1. I have nothing earth-shattering to say about WordPress right now. Everyone else is talking about version 2.5, and I still haven’t installed it (my bad) so I don’t have anything to add to the conversation.
2. I would guess that most WP users are Firefox fans and probably Gmail fans too, so…so nothing. That’s not a very good argument, so I’ll stop right here.

ANYWAYS, Gmail is ugly. The interface is so eye-poppingly cluttered and unimaginative that this is actually one of the reasons I haven’t really gotten into Gmail. I just found it hard to get my eyes used to.

Well, now there’s a solution! There is a cool Firefox add-on called Stylish, that lets you define custom styles for any page on the web. For example, if you didn’t like the brown on WordPress Garage and prefer a nice shade of magenta, you could use Stylish and define a new CSS style that will make all text on this site magenta. Basically, as they say on the Gmail Redesigned page, “Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript.”

ANYWAYS, the people at Globex Designs have created a special Stylish style for Gmail – Gmail Redesigned. They have taken the over 1500 (!!) styles and very complicated structure of Gmail and redesigned it. They are updating the styles almost daily, and if you’ve already installed Gmail Redesigned and you visit their site, it will tell you if any updates have been made since your last install and you can update with one click.

I installed it, and I can tell you it makes a world of difference. Gmail is now…pretty. Pretty Gmail is no longer an oxymoron.

Gmail Redesigned says it currently only supports English, but Hebrew worked for me too, and is not supported with the “Better Gmail 2″ or the “Remember The Milk” extensions. Support for these extensions will be added in the future.

And now, a partial screenshot of my Gmail account with all incriminating evidence either archived or painted over (hopefully):

This type allows you to put any website in your sidebar, which is really really handy.

Add Google Calendar to Your Firefox Sidebar on BNET

I also love my baby (bear with me), but tend to find working with her on my lap a bit of a challenge. She likes to eat my mouse (there’s no accounting for taste), and bang on the keyboard as I work, which pretty much makes getting anything done impossible.

Firefox-baby? Ma hakesher, as we say in Hebrew (what is the connection)? Well, today my darling baby was banging away as usual, and suddenly I realized that if I press the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. on my keyboard it takes me to open tab #1, then tab #2, etc.! I peeled my baby off the keyboard (waaah waaahh!) and tried to reenact whatever it was that she had done, and finally figured it out:

If you press ctrl+a number, it takes you to that number tab!

So, if you want to jump to tab #4, press ctrl+4!

Maybe this is something Firefox users already knew, but nobody ever told me about it so maybe there are others out there who could use this info too! Hurray for my baby! Baby, you can eat my mouse any time.

This is a virtually impossible task, since the comments are listed over pages and pages. Often, I just delete all and hope for the best.

Well no more! When I realized that Akismet Auntie Spam is not a WordPress plugin but a Firefox Greasemonkey extension, I was ready to give it a try. (I don’t have anything against plugins – I love them – but I’m worried that too many will slow down my blog.)

Once installed in your Firefox browser, Akismet Auntie Spam detects when you are on the Akismet page in your blog, and organizes all your comments onto one page with only one line of the comment displayed. The comments are ordered according to the number of comments submitted by a computer. So, for example, all comments submitted only once by one computer appear at the top of the screen and are highlighted in yellow. Comments submitted three times and up are highlighted in red, and each comment only appears once.

By using Akismet Auntie Spam, I managed to review and delete almost 500 comments within minutes!

How to install Akisment Auntie Spam:

1. Make sure you have Firefox.
2. Install the Firefox Greasemonkey script: go to the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on page and click Install now. Once the script is installed, restart Firefox.
3. Go to Akismet Auntie Spam, and download the script. Install, and restart Firefox.
4. Login to your blog, and go to the Akismet page. Watch Auntie Spam get to work reorganizing your spam.
5. Peruse and delete at will.
6. More instructions can be found on the Akismet Auntie Spam page.

This extension makes comment spam manageable. Not enjoyable, but manageable.

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