// May 3rd, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Technology
There are many ways to solve the bookmark syncing issue (including the Google Toolbar), but I like the one my friend Geof over at McKinney Station Design showed me.
FoxMarks is a Firefox extension that will automagically sync your Firefox bookmarks with all the browsers you use. If you’re at someone else’s computer, no problem, just login to your account at my.foxmarks.com and see all your bookmarks there.
// April 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // Technology
Found this today and fell in love. Better Gmail does a host of things that help make GMail even better.
They’ve compiled the best Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into one Firefox extension which adds a lot to your GMail experience.
I really like the other GMail skins and colored labeling, but I’m just now digging under the hood.
Check it out!
// March 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Business & Politics, Life
I have to write a long overdue plug for my favorite online billing service. I’ve used BillingOrchard for around 5 years now and have found their service and features to be outstanding.
Here’s a short list of the features I really like (my list):
These are just a few of the features they have. There are other similar services available (Quicken.com comes to mind), but it’s always seemed like a great deal for the price.
For only $14.95 per month, you have full access to most features. Starting at $19.95 per month, you can add automated invoicing and Authorize.nettm automated recurring billing. For an additional $10.00 per month, you get access to their support ticket system / help desk.
When I first started looking for this kind of service in 2002, the options were fairly limited. Nowadays the space is more crowded and options are diverse. But for my needs, I’ve never seen a compelling reason to switch. BillingOrchard provides everything I need at a great price.
// October 12th, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
I’ve been searching for this solution for a while and just stumbled on what may do the trick…if you use IMAP.
Sync Kolab is a Thunderbird extension that reads a selected IMAP folder and synchronizes it with the local address book and calendar.
The latest version uses (requires in fact) the lightening calendar plugin.
I already use IMAP anyway, and now the 3 computers I regularly use will all have identical address books. This is especially nice since I have a white-list junk mail filter. Now I won’t have to remember to add the persons email to my home computer that I added at work earlier in the day.
The extension is still in a testing phase, and time will tell if it works as well as I hope it will.
Maybe it’s just me, but I always felt that setting up an LDAP server just for this was a bit of overkill.
// May 18th, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
A friend showed me the Smart Keywords in Firefox and now I use them all the time.
From the article:
“A smart keyword (also known as keymark) is a special kind of bookmark that replaces a special sequence, %s, in the bookmark location field (URL) with the text entered after the keyword in the address bar.”
It’s basically a way to create a bookmark to pass parameters to URL’s by typing a shortcut key into the address bar. For instance I use it to search our support ticketing system for a particular ticket number.
I setup a bookmark shortcut so I can type in:
rt [ticket number]
i.e. "rt 1345"
and Firefox automatically reformats the URL as:
http://www.somecomain.com/Display.html?id=1345
The article also describes other ways the feature might be useful.
Read more at John Bokma’s Blog.
