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Firefox has many themes (skins). I think many of theme are too fancy, I prefer to keep things simple. After all, what I see on the web is more important than the look of my browser. The theme I use in Firefox is called Classic Compact.
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Thunderbird can also be modified/extended using add-ons.
Options Menu gives easier access to the options for installed add-ons.
Contacts Sidebar displays the address books in a sidebar in the 3-pane-window.
Signature Switch makes it easy to handle several different signature files.
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Firefox Add-ons is a way to personalize Firefox, to add features that makes your browsing experience even better. I have picked some add-ons that give me a little extra.
Flashblock is super since it gives you control of Flash, decide on which sites you want it to show directly. On other sites you see an arrow [...]
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Balboa Park was mentioned in a discussion at Yahoo! Groups. On their website it says:
Balboa Park - the nation’s largest urban cultural park. Home to 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues, beautiful gardens and the San Diego Zoo, the Park has an ever-changing calendar of museum exhibitions, plays, musicals, concerts, and classes—all in the [...]
The Chinese New Year starts on February 18 this year. It is the year of the Boar. The boar brings a year of goodwill to all with an excellent climate for business.
Learn more about the Chinese New Year at Wikipedia and About.
I found National Gazette through a post at BPWrap titled News Feeds, News And A New Newspaper.
From their About-page:
National Gazette is an American newspaper written by and for the millennial generation, those born roughly in the last two decades of the 20th century. It was created by “millennials” who felt that even in the massive [...]
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About.com is a great site that covers loads of topics. You can browse the topics at their index Sites A to Z.
Most of their subsites have newsletters. I follow Poker and Yoga.
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Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Just like Firefox it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source. Songbird is still a developer preview (version 0.2.1 0.2.5 ) but this software looks very promising. Take a look at their screencast.
While browsing BBC I found an interesting article titled Female intuition ‘questionable’.
Contrary to popular belief men may well have the edge over women when it comes to intuition, research suggests. Asked to separate fake and genuine smiles, men were correct 72% of the time, compared with 71% for women. Volunteers were also asked to rate [...]
Louise L Hay has written a nice little book called Heal Your Body. On her website it says this about the book:
This handy “little blue book” offers positive new thought patterns to replace negative emotions. It includes an alphabetical chart of physical ailments, the probable causes, and healing affirmations to help you eliminate old patterns.
I [...]
