Weblog of Fernando Reig Matthies

The other day for some reason my Firefox 2.0 browser crashed and on reopening it asked me if I wanted to restore the tabs and windows of the last session.

Really a nice feature I would like to have not only when the browser crashes but also if I have to quit Firefox for restarting the machine or whatever reason there is to quit the app.

Via David Reeves I got a clue that you can configure Firefox 2.0 as follows to open your last session tabs and windows “automagically” upon starting the browser.

As soon as I found it out and tried it, I thought this is a great feature, that I am missing now in Safari and Flock browsers, who will hopefully someday follow Mozilla’s steps.

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web.

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth – Video

Google

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings — including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords — across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

Daring Fireball

This is better synching — for free — than Safari users get for $99/year from .Mac.

Just recently switched from Firefox to Camino as it has a cleaner, simpler OS X interface and in my opnion speedier than Firefox. But this extension is really a killer app… I mean a killer extension.

Via Daring Fireball

A company named eye.fi is building a memory chip (SD card from 256MB up to 1GB) that has WiFi radio built in.

That would convert any plain SD compatible digital camera to be accessed wireless and those photos shared on your home network for example.

The product is still in “Alpha” and will cost around $100 when it is released this year.

Via Plasticbag:

Yahoo have massively extended the already pretty terrifyingly impressive Yahoo! Developer Network with a whole foray into design patterns and client-side technologies.

So first you’ve got the Design Pattern Library, with information about mostly pretty reasonable techniques for handling ratings and reviews, navigation, breadcrumbs and the like.

Then you’ve got the User Interface Library full of useful JavaScript components for drag-and-drop, sliders and tree views, the Graded Browser Support Guidelines and the Yahoo! User Interface blog which will feature, “News and Articles about Designing and Developing with Yahoo! Libraries”.

Where appropriate it’s all been released under pretty reasonable (some might say excessively reasonable) licenses. I’d really recommend that people check this stuff out – YDN are one of the parts of Yahoo that regularly get me excited.