I know there are just over 337 billion things you can do with Firefox, but here are two handy tips how to get rid of some annoyances.
If you want to bookmark a page and drag the favicon onto your bookmarks bar, there is always that annoying tool tip in the way, preventing you from dropping [...]

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Steve Jobs demonstrates Apple I, at Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, NJ (28/29 August 1976)

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iPodFolder is the utility written by LongFingers that enables you to back up the contents of your iPod to a folder on your Mac, PC or even on another iPod.
It backs up only mp3 files and keeps the iPod’s folder structure. This is still PPC version, but runs very nicely via Rosetta.
Download iPodFolder from LongFingers [...]

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Guys from 37 signals write about their experience with program installation on Windows Vista. To give you an idea how it works, here is only part of installation process, as described by the writer:
First I have to make sure my copy of Windows is “genuine,” which involves installing an ActiveX component (yuck!) or downloading and [...]

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The iPod has just had its fifth birthday, but Apple’s celebrations may be cut short thanks to a 22-year-old Norwegian who claims he’s cracked Apple’s proprietary iPod-iTunes ecosystem.
Jon Lech Johansen, affectionately known as DVD Jon, garnered worldwide fame and notoriety when, at the age of 15, he cracked the encryption scheme used by DVD. This [...]

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The European business of Apple Computer had sales of $4.1 billion (£2.2 billion) in the 12 months to the end of September — more than the combined total for its 2002, 2003 and 2004 financial years. “It’s an indication of the exponential growth of this business,” said Pascal Cagni, the head of Apple Europe. [...]

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