If you are looking for a tool to create website screenshots have a look at the Firefox extension FireShot.
Besides taking screenshots from the visible part of a web page it can also create images of the complete page, which is what I was looking for.
I stumbled across this extension in Stuart Herberts blog post about [...]
If you have been “upgrading” (from Vista to XP) lately you most certainly will have lots of fun watching this, this and this.
…however downloading a preinstalled VMWare image is easier.
Hint: the password for the administrative user is “ubuntu”
If you find the code snippet:
<body onload=”self.focus()”>
not work in Firefox 2, this is not a bug. Firefox has an advanced Javascript option called “Raise or lower windows” which is deactivated by default. You may find this option under:
Tools
Options…
Content tab
Advanced button next to “Enable JavaScript”
Once enabled the above code will work again. But only on [...]
The mozilla developer center has an article about new features for developers in Firefox 2.
Among others it covers how to create a custom search plugin.
By default Firefox 2 recovers tabs and windows after a crash only. However you can tell it to always “Show my windows and tabs from last time”:
PS: Applies to Firefox 2 which is the current version as of this writing.
After updating to Firefox 2 I decided to try to get rid of some extensions, which I don’t really use.
One of them was an extension for tabbed browsing which is now supported by Firefox to full extent.
To open results from the search box in a new tab follow these steps:
type ‘about:config’ in adressbar - press [...]
Nathanial Woolls created a great tutorial showing how to adjust Delphi applications to the Windows Vista UI interface guidelines.
The user experience changes in Windows Vista, while major, are not as breaking as those found with Windows XP. [...] With Windows Vista, as long as our applications were developed to work with Windows XP, [...]
While Ubuntu is easily installed as a VMWare guest, the installation of theVMWare tools is more complicated as one should think.
Ubuntu needs to be prepared by executing the following commands:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
After that the VMWare Tools can be installed, initiated by selecting the menu item in VMWare, followed by these [...]
Vista RC1 seems to have a problem when being installed on WMWare Workstation.
Here is the solution which helped me to get it installed anyway.
It makes the installation look very ugly - but it works.
