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CoconutBattery Reports (among other things) the current capacity of your MacBook battery compared to its original capacity. Warning, what it finds may be disheartening. 

Twitter snags Summize Please keep the fail whale away from Summize, their search has been the only thing keeping Twitter usable (for me) these past few months. Here’s hoping the “Replies” tab just turns into a Summize search for @username. Ooh, and how about letting us customize that “Replies” tab search string? 

Transmit. TextMate. Tabs Double-good. (via) 

Song Summoner Music × (Squenix + RPG) = frickin’ genius. I though about doing something similar as a Mint Pepper a while back. Mapping data from each of the default panes to different stats—Referrers to strength, Pages to agility, Searches to intelligence and Visits to hit points (obviously)—and then pitting Mint installations against each other. Shoulda-woulda-coulda. 

Shortwave Firefox Search Plugin While Safari allows you to access individual Bookmarks Bar items with Apple + [1-9] keyboard shortcuts Firefox sadly does not offer an analog. So Brendan Borlase created a Search Plugin that passes commands to Shortwave. The best part? Apple + K focuses the search field for mouse-free Shortwave surfing in Firefox too. 

Unexpectedly Quit Love the logo. Mike Essl does something productive with his Adobe Frustration CS3. I tend to exhibit Dark Seeker-like symptoms when using unresponsive apps: extreme aggression, elevated heart rate, hyperventilating, um, hair loss. (via) 

Shortwave for the paranoid Uses a self-hosted JavaScript file as opposed to a plain text file to avoid passing through shortwaveapp.com. I would have called it “Tinfoil Hat.” 

Favicons Did you know that most modern web browsers allow any supported image format as a favicon if you use the <link /> tag? One of the many tidbits I picked up while developing Fever. 

Twitter Quick Reply Favelet John Resig with this handy favelet for replying from a Twitter status permalink. Perfect if you’re subscribed to a Summize replies feed and the official page is disabled. 

Thou shalt…nevermind “Many of their promised game-changing technologies—Jini, DHTML, and countless others—never panned out.” *cough* Sorry, what? DHTML? You mean JavaScript? Or to use the (uninformed) parlance of our times, Ajax? Never panned out? The internet is advertising. And how is the majority of that advertising served? With good old-fashioned “DHTML.”