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Drag & DropZones 1.5 released
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010

Today I finally found some spare time to finish up the work on the new Drag & DropZones release. Firefox 3.6 compatibility being the most urgent new feature, but I already had developed a lot more goo... Read more


Won in the Extend Firefox Contest!
Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2009

I just got the official news that Grocery List Generator 2.0 won the Extend Firefox Contest! The new release which includes features like automated import of recipes from allrecipes.com and foodnetwor... Read more


FabTabs update version 1.3.4
Posted on Friday, November 27, 2009

Just a collection of a couple of small fixes and tweaks. Most noticeable new things are that all the settings will now be instantly applied so you can see the results while tweaking them. Using the ne... Read more


Kongregate Sidebar Update 1.5
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009

A major update again people. With the help of Andrew from Kongregate I was finally able to drop the long and processor intensive screen scraping routines for badges and replace it with consuming the b... Read more


FabTabs update version 1.3
Posted on Tuesday, August 04, 2009

What was I thinking, making an extension where not every single bit was fully customizable! So I have just released yet another update with even more options, all packed nicely together in a brand new... Read more


FabTabs update version 1.2
Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009

Thanks all for the feedback on my tab coloring extension, I do my best to update/tweak the extension to fit all of your wishes. This update includes a couple of new settings, as well as a feature that... Read more


FabTabs! update version 1.1
Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009

I have just released an update for FabTabs, my latest fabulous tab coloring extension. Along with a caching mechanism to allow tabs to be colored even faster when you open a tab for the second time, t... Read more


FabTabs! New extension released!
Posted on Thursday, July 09, 2009

Make your Firefox tabs look fabulous!
FabTabs is kind of an experimental extension for now that will color your Firefox Tabs in a way you have never seen before. By taking a small screenshot of th... Read more


Lots of updates!
Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Got quite the shock this morning when I saw that Mozilla had already released Firefox 3.5. Because of my little holiday, and 2 large projects I am working on, I have completely missed the 2 release ca... Read more


Publish GLG recipes
Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The past few months it apparently was not possible to publish recipes from your Grocery List Generator to the website anymore. For a long long time I thought that it was simply the problem that no one... Read more


Grocery List Generator ready for Firefox 3.1
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009

Almost done updating all of my extensions for compatibility with the upcoming Firefox 3.1 release. I just submitted version 1.6.2 of the Grocery List Generator to AMO for review. Perhaps even more imp... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.8.0.1 fixes serious bug
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009

Web Search Pro 2.8 by accident contained quite a big bug which I apparently forgot to fix before releasing it. The new way keyboard shortcuts for Search Engines and Groups are created did not correctl... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.8 Released!
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009

A new version of Firefox deserves a new version of Web Search Pro, so along with some compatibility fixes I finally took some time to also add some new features once again (it has been a while, I know... Read more


PONG! Multiplayer server online again!
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009

I just finished rewriting and testing the new Multiplayer server for PONG!, so multiplayer gaming for Firefox is now available 24/7 again! The new ASP.net server application runs at pongmplobby.captai... Read more


PONG! Multiplayer server offline
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Since I moved to Windows Vista the PONG multiplayer server application I wrote does not run so stable anymore. So after trying to cope with it and trying to keep it online for over a week now, I have ... Read more


Kongregate Sidebar Update 1.4
Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008

I have just released version 1.4 of the Kongregate sidebar. The Kongregate sidebar is an extension that provides easy access to all the badged and favorite games on the casual gaming website Kongregat... Read more


Kongregate Sidebar
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008

I never knew you could actually get addicted to playing casual games online until I ran into Kongregate.
Kongregate is a casual gaming platform with an awesome working concept of you being able to... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher 1.6.7.1
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008

Sorry to all Japanese users of my Quick Locale Switcher extension. In the previous version 1.6.7 I accidentally included an incomplete Japanese localization which caused problems when you switched to ... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher 1.6.5
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008

It is sometimes quite scary to release a new version you have been working on for quite some time, but I had to do it some day, so here it is. The main goal for this update was to make the Quick Local... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher 1.6.3.7
Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007

I have just released a small compatibility update of my Quick Locale Switcher extension. Aside from testing it with the latest versions of Sunbird, Flock and Netscape, I have also created a brand new ... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.7.3 released
Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Finally got the time to finish up the latest release of my favorite web searching extension: Web Search Pro 2.7.3. Disappointing as this might be for some (most) of you, this is not yet the next major... Read more


Grocery List Generator Website
Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2007

I just fixed a small big problem on the Grocery List Generator website. By accident all published recipes where hidden from view until I approved them, while I intended the system to work the other wa... Read more


Grocery List Generator + Website Launched
Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2007

Finally I dared to release the brand new Grocery List Generator and her new website after I had postponed it more then a month ago. And to be honest, I am really pleased with how it turned out. Some o... Read more


GLG update ready for translation
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007

