macfidelity

A short list of Plugins i don’t want to miss on my boxes while using FireFox 3.

• AdBlock Plus - Most important Plugin ever for me. It blocks ads, based on a managed list and gives the user the option to add additional content to be blocked. I do sync with Cedric’s list which served me great the last 3 years
• CustomizeGoogle - Gives you the option to customize your google search results. In my case i get links to other search-engines, but the plugin offers more options then just that.
• FastDial - Fast access to your favorit pages through thumbnails
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - Sync your browser favorits over the net. You need a free foxmarks account to use that
• (Mac) FireFox-Mac-PDF - Plugin displays PDF inside FireFox

Yeah, its a short list as i dislike having a list of 20 or 30 plugins in my FireFox installations. But those 5 plugins do offer the basic function i need in my daily working day.

well i dont have the iphone, but wikipedia (on & offline) on your iphone sounds like the killer-app for any phone.

Today i found Patrick Collison’s project called: wikipedia-iphone.

You can find all informations on this website.

Patrick has opened a Google Code page for his project.

Teaser:

Some weeks ago i tested the package macfuse & fink’s ntfs-3g to get a basic write-support for OSX working on my Mac Pro.

Today lets do it much easier and much better

Get yourself the following packages:

• MacFuse 0.4
• NTFS-3G.dmg

Install MacFuse first, then install the ntfs-3g package. Reboot your mac.

If you have an NTFS-partition connected to your mac you will recognize some small changes:

• Icon changes from default HDD-Icon to Network-device-Icon
• You should have read & write support now on that drive

Big thanks to the MacFuse project and for sure to those guys from the ntfs-3g project.

The big advantage to my first attempt is clear and easy:

• Less installation trouble (i.e.fink is not needed)
• Drives are auto-mounted with ntfs-3g driver

Nice