Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 18, 2008 by CyberNet.

You’re probably aware of how the Firefox add-on system works by now, but we’ll give a quick recap. Over a year ago Mozilla decided that they needed to add a middle-man to the extension publishing process so that they could ensure that only the quality extensions made it onto the add-ons site. This seemed like the right move since users generally trust the content found on Mozilla’s site, but it has become a sore spot for those who are creating the extensions and themes.

A few weeks ago we released our first extension, CyberSearch, and since then it has received over 3,400 downloads. A few days after its release I decided to put it up for public nomination, which (if accepted) means that it can be downloaded from the add-ons site without needing a username and password. Our extension is currently sitting with 24 reviews (4.40 out of 5.00 stars), and has over 3,700 daily users. So the other day I was wondering why it hadn’t made its way out of the sandbox.

I started searching around, and that’s when I came across this thread in a Mozilla forum. Apparently I wasn’t the only one wondering what was going on. So what’s the hold up? Not enough extension editors/moderators, period. The release of Firefox 3 caused an onslaught of new/updated extensions to get submitted to the site, and they just can’t keep up with the vast quantity of submissions. As of yesterday there were 215 extension updates waiting to get published, and another 461 extensions like ours that are waiting to make their way out of the sandbox.

If you’ve got some spare time you should consider becoming an extension editor yourself. I’m just hoping that this kind of thing doesn’t discourage developers from creating new add-ons for the browser.

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This article was written on July 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

World of Warcraft is probably one of the most popular computer games on the market right now. However, Linux users are not able to use this great piece of gaming software…that is not yet. CodeWeavers is the company responsible for making CrossOver Office and brings many Windows applications into the Linux world. One of the most notable applications that it is compatible with is Microsoft Office 2003.

CodeWeavers said “Recent improvements in Wine have allowed CrossOver to run WoW (World of Warcraft). As a result, we at CodeWeavers have been ‘testing’ that particular application. Extensively. Perhaps too extensively.”

Wine is a free application for Linux that is also produced by CodeWeavers. However, Wine does not support the latest and greatest software like CrossOver Office does. It is definitely promising that they are already testing World of Warcraft out which means that this might not be as far away as you think.

News Source: Desktop Linux

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This article was written on November 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

I have been using my laptop as a second monitor for a few weeks now and it has made me more productive than ever. Instead of using my small 14″ laptop screen as the primary monitor I prefer to use my 24″ LCD as the main one because my laptop is off to the right of me and I only glance it once in awhile.

Last week Lifehacker featured a free software solution, called Multi-Monitor, that lets you extend your Taskbar onto your second monitor. It is awesome because it will only show you applications on each Taskbar that are on their respective monitor. It is definitely intuitive and I was surprised that it even worked on Windows Vista.

 
Image from RealTimeSoft Multiple Monitor Gallery

One thing that I didn’t like about it, however, was that it isn’t skinned and looks like something back in the days of Windows 95. I’m sure that isn’t a big deal for most people but I like things to coordinate.

I didn’t really need a second Taskbar and what I was really looking for was a way to get the Taskbar off of my laptop and onto my external monitor. There is an option in the Display Settings that lets you choose which screen is your “main monitor,” but it wouldn’t let me choose that option for some reason.

I searched the Internet and came up empty handed but then something clicked (no pun intended)…I then thought that there was no way Microsoft would have made it this easy. To my surprise they did, so here is how to move your Taskbar to another monitor:

1. If you have the Taskbar locked you’ll need to right-click on it and uncheck the option that says Lock the Taskbar.
2. Now here’s the big one…drag the Taskbar onto the other monitor! You can put it wherever you would like.

I couldn’t believe that it was really that easy and now I feel a little stupid for thinking it would be harder than that. I guess we all have to learn these things sometime.

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This article was written on February 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

I tried Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 (TP2) almost all day yesterday, and all I got was frustration from using it. It does have a smooth interface and the widgets seem to fit in quite well, but there are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed. The one bug that would keep me from using it as my primary browser has to do with GMail.

GMail has never been supported by Opera which would be why GMail complaints is such a popular topic in the Opera Forums. GMail may work the first time that you visit it, but each visit after that Opera TP2 will freeze up after displaying ‘Loading’. This is definitely reproducible and in my opinion is completely unacceptable. This is also an issue, though not as frequent, in their version 8.51 release of Opera. How could a web browser not make itself compliant with GMail, especially with the release of chatting capabilities soon to come in GMail!

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This article was written on December 13, 2006 by CyberNet.

Moments ago Skype made two big announcements that will surely satisfy all Skype users. First off, and probably the biggest, is that their new Skype 3 has been released. According the the release notes here are the new features and changes:

• Features:
  • Public chatrooms
  • Extras Manager
  • Sound Settings Widget
  • Rich Mood Messages
  • Connection Wizard
• Changes:
  • Video quality improvements on low bitrate (128 kbit upload links)
  • Updated Extras Manager
  • Updated Internet Explorer and FireFox plugins
  • UI redesigned
  • Improved Video device detection
  • New Language files
  • New button for ‘leave’ in chat window
  • Do More Menu’ active even when Extras Manager not running
  • Updated all translations
  • Extras Manager updated

Besides for those new features and changes there are also a ton of bug fixes, but the list would have been way too long if I tried to list those. I still haven’t brought myself to try out Skype even with the new version but I have heard a lot of good things about it. I just don’t know anyone who uses it that I could chat with and Google Talk seems to get the job done for me.

Over the past year Skype users have had the joy of free outgoing calls from your PC to any landline phone in the United States and Canada. I can’t even count how many people I have heard rave about the greatness of that feature, but with the new year quickly approaching you will have to start paying for that service. To help ease the pain of the cost Skype is offering the unlimited outgoing calls package for just $14.95 for one year of the service which is 50% off their normal price (offer good until January 31, 2007).

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News Source: Official Skype Blog (here and here)

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