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Check out Rafael Robayna’s Canvas Painter page. Requires Firefox 1.5, of course. For more information about Canvas and how to use it, hit the Canvas category over at the Mozilla Developer Center.

Big, big exciting day. Firefox 1.5 has launched, a little over a year since Firefox 1.0. That said, go download it, then hit Addons.mozilla.org to check out some of the awesome extensions that are available.

If you’re an extension developer, don’t forget about the Extend Firefox contest. Tons of great prizes, and lots of time left to enter!

Just a reminder that the Extend Firefox contest is well under way, but there’s still lots of time left to create and submit your new or updated extension. Contest rules can be found here.

If you need help getting started, there’s a fair bit of documentation available a the Mozilla Developer Center, and an active IRC channel called “#extdev” on the irc.mozilla.org server.

Lots of great prizes are up for grabs, so now’s a great time to get started!

This is a cute, and useful, article. Install Firefox comes in at #5.

You love your mom, right? Remember all those times she took you to soccer practice? And that time when she was the only one clapping in the audience during your ‘recital’? She’s always been there for you, and this Thanksgiving weekend it is time to give a little love back. Since we are not the sentimental type here at Download Squad (flowers and puppies just don’t do it for us), we thought we’d offer up 10 tips to make mom’s computing experience more enjoyable. So, take a break from the annual long weekend of awkward conversations, bad football games, and watching TV reruns in anticipation of the big feast. It’s time to fix mom’s PC!

Boolean got a brand new XBox360 yesterday. From what I’ve heard, this is nothing short of a minor miracle since they managed to sell out of the damned things seemingly before stores even opened. Remarkable.

Anyhow, while Boolean was out and about on his ongoing shopping extravaganza (xbox, games, some sort of special cable, memory card, beer), he bought me a present: a brand new (blue!) Nintendo DS! Knowing that new game systems are basically useless without games, he also picked up a copy of Nintendogs which, essentially, boils down to being a puppy simulator. It’s unspeakably cute.

Since Boolean was all caught up driving some seriously shiny virtual cars around, I ran off to the bookstore, stopping at the game shop long enough to pick up three more DS titles: MarioKart, Sims2, and Trace Memory. Quick reviews: MarioKart is fun, Sims2 is fun (but not even remotely Simmish), and Trace Memory (so far) is a lot of really boring dialogue interspersed by me getting annoyed because I’m already stuck. Chances are good that I’ll pick up a few more games today. Currently my “to buy” list is: Kirby, Space Invaders Revolution, Zoo Keeper, Lost in Blue, and Advance Wars.

If you know of any DS games you might think I’d like, feel free to leave a comment. I’m actively looking for recommendations, particularly for RPGs, Puzzle games, and Adventure titles (or interesting FPSs such as Tomb Raider or No One Lives Forever).