Google Safe Browsing for Firefox

I love the fact that Google supports Firefox. This is a great beta extension and a great illustration of why Firefox is such a great browser. Say goodbye to all those phishing sites and the bastards that run them. If you inadvertently visit a malicious site, a nice pop up will appear warning you - all brought to you by the magic of Google algorithm's...


Not available outside, the US - but hopefully I can get my hands on a copy.

Mood O Matic - Cool Skype Plugin

Hans Blauw, the creator of Skypeteer, released a very cool plugin for Skype you have to try, called Mood O' Matic.

Mood O Matic, lets you auto fill your display pics and mood messages within Skype via your Flickr Stream or any RSS feed, it is a very simple and fun app.

Screenshots.

Official Skype Extension for Firefox - Beta

I have been so busy I have been neglecting my blogging, but this is most worthy, for all you Firefox lovers, and I know there are a lot of you, Skype has released a "toolbar" extension for Firefox. This is still in beta but expect to see 1.0 out pretty soon. I know the developer, he is a really great guy. Ping me with anything you think you would like to see in future versions, other than "where is the Mac version" :)

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Wax on Wax Off - From the Skype Integrators at Skylook

From the guys who brought us the kickass Skype Outlook Recording Add-in Skylook, a new plugin for Outlook users has been released called Waxmail.

Essentially Waxmail lets you easily send a MP3 you record on the fly to all your Outlook contacts, it is free and a great utility. Excellent job guys !

Mr. Miyagi would be proud.

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Qumana 2.0 ROCKS !!

Wow, this is great - I haven't had the time to blog lately, but my friend Tris Hussey CBO (Chief Blogging Officer) over at Qumana just Skype IM'd me with the news of release 2.0 of Qumana.

I literally had this post up and running from my desktop in a matter of seconds.

This absolutely ROCKS Tris...

Kudo's to the team @ Qumana - for illiterate bloggers like me, this is a "must have" tool.

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It's Official - Skype Coming to a Treo Near you.

I have speculated about this for some time, and it appears the rumours are true. A new version of the Treo - the 670 - will be running Windows Mobile.

This should scare the tar out of wireless telco's. Losing the high value margin of SMS to intelligent edge devices is a big deal.

In the US Verizon's Data/Voice plan is around 80.00 a month, which is not cheap, but probably worth it if you are in a EVDO service area.

Thanks to Gizmodo for the pics.

Never Pay for Software Again

Tom Merrit over @ Cnet.com has a great article about purchasing a new laptop and wanted to see just how far he could go without having to pay for any software.

Tom's top picks were the Mozilla suite for email/browser, openoffice.org, Skype, the GimP, Audacity, Itunes, and iPodder. I would also add NVU to that list for a really good Dreamweaver replacement as well as Filezilla for FTP. Today you can pretty much do anything without paying a dime, with the exception of Accounting and Exchange Mail server type functionality (which is pretty important)

With the impending adoption of the Windows Genuine Advantage program, watch the exodus begin from M$ to opensource and alternative Unix based OS's. It is much the same argument the proponents of online filesharing make, when critiquing the RIAA going after 14 year olds with 500 mp3's on their PC. The kid wasn't going to buy those songs anyway. Microsoft will find the same thing. A ten year old kid isn't going to shell out 700$ for an OS and some email program, if he can't pirate it, then he will just move onto something else, which is a very dangerous option if you rely on hooking people when there young. Hmmm, sounds like big tobacco.. :)

Pirating M$ software has created an entire generation of people that are Windows only, watch that market share collapse when you create an entire generation of computer users that are familiar and embrace opensource.