A few hours back when I visited Digg, I found it to be showing a message that it was undergoing a redesign and will be adding some new features. Just now I visited Digg again and saw it’s new design.

Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signaling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video content directly on Digg. Another key feature addition is the launch of “Top 10 Stories,” which is a quick view of the ten hottest stories on Digg at any given time.

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StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar that let’s you discover websites, videos, pictures, etc according to your interests. It has been such a hit that they are launching a separate site for video referral called StumbleVideo.

Just like StumbleUpon, StumbleVideo will let you find interesting videos but without a browser toolbar, i.e, it works within the browser itself.

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If you type in about:mozilla in the Firefox address bar and hit enter, you will be surprised to see a mysterious verse from the Book of Mozilla.

Here’s what you will find:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

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Neil Patel has given a few tips on how not to get your URL banned from Digg. He states that some of the things that the Digg community considers as Spam are

* Old news
* Repeated stories that keep on getting submitted, such as “iPod Spoof Commercials”.
* Stories that provide basic information such as “How To Increase Your Blog Traffic”. Although many of these types of stories hit the Digg front page, a lot of diggers hate them and are making noise about them by marking them as spam, or even emailing the Digg staff.
* Stories submitted by website owners.

I would also like to add that I have noticed most of the Diggers hate blogs and often mark stories from them as Spam without even reading it. Even aaaz, currently Top 3 Digg user, had told me about this once -

1. Digg bans lot of blogs as splogs so be careful

2. Digg users may report your posts as Spam for fun as Digg has bad crowd

Also, read the tips from a Top Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage.

Do you agree with me that most Diggers hate blogs and often comment and mark stories from them as Spam?

My favorite Firefox theme, Macfox, has been updated and is now compatible with Firefox 2.0. There is also a Graphite version of Macfox available for download here.

macfox II continues offering the clean look of Mac OS X Firefox for your PC - includes Aqua-style UI elements and enhancements. Clean, professional and elegant. Redesigned from the ground up on the Firefox 2.* framework, macfox II preserves the new features found in the browser.

Download Macfox Firefox Theme

Utom has released some free Icons of Web 2.0 logos like Del.ico.us, YouTube, FeedBurner, Technorati, Flickr and an RSS icon. The icons look like candy to me

You can download them in both PNG and ICO format from here.

Found via MaxPower

Yesterday I had complained here that Firefox 2 lacks one of my favorite features in Opera- Recently Closed Tabs.

Today, thanks to Forever Geek, I found that Firefox 2 already had that feature!

You can access the recently closed tabs list under the History menu. It gives you the option to re-open tabs you’ve closed while in a particular session. You can also open all recently closed tabs in a new tabbed window. When you close the browser, the list is cleared.

Had you seen this feature in Firefox 2 earlier?

Most of you have heard and tried the popular Firefox Extension - Fasterfox, but have you tried the even better Fastererfox?

Fastererfox is a tweaked version of Fasterfox that allows you to improve your surfing speeds even faster (especially to regularly visited sites) with some new features, contained in a new Tab called “Thrash” which you can find in the options settings.

The 3 new features given by Fastererfox are

1. The ability to force pages to be prefetched, ignoring webmasters attempts to stop Fastererfox
2. A choice of dynamically created pages to cache (ASP, ASP .NET, JSP, STM). Quite often many dynamically written pages are fairly static and can be cached
3. The maximum number of links to preload on current page. This is set to a maximum of 100 by default and can be set to a higher value

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I just read on Shivaranjan’s blog that the Firefox extension, Fasterfox, is now compatible with Firefox 2.0.

Firefox fans who must have upgraded to the latest Firefox 2.0 would have been disappointed over the incompatibility of Fasterfox extension. The developer of Fastefox extension has updated it to be compatible with Firefox 2.0.

Earlier I had used MR Tech’s Local Install extension to make Fasterfox compatible with Firefox 2.0, but now an update can fix the problem

For those of you who have not tried Fasterfox yet,

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

Download Fasterfox 2.0

After installing Firefox 2 today, I found that some of my favorite extensions like ImgLikeOpera, Fasterfox and SessionSaver were not compatible with Firefox 2.0.

After searching for a while I found the solution for it from Liew’s Blog- MR Tech’s Local Install extension.

The primary function of MR Tech’s Local Install extension is to provide the tools needed to install and manage extensions and themes locally. It has the function to make old extensions compatible with new Firefox.

After installing the extension, right-click on any incompatible extension and select “Make Compatible” and restart Firefox. That’s it!