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firefox-extensions

That File extension isn’t what you think it is

A welcome trend that I’ve noticed in the last one year or so is that many binary/proprietary file formats are often using a more universal file format under the hood. For example, Firefox extensions are packaged as .xpi files. But really, these are just zip files. You can rename the …

Goodbye del.icio.us – it was time to roll my own

Well for a long time now, I’ve been using del.icio.us as a means of blogging the various articles I read on the web. I would add a bookmark in delicious and every night, the links would appear in my blog along with my tags and descriptions – all very neat. …