Refenestration Daily.
Incremental Find is now available for Mozilla, at least as an XPI. With incremental find, the Find function works as-you-type character-by-character.
If you want to install the XPI, then you should visit the webpage. But, if you want to download the XPI, just right-click on the XPI link and choose “Save As”.
Via NoNags, it looks like ICQ is working on ICQ Lite, a version without all the junk and it’s “only” 1.4 MB to download. From the FAQ:
ICQ Lite is a small download of 1.4 Mb, installation is quick and easy and it takes minimal memory to run. Because it's so small and has everything good about the full-featured ICQ made easy, it's the perfect version to send to your friends and get them on ICQ! Take a look at what they're saying on the alpha users message board.
But, then there’s this shortcoming, also listed in the FAQ:
What happened to my history?
ICQ Lite does not log your message history automatically, but instead gives you the ability to store your message history per messaging session.
So, I may just give it a try. And, yes, I’m aware of Trillian, but I’ll probably only switch to that once it supports server-side contact lists for ICQ.
Via the WebWord mailing list, I discovered the article “Bringing KDE Closer to Joe User’s Desktop”. It offers many suggestions on improving KDE’s UI, and I found it to be fascinating. For instance:
As for the “Configure Desktop...” itself, it should have been called “Desktop Properties” or “Desktop Settings”. “Configure” is a verb. Configure implies that the user knows how to “configure” something. Believe me, for a Unix newcomer, “configure” is a dreadful verb. It is a scary command. It might sound funny to you, but never underestimate the psychology of the user. UI is all about psychology. It is all about shapes, colors, pictures, words... Picking the right elements each time is the right way of creating a comfortable desktop environment. […]
It reminds me in some ways of this usability report on GNOME by the Sun GNOME Human Computer Interaction staff. And, man, Linux sure is pretty. I’ll have to give that another try once I have lesser things to worry about.
It seems like every nationality has jokes about other nationalities. And, Russian jokes about Americans are no exception. Of course, some of the meaning was probably lost in the translation into English, but they’re still pretty funny (even as an American). And, they provide some insight into the Russian mindset as well.
(Link from MetaFilter)
My borther is in Germany for an internship this summer, and he went on an alipine hike a couple weekends ago. (more pictures here)
