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  • September 9, 2005

    Use your Mac laptop to utilize a Windows printer

    Filed under: tutorials — Eric @ 10:15 am

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    I recently set up a wireless connection in my apartment, consisting of a Linksys WRT54G router, a Netgear CM212 cable modem, and a desktop running Windows XP Pro and a G4 iBook running OS X 10.4.2 Tiger. I have an Epson Stylus CX5400 USB printer attached to the Windows box, and wanted to get it working under the iBook wirelessly. Could it be done?

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    March 9, 2005

    Enabling Extension Updates

    Filed under: tutorials — Eric @ 5:16 pm

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    So you’ve learned how to write your own extension. This tutorial will show you how to keep your users up to date with your latest version automatically.

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    December 8, 2004

    How to create Firefox extensions

    Filed under: tutorials — Eric @ 6:47 pm

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    (If you’d like to see how to create a Google Chrome extension, you can read this article here: http://roachfiend.com/archives/2009/12/27/how-to-write-google-chrome-extensions/)

    Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don’t need to be a master of either. When I started, I knew nothing about either one, really. I had seen some bookmarklets here and there, and tried to figure out just how they worked. Well, that’s how I made my first extension, BugMeNot.

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