ProNet: Firefox to make your life easier. Most of you who are doing heavy web development work have told us that you're using Firefox as your browser of choice, and if so, there's a few absolutely indispensable extensions that we'd recommend adding to your toolkit. … [Six Apart News]

The Land of the IT Cheat Sheets. SearchSMB has compiled a nice list of IT Cheat Sheets on topics ranging from C++ to XML, from cabling to Excel. This is a definite bookmark for LiB! Some of the resources are not “IT” as I think of it,… [LibrarianInBlack]

T-Mobile Offers Street-Level Coverage Maps. T-Mobile cell and hotspot subscribers can use this to find out specific coverage areas: This is a marvelous tool and one all carriers should emulate. It shows specific levels of expected signal strength for T-Mobile's cellular network–this would help plan for GPRS use as well as voice–and has a checkbox [...]

Speeding up Safari. It seems like every month, Safari runs just a little bit slower on my PowerBook. Some sites are worse then others—I can’t visit cnn.com or newegg.com without staring at the spinning beachball of death for 5 or 10 seconds. Even worse, whenever this happens, Mail or NetNewsWire tend to go away as [...]

Xen, finally. I finally have Xen working on a system at home. I hadn’t expected this to be very difficult, but apparently Xen doesn’t like my new Athlon 64 system (bought mostly for running Xen). They’ll fix it eventually, but for now I’m using an old Athlon 700 system that I had sitting around. It [...]

Rails success. My little Rails project at work is starting to wind down finally. I’ve been heads-down on this thing for almost a week, but it seems to be worth it—I have a nice UI around my database, along with a clean schema to replace the hacked-up one from the previous design. I have 8 [...]

One year of VoIP. From looking back over my phone records, it looks like today marks the beginning of my second year of VoIP. I’m not sure which day I actually set up my Asterisk server, but I signed up with NuFone on March 23, 2004, one year ago today. At the time, I paid [...]

Running your company on web apps. Evhead rounds up the web apps that help run Odeo. Visit site [SimpleBits]

New Office: The BitCave. SimpleBits is unpacked and settled into its new office in dowtown Salem, Mass. I've snapped a few photos and gathered some thoughts on the big switch. [SimpleBits]

Boston-Area Web Geeks Meetup. Continuing the tradition of past gatherings, Ethan and I are organizing a meetup for web geeks in Boston, on Thursday, April 28th. I hope you'll join us, where we'll be celebrating the end of winter hibernation. [SimpleBits]