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Comment on Lost Your Job? Stay Active! by Lucas Mercado

Lucas Mercado — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:15:36 +0000

Nice work Ted, I knew you had a passion for this stuff and that CAT wasn’t exactly pushing ya forward with it, but it looks like you found exactly what you were looking for Fly Safe brother.

Comment on A Hack to Give Back: Hack Firefox to Donate to your Favorite Charity’s Amazon Store! by Ted Curran

Ted Curran — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:35:09 +0000

Yes, if you remember to…. the benefit of this is that you are just shopping normally at Amazon and your favorite charity gets a little percentage of every purchase you make. That’s money that would have all gone to Amazon, but instead it’s doing a bit more good. I didn’t say it would make you Mother Theresa or anything….

Comment on A Hack to Give Back: Hack Firefox to Donate to your Favorite Charity’s Amazon Store! by Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:49:41 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to just make a donation to your favorite charity?

Comment on Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity by Blake

Blake — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:10 +0000

Awesome video man. I think I’ll play around with ubiquity, it seems really awesome.

Comment on Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger’s guide by Blogers Support Group Notes – Creative Commons — TechLiminal

Blogers Support Group Notes – Creative Commons — TechLiminal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:55:06 +0000

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Comment on Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software by Ted Curran

Ted Curran — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:10 +0000

Thanks Anca!
Yes that’s a great point. TBird makes it possible to see separate email accounts (even from different providers) in the same window.

At my last job, we had Google Apps for your Domain email– basically Gmail rebranded with my organization’s logo. Both my regular Gmail and my Google Apps wanted to log themselves into my browser and act as my only GMail login– my online identity for any Google related services (of which there are tons). By keeping my email out of my browser and safely in TBird where it belongs, I eliminated those conflicts.

Thanks for the great ideas!

Comment on Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software by Anca

Anca — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:26:12 +0000

You forgot to mention another reason for using a desktop email client: multiple Gmail or yahoo email accounts are a huge pain in the butt to check through the web interface.

Thanks for showing me the Thunderbird tagging. I had to abandon TBird a couple of years ago, but Mac Mail leaves me strangely unsatisfied.

Comment on Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity by Ted Curran

Ted Curran — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:01:09 +0000

Sure! If you like this, you might also be interested in Quicksilver for the Mac. It takes the same concept to the desktop, allowing you to launch apps, find and move files, and search the web. Super powerful and a great time saver. I’ll discuss both tomorrow.

Comment on Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity by Anca

Anca — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:47:24 +0000

Wow, this is cool! I just saw a post about Ubiquity yesterday, while I was frantically trying to figure out a cookie issue. Will you show it off tomorrow?

Comment on Podcast an Audiobook to Reach Struggling Readers by Ted Curran

Ted Curran — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:17:46 +0000

Good suggestion! I love the podiobook “How to Succeed in Evil”. Not sure how many of those titles are being taught in the high schools, but maybe that availability will help them spread!