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School days: Firefox Campus Edition
More back-to-school suggestions; this one has the advantage of being free. If you haven't already downloaded Firefox for your machine, it's a good idea to have it handy for those occasional sites that aren't Safari-friendly. If you're interested in a few extra plugins with a student-friendly bent, then you might check out the Firefox Campus Edition, which is simply the current Firefox build plus the FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero plugins in one convenient package.FoxyTunes (for controlling your music player via the browser) and StumbleUpon (social bookmarking for interesting/useful sites) are both fine, but the real power tool here is Zotero: this research tool, file manager, PDF bucket and citation editor is a boon to anyone working on research projects with Firefox. Given enough practice with Zotero, it might replace a local note manager like Yojimbo or other online tools like Google Notebook.
Of course, if you already have Firefox, you can download these plugins (or scores of others) separately, and all three are free.
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Gideon Addington said 12:23PM on 9-10-2007
I found this kind of lackluster, but evidently this is more publicity and trying to expose students to the fact plugins exist. I put a list together of a more... robust list of of Firefox plugins and one of their guys replied. So, hopefully we'll see something a bit bigger soon.
You can see it all here:
http://www.scholastici.us/2007/08/30/the-real-firefox-campus-edition/
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drklrdbill said 1:13PM on 9-10-2007
I switched to Camino on my new MacBook. Firefox + Intel chips = bad news. It would hang on me once a day and I'd have to run Applejack to fix it so I could run Firefox without it hanging on me again.
But on that note, is there anything similar to FoxyTunes for Camino? Because I miss it.
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Macskeeball said 1:24PM on 9-10-2007
@drkirdbill- Just use any of the many iTunes controllers that work systemwide. I've never seen the point of controlling iTunes from a web browser when I can do it systemwide. Personally, I use Quicksilver for this (F1: play/pause, F2: previous, F3: next, F4: eject iPod).
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Simon Arch said 6:53PM on 9-10-2007
@drkirdbill - Funny...I've had Firefox installed on my MacBook since I bought it in May of '06 and apart from some graphical oddities relating to Google's main page (and ONLY that page) I've really not had any trouble with it. Certainly it's crashed here and there, but never with any sort of predictability or regularity. If you have a lot of plugins installed, you might want to check to see if any of them conflict with the others. It's the first thing I'd check. Camino IS nice, but since it doesn't support plugins, it's a no-go for me.
As for an iTunes remote, check out Coversutra. It's not free, but it's very, very nice.
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drklrdbill said 8:00PM on 9-10-2007
I have no plug-ins installed, have done this with a fresh install of Firefox. This is a known bug with Intel Macs + Firefox.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/is_firefox_on_mac_unusable.html
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2006/10/25/Firefox-2-and-Intel-Mac
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=479271&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&highlight=mac+intel&start=0
Lots of examples. And to clarify, I have a brand-new MacBook Pro. Maybe older intel macs are immune haha
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Macskeeball said 8:54PM on 9-11-2007
@SimonArch, Camino does support some plugins, just not nearly as many. See www.pimpmycamino.com
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