Author Archives: mkaply

PhotoFox from Brand Thunder

If you like Personas, I think you’ll love PhotoFox from Brand Thunder. PhotoFox lets you use any image from your hard drive or any image on the web to customize your browser. I’ll put together a post next week that … Continue reading

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Mozilla No Longer Allows Firefox Community Editions?

It looks like Mozilla has disallowed Firefox Community Editions. There has been no official announcement of this change (that I could find) or any new policy. http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html is now a 404. If you look at the document history: http://bonsai-www.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/html/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html&rev=&root=/www/ you … Continue reading

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Life Update

Haven’t posted in a while, thought I would give some updates. I just finished updating my Firefox Activities extension to work with Firefox 3.1/3.5. It has the much requested feature of opening new links in tabs. It also has custom … Continue reading

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Firefox at the Houston Zoo!

http://www.houstonzoo.org/cutestanimal/ Someone needs to do some cross promotion here…

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I Couldn't Stay Away From the CCK

So it just so happens that some of the work I’m doing before I leave IBM involves the CCK, so I ended up working on it and fixing some bugs. In addition, a company asked for a feature that was … Continue reading

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Brand Thunder Boom!

In my work with Brand Thunder, one of the things we’ve struggled with is bundling an extension and theme together as one package. To accomplish this, we had created an extension that installs a theme at startup. This worked, but … Continue reading

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Seven Things

I never got tagged with the Seven Things meme, but it sounded like fun. Here goes: I’m a Dave Ramsey Certified Counselor. I facilitate Financial Peace University at my church and I’ve volunteered at seven Total Money Makeover Live Events … Continue reading

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CCK Wizard 1.2 Finally Available

The CCK Wizard for Firefox 3 is finally available. I had been holding off trying to get some translation work but finally gave up. You can get it from amo: CCK Wizard 1.2 Enjoy!

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Too Many Life Events

The other day I logged into IBM’s benefits system and received the message “You have too many life events.” I knew what the problem was – it couldn’t process both next year’s enrollment and my return from leave of absence … Continue reading

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NorthWestMozDev Meeting

I haven’t posted in a while, and I am planning some posts, but in the mean time, thought I’d put a plug in for the next northwest Mozilla developers meeting that Brij Charan is putting together. I’m setting up the … Continue reading

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