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A new type of “Browser Customization” tool started to be a real developing tool for addons in Mozilla Firefox.

Mozilla Labs released the version 0.7 of Jetpack!
I will not explain how to use and how to install it (you could even watch video tutorial on the website) but i will show a little example of it.
Once you installed Jetpack, a special tab (about:jetpack) will appear with several tabs: a smart description, a list of installed Jetpack addons, a developing window, tutorial with some demos, memory usage monitor and api tutorial.  In tutorial tab there are examples about scripting under this API but not all are working..
Anyway, there is a script that is checking every minute how many unread mails you have in your gmail account and it shows an icon on your mozilla status bar.  I edited it a little bit and now it will show a toast notification if new mails arrived.  Here the code:
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or in other words ..“How to Create a Smart WebApplication to see Geo Infos of Ff posts”
This tutorial born as a little developers guide to integrate the Google Apis with the FriendFeed Apis.
First of all you need two authorization key, one for friendFeed (https://friendfeed.com/account/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fregister) and the other one for the google Maps (http://code.google.com/intl/it-IT/apis/maps/signup.html).
In this tutorial I don’t want to speak about the google widget and other possible integration of this kind of tools, but I simply want to explain the main things that you need to know to create this kind of tools…
What do you need else?
Now we have the keys to use the APIs and we need to develop our application..but first we need to know the basics APIs model of friendfeed.
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Do you need to store latitude/longitude coordinates of an address, or show a little input to choose a point in Google Maps? Here is a little solution to this problem: extend the TextBox to interact with Google Maps! 
read my full post at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/custom-controls/gmapinput.aspx