New release - Firefox 3
By Matt Richardson | June 18, 2008
Yesterday Mozilla released the newest version of Firefox and I have to say that first impressions, its pretty nice. Some of the first things that I noticed are one, the presentation is a little more streamlined, and on OSX it looks sharp, two the set-up was a breeze, the whole install took maybe 2 minuets, super simple and three most of my current add-ons are supported with out any updates. Firefox 3 still has it’s superior CSS and web standard support so most pages that I have seen have not only loaded up with out any flaws, but also it seemed like they were loading up quicker.
So far I have not noticed any huge flaws, (thankfully) the only let down that I have had so far is that two of my favorite add-ons (Aardvark and Colorzilla) are not supported as of this time.
We will have to see what the future holds for add-on updates, but what do you think about Firefox 3 ?
To download Firefox 3 please click here.
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Firefox Friday (well, sort of) - Firefox 3 “Download Day 2008”
By Matt Richardson | June 4, 2008
Ok, first of all I know it’s not Friday, but regardless of that I still found this important enough to write about.
Firefox 2 has been out for a while now, and has been great, but with Firefox 3 right around the corner (well hopefully at least) there comes a fair amount of updates and new features that come with it. Some of the features include:
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Free Vector - Old Style Eagle
By Matt Richardson | May 24, 2008
I personally have been inspired by all of my fellow bloggers that have made free vectors, brushes or other freebies out there. After seeing so many different freebies out there, I decided to see if there was any thing that I could offer to the design world, and every one else. So with that being said here is the first of what I hope to be a growing list of freebies that I will be offering. The only thing that I ask in return if you would like to use any of my freebies, please drop me a note so I can see how you use them.
Hope you all like them!
Free vector - Eagle Drawing
Download Adobe .AI file
Download .EPS file
Download PDF file
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Firefox Friday #5 - Sage
By Matt Richardson | May 24, 2008
This weeks Add-on is Sage By: The Sage Team
Sage is a great add-on that tracks your RSS and Atom feeds (in case you don’t know what RSS is read my simplified description). In general the best way that I can describe Sage, is that it’s a great lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader for Mozilla Firefox so you can get as the Sage team says “a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t.”
To learn more or download this weeks add-on go to:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77
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Making the switch…
By Matt Richardson | May 20, 2008
Well, the time has finally come, I have officially switched to a Mac. Over the weekend I bought a 15” MacBook Pro, and so far it has been great! Don’t get me wrong, I had used Windows based computer for most of my life, and for the most part it has been good, but It has been time for quite some time to make the switch. Hope fully the switch will be relatively smooth, but we will see. So far so good at least.
So here is to my first post on a Mac and to many more!
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Firefox Friday #4 - “Font Finder”
By Matt Richardson | May 17, 2008
This weeks Firefox add-on, is a great design tool that I use from time to time. One of the big reasons I chose this weeks extensions, is that there have been many times I have looked at a font on a website, and thought “gee I wonder what font that is” or “wow I wish I knew what font they used, that would look awesome on this new project”.
With that being said this weeks Add-on is “Font Finder” by:Ben Dodson
Font Finder, does just what it sounds like, Simply highlight any text element, right-click, and click font finder and an alert box will pop up with all of the styling information you are looking for including: font family, font-size, font-family, color and much more.
To download this week’s add-on go to:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4415
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5 Surefire Ways To Help Keep Your Customers Happy
By Matt Richardson | May 16, 2008
Deep down, what is the real reason you want to keep your customers happy? Is it that you would like to keep them as a customer? Is it that you like their money? or Is it that you actually care about your customers? Well for me it’s a combination of all of the above. I do care about keeping my customers, and making them repeat customers, and just like anyone else I do have bills to pay, but above all I do care about not only my customers business, but also my customers themselves. I generally want my customers to do well, and I hope that I offer them solutions to help them do so.
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Firefox Friday #3
By Matt Richardson | May 10, 2008
This week’s Firefox add on is another useful one for web designers, and more. I chose this week’s add-on simply because it is one that use on almost a daily basis.This week’s add-on is Screengrab! 0.93 by Andy M
The easy way of describing Screengrab! 0.93 is that it saves entire web pages as images. This is great for me because when I’m designing or changing websites, it’s great to be able to send full images to a client. For everyone else it’s simply a great way to capture all the information on a webpage.
To download this week’s add-on go to
http://www.screengrab.org/
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