If you’d like to beautify Firefox to look like other browsers (Camino, Safari), you should download this handy little add-on called Foxdie (Mozilla link). The add-on allows you to instantaneously change the browser’s buttons, color and tab settings (no app restart required) from the (web-based) settings menu. After having piloted it for about a month now, I’d also say it has relatively no footprint or interference with browsing speed.

Thomas Rye recently posted a detailed piece on self-defense and martial arts. I think this to be the perfect follow-up reading assignment for anyone that hopes to defend their man-bag from the forces of darkness.

“There’s 1001 ways to hit a man, but the ones that are extremely efficient comprise a much shorter list.”
— Thomas Rye

Grant Blakeman is a freelance designer and developer living in Boulder, Colorado. His clients include Carbonmade.com and The Autumn Film. He has posted a lot of incredible creative and tech content on his blog recently. The blog is one of my top reads, so you absolutely must add him to your weekly reading.

I’d like to call-out a few recent items from Grant:

1. A prototype for an HTML5-based Video player. It’s great to think that we’re only a year or so away from offering video without the use of Flash or Silverlight plugins. On a related note, at the end of January Google announced that they would no longer support IE 6 for Google Docs or Google Sites.

2. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain’s design work. Jesse did some top-notch work for the redesign of Campaign Monitor in 2008-09.

3. The CGI work of Alex Roman (via IS050)

Grant is featured on my “Best of” list on Twitter — that list is always evolving, but I will quickly say that he would be the last person I’d remove from the list. Lastly, after all of the linkage above, you will more than likely appreciate his office space.

Grant Blakeman's office (photo by Grant)