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Wallflower stops sites from socializing

As social networking has gone mainstream, so have the flock of buttons embedded in Web pages to get you to promote a story on the multitude of social-networking services you use. One Web developer has written a quick-and-dirty add-on that hides two of those gnat-like buttons from view. Dietrich Ayala, a developer for Mozilla based in Portland, Ore., wrote a new add-on called Wallflower to cut down on the memory use of buttons that he found superfluous.

Wallflower is a restartless add-on for Firefox, which means you won't have to restart your browser after installing it, and it performs … Read more

Speakers that keep a low profile

If the world is truly flat, as the electronics industry would have us believe, then why do most speakers still have some dimension to them? Final Sound is trying to address that conundrum with its wall-mountable 300i series, which stands 4 feet tall but is only 1 inch deep, according to Shiny Shiny.

Final Sound says the speakers and two new subwoofer models can be used with any brands of audio and video equipment. If this dimension-less trend keeps up, we may all be disappearing into the nearest wall.