERNAME/Podcasts/Myshow.xml



9. If everything went well, iTunes will detect the podcast and will try and download the last file. Click on "Get All" to download all the files in that directory.

If you want to try this script out, but it's not working for you, pass me a comment and I'll see if I can tell you where it's going wrong.

RT @guykawasaki Music remixed by fish

No, not a DJ named Fish. Real fish.

Thanks to @guykawasaki for posting to Twitter. Via Make.

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