Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Mozilla, Freeware

FireGestures is a new Firefox extension that enables mouse gestures in the Firefox web browser.

If you've never tried using mouse gestures with Firefox or any other program, FireGestures is a great place to start, offering out-of-the-box functionality along with accessible advanced options.

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browser Tips

Firefox has a ton of customization options. So many, in fact, that listing them all would make the Firefox Tools menu resemble War and Peace. So Mozilla hides some of the options you might not need to change as often away so that you can only access them by typing "about:config" into the location bar. The problem is that many users don't even know about about:config, and once you discover it, it's still not clear what all of the settings do.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Social SoftwareIn our increasingly visual culture, it's no surprise that someone has taken the time to visualize the data flow of Twitter and all of its tweets. It is a surprise, however, that seventeen different groups or individuals found a way to visualize Twitter tweets, each in a unique and supposedly helpful way (and our guess is that there's probably more out there).

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Office, Productivity, Microsoft, Freeware

Like any normal human being with a computer, you probably use your USB jacks, and according to OS market-share statistics, you're machine is probably some flavor of Windows. So you're probably familiar with having to click that annoying little icon to bring up the SRH (Safely Remove Hardware) dialog box when you need to disconnect a USB device, but it's possible to make the disconnect process a little easier.

Filed under: Productivity, Web services, Google, web 2.0

It looks like Google is preparing to add offline functionality to Google Calendar. A few days ago the folks at the Digital Streets blog noticed that Google seemed to have added some code to the Google Calendar page that would bring up a prompt to install Google Gears for access to 3 months worth of calendar data while you're offline. But once you install Google Gears, nothing happens.

Over on PerfCast I just put up an interview with Lyndon Antcliff, who you might know better as Linkbaiter extraordinaire Lyndoman or CornwallSEO.

Get an insight into the mind of a professional linkbaiter, find out how he earns his living, what the right way to approach linkbait is ... and more.

Enjoy!

This post was guest blogged by Alex Shalman, who created Happiness: The Group Writing Project which gives you 2 links back (PR 4) for your participation.

I'm going to assume that the vast majority of people reading this blog are interested in ideas that will make them money online. I already discussed the importance of concentrating on value creation, rather than money acquisition. So if you're just interested in ideas, for making money online, training dolphins, buttering your bread, or whatever you want, than you'll find these tips valuable.

Pligg is an open source content management system that powers thousands of websites. For those who are looking to start their own social media site, Pligg is a popular option. It's free, fairly easy to use and customize, and it's probably the fastest way for a new social media site to launch.

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browser Tips

Firefox has a ton of customization options. So many, in fact, that listing them all would make the Firefox Tools menu resemble War and Peace. So Mozilla hides some of the options you might not need to change as often away so that you can only access them by typing "about:config" into the location bar. The problem is that many users don't even know about about:config, and once you discover it, it's still not clear what all of the settings do.

Too often business owners get stuck in a rut when it comes to generating referrals. The common ploy of paying for referrals just doesn't do much to motivate, and in fact, may feel a bit distasteful in many settings.

I've found that some of the best ways to stimulate referrals is to do something creative enough that it stimulates buzz and word of mouth. The idea is to get people talking so that they refer without really overtly selling anything.