I honestly STILL haven't found a text editor I love on OS X. I'll take suggestions for that, too, as I mostly still use vim in a terminal. So I don't think I'll get ItsAllText for now. That linkification thing looks cool, though, so thanks! And I already got DownloadThemAll, right after posting here.

Firebug is the best thing EVER. I already used it to deconstruct the forum software for my website and fix something in my custom theme.

I suppose it depends on what you're using the text editor for, Gris. For HTML, I use Smultron, which is free and handy; and for writing, I use Writeroom primarily, with Word and TextEdit as backups for various other functions as necessary. I absolutely adore the full-screen feature of WR, and it has proved to be the most effective tool for me to write with. TextEdit is crap for extensive work, especially if you're using HTML or working with some formatting, because it wonks it out ridiculously.

Sophia, I generally advise against Gateways. I've never been pleased with them, in my experience. Half of what you get a laptop for is durability, and the other half is portability, and Gateway has never been sufficient in either of those realms for me. I think you could get a comparable Dell for less/similar cost, and I believe there are financing options, though I don't know from experience. If I was going to purchase a new Windows machine, I would purchase a Dell. But then again, if you don't plan on taking it much farther than your apartment, it would probably work for you.

Regarding FF extentions--I use a lot of them, but unfortunately I'm using Safari right now so I can't pull them up for you. I think it's actually DownThemAll, not Download, but it remains one of the most useful extentions of all time. All in One Sidebar is a must for me. Deepest Sender, for blog posting; Tab Preferences is hugely resourceful; Greasemonkey, and the multitude of assorted scripts, completely betters your browsing experience; VideoDownloader grabs videos from Google, Youtube, etc; Forecast Fox is a great weather thingie; there are more, but I can't recall them right now.

Any advice on data recovery from a compact flash card used in a Nikon digicam? I have a 512MB and a 1GB CF cards (Sandisk) and they used to both work fine with my Dell laptop and a radioshack cardreader. But I recently got a MacBook Pro, and twice now something has gone horribly wrong when I tried to download pics to the Mac.

Stuck the filled card in the USB reader, stuck that into the Mac, a work-built-in virus scan started, and iPhoto didn't see the card. Looking into the card with Finder shows no files in the DCIM folder. Fargh. It's just vacation pictures, but still.

The 1GB card works fine, but I now twice lost access to whatever pictures I took on the 512MB card. Even worse, after this last time, a "get info" on the card shows pretty much all 512MB supposedly free.

Should I just go to a data recovery place, like DataTech Lab? They claim $75-100 if data is recovered, otherwise free.

Hey, lori!

I don't have any helpful advice, because a similar thing happened to me, but I just eventually gave up on the card and the photos contained therein.

If it's free if they can't do anything, I'd probably go for the lab.

That reminds me. I had such a hard time looking at your Manzanar pictures that I had to stop, back when you'd posted them. I've meant to go back and look at them later; I should do that.

Hey Liese!

Thanks for commiserating! Sorry about the Manzanar pictures being a tough time. It was pretty intense to be there.

Gris,

my fave greasemonkey scripts are gmail ones:

1) auto-bcc 2) saved searches 3) spamcount hide

There is also a cool one for amazon.com:

amazon super saver snooper

Yeah, I bet it was. I would like to go someday, myself, but I'd need to not do it alone.

Years ago, when he was first working on the Navajo reservation, the SO and a buddy of his went out driving looking for...Leupp, I guess. They never found it, although they talked to some of the elderlies in the area that remembered it.

Anyway, no apologies necessary, I was glad to see the pics, just hard to handle!

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My IBM InfoPrint20 won't print envelopes. It errs out, saying it's got a paper jam. I thought it was just a problem with the aux tray, but I bought an envelope specific cartridge & tray for it, and it has the same problem. Gah. Guess I should have bought a maintenance contract, huh?

Does anyone know how to make Greasemonkey do that thing were you can just click a button on your toolbar and make other people's LJ formats readable like yours?

Ha! I have a G3 Powerbook with a dead HD.

hmmm...

Does anyone know how to make Greasemonkey do that thing were you can just click a button on your toolbar and make other people's LJ formats readable like yours?

Suela, I don't know about a button on your toolbar, but I've used this one in the past and liked it enough: [link] The only problem I had with it was that it seemed to require you to load the LJ page in question, and then it would re-load it in your style, which I found frustrating. But I haven't used it in awhile, and that may have changed.