Last night at Terra, Mozilla hosted a birthday party to celebrate 5 years of Firefox. Besides having the Creme Brulee Cart and The Pie Truck, they had some amazing cakes (see above).

Are you a Firefox user? I’m in love with it.

Just login here and check the Facebook Lite box: http://lite.facebook.com/settings/defaultsite/

If you use Facebook a lot, you know it’s kinda sluggish. I am a huge fan of Facebook Lite for many reasons, including a better user experience, less clutter, less functionality, and none of those awful app requests.

Your mail and calendar software should be quick and simple to use. Here are some quick tips that should save you some time and frustration:

⌘ + [1-6]

If you’re a Firefox user, this will be native to you. Command + [number] corresponds to the tabs in the web browser. In Entourage, each app (Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes) is represented by a number. It’s the main navigation of the program.

CTRL + [1-5]

I just learned this trick today, and it’s actually what prompted me to write this how-to.

When you are in your mail stream, sometimes you have action items that you want to attend to later, but it’s not always convenient to right click and say “Mark as Unread”. Instead, hit CTRL + 1 when an important message is highlighted.

This actions flags that message as a to-do item. You will be reminded by the end of the day to respond to the message.

CTRL + 2 makes it due tomorrow. CTRL + 3: you’ll be reminded to act on the following day.

⌘ + J

Hit Command + J to forward a message. Not to be confused with Command + R (Reply) or Command + Shift + R (Reply to All).

⌘ + 9

Command + 9 shows or hides the My Day widget:

⌘ + SHIFT + J

This one is a little harder to remember, but if you get a lot of junk mail, it’s pretty handy. This command adds a message to the Spam folder.

Luckily, the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac will include Outlook instead of Entourage.

Bonus:

CNET is basically saying that a tweet should receive equal coverage next to blogs and videos. I think this is a breakthrough for journalism world. It will force the old print guys to take another look at micro-blogging as a respectable source for real-time info.

Who writes these explanations? Do they come from Brizzly or WhatTheTrend?

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1. Log in to your Facebook home page and then click the More link at the bottom of the far lefthand column.
2. Find the “Status Updates” box and drag it to the very top of the list.
3. Click “Status Updates” to load that view. Now when you login, you will see the old view.

PC World originally posted this trick.

Earlier today, there was a lot of buzz about the new Google Chrome OS beta. I downloaded it, and installed it… and then found out it was a hoax. The fake is actually based on OpenSuSE, which looks a lot like Ubuntu.

It’s funny to see how many people retweeted it before even checking the validity of the ISO.

Threadsy is bringing it all together better than anyone I’ve seen to date. They’ve done such a good job that I don’t even need to login to my GMail, Facebook, or Twitter anymore.

Rob Goldman, creator of Threadsy, says that they are not just aggregating the content. They are integrating it.

First time I logged in, I wasn’t really impressed, but the more I check it out, the more I want to use it.

The list of features that are available in Threadsy are too long to list here. You can comment and like posts on Facebook, easily quick-archive messages in GMail, and follow or unfollow users on Twitter, all directly within Threadsy’s interface.

If you want to try Threadsy, use this invite link. I want to know what you think of it. Please comment here or send me an @reply on Twitter.

I love the grid layout and clear headlines. The colors are bold, but they don’t interfere with the content.

CNN added the “News Pulse” tab to their main navigation. It’s different view of the news based on what is popular, how many comments, or what the subject matter is.

There is also a better view of your profile on CNN.

You can save stories, view your comments, and see news relevant to your locale.

This is step in the right direction for CNN. They have had a good design in the past, but now it’s even better.

There is a link that says “View Live Feed”… but wait. What makes something “news” and what makes something “live”? Okay, I’ll click the new button.

When I click the new “View Live Feed” button, I’m taken to a new page that shows stuff other than status; the stuff that used to be in the news feed like friend relationships, event RSVPs, and group joins.

But I thought it’s supposed to be live and updating in real time? Okay, I’ll wait.

…

…

Nothing’s updating. I had to hit refresh to see new posts in my live feed. Even the old “View new posts” link that used to come up every few minutes is gone.

Facebook is making an Ajax call on this page, but it’s returning an error:

Okay, back to news view.

Wait, why is there a post from my friend Nini that says “Go Raiders” from yesterday at 10:19 a.m? What makes that news and the other thousands of posts per hour that have happened since then… not visible?

Stuff in my “news” feed is not in any particular order either.

What is going on here? For someone who uses Facebook a lot, I don’t understand what I’m supposed to look at. Imagine how the average user will feel.

The worst thing you can do as a software team is release something and have it blow up in your face. Please fix this guys…

There was no warning to users about the change, only a post on Facebook’s blog explaining why the changes were made and what they mean.

They’re messin with the social graph…

The other thing about this taylored news feed is that I didn’t decide what was important news… Facebook did. I think this needs to be more in the hands of the users.