Monthly Archives: November 2006

Firefox Extension: New Tab Homepage

If you’re using Firefox, then you’ll notice when you open a new tab it doesn’t go to your homepage. It actually goes to a blank screen. This has been bugging me for some time, so I googled around and found an extension that makes it go to your homepage. If you [...]

20,000 Free Music Videos

With all the fuss around YouTube hosting copyrighted videos, I’m surprised they aren’t doing anything about all the copyrighted music videos they host. In fact if you crawl their site you’ll find 10s of thousands of music videos. With a simple PHP script you can create yourself an archive of 20,000 free [...]

Resize Web Forms With All Browsers

I’ve seen browser specific extensions that allow the resizing of textboxes, but this one tops them all. It’s a simple bit of JavaScript that you favorite place. Once it’s on your favorite places you put the cursor in the text box you want to resize. You then visit the book mark, [...]

Opensource Democracy Player Updated

Democracy released version 0.9.2 today, and it’s actually usable. Previous versions were running rampant with memory leaks, freezing, and horribly slow. While the new version is slightly sluggish, it’s a 100% improvement. Switching between different channels now only lags for about a half second, compared to hardly working before.

WalMart Starting Video Download Service

Wal-Mart has decided to get its foot in the door offering movie downloads off their website. It’s not a true download service yet, and will require an actual purchase of the physical DVD. On the DVD will be a sticker directing the user to walmart.com/superman, where they will need to enter a [...]