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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Firefox 3.5 is out already a few days! Get if folks! Ditch your Opera, IE, Chrome and Safari! I thought I'd share my Add-Ons I pretty much use on daily basis. Adblock Plus: Ads, oh how I loathe them. This addons takes care of every ad I came across until today. I'm 100% ad-free! Of [...]<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 3px;" title="Firefox" src="http://www.donsalva.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/firefox.png" alt="firefox" width="100" height="100" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html">Firefox 3.5</a> is out already a few days! Get if folks! Ditch your Opera, IE, Chrome and Safari!</p>
<p>I thought I'd share my Add-Ons I pretty much use on daily basis.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a>:<br />
Ads, oh how I loathe them. This addons takes care of every ad I came across until today. I'm 100% ad-free! Of course websites who rely on their only income, ads, will suffer from this.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">So remember, if you have a favorite site you frequently visit and it relies on ad revenue to keep alive, un-block and support it!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148" target="_blank">Fasterfox Lite</a>:<br />
Remember the <a href="http://www.donsalva.com/blog/5-easy-to-do-tweaks-to-make-your-firefox-faster" target="_blank">5 tweaks I posted</a> way back then? Well this Add-On takes care of it automatically. Except this LITE version, which is the only one functioning for 3.5, doesn't have prefetching.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you don't like to do these manual tweaks this is the Add-On for you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Edit 25.09.2009</strong>: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12878">Fasterfox</a> has been updated to run with 3.5 since August 26th 2009. Not the Lite, the normal one!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5791" target="_blank">Flagfox</a>:<br />
Since I sometime need to know about the location of a website or its server, Flagfox gives me their IP, location and ask whois detailed information, if needed to be.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173" target="_blank">Gmail Notifier</a>:<br />
If you own a single GMail account this is small addon to notify you if you got new mails in the inbox. There's a <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320" target="_blank">GMail Manager</a> for those with multiple accounts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722" target="_blank">NoScript</a>:<br />
Perhaps the most important Add-On for Firefox. It is, assumed it's correctly configured, what makes Firefox and in turn your computer so resilient to scripts, Keyloggers and viruses.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I can pretty much click any link I come across without fear of somehow installing malicious software, keyloggers or viruses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This Add-On is constantly being updated to keep up against scripts, keyloggers and viruses who try to circumvent NoScript. 3 cheers to open-source!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636" target="_blank">PDF Download</a>:<br />
I think the name explains it all. It allows you to choose between downloading a PDF file or opening it up</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11243" target="_blank">Skipscreen</a>:<br />
With 1-click-hosters such as Rapidshare, Netload, Megaupload, etc. becoming widely popular this Add-On is pretty much a must have if you want to skip all the unnecessary pages to go directly to download.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Saved me a lot of time, this diamond!</p>
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<li><a href='http://www.donsalva.com/2009/09/05/how-to-fix-the-video-lag-in-firefox' rel='bookmark' title='How to fix the video lag in Firefox!'>How to fix the video lag in Firefox!</a></li>
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<title>Fallout 3 goes into the Pit &#8211; &#8220;The Pitt&#8221; HD game play clips!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Don Salva</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Fallout 3: The Pitt is out, and I'm playing it. What was a simple and quick "run and grab 10 ingots" turned out to be a "grab whatever ingot you see and explore the zone" Quest! I'm doing "Unsafe Working Conditions" in the clips. You have to go inside 'The Steelyard' and collect 10 metal [...]<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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<![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/info/thepitt.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none ; margin-right: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" title="Fallout 3: The Pitt" src="http://www.donsalva.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fallout3_thepitt.png" alt="Fallout 3: The Pitt" width="100" height="100" /></a>Fallout 3: The Pitt is out, and I'm playing it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What was a simple and quick "run and grab 10 ingots" turned out to be a "grab whatever ingot you see and explore the zone" Quest!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I'm doing "Unsafe Working Conditions" in the clips. You have to go inside 'The Steelyard' and collect 10 metal ingots. If you get all 100 of them, you can then turn the remaining 90 for extra items. If you play on XBox 360, you get an achievement too.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Love it, it's as good and as interesting as Operation Anchorage. Although Operation Anchorage has got negative reviews, because people feel it didn't "fit" into Fallout 3, they forget that Operation Anchorage was a simulation and a crucial moment in Fallout's history.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway playing 'The Pitt' is entirely different as 'The Pitt' integrates in the actual Fallout 3 time line. After a short while you will get a broadcast signal followed by a <a href="http://www.the-screenshots.com/v/Fallout3/Fallout3_ThePitt/Fallout3-ThePitt_27_03_2009_004.jpg.html" target="_blank">message pop-up</a>, same procedure as with Operation Anchorage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The DLC "The Pitt" isn't long. If you are a slow player, perhaps you get 5-6 hours out of it at most. If you play it fast it'll be even shorter, I'd estimate about 2-3 hours tops. Before you get angry bear in mind that DLC's are NOT intended to be full expansions with tens of hours of game play. DLC's are small content patches which add a few hours at most to the game.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I want to apologize for a few things though in the clips:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) There are some "breaks" in the videos. Meaning I stopped recording to read a terminal, or to open a lock, or to browse through my pip-boy. I didn't record this because it was unessential to the game play and it would be a waste of space (All 5 clips were worth uncompressed and not trans-coded about 78 Gbyte of Disk Space!).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Don't worry though I usually started to record from this point where I stopped.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) I did NOT explore The Steelyard to its fullest extend. I did however at the point when I was recording not know this. I got back later and saw I missed a few spots (and Ingots, got my 100 ingots!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You see, I don't want to re-record this again. Because when I re-record it, I know the spots already, I know where to look and I know what to do. Recording while being in there the 1st time is something entirely different!</p>
<p>Prologue 0/4 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3Wk-X48Qo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3Wk-X48Qo</a><br />
Part 1/4 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBl0leW7Cbo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBl0leW7Cbo</a><br />
Part 2/4 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nur7DltuA8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nur7DltuA8</a><br />
Part 3/4 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtPTenScTs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtPTenScTs</a><br />
Part 4/4 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50pDYNgw-Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50pDYNgw-Y</a></p>
<p>Screenshots: <a href="http://www.the-screenshots.com/Fallout3/Fallout3_ThePitt/" target="_blank">http://www.the-screenshots.com/Fallout3/Fallout3_ThePitt/</a></p>
<p>Long story short: Enjoy and don't forget to watch in HD!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Addendum: </strong> I've got emails asking me how many ingots there are and where they all are, what the reason is to collect more than 10 ingots and if you get your items back you had to surrender at the beginning of The Pitt.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are 100 ingots total. Collecting them all is recommended insofar because you get really <a href="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Steel_Ingot#Rewards" target="_blank">awesome items</a>. As for the items you had to surrender at the beginning of The Pitt, yes, you will get them back once you beat the Arena and are summoned to the Pitt Boss Ashur.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I'm not gonna write another lengthy guide to each spot of all the metal ingots, since there are tons of them already on the internet. <a href="http://www.wouldyoukindly.com/?p=1103" target="_blank">Take this for example, all the spots for all the ingots</a>!</p>
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