Native video and audio support in the Firefox 3.1 beta. Sounds like a cool idea.
This is the first beta from Mozilla to include support for the and elements. This beta includes support for the OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis formats on all platforms. There are quite a few free tools for encoding to OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis. We are also working on backend support for GStreamer for Linux, QuickTime for Mac and Windows Media for Windows. However it’s not clear if those backends will land before 3.1 final is ready.
Web Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3.1 beta 1 – an overview of features for web developers.
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GMail has finally added IMAP support. It’s apparently not available on all accounts, but both of my accounts (gmail and for domains) have it.
I don’t know for sure if I’ll use it since I’m so accustomed to the GMail interface, but it might be nice for offline reading. Now if they’d just come up with a way to write to the calendar from apps like Evolution I’ll be happy.
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To use, drag the URL to your bookmark toolbar. When you find a blog you’d like to subscribe to, hit the bookmark and it’ll take you to Google Reader and offer to subscribe to the feed (if Google can find one).
Google Reader’s new search can find the rss feed when you search for a blog’s URL. This book marklet takes you to the search results for the current page. Makes subscribing to blogs in google reader way too easy. It seems to work equally well from pages withing a blog as from the front page.
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IEs 4 Linux – Internet Explorers for Linux » English Page
This script ran perfectly on my Ubuntu Breezy laptop.
I’m not advocating using IE on linux for general purpose browsing, but it’s useful for testing a page design in IE without hunting down a windows box.
IEs for Linux is a simple Bash Script program that installs Internet Explorer 6, 5.5 and 5 on Linux using Wine. The whole process is automatic and very easy.
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One of the ways that I frequently fetch files from the internet is with wget. It is a very useful command line utility that is capable of fetching anything from one file to mirroring whole sites.
When looking for new and interesting music I often find myself on a page with a few or more mp3 urls. Using firefox to download them all, even with a good download manager is tedious. The following bash script will read from stdin and download each url it sees.
# while read url ; do wget "${url}" ; done
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