I like to use Firefox wherever possible and it’s becoming more possible by the day. I have to use one particular site which uses ActiveX and is very broken in Firefox. There is the IETab Extension which allows you use to IE embedded in Firefox - IE Tabs. You can also set it so that certain locations always open in IE.
There have been bugs with it in the past but it seems to be stable on the current release cool extension!
I had some jpeg images of a scanned document which I wanted to mail out to someone. The obvious way to do this is as a pdf rather than make them open a new image for each page. It turns out ImageMagick is rather good for this. My images are called pg01.jpg, pg02.jpg, and so on. Type at the bash prompt the following:
$ convert -page A4+0+0 pg*.jpg doc.pdf
And the result is a single pdf with all the images in order. Ooops page 2 was upside down
$ convert -rotate180 pg2.jpg pg2a.jpg
$ rm pg2.jpg
Convert again as above and all done.
ImageMagick is available pretty much whatever you are running Windows, Cygwin, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris etc.
Every New Years Day I change the battery on my smoke alarm. It’s an easy one to keep but it could save your life.