Monday, November 19, 2007

Making The Most Of Things...

As display space is a premium on the eeepc (7" screen at 800 x 480), there are several tweaks (not hacks because linux is like your wife's hot sister i.e. looking is fine but if you touch anything you're fucked) that I recommend... As I didn't have much time to setup my unit today, I concentrated only on firefox...

First off, there is fullerscreen... Basically the addon invokes the full screen and hides the navigation bar automatically when viewing webpages... This gives you an extra half inch high viewing area (which is plenty on the eeepc)... Its a nice touch that the navigation bar reappears when you move to the top of the age you're viewing...

For maximum space savings when using fullerscreen, it is suggested that it is used in conjunction with littlefox when you need to use the navigation bar (as the icons are only half the size and the menus have been reworked to save as much space as possible)...

Twitter addicts might also want to abandon their sidebar addons and opt for firefox twitterbar instead as it allows you to update your twitter via the navigation bar (thus saving the space required by a sidebar addon)...

Those on blogger/blogspot might also want to install greasemonkey and the magical sheep userscript to integrate a multiple technorati tag generator into their blogger interface... This saves space as by removing the need for a messy sidebar addon...

It would be best if the firefox default fonts were decreased by 2 sizes to allow for even more of a webpage to be dsplayed... I'll update once I setup the rest...


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