Author: Aaron Traffas

  • Mozilla Weave – synchronize Firefox among multiple computers

    Anyone who uses multiple computers has the struggle of maintaining productivity across different environments. Web browsers store passwords and bookmarks and preferences on each computer. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to have each computer automatically synchronize your bookmarks and passwords? If your browser of choice is Firefox, you’re in luck. A…

  • Reclaim screen real estate with Firefox tweaks

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser that is popular for its security, third-party add-ons called extensions, and it’s speed relative to the current dominant browser Internet Explorer. Today we embark on a three-part series about making Mozilla Firefox usable. Our biggest beef with web browsers today is the amount of space used by the…

  • Google Picasa provides fast and easy photo management

    Image via Wikipedia Sometimes there is a piece of software that is so obvious for a specific need that we make assumptions. We assume that everyone uses it and, if not, that those who don’t at least know about it and for some unreasoned purpose decide to use something lesser. A few products fit this…

  • Motorola Droid

    The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features. 3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution 5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus 16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards…

  • The end of the sitemap as we know it

    Back in the days of the FAQ and the image map (remember when you would hover your mouse over a picture and different parts of the graphic would link to different pages?), web designers used a website element known as a sitemap or site index. Modern sitemaps are valuable tools that are submitted to search…