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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Whenever you hover over a link, Firefox extension Status Address Bar displays the URL a link is pointing to in your Firefox address bar, eliminating the need for your status bar and freeing up precious screen real estate.

For many, the only reason Firefox’s status bar is even useful is so they can see what URL a link is pointing to before they click it. If that’s the case for you, those extra 14 or so wasted pixels at the bottom of your browser window are probably better suited for adding a little more height to your browser’s viewing area. The Status Address Bar gives you the best of both worlds:

With this extension installed, you can hide your Firefox status bar (View -> Status Bar) and still see where links are pointing—only rather than displaying the URLs in the status bar, Firefox will display URLs when you hover over a link in the Firefox address bar.

In the screenshot, for example, I’m at the Lifehacker homepage (http://lifehacker.com), but my mouse is hovering over the first post. As you can see, that post’s URL is visible in my address bar. It’s not groundbreaking, but if you’re looking for more ways to maximize Firefox’s viewing area without sacrificing functionality, it’s a nice addition. Status Address Bar is an experimental Firefox extension, works anywhere Firefox does.

Originally posted 2009-10-13 18:25:28. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Firefox: If you hate having to search through your folders every time you change the type of file or directory you’re saving to—and we certainly do!—Save File To helps you make custom context menus for file saving bliss.

The problem arises with the way Firefox retains the previous folder you’ve used to save something. That’s great for when you’re saving a bunch of the same thing in a row—who would want to navigate from the default directory every time you opened up the save as dialogue?—but if you’re frequently saving a variety of files you want a faster way to move between directories.

Save File To is a Firefox add-on that enables editing of the right-click “Save As” context menu. Immediately after installation it adds in your Desktop and My Documents folders as available entries—and you can navigate down through those folders—but you can also specify custom folders and reorganize the menu. It’s easy to add in a folder for a specific project you’re working on or create custom links to save to your wallpaper collection, music collection, or any other system you want to set up. Although we used an image as our example in the screenshot above you can customize all the Save As menus in Firefox including how you save pages, links, images, and other files.

Visit the link below to install Save File To into Firefox or check out the via link to see a step by step tutorial at How-To Geek on setting up Save File To. Save File To is free and works wherever Firefox does. Have a favorite add-on for customizing the menus in Firefox or a similar tool for another browser? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

As we march toward the inevitability of a post-iPad world, so marches the development of iPhone SDK 3.2 — and this time, we’re on to beta 3. There’s no word yet on what’s changed, but unless you’re a registered (and paid) member of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program, it doesn’t much matter to you seeing how you can’t get in on the download. Keep us abreast of the trials, tribulations, highs, and lows of your downloads and installs, won’t you?

Update: TUAW now reports that beta 3’s been pulled, but it’s not yet clear why. We’ll fill you in more as we find out.

Update 2: iPadInsider reports that a Photos app has been added to the emulator, and there’s a Camera tab in it — possibly corroborating evidence that there’ll be a camera in some version of the iPad, but more likely a tool for the camera connection kit.

iPhone SDK 3.2 moves on to beta round 3 (update: it’s been pulled) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The new beta version of the 3.2 SDK (beta 3, for those of you keeping track) is now available for download. The Apple developer site will likely be getting slammed over the next hour or two, so plan your downloads accordingly. The beta is available to all paid members of the iPhone developer program, with at least the $99/year membership. You will need your credentials to sign in and download the new SDK.

As usual, the new beta SDK is under NDA, so please go check out the details for yourself to get further information about the changes between this beta and the last. Good luck, and happy programming!

Update: Here then gone? Readers report that Apple seems to have pulled Beta 3 for the moment and when I returned to Apple’s iPhone developer site, I saw the same. Watch this space. We’ll update as we find out more.

Update: This was not an accidental upload, per Michael Jurewitz, the Mac and IPhone Applications Frameworks and Developer Tools Evangelist:

TUAWiPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3 available now originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android: Google’s globetrotting 3D mapping application Google Earth has been around for iPhone users for over a year, and today the killer mapping app makes its way to Android devices.

In addition to all the other features you’ve come to expect from Earth, the release also takes advantage of Android’s voice-recognition capabilities, so you can say something like “Empire State building” and watch Earth zoom to your request. Unfortunately Earth is only available on Android 2.1 devices.

Chrome: We love Gina’s Better Gmail Firefox extension, a bundle of user scripts that improves the Gmail experience. Now that Google’s beefed up support for Chrome extensions, reader Dimitar Gruev has taken a shot at bringing an unofficial Better Gmail to Chrome.