I just wanted to inform you all that I have just uploaded the new version of my Grocery List Generator Add-on to BabelZilla for translation. I hope and think it will be worth the extra month of waitin... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher 1.6.3.3
Posted on Friday, August 31, 2007

Good news for all you multilingual Gmail users out there who where not able to switch their spell checker dictionary while they where composing an e-mail. It took me quite a while since this was first... Read more


Drag & DropZone Searching released
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007

As requested by many I created an individual Firefox add-on for Web Search Pro's most innovative feature: Drag & DropZone Searching. Drag & DropZones is a stylish transparent grid that will overla... Read more


Grocery List Generator + Website postponed
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007

The thought of releasing the new Grocery List Generator with the recipe website has been keeping me up the past few nights. The thing is that, though the idea already is quite lovely, and better then ... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.7.2 Released
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Another day, another update. Unfortunately I still appear to be human, and thus I still make mistakes, one of the most amazingly stupid things I did in the update from last Saturday was that I chose S... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.7.1 Released
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2007

Some of you will think that it is quite a bad sign to release another update just 1 day after you made a big fuss about a new version. And though it is a bit, I do feel a lot better knowing that a cou... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.7 Released!
Posted on Friday, August 10, 2007

I just released the new version of my personal favorite Firefox add-on Web Search Pro, version 2.7 includes a couple of nice new features, some features have been upgraded, and a couple of quite nasty... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher Bug Fixed
Posted on Saturday, August 04, 2007

As promised I have just released the update that fixes the problem with the Mozilla automatic update manager. The problem was that when you switched to a locale that was not available as a translation... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher Bug
Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2007

I, or actually Claus from CB Computerservice in Austria, has discovered a bug in the Quick Locale Switcher which could in some way be potentially dangerous. The problem is that switching to certain lo... Read more


Grocery List Generator website
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Two weeks ago I decided to register a domain name and finally start developing a website where you can all share your Grocery List Generator recipes with the world. It did not take me long to decide t... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher for Sunbird 0.5
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007

To be honest, I completely forgot that I made the Quick Locale Switcher also compatible with Mozilla's calendar application Sunbird, and forgot to update it for the latest 0.5 release. Luckily for... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.6.1 Released
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007

I have just uploaded version 2.6.1 to the WSPro frontpage and the Mozilla Add-ons website. No real new things this update, mostly bugfixes, especially if you use Firefox 1.5 (or earlier) you should in... Read more


Download PONG! Multiplayer server
Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Since I could no longer host the PONG! Multiplayer server 24/7 myself, I decided to release the server application to the world so you can all host your own PONG! Multiplayer party! The multiplayer se... Read more


Grocery List Generator 1.5 released!
Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007

It has been a while since the last update, but then again, what's to update in a simple yet great working little grocery list generator. So what has changed? Well, after reading numerous posts on ... Read more


PONG! Multiplayer server offline
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

You may all already have noticed, but last week I made a bug decision, take my own web server offline, and get my websites hosted my a professional hosting company. The hardest thing about this was th... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.6 Released!
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007

I have just released version 2.6 on my WSPro subpage, I will upload it to the official Mozilla Add-ons website after they have released the new website. The main new feature of version 2.6 is that Web... Read more


My Image Here 1.1 Released - Finally...
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007

I must apologize and honestly tell you all that I sort of forgot that I still had this update ready for you all. I sent it over to translation about 2 months ago, and went on developing my other add-o... Read more


Quick Locale Switcher 1.5 released!
Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007

Quick Locale Switcher 1.5 contains 2 new features:

1. Automatic switching, when this feature is on the QLS automatically remembers the website you switched a locale on and when you open that ... Read more


New Web Search Pro site online!
Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I have just uploaded the new Web Search Pro Search Engines website. My mains goal where to make it more user friendly, a bit faster, and less annoying (yes, the page does not completely reload anymore... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.5 Released!
Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006

After some long nights of testing, and hard work of the babelzilla translators I have just released Web Search Pro 2.5! The new version introduces Quick Type Search to easily and quickly select your S... Read more


My Image Here - Export/Import
Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2006

I am currently working on the development of export and import routines my new My Image Here add-on. This idea was requested (first) by Georg Pichler to be able to create skins or themes for websites.... Read more


Web Search Pro 2.5 Sneak Preview
Posted on Saturday, November 18, 2006

It took me quite a while, but now it's has finally gone in the last testing stage, Web Search Pro 2.5 is almost ready! Main new features are the Quick Type Search popup, and the fully customizable... Read more


PONG! 2.0 Multiplayer released
Posted on Saturday, August 13, 2005

After 3 months of long nights, I have finally released PONG! 2.0 Multiplayer. Check out the screenshots here, and read more about it on the PONG! Multiplayer page. ... Read more


Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Out Now!
Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Sick and tired of slow browsing, popups, browser spyware, and installing patches every other day? Join me and 8 milion others, and give Mozilla Firefox a try.Download now! (Windows 1.0.7) Or Read more... Read more