Twalala (I'm Not Listeining)

Oh wow, this is what loads and loads and LOADS of people have been asking for on Twitter:

twalala

A web-based Twitter client (currently in early development) which gives you the ability to mute the people you follow if they’re getting a bit chatty. Or maybe you want to filter out tweets that contain specific keywords from your twittersteam. And don’t worry about missing your important @replies or direct messages; we’ve built in ways to let you define what twalala sees and doesn’t see. You can also use twalala to post and reply directly to Twitter.

I'm so on it...

In, Out, Zoom It All About

So upgrading to Firefox 3, then. Very nice, lots of spiffy features, faster page load times, better rendering, etc. The world and his wife have blogged about it, no need to say any more here - but wait!

Something is not quite right. Why does the...when I...what the? Could they possibly have reversed the directions of the handy Ctrl+ScrollWheel zoom in/out feature?

Yes.

And that does not bode well for the muscle memory of long-term users of the aforementioned feature like what I am. Still, about:config to the rescue; make the following change (default value is 1):

mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = -1

More riveting debate on this issue here: Mozilla Bug #141476

I am in total agreement with the last commenter:

Pulling the mousewheel DOWN is like PULLING the page toward you. Pushing the mousewheel UP is like PUSHING the page away from you. Think of how a fishing reel or a pulley works.

Er, yes. Carry on :)