Archive for September 18th, 2009
Silence of the Foxes Creates Custom Firefox Installations

Silence of the Foxes Creates Custom Firefox Installations
If you hate installing all your Firefox extensions, plugins, and custom tweaks when you do fresh system installation, Silence of the Foxes will build you a custom and silent Firefox installation.
Silence of the Foxes works on both Firefox and Thunderbird, although most users will find it most helpful for streamlining Firefox installations.
Download Silence of the Foxes, extract the files, and run the main executable. You’ll need a Firefox installation file for Silence of ..read more
SimplyIcon Makes Icon Creation a Snap

SimplyIcon Makes Icon Creation a Snap
Windows: If you don’t want to spend time micro-designing an icon and you’ve already got a source image, SimplyIcon makes creating your buttons and icons a drag-and-drop matter.
Download the SimplyIcon package, extract the executable and DLL file to a folder, run the program, and you’re presented with a simple dialogue box and the instructions to drag and drop an image onto it. Once you drag and drop the image, SimplyIcon creates a variety of icon ..read more
Google Voice Message Playback Comes to Gmail

Google Voice Message Playback Comes to Gmail
If you’re both a Gmail and Google Voice user, you should be thrilled with the latest feature from Gmail Labs: The Google Voice Player feature embeds a voicemail player inside Gmail so you can listen to new messages directly inside Gmail.
To enable it, just hit up the Labs link in Gmail, find the Google Voice player in mail feature, click enable, and save your changes. Now not only can you read your transcribed voicemail ..read more
What’s the "Best" Spam Email You’ve Received?

What’s the “Best” Spam Email You’ve Received?
Whether it’s the surreal stylings of Nigerian scammers or confusing subject lines of pill pitches, spam email can be oddly amusing. We’d like to hear which missives from your spam folder have made you crack a smile.
Photo by janet galore.
PC World rounded up some of their own best/worst spam messages and published them for your amusement. Included in the “straight to the spam folder” notes was a “business” opportunity that read, “This opportunity may ..read more
