With this extension you get direct access to a wide variety of Digg pages with just one click. The fly-out menus generated by a single right-click are organized exactly like Digg’s site, so it’s easy to jump directly to a category or sub-category of posts, choosing the time period they were submitted and the sort order.

Normally, it would take four clicks to see the most-dugg Offbeat News of the past 24 hours. That would mean waiting for four different pages to load before finally getting to where you want to go; this extension cuts your navigation time to a fraction of what it was by getting you there in just one pageload!

It’s common among the “Diggaholics” to complain about the speed of the Digg.com. Even though it’s just a well-organized collection of links and text, Digg can be a painfully slow site, especially at peak times. With so many users and so many database queries, it’s not surprising that you often have to wait several seconds just to view a single page.

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The PlayStation 3 is a video game console created by Sony Corp. Aside from playing games, it also offers an option to install other operating systems such as Linux. This page gives instructions on how to install Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu onto a PlayStation 3. The instructions contained in this page will work if you have the PlayStation 3 firmware version 1.60 or greater installed.

Shortcuts:

The links below are where the Live-CD images are located. Download the Ubuntu distribution you intend to install on the PlayStation 3.

• Ubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Edubuntu

Once you have downloaded the CD images, burn the images onto a CD.

Social bookmarking service Del.icio.us has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons, but until recently it didn’t sync with your account and bring bookmarks and tags to the browser. A few months ago they quietly released a new version that basically takes over the Firefox bookmarking function, but it wasn’t syncing fast enough for power users.

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Not only is it absolutely free it’s also fairly regularly updated and packed with features. You can easily import graphics from anywhere (even dll’s and exe files) on your computer and turn them to icons, furthermore it creates a set of icons in various sizes/formats when you save your work. Full support for transparency (alpha channel) and more than 40 effects/filters makes this a great time-saver for those extensively using/working with icons.

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.

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Read the requirements and grab the latest version of IcoFX (v1.5.01). It’s available in 16 languages and also as a portable edition for your USB dongle or similar...

One of the largest online retailers has let slip the entire launch strategy for Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 and its various individual apps — and revealed that PowerPC-based Macs may soon become second-class citizens in the program designer’s eyes.

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Update:

Yesterday Adobe officially announced the third generation of their Creative Suite series. With 13 new (updated) products and 6 separate “suites”;

The Adobe® Creative® Suite 3 family offers you choice— in the combination of creative tools you master, the design disciplines you explore, and the richness and scope of content you create. This revolutionary new release includes six editions, each combining tightly integrated, industry-leading components that enable you to handle virtually any creative task.

I’m curious though and are really looking forward to give several of their new releases a test-drive.