Monthly Archives: February 2009

Back up Gmail Starred with fetchmail and procmail

By Nobu | Published: February 12, 2009
% fetchmail --all --proto IMAP --port 993 --user *your gmail account name* --ssl --folder '[Gmail]/Starred' --mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" --keep imap.gmail.com You can get mails at /var/mail/*your mac account name*. On Mac OSX 10.5.5.
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Additional information: How to build a Firefox extension

By Nobu | Published: February 9, 2009
Mozilla pins (wallpaper) on Flickr – Photo Sharing! This entry inspired me. How to build a Firefox extension (lifehacker.com) I use Mac OSX 10.5 and Firefox 3.0.5. Set up your development environment ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Setting_up_extension_development_environment Small script for starting firefox. % cat ~/bin/firefox-debug.sh #!/bin/sh /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -no-remote -P dev I created a new profile “dev” for development. I mainly use 2 add-ons. DOM Inspector Event Spy Event Spy catch the events like [...]
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Firefox add-on: “Open Tab-History In New Tab” released in sandbox

By Nobu | Published: February 5, 2009
Open Tab-History In New Tab :: Firefox Add-ons This add-on is designed to allow a user to open a link from the back button drop-down menu in a new tab. To do this the user clicks the back-forward-dropmarker button or just right clicks the back/forward button to bring up that tab’s history. By right clicking the desired [...]
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