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aside You can have several versions of IE installed side by side… try that on a PC ;). Once You’re done with IE, drag it to the trash, and it’s gone. ies4osx makes use of wine to install and run IE. And wine needs a Intel processor… ies4osx (9) # 11/29/07
Make your extensions compatible with Firefox 3
Thursday November 22nd 2007, 5:46 pm
By Theron Parlin
Tags: add-ons, extensions, firefox

Using the nightly tester tools extension, you can make all of your plugins compatible with the latest version of firefox. Simply install the plugin, then go to tools->add ons and click the “make all compatible button at the bottom.

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If you want to install new extensions that might not be compatible, open up the preferences for the nightly tester tools extension and choose to disable add-on compatibility checking.

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Here’s a screenshot of me running firefox 3 beta 1 with a working del.icio.us bookmarks extension.

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Enjoy.


aside Here are a bunch of little tweaks you can make to leopard from the command line in terminal. Usingmac.com - Leopard Tweaking - Terminal Codes (4) # 11/19/07
Make your stacks look awesome!
Monday November 12th 2007, 3:33 am
By Theron Parlin
Tags: leopard, stacks

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“Stacks is pretty much Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the icon representing the stack is whatever the top file in the folder happens to be really ruins it (for me at least). However, if you haven’t yet given up on stacks and thrown them off your dock, there is a solution: overlaying stacks icons.”

Make stacks look awesome