Mozilla announced the winners of its annual competition to recognize the best add-ons for the Firefox Web browser.
Video: World Tech UpdateIn this week’s show: court dissolves gag order against MIT students, Cuil is not so cool, a look at the technology behind the Olympics, WiFi takes to the skies, Google’s Android readies for its debut, Taiwan investigates Microsoft, and Intel introduces a new Classmate.
MacJournal adds three-pane viewMacJournal has been updated with a new three-pane view, import and export of .csv content and more.
ExpressCard/34 Buyers’ Guide If you've got a MacBook Pro, you've got an ExpressCard/34 slot (instead of the old PC Card slot). Jeff Carlson explains a few of the ways you can use that slot to beef up your laptop.
Record any sounds Many fleeting sounds that play on your Mac are worth preserving. With the help of the right software, you can record and edit audio files and add them to iTunes for future use.
View inline PDFs in Firefox 3 While you can view PDFs in a browser window using Safari, you have no such luxury with Firefox 3. But now there’s an extension called ‘firefox-mac-pdf’ allows you to do just that.
Recording Studio: Choose the right guitar Because Jim Dalrymple records all of his music on the Mac, he tends to focus on software designed for that purpose. However, there are other important factors to consider from the outset—one of the most important is choosing the right guitar for the job.
Custom print sizes in iPhoto '08 The N-up and Sampler templates are gone from iPhoto '08. Use a custom print size to get close to their results.
Automating Software Update downloads You've got a three-hour window between 3 and 6 AM to get your Apple updates over a questionable broadband connection. Here's one way to go about it.
Resolving preamp problems Thanks to reader suggestions, Jim Dalrymple was able to come up with a recording setup that gives him enough preamps for his microphones. As a result, his album recording project is back on track.
Bugs & Fixes: Vanishing contacts and calendar events Ted Landau tells you what to do if contacts and calendar events synced via MobileMe suddenly disappear from your iPhone. And he returns to smart flash drives, the subject of last week’s column.
Force subscribed calendars to sync to MobileMe MobileMe won’t sync all the events from your subscribed calendars. Until such time as it does, this hint provides a usable, if not perfect, workaround.