Archive for February, 2007
Adobe Lightroom links
Feb 14th
Since it’s just a few days before the Lightroom launch on 2/19, I figured I’d compile a list of Lightroom-related links. There’s a whole brash of sites that seem to be coming out for LR, but here are ones that I’ve run across so far that I found useful
- http://www.lightroom-news.com/
- http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/
- http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom/
- http://www.photoshopnews.com/
- http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/lightroom/
- http://www.lightroomextra.com/
I just registered a domain today that I’ll hopefully use when I get a hold of the LR SDK and work on a plugin that I’ve been thinking about doing. Stay tuned.
My Firefox must-have plugins list
Feb 13th
To follow-up on my previous post, here’s some of my favorite Firefox extensions:
- Developer tools
- Colorzilla
- eye dropper to get the RGB color values of anything on your screen
- CSSViewer
- nifty CSS info for any element
- Firebug
- I couldn’t live without it.
- FirefoxView
- This adds a “view in firefox” right-click menu option in IE
- FoxyProxy
- Flexible proxy rule generator
- Header Monitor
- Adds a field to the status bar that displays the value for any particular response header. I set it to the “Server:” field since I’m always curious what other sites are running
- HTML Validator
- Helpful in debugging back HTML
- IE View
- This adds a “view in IE” right-click menu option in Firefox
- JSView
- Allows you to easily see and view the .js/.css files on any particular page
- Live HTTP Headers
- Header sniffing galore
- MeasureIt
- Online ruler
- Screen grab!
- Allows for easy screen grabs.
- ShowIP
- Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar & allows querying services like DomainTools
- User Agent Switcher
- Need to spoof a browser/OS for testing? This will allow you to do it easily on the fly.
- Web Developer
- If I could only choose one extension to install, this would be it.
- Colorzilla
- User Interface enhancements
Reordering Firefox toolbars
Feb 12th
The most annoying thing about Firefox is that you can’t rearrange the toolbars. **beats head on desk** You can move individual bits and pieces of a toolbar, but not the entire toolbar.
For example, I have the Yahoo, Google and Web Developer toolbars installed. I like to have the Web Developer toolbar as the bottom-most toolbar, but there is no easy way to do it like in Internet Explorer. I stumbled upon this Firefox extension, DragNDrop Toolbars, yesterday who’s sole purpose is to do just that. Hallelujah!
Disabling Firefox 2 image auto resize
Feb 8th
Firefox 2 removed the image auto resize option from the options menu. If you’re like me and don’t like automatic resizing, here’s how to get around it:
- In the address bar, type “about:config” (without the quotes)
- You’ll see a whole list of preferences, and a “Filter:” field at the top. In the filter, type “browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing” (without the quotes)
- You should only see that preference now. Double click on it and you will toggle to “value” column from true to false.
- All done
