Those of us running our own blog or website these days typically like to separate our normal e-mail address from our website address. It keeps things nice and organized, and avoids the possibility of spam flooding your inbox. The one thing I find necessary when replying to someone whom recently has contacted you is the addition of your name, e-mail address or website, also known as a signature. The problem with GMail right now, is that although they do allow multiple from addresses, they don’t allow multiple signatures for each of these. Once again the handy Firefox scripting add-on Greasemonkey saves the day for this situation.

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As WIFI continues it’s widespread availability, more and more locations are taking advantage making a profit off of creating wireless hotspots. This becomes a pain for many of us just looking to jump on the web and check our e-mail or read our everyday news feeds. Although many of these hotspots you’ll have to pay up to as much as $25.00/hr, many airports, coffee shops and hotels provide “wireless web” for free, and that’s where the Web 2.0 site, called WeFi and it’s accompanying client are helping out.

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Found this excellent article on the continual decline of the music industry and where they went wrong. How they didn’t take advantage of Napster when they had the chance, how not accepting digital downloading as the future is killing their business and how CDs are going to become obsolete in the next few years. Until it does eventually happen, I’m going to always point to my post on subscription based music being the future, because there is not doubt that it is.

The Record Industry’s Decline

I was browsing through various blogs, wathing some of my favorite shows from HBO, all the while being annoyed by the ever present:

I thought, there must a way to get rid of this annoying pop-up. Of course, unlike many of Windows annoyances, there is a quick and easy way to get rid of this repetive nagging.

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Everybody is always looking forward to what both Google and/or Firefox has in store for us, each and every time they make an announcement that they’ve come up with some new innovative product. Well, this time around their teaming up for what is the future of browsing.(at least until WI-FI is everywhere) Recently Google announced that they’re Google RSS Reader is compatible with Google Gears for offline browsing. What this allows us to do is surf through our hundreds of RSS feeds without the need of your everyday internet connection. Google is not only hoping to apply this to just their RSS reader, but their GMail, Maps and possibly the rest of their online applications as well. To make life easier for them, they are teaming up with Firefox 3 developers to make it quick and easy for today’s everyday web surfer, by integrating all of these offline capabilities right into the browser.

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