Firefox 3 was recently released to the world. Here are some links covering its launch:

Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 - lifehacker.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 - arcanology.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
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Here are two handy tips for working in text editors, guaranteed to increase your productivity.
Lewis writes:
Holding alt whilst dragging in the mouse in a cocoa text editor will change the cursor to a crosshair and allow you to ‘block’ select text in a square. This is particularly useful when working with tabular data.

As Lewis notes, [...]

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task, there’s the fast way, and the slow way. The slow way to crop a photo from the internet would be to save it to your Downloads folder, open it in preview, then crop it.
The fast way is to hit Shift+Command+4 and take a screenshot of [...]

Cyerduck is a great application for uploading and downloading files using FTP. It manages to be customizable while remaining fast and light-weight. Version 3.03b introduces some great new features.
Don’t let the cute icon fool you–Cyberduck will handle most of your FTP needs. Here are 9 reasons why you should be using Cyberduck.
9. Upload from the [...]

Lately I’ve made it a habit to memorize many of the keyboard shortcuts for manipulating text. These shortcuts can generally be used across any Cocoa application and are great for increasing your productivity.
Download the Text Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet in PDF format.

Do you see any shortcuts that are missing?

After our last tip on quickly switching windows in Photoshop, you all suggested I do more. So I recently found three handy tips that saved me time.
Duplicating Slices with Option
Creating slices can be a pain to make over and over again, thankfully there’s a quicker way. Select a slice with Command+Click then Option+Click to duplicate [...]

I perform a lot of domain whois lookups. If I have an idea for a domain and want to check its availability, I generally do a search for domain whois and then lookup my domain with one of the listings.
There’s nothing wrong with this process, but with Quicksilver we can improve any task we do [...]

This problem has been driving me nuts for years, and I’m slightly ashamed to admit I just realized it has an extremely simple fix.
It’s always bugged me that I could tab through every form field except checkboxes and radio buttons.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about let me explain. When filling out a [...]

iCalendar is one of the first applications that made me lust for a Mac. In many ways it’s the essence of an OS X application, both beautiful and functional.
One great way to make iCal a little more usable is by subscribing to shared calendars.
A shared calendar is a calendar that is maintained by somebody else, [...]

Let’s face it, sometimes we all need a little help focusing. Surfing the Internet is too tempting and we just can’t seem to get something done.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve focused on something only to be distracted by a link, IM, Tweet, e-mail etc…
Once I’m off my train of thought it’s hard [...]