Ages ago I wrote a post bringing light to a bookmarklet attached to a bug in Mozilla’s Bugzilla which allows you to export your Firefox history to a text file. According to Google Analytics, it’s far and away my most popular post, but the code d...

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If you’re a regular user you’ll have already noticed by now, but in case you hadn’t – del.icio.us inbox is back! (via WaxyLinks). If you’ve not used the inbox functionality before, it’s basically a mini-aggregator for del.icio.us, so that when you’re viewing anoth...

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I’ve just come across the CSS Property Index which is an alphabetical listing of CSS properties. Of course, there are many of these of different kinds across the web, but I’ve never found any as useful as the DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs which provide Mozilla sideba...

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del.icio.us provides you with a virtual inbox to which you can add any other users’ bookmark lists. You then have access to this inbox via RSS. So, for example, in my del.icio.us inbox I effectively have the feeds for blech, yoz, kellan,...

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Since I started using del.icio.us in a semi-serious way I realised that it’s most useful to me as a place to store links that I could a) potentially blog about or b) might need when I’m on a different machine. Of course, all things being equal and despite my best intentions, I can’t really blog about all the things I save to del.icio.us and in lieu of a sidebar-linklog thing I present a ...

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The Mozilla link toolbar doesn’t work as well as Firefox’s link toolbar extension does. For about a year now I’ve had rel="bookmark" on the permanent links to my posts, and these have quite merrily appeared in Firefox’s link toolbar, and I’ve just added rel="section" to links to my monthly archives, and these also appear...

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Interestingly here is Ben Goodger’s original plan for Firebird web panels (via Phil Ringnalda). Confirming my suspicions, this is definitely not what we see in the current Firebird release, despite the fact that web panels are on the current fea...

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Firebird 0.7: bugs have been fixed – good. can’t spot any new bugs – good bookmarks can be opened in the sidebar – good can’t see web panels for the fucking life of me – bad.

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Bookmarks are useless – what’s the point of having a series of bookmarks that only gets stored on one machine? At work this is no problem for me, a fast connection and Google and I can find anything anyway, but at home I’m on dial-up, this means bookmarks. Of course, all of my bookmarks are made when at work. So what I want to see is a central resource for storing your bookmarks on the w...

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