Archive for July, 2008

Either Mark Joyner is Just Crazy or…

… or he’s a genius.

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I tried to stop myself from writing this because I want this whole week to be about me, my retirement, and of course me. But I can’t help it. So let me tell you what happened.

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Mark on the phone – and since he is my marketing idol, I spent the whole call hoping I didn’t sound like a complete nut job…

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Tool Time Friday | Inspector Gadget with a Widget?

InspectorWidget (IW) adds a toolbar button and context menus for invoking the DOM Inspector (DOMi) for either chrome or content elements. Features include:

1. Clicking the toolbar button will enable the next mouse click on any chrome or content element to open a DOMi window with it positioned on the parent element in the respective DOM tree.

2. Context-clicking the toolbar button will present a menu of all open chrome windows and dialog panels. Selecting a menu will immediately bring the selected window/dialog to the front thus allowing easy and quick access to clicking the element of interest. EXCEPTION: IW (as are all toolbar buttons) is disabled when the Options dialog is open and it must be interrogated using the standard DOMi method.

3. Context-clicking the content area will present two options to allow inspection of a page and, if relevant, the inspection of an individual frame.

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Tool Time Friday | Tweaky, Baby!

If you’re like me and always use a single Firefox window, opening all new pages in tabs, you probably don’t care much about displaying the current tab’s page title in the window titlebar. Titlebar Tweaks enables you to customize your window titlebar to do the following:

- Display the browser name before the page title
- Display only the browser name or page title
- Replace the browser name in the titlebar with your own text

Here’s a bit of info from ’scrap104′ -

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Tool Time Friday | Hot chihuahua!

Do you have Web Developer 1.1.6?

No?

It adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Well you’ve got to have it soon.

How about right now?

You’re welcome.

MorganLighter

Yahoo Directory News : How to Get Fast Answers on Pending Submissions

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So you’ve added your site to Yahoo Directory, maybe paid the fee for a fast response. But now you have a question about your listing. Think you have to wait to get an answer via email? Think again!

Now, before I tell you what cool thing the Yahoo Directory team is doing on Twitter to help you, please remember the following. I will highlight it for emphasis, as it comes directly from the person behind this Yahoo identity on Twitter:

the quickest, most effective way to get a site reviewed for listing in the Directory is here – https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

Please don’t tweet them requests for inclusion. Because if I find out, I will personally shame you in public. :) And no, you won’t get a link out of it. Nothing but embarrassment and shame.

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Quick Branding/On-Message Exercise – Me? Fail!

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I’m looking at what feeds to keep or delete in Google Reader and I discovered something.

I can pretty much tell what a site is about if I look at it in list view, which just lists the headlines in a feed. That’s helping me categorize un-categorized feeds. Which blog I’m writing in determines what I’ll prioritize reading that day, so being able to tell at a glance what a blog’s “voice” or “message” is strikes me as important.

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Tool Time Friday | Mouse in your house?

Mouse Gestures 1.5.2, allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.
You can also use click-only “rocker” gestures which are even faster than drawn gestures.

Here’s a handy piece of information from on of the reviewers – “Best gesture add-on out there. Definitely go to Mousegestures.org and get the latest version (2.0.1 or higher) for FF3 compatibility. Works Great”

So go get your Mouse Gestures!

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Tool Time Friday | Duplicate Tag?

With Duplicate Tab you can copy a tab so that the copy has the same history of the original tab. A tab can be copied into a new tab or a new window.
Other features available are “Merge Windows” which moves all tabs from all windows in to one single window, and “Detach Tab” which makes a window out of a tab.
For both features you can select tabs with Ctrl+Click. This allows you to merge only the selected tabs into a window, or to detach all selected tabs as tabs in a new window.

All actions can be invoked by toolbar buttons, shortcut keys and context menu items.

Here’s a comment from one of the reviewers -

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