Techno Mojo

I’m very fickle about my digital world. I’m always tweaking things, upgrading, changing desktop wallpaper, you name it. I can’t leave well enough, alone.

I love the Firefox browser simply because it can be modified, extended and does more than surf the internets. If you haven’t already, fetch the Greasemonkey extension and download some scripts from Userscripts.

Mashups are webware, software or anything with code that is combined with another. Programmable Web has a great website dedicated to this. Check out all of the things you didn’t know you needed! Tweaks galore here.

Widgets/gadgets are crowding my desktop and are constantly re-arranged. Be sure to download Yahoo’s Widgets for maximum productivity tools and timewasters.

What are your favorite scripts, extensions, mashups and widgets? Which one’s rock your digital world?

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After this past week’s discussion about Microsoft favoring OpenID instead of it’s own CardSpace, why would developers for Firefox 3 (Code named Gran Paradiso) embrace CardSpace?

 

CardSpace, is Microsoft’s identity management system, a way of reducing the hassle of having as many identities (username/password credentials) as services we use and is already listed as a requirement for Firefox 3.

 

After reading the article, I am left to wonder: “Will CardSpace or OpenID win out?” There is a growing movement of non-Microsoft users that would have no need for CardSpace whereas OpenID can be used by all platforms such as Mac, Linux and Windows. OpenID wins.