Almost a year ago our own How-To Geek put together a version of Better Gmail for Chrome, but that was way back when Chrome didn’t even have extensions (his were all bundled into a single user script). This new Chrome extension is an unofficial Better Gmail for Chrome that was inspired by Gina’s Firefox extension and our earlier Better Gmail for Chrome bag o’scripts.

Once installed, access Better Gmail’s options by clicking the wrench -> Extensions -> Better Gmail Options. Tick the boxes of the features you want activated and you’re good to go. You can choose to hide little used fields like “Invite Friends,” remove ads, show the number of unread emails in the favicon, and more.

Gruev says future versions of Better Gmail will hide spam count, move to next message on delete or archive, and include support for POP3 email. A big round of applause goes to Gruev for putting this together. What kinds of features do you hope for in future versions of Better Gmail? Share your ideas in the comments.

Windows only: Fans of TweetDeck with a preference for open source will love MahTweets, a plugin-based Twitter client that also integrates with Facebook, Flickr, Twitpic, and more, and offers all kinds of handy customizations.

The first thing you do upon opening MahTweets is choose what plugins you want to install. Right now it’s only got a few, but they give you the opportunity to choose what networks you want integrated (including Facebook, Twitter, and RSS) and where you want to upload pictures (Facebook, Flickr, or services like TwitPic or yFrog). It then navigates you through the rest of the preferences, in which you can enable notifications, automatic translation, a screensaver based on your networks, and tweak a bunch of performance-based options.

After you’re done with the initial setup, you’ll see the client itself. It starts off with only one column (shown above), but you can add as many as you want, with all sorts of different kinds of filters in each to keep your groups organized (like TweetDeck). In addition to the basic features for updating your status, sending direct messages, and re-tweeting, you can also take webcam snapshots, upload pictures to Facebook or Flickr, and view links to pictures inline—no more clicking on links to open images in your browser.

MahTweets is a free download, Windows only.

Originally posted 2009-10-20 18:25:18. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Filed under: Apple, iPhone, App Store

Although Apple’s just-released iTunes Connect guide for App Store developers (version 5.3) reminds them that over-the-air downloads for app purchases are still limited to 10MB, users are reporting that Apple may have quietly changed this policy. As the screen shot here (sourced from Italian website AllMobileWorld) shows, the standard 10MB complaint appears to be updated to a 20MB limit.

This is, as yet, the first TUAW has heard (or, more literally, seen) of the matter, but the screen shot does not appear faked. Given that Apple updated the iTunes Connect material on Tuesday, this could have simply been an oversight in the developer documentation that does not reflect the new policy.

Have you seen this dialog? Does it say 10MB or 20MB for you? Let us know in the comments, and do mention which carrier you are using in case it is an European-only phenomenon.

Update: We have now confirmed the change with carriers in multiple countries. One report from Denmark indicates that users there remain at at 10MB limit.

Thanks, everyone who tipped us about this

TUAWConfirmed: Apple upped its App Store over-the-air download limits originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nearly one year after arriving on iPhones and iPod touch, Amazon’s Kindle app has arrived on BlackBerry. As you might expect, it synchronizes your books, bookmarks, notes, and last pages read with an actual Kindle, or the iPhone or desktop Kindle software. If you’re rocking one of the compatible Bold, Curve, Storm, or Tour models (listed at Amazon’s page), you can grab it by heading to amazon.com/kindlebb from your mobile browser. [via CNET]

iPhone/iPod touch: We’ve been fans of popular chat app Meebo for a while, so it’s great to hear they’ve released a version for the iPhone that competes with premium chat apps in the App Store but doesn’t cost a dime.

Meebo sports push notifications that activate automatically when the app is closed so you can keep in touch even when Meebo isn’t running, and it syncs between your iPhone and desktop app so you don’t miss a beat communicating with your contacts. It’s got all the features its web-based cousin has—like full chat history and integration with Facebook, AIM, and Yahoo.

Landscape mode and other little niceties like the ability to add Away messages make using Meebo on the iPhone a joy. It doesn’t have a whole bunch of useless features weighing it down so the learning curve on this app takes about 10 seconds.

If you’re not rocking an iPhone, Meebo hasn’t forgotten about you. The service already has apps for Android (and a mobile web site for other smartphones).

Now that instant messaging apps are finding their way off the desktop and onto mobile devices, what features would you like to see in future versions. Dream big in the comments.