Shawn’s Thoughts

• David Alison’s Blog: Avoid the potholes when switching from Windows to Mac
  Good guide for helping folks moving from Windows to Mac
  (tags: mac windows switch)
• Eat. Sleep. Tweet. - Welcome
  These are great Twitter-lover tshirts
  (tags: twitter tshirt)
• RoadkillToys.com Designer Plush Toys - shop
  (tags: toys gifts)
• Thank You - Internet Marketing Kit
  (tags: via:mento.info)

• Magnify.net’s new plugin
  Magnify.net has introduced a plugin for Movable Type and WordPress that attempts to minimize the effort required to add multimedia content to a blog. Magnify.net is a video discovery and broadcast platform that provides a hosted framework for video distri
  (tags: videos video videoblog)
• Struggling to keep it up
  (tags: blog socialnetworks)
• Slandr May be the Best (non iPhone) Mobile Twitter App Available - ReadWriteWeb
  Slandr is much better than m.twitter.com
  (tags: twitter mobile)
• Widgetbox World’s largest widget directory and gallery - web widgets for Facebook apps, Blogger, TypePad, MySpace, Wordpress and more
  Good pointers to lots of shiny rocks for blogs…
• Add to Any - Subscribe, Bookmark, Share Buttons and Widgets
  (tags: socialnetworks bookmarking blogging aggregator blogs feeds)
• Savvy Daddy | Fueling your passion to be a great dad, father and parent
  Good tips for Dads
  (tags: parenting dad father)

• multiple wordpress widget sidebars — Marston Development Studio
  shows how to implement different widget sidebars on various wordpress pages.
  (tags: wordpress sidebar widgets)

• Healthy Grocery Lists
  (tags: food GTD)

• MadAtoms (beta): Hillary Clinton: The Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party
  via Hadi Partovi on Facebook….
  (tags: humor politics hillary obama democrats)

I love Firefox. Works great on the Stinkpad. Works great on the Crapple. Firefox is usually the first application I install after I fire up a machine for the first time, or re-pave one of the existing machines. I find myself using the same set of extensions over and over again, and I wanted to share them for posterity’s sake.. These are my favorite Firefox extensions:

• better gmail. better gmail 2, actually. I’m not a big gmail user (i’m still one of those hotmail wackos. when i do use gmail, i really like the added functionality, especially letting gmail grab the mailto: links.
• better greader. gotta keep plugged in. i hopped over to the Newsgator family for a while, but trying to use different applications on Windows, OSX, and my phone was driving me nuts. Better GReader adds some nice touches to GReader, especially the Preview functionality.
• fireftp. my favorite ftp client. makes updating my site simple - everything can be done inside firefox now.
• greasemonkey. lots of handy scripts available at http://userscripts.org
• firebug. the most powerful developer addin I’ve found. i love this addin - it lets me learn how someone put a site together, modify my own css and see the changes instantly. i can’t say enough good about this addin.
• foxmarks. keeps your bookmarks synced across multiple machines. i’ve found it is also the easiest way to send a link from my mac to my winbox, and vice versa
• del.icio.us bookmarks. for those sites I want to share, i use this addon.
• scribefire. The only free blogging client i’ve found for my mac. it’s a pretty solid blogging client. i still prefer Windows Live Writer, but I haven’t whined to Becky enough to convince her to create a Mac version for me.
• pdf download. for those who spend time wondering if anal retentive is hyphenated. let’s you choose on a file-by-file basis what to do - open, save, etc.

And there’s a couple Mac-specific addins I want to mention:

• System Proxy. Firefox had braindead proxy management. This addin reads proxy settings from the OS, which Firefox should do anyway. Great when I hop back and forth between the office and home. I let MarcoPolo figure out where I am, and this addin makes sure Firefox keeps up with the changes.
• User Agent Switcher. Unfortunately, there are those in the world, most of which work on the same campus I do, who think it is okay to only support IE7. Until they come crawling into the 21st century on their taped knuckles, I user this addin to switch the user agent string. I wish I didn’t need it, and I’m glad this addin makes the chore a lot easier.

• freshAIRapps.com - Showcase - Feedalizer - friendfeed on your desktop
  (tags: air applications mac windows friendfeed)

• Are we running out of water?
  (tags: water maudebarlow)
• YouTube - Frozen Grand Central
  (tags: humor prank culture video via:mento.info)

Very funny Second Life Video

If you play Second Life, you’ll think this is funny. If you don’t, you’ll think it’s stoopid…