I have Firefox configured to load a group of 7 tabs at startup. There are times when I want a new Firefox instance started without loading those tabs. Adjust the following as necessary for your platform:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -new-window about:blank
Archives for category Productivity
Start Firefox and Don’t Load any Site(s)
February 18, 2008 – 3:25 pm
The Best RSS Explanation I’ve Seen
If you’ve ever had to try to explain RSS to non-techies in order to show them how useful and time-saving syndication is, you know it’s not easy. I’ve read many RSS explanations and never found one that really would get through to the people I had in mind. Until today. The CommonCraft [...]
January 31, 2008 – 11:53 am
Stikkit : A fantastic idea and implementation mothballed
In response to my Complete Web PIM - does it exist? post a few days ago, my friend Jeremy let me know of Stikkit.
Stikkit makes organizing your daily details as simple as jotting down a note or firing off email. Stikkit’s “little yellow notes that think” talk to the productivity applications you already use, as [...]
January 28, 2008 – 12:38 pm
Complete Web PIM - does it exist?
I’m a daily user of Google Calendar, Google Notebook, and Remember The Milk. They eat 3 tabs in my Firefox instance that is always running.
Google Calendar : Dates and times I need pop-up or email reminders for. Incredibly important even for scheduling a quick reminder to call someone in 2 hours.
Google Notebook : [...]
January 23, 2008 – 3:57 pm
Thunderbird new mail notification and Spam
It has driven me (and quite a few others) nuts for some time now: New mail comes in that is junk or filtered as spam and the new mail alert sound still plays. Who wants to be notified of incoming junk? Nobody.
I’ve looked but can’t find the Thunderbird bug report where I added [...]
November 2, 2007 – 9:38 am
The Abolition of Work
I read this essay a few years back and it struck a loud chord. I was a bit annoyed at myself a few days ago when I wanted to re-read it but could not remember the author or title. Thankfully, Google led me in the right direction once I constructed a sane query.
Work [...]
December 28, 2006 – 4:23 pm
