I start every one of my Firefox browsing adventures with iGoogle loaded up as my home page. However, I would like to check up on my iGoogle page without going to the homepage over and over again through the day. Can I just load it up into the sidebar? Yes, we can!
How do you make it happen? Drag this link to your bookmarks bar:
iPhone iGoogle Homepage
Now, right-click the bookmark, and select Properties. Click the check mark box for loading [...]
/ November 19, 2008 -
Hacks
Like the iPhone version of Google Reader, but want to bring it to your desktop? With this quick tip, you can load it up as a sidebar in Firefox – like this:
How do you make it happen? Drag this link to your bookmarks bar:
iPhone Google Reader
Now, right-click the bookmark, and select Properties. Click the check mark box for loading this bookmark in the sidebar, and then click on the Save Changes button. Now when you click the bookmark, it [...]
You can load up Google News in your Firefox sidebar. This quick tip and tweak will give you the ability to check out the iPhone optimized Google News in your Firefox sidebar. This makes scrolling through the day’s news an even quicker and easier experience.
How do you make it happen? Drag this link to your bookmarks bar:
iPhone Google News
Now, right-click the bookmark, and select Properties. Click the check mark box for loading this bookmark in the sidebar, and [...]
/ July 23, 2008 -
News
The team over at Wired have posted a very interesting article with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly about a number of topics. One of the topics that came up was iPhone and the easy somebody like Mozilla would have developing for it:
Wired: Are you going to develop a version of Firefox for the iPhone?
Lilly: No. Apple makes it too hard. They say it’s because of technical issues — they don’t want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That’s a business [...]
/ September 11, 2007 -
Hacks
Come on, there has to be something useful the rest of the world (who doesn’t have an iPhone) can do with all these neat slim web apps that are coming out for the device, right? Looks like “the great themer” TwisterMC had the same idea:
Firefox’s sidebar is and odd place to load a web page, however if you manage your bookmarks, there will be an option to load any bookmark in your sidebar. The good news is that some [...]
Is it true? Nah – but you have to admit it is a pretty creative picture. (link via informationcommunication) You have to wonder though if it will happen one of these days.