Diggers

I frequent Digg.com - it's nice.

One thing though, I wish Diggers would be moderated in the same manner as the articles. Thumbs up - or thumbs down.

That way, when I see that someone has befriended me, I won't have to spend much time wondering if it's a robot or someone that has the slightest interest in what I'm Digging (robot: someone that just adds as many people as he possibly can)

The simplest way to implement this would be thumbs on the person's profile - another nice-to-have would be the popularity tally of the digger's comments (although robots usually don't comment)

This would be similar to /.'s karma (uh-oh I said it) but more in the spirit of Digg - seriously, there are some Diggers that desperately need to be Dugg down. Imagine if you could simply automatically block the comments from users with a negative 3000 Diggs.

Got Gravatar?

If you're like me you're a regular user of many forums and an inactive user on a lot more forums. And for many of those forums, you've had to find your fav. avatar, resize it to some arbitrary size and upload it.
I've thougt to myself, "this sucks! I'm constantly doing this, why isn't there an avatar service?"
Now, I'm hoping, there is such a service up and running and its called Gravatar (for gravitationally rad avatar, or Globally Recognized Avatar). With this service you just register your e-mail and associate an image to it, gravatar does all the rest.
Of course, sites must support Gravatar for your image to be displayed and thats where we come in, the more registered users this nifty service has the more sites, forums and other systems will support it. Right now haloscan comment system is implementing Gravatars in their comments and I'm pretty sure well be seeing a lot more of it in the future.
If you like to try it out, just upload your picture at Gravatar.com (it has to be approved) and leave a comment on my blog. Simple as that!

Speed up Firefox

Would you like to make Firefox aprox. 3 times faster? If yes then keep on reading.
Today most people have fast internet connections but fewer know that their browsers aren't fully utilizing the speed.
By changing four settings in Firefox you can make it many times quicker to fetch heavy pages.
Here's your way to become a happier geek in just seven easy steps

1. Type about:config as the address in Firefox, youl get a heap of settings
2. Type network.http in the filter textbox to get a clearer view of the settings
3. Double click network.http.pipelining to make it's value true
4. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and make it's value 30 (this tells Firefox to make up to 30 requests at once)
5. Set network.http.proxy.pipelining as true
6. Right click anywhere in the setting list að choose New -> Integer, make the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and it's value 0 (this makes Firefox respond faster to received data)
7. Restart Firefox

When this is finished you should experience a severe increase in speed. (If you don't Firefox probably didn't restart properly or your network connection is to slow to begin with)
For those who have ever been frustrated with slow response on imdb.com I recommend checking it out after the changes (I was blown away). For other users I just recommend checking out some content heavy pages to try the new settings.
Thanks to ipkonfig.com for this info

Get Firefox

I don't mean to be rude, but get Firefox, you'll thank me for it later!
Go get it NOW!