Posts Tagged ‘brand thunder’

Life Update

Friday, March 27th, 2009

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 code in it to modify the ieaddons.com site to work with Firefox. You can hopefully get it here soon. You’ll know it is the new version when it says 0.7.4.

Brand Thunder has been releasing quite a few Booms lately. You can check them out at the gallery or on amo. Lots of cool stuff and more stuff coming.

Minggl just released a new version of their tool for managing social networks. It works better than ever. If you want to integrate multiple social networks into Firefox, you should definitely grab it.

On a personal note, We’re headed to Dallas this weekend for Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover Event. We’re volunteering for the ninth time.

And if you want a different view of the economy, be sure to check out the Town Hall for Hope.

Brand Thunder Boom!

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

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 created some confusion when trying to uninstall. We finally have a solution to this – it’s called the Brand Thunder Boom!

Brand Thunder Booms are like Personas on steroids. Booms don’t just change a background image; they provide lightweight theming that can change background images, colors, navigation buttons and even tabs. They can also add toolbars with custom navigation and widgets for a particular brand as well as sidebars for things like videos or news feeds.

Booms also support dynamic switching. So if you have five booms installed, you can move between them without restarting your browser.

We have four booms available right now in the gallery with more to come. And if you want to extend YOUR brand to the browser, contact Brand Thunder.

P.O.D. Boom Music Video