These are my links for August 14th through September 4th:

• Downloads (2010-2011 Fall) | CS 193P iPhone Application Development –
• UIPickerView – Creating a simple picker view | iPhone SDK Articles –
• Steve Jobs: Jerry Pournelle Reflects –
• Dreamstime – Stock Photography
• Fotolia.com – Royalty Free Stock Photos
• Evernote software company plans new studio, aggressive hiring in Austin –
• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom – O’Reilly Digital Media Blog –
• Does the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli Matter to Church/State Separation? –
• Python documentation –
• Why most people don’t finish video games –
• Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief | Stanford Center for Internet and Society –
• Violet Crown Trail | Hill Country Conservancy –
• South Austin Medical Clinic –
• World War II in Photos – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic –
• Understanding & Using Ansel Adam’s Zone System –

These are my links for April 1st through April 9th:

• Unlock Your Vonage Cisco ATA 186 –
• Squirrel fishing at Univeristy of Texas – There used to be an old albino squirrel at the University of Texas when I went there in the 90's.  I accidentally found this picture of him on a "squirrel fishing" website.
• How Slavery Really Ended in America – NYTimes.com –
• How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) – Austin Kleon – And there is nothing new under the sun
• Trunk Club Men’s Outfitters: A clothing service for men –
• Metamaterial Reveals Nature of Time and the Impossibility of Time Machines –
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials –
• TinEye Reverse Image Search –
• Glen’s story…. a cautionary tale for shooters –
• TSA: Traveling with Special Items –
• Underwater Sculptures Help Save the World’s Oceans –
• why the gun is civilization –
• Army Artwork & Images –
• iPad2Tracker – Find which local Targets, BestBuys, Walmarts, RadioShacks and Sam’s Clubs have the iPad 2 in stock and available. –
• Apple iPad 2 Stock Tracking: How to Find One –

These are my links for October 10th through October 12th:

• Feeling chipper, the wood ant caught bringing science to life –
• Pinballz Arcade – Austin Pinball arcade
• dzone.com – developer links
• Baguette et Chocolat – French pastries in Austin

These are my links for August 4th through August 14th:

• PresetsHeaven –
• Squidoo –
• AppGraphix.com – iPhone/ iPod Touch/ iPad App Icon, Tab Bar Icon, Logo Design
• 1dl.us – all-in-one webtool
• Google Wave RIP – birth to death in what, 2 months? Only the Microsoft Kin can beat that!

Everyone who uses Firefox regularly has a core of extensions that they have grown to use so much as to make them necessary to browsing.  One of the most tedious parts of browsing and then posting material is the saving and organizing of large amounts of pictures.  I fully use 4 extensions every day for this task, and have several others that I use at least weekly.

One of the most useful of these extensions was Bazzacuda Image Saver.  I loved this app because it could detect images in tabs, save them to a predefined folder, and close those tabs, all in one step.  Plus it has the separate ability to find the largest image on a page opened in the current tab, and will save that image and close the tab.

Upgrading to new Firefox versions takes a little bit of finding, updating,  and re-installing of extensions.  For the most part, everything works at least the same as before, but with each new version, we all lose a few extensions that were orphaned by their developers.  I lost Bazzacuda when I upgraded to Firefox 3.0.  The extension would work every so often, but for the most part gave a very generic error and did nothing.  I tried to find other extensions to replace it, hoping that eventually the developer would fix the extension.  I was let down on both counts.  No other extension (or combination thereof) would replace it, and the developer website is now redirected to something completely unrelated.  Despite many comments asking for updates, the developer has been silent on the Mozilla Addons page.

So, a few days ago, I set out to see if it would be a simple change to fix it.  I had already overriden the version number to allow it to install, and unpacked the code to take a look.  Unfortunately it wasn’t something simple to find, but I eventually found it and fixed the problem and the little cascade of other problems it caused.

So, since it wasn’t something superficial, I am releasing the modified code.  I changed the name to be generic, just in case the original developer decides to release more versions of his own program.  This updated for Firefox version 3.0.2 extension is called simply Image Saver. Both the original extension and my updated version are under MPL/GPL licensing, so it should be no problem.

I also wish to add-on functionality in the future, such as more folders and more hotkeys.  So renaming it now seemed best.

Download it from the Image Saver Project Page.

update 10/9/08: If you are one of the people that downloaded this yesterday, please redownload it and install again.  A bug not allowing the default folder location to be saved has been fixed. Eventually I’ll put automatic updates in.

Slipping under the radar last week, the venerable freeware image viewer IrfanView has come out with version number 4.00.

Ever since ACDSee jumped the shark and became a bloated spyware-laden clunky mess, I have been using this gem. It’s been many years and not so many updates, but IrfanView always worked well for me. Especially for organization (for which I lack the genes), it performs marvelously.

The new version seems to address some Vista compatibility, along with some feature tweaks and minor bug fixes. Honestly, I think I was using version 2.98 before this, so it can’t have been that buggy for me to use one version for so long.

Don’t forget to download the plugin pack right along with it. It isn’t necessary, but most of the plugins are super handy.