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Jetpack addon enables dead-simple notifications in Firefox
There are already plenty of ways to send notifications out of Firefox into apps like Snarl and Growl, but what about the other way around? If you work, play, and live in your browser wouldn't it be nice if your notifications could appear there instead of needing to install a standalone notifier?
The Notify addon for Jetpack does just that. With a short snippet of JQuery code, developers can easily push notifications to Firefox. They'll appear even when sent from background tabs or from external applications, as long as Firefox is still running.
Zach Waugh, who created the addon, has made all his code available under the MIT license, so you're free to use it in both commercial and personal apps.
The Notify addon for Jetpack does just that. With a short snippet of JQuery code, developers can easily push notifications to Firefox. They'll appear even when sent from background tabs or from external applications, as long as Firefox is still running.
Zach Waugh, who created the addon, has made all his code available under the MIT license, so you're free to use it in both commercial and personal apps.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
