Thursday, April 26, 2007

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  • TUAW Tip: Bring favicons to Firefox's bookmarks bar

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    For a number of reasons, I always keep coming back to settling for (read: compromising on) using Firefox as my main browser. For those who are curious as to why, I offer two reasons to keep things short for now: 1) Many of the Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail that Lifehacker included in their Better Gmail add-on enhance Google's web client beyond my wildest productive dreams, and 2) Blogging add-ons from the likes of Clipmarks and ScribeFire do wonders for my workflow.

    Nevertheless, one of the things that's always irked me about the Mac version of Firefox is its lack of favicons in the menubar right out of the box. Pouring salt on the wound, no amount of research through Firefox's help files, Mozilla's forums or even Firefox's own config file (accessible by typing about:config in the address bar) yielded any kind of explanation or workaround. But thankfully, I finally found a solution, so if you're in this same bucket and you want favicons in your Firefox bookmarks bar, listen up: it's all (apparently) about the theme. I don't know how or what exactly these theme authors are doing, but installing some of the themes available from Mozilla's add-ons site will bring favicons to Firefox's toolbar once you enable the theme and restart the browser. I first tried the Blue Ice theme which worked just fine, but finally settled on Mac Favicon which simply edits the default theme to enable the tiny but handy icons. I'm sure more of the themes at Mozilla's site will do the trick, and I would bet that checking their preview screenshots to see if favicons are indeed visible should save you some time when searching for the right solution.

    I would imagine Mozilla turned off favicons by default to make the browser look and feel a little more like Safari, but they could have made our lives easier by simply offering a menu item, possibly under View. Ultimately, an add-on like the ones I've mentioned are a decent enough solution for now, but I recommend you submit this as feedback to the Firefox team if you've been jonesing for favicons as bad as I have.
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  • 14th UK Apple Store planned

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    Get ready, Liverpool! ifoAppleStore is reporting today that a shiny, new Apple Store will be constructed as part of the Liverpool One urban project. This will be store number 14 for the UK. While no time line or specific location has been has been revealed, you could probably look out for a large store front, mysteriously draped in black.

    If you live in the Liverpool area and see anything, let us know!
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  • Beta Beat: Mac Mozy Online Backup opens public beta

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    Mozy is a secure online backup service from Berkeley Data Systems. Today, Mozy introduced a public beta for Mac users, offering a Universal binary that runs on both Power PC and Intel systems. Mac Mozy provides both full- and incremental-backups and allows you to schedule those backups for specific times or to wait for when your computer is idle. Berkeley offers two basic plans to choose from. You can store up to 2 GB of data for free or, if you need more space, $5/month provides unlimited backup space.

    Most importantly, the data is stored securely. Mozy uses 448-bit blowfish encryption on your data and you select your private encryption key. No one at Berkeley has access to that key. If you'd like to give Mac Mozy a spin, stop by their free registration page, answer some personal questions and wait for an e-mail with a link to their download page.

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  • Fred Hickey bet against Apple and lost

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    Our sister blog BloggingStocks brings us a story about analyst Fred Hickey who recommended shorting Apple Inc back in January. People who took Hickey at his word, when AAPL traded at $85.94, would have had to pay $102.20 to cover the short position, or about a 19% loss.

    Ouch.

    So will Apple continue its growth? S&P analyst Scott Kessler thinks APPL shares may rise to $125 over the next year. At yesterday's Financials Q2 2007 conference call, Apple said to expect revenue to dip seasonally during Q3.

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