Well, I finally did it. The Firesomething Firefox extension hasn’t been updated for Firefox 1.5, and I was tired of my browser not being named something funny… especially since one of my friends on campus always says he uses Firemonkey to browse the web.
It’s for you Alan!
Install it here, and see what funny name your browser becomes! Firesomething for Firefox 1.5
I just uploaded Exch for Linux. It was excitingly difficult to make a tar.gz file off of the command line because Ark wasn’t playing nice on Kanotix.
For those who would like to make a tar.gz file of an entire directory, here’s how:
tar -cvf filename.tar directoryName
And then issue this command:
gzip filename.tarVoila, you should have:
filename.tar.gz
Exch is a small utility written in XUL and JavaScript that utilizes the XULRunner runtime. It allows the user to enter two currencies and get them converted from one to the other using data obtained from Yahoo! Finance.
As much as Exch is an exercise in XUL development, and an example of XUL to others, it is quite useful also!
Check out the installation page and try Exch out. You must have a working Internet connection while using the program because it fetches information from over the web.