Make All Firefox Add-ons Compatible With Any Firefox Version By Using Add-on Compatibility Reporter

Some time ago we wrote about how to make Firefox Add-on compatible with the latest Firefox version. The first method in that post doesn't seem to work, however using Nightly Tester Tools still does. But since then, an even better and lighter extension for this was released, which allows you to make any Firefox add-on compatible with any FF version, and also give back to the community by reporting if the extensions actually work with the Firefox version you are currently using (this is done with a simple click into the extensions dialog).

The extension I am talking about is called Add-on Compatibility Reporter and is very easy to use. A "Compatibility" option will be available for each of your installed extensions and all you have to do is click it, and select "This Add-on still works":

But how to install Firefox extensions for which the "Install" button is not available? For that, see the second part of THIS post. That still works perfectly.

Blogger Finally Allows Users To Create Pages

Blogger users were only able to create posts, not pages. That's until today, because Blogger in Draft finally allows Blogger users to create pages.

To create a page for your Blogger Blog, log in to Blogger in Draft, go to Posting > Edit Pages > New Page. After creating your page, when you click the "Publish" button, you'll have an option to create a widget to display a link for this page, or you can link it manually:

For more info, visit the official post on Blogger in Draft.

Generate A Calendar With Custom Images And Events In Linux, Using A Simple Script And Inkscape

Martin Owens has created a really nice python script which generates a calendar based on the images you choose and the evens you add to a simple text file.

To use it, head over to Martin Owens' blog an download it, extract the archive contents and navigate to "flips" folder and place 12 png images numbered "01.png ... 12.png" (from 01 to 12) and a title.png which is the title.

To add / edit calendar events, see the dates.lst file. Here, you can add different events, holidays, birthdays and so on.

Then, make sure you have Inkscape installed. For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install inkscape

And finally, generate your calendar:

./create-cal.py 2010
./make-book.sh

You will find the generated png files in the "pngs" folder so everything is ready to be printed.

Of course, all the credits for this script go to Martin Owens.

You Can Already Download Firefox 3.6 Final!

Like we told you yesterday, Mozilla will release Firefox 3.6 today. The official release time is 9:30am Pacific Standard Time.

But if you can't wait, you can already download the new Firefox 3.6, with a little tweaking on the standard download URL. So here you go:

Download Firefox 3.6 (Windows)
Download Firefox 3.6 (Linux)
Download Firefox 3.6 (Mac OS X)

The links above will download Firefox 3.6 for en-US language. To download it for another language, modify the "lang=en-US" in the urls above.

Ubuntu users: install Firefox 3.6 (daily builds!) from the Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA.

HTML5 Support Comes To YouTube, But Limited: h.264 Video Codec Only

HTML5 support finally comes to YouTube, but unfortunately using the proprietary h264 video codec, not the free Theora:

Right now we support browsers that support both the <video> tag in HTML5 and the h.264 video codec. These include:

* Google Chrome
* Apple Safari (version 4+)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed

What does HTML5 <video> tag support means? Well, it means that you won't be needing Flash Player to watch videos, it will be done using your browser and the h264 codec (sadly). This is still one great step forward, but one may question the decision to chose h264 when Google keeps saying it's an "open-source company".

There are limitations to this HTML5 videos though. It doesn’t work with videos that have advertising, captions, or annotations. And it only works for the browsers listed above.

To use HTML5 on YouTube, you must visit this page and join the experiment.

[via YouTube]

Install Gnome Activity Journal And Zeitgeist From A PPA [Ubuntu]

If 2 days ago we were announcing that Gnome Activity Journal (GAJ) (click for more info on GAJ and video) is progressing nicely and and also posted about an easier way to install it, yesterday both GAJ and Zeitgeist were updated and GAJ got it's first development release but what I want to write about is an even easier way to install Gnome Activity Journal and Zeitgeist in Ubuntu: from a Launchpad PPA.

To install Gnome Activity Journal and Zeitgeist in Ubuntu, add the following PPA (simply paste the commands in a terminal):

-Ubuntu Karmic and Lucid:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeitgeist/ppa

-Ubuntu Jaunty:

sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zeitgeist/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7C5886C3

Then, for any Ubuntu version, install Gnome Activity Journal and Zeitgeist:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zeitgeist gnome-activity-journal

Once installed, you will find Gnome Activity Journal under Applications > Accessories > Activity Journal:

If you get an empty Gnome Activity Journal, close it and run this in a terminal:

zeitgeist-daemon --replace

Then open Gnome Activity Journal again.

[via digitizor]

Firefox 3.6 Coming Tomorrow

This is just a quick one-line news: according to the Mozilla Wiki (via Lifehacker) release schedule, Firefox 3.6 will officially be released tomorrow, January 21. Hopefully, this time there won't be any delays.