21 February 2007

I got my Airport Extreme!

I ordered it on the 16th. Apple said they'd deliver on the 3rd of March, instead I received it today! Great service.
The unit itself looks great, and was a piece of cake to setup. I've already managed to setup up shared harddisk. My Macbook automatically picks up the shares using afp, while my Windows machine mounts them using SMB/CIFS. Better still the mounted volumes have indexing turned on automatically! Now I just need to see if my printer works.

20 February 2007

Translate

Sometime ago I created a Firefox extension called Translate. It was an extension that I initially created for my own needs. I thought some others might like my extension so I gave it some polish by adding a reasonable icon and some user friendliness. Subsequent versions of Firefox required bumping the version number in order to get things working. However, Firefox 2 rendered my extension completely broken. I simple version bump wasn't sufficient.

I get the odd mail now and then from people asking me if/when I can get it working in Firefox 2.0. Last weekend I spent a sometime on Translate. I've refactored a lot of the code, removed some nasty dynamic XUL building code and replaced it with nicer XBL. I've had to completely remove Translate from the tools menu, it was taking to long to debug. I'm guessing no one used that feature anyway.

Anyway, for the few remaining users of Translate, I just need to do some testing, make sure everything is working reasonably well, and release it.