FireFox Addons – More popular addons for firefox

November 15, 2008 at 5:35 pm · Filed under computer, firefox, Operating system, phone, shopping, tech, technology, Uncategorized, windows ·Tagged , , , , , , , ,

WebSitePulse Current Status

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wp1-150x150 WebSitePulse Current Status The WebSitePulse Current Status extension allows you to keep track and monitor any of your websites and servers using the WebSitePulse service. The addon comes with a sidebar that allows you to monitor each individual site as well as a small icon in the status bar for those of you who like to keep your screen uncluttered. The sidebar gives you detailed information about each website and the corresponding servers including the response time and the last check. The icon allows you to check to see if any of your websites are down at a glance; if green all your websites are up, if red one or more websites are down, and if yellow there is something possibly wrong with one of your websites. This addon requires a free account and API key from WebSitePulse.
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Filed under: Alerts & Updates, Extensions, Functionality, Security & Privacy, Web Development

YSlow

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ys1-150x150 YSlowYSlow, developed by Yahoo!, extends Firebug by adding additional features to measure the performance of your website to Firebug. YSlow will tell you why your page and slow and how you can fix it. If you download Firebug you might as well download YSlow — together they will save you a lot of headaches.
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Filed under: Extensions, Web Development

FireBug

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fb1 FireBugFirebug is an extension that adds functionality for web developers to Firefox. Firebug allows you to edit and debug CSS, HTML and Javascript. Firebug also allows you to monitor the response times of certain files that come over the network — perfect for figuring out what’s making you’re page load at a crawl. You can even explore the DOM with it and execute Javascript on the fly via the convenient command line.
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Quick Paste

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qp1-300x127 Quick PasteQuick Paste allows you to highlight and instantly upload text to the TinyPaste service, which allows you to display text to anyone by giving them the tinypaste url. This can be used for showing large amounts of text in IMs or showing your code for debugging help.
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Filed under: Extensions, Functionality

TwitterBar

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tw1 TwitterBarTwitterBar allows you to update your twitter status from the address bar. Just type in your tweet and press the small gray button towards the right of the address bar and it will automatically update your twitter status. If you’re using a laptop (or hate mice) you can also just add –post at the end of the text and it will also update your twitter status. You can also display the site you’re currently browsing in your Twitter status by clicking the gray button. TwitterBar is a simple extension, but it’s a must-have for Twitter users. (plus it doesn’t hog any of your precious toolbar/statusbar space!)
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Filed under: Extensions, Functionality, Social Networking & Bookmarking

FireFTP

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FireFTP is a free, cross platform, secure and fully featured FTP client extension for the Firefox browser. It has everything you expect from an FTP client including drag & drop, file hashing, remote editing, SSL and more. There’s nothing much more to say — this extension does what it says, perfectly.
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Filed under: Download Management, Extensions, Functionality

Fire Uploader

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fu1-300x164 Fire UploaderFire Uploader allows you to upload images, videos, and other files to popular services including Youtube, box.net, flickr, picasa, and facebook. Fire Uploader also allows you to upload up to 10 file simutaneously — you can also put files in a queue so they are uploaded automatically as soon as your other files are done. Fire Uploader alllows you to upload to all these different services from one compact drag and drop interface. You can also download the files from the services through the addon which is great for when you accidentally delete your photo album.
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Filed under: Download Management, Extensions, Functionality, Images & Video, Social Networking & Bookmarking

myFirefox & Vista-Aero

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ie2-150x150 myFirefox & Vista-AeroIf you’re a recent Firefox convert from Internet Explorer you’re probably used to the old interface. Now you can ease your self from the cancer that is Internet Explorer with these themes. myFirefox and Vista-Aero are themes that perfectly mirror the Internet Explorer 7 interface in Firefox. What’s the difference between myFirefox and Vista-Aero you ask? Unfortunately myFirefox is not compatible with Firefox 3, however, it works perfectly with Firefox 2. If you’ve already upgraded to Firefox 3 then you can use the Vista-Aero theme which is Firefox 3 compatible. If you have a parent or friend that refuses to switch to Firefox this theme will give them all the benefits of Firefox (security, extensions, themes, etc!) without losing the interface they’re used to.
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Filed under: Appearance, Extensions, Themes

Del.icio.us Toolbar

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del2-300x142 Del.icio.us ToolbarAre you a Del.icio.us fan? Would you like to keep track of all your bookmarks and have the ability to tag and visit your favorite sites on the go? If so, you should definitely add the Del.icio.us Toolbar for Firefox. The Del.icio.us toolbar synchronizes with your Del.icio.us website account to keep track of all your bookmarks. The toolbar also allows you to access your bookmarked pages whenever you want, you can even tag the pages on the go with it or search through your bookmarks to find the site you’re looking for. All this is integrated into your Firefox browser in a compact interface.
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Filed under: Bookmarks, Extensions, News & Feeds, Search, Social Networking & Bookmarking

1-ClickWeather

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1-ClickWeatherLike the name of the extension suggests, 1-ClickWeather allows you to check regional weather reports in only one click — provided by weather.com. It even lets you see a live Doppler map of your area. You also have access to the ten day, 72 hour, and hourly weather reports. You are also This extension is currently compatible up to Firefox 3.0 Beta 5.
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Sony Xperia X1 – New! Is it better than the iPhone? Read review

November 14, 2008 at 9:39 pm · Filed under computer, firefox, Operating system, phone, shopping, tech, technology, Uncategorized, windows ·Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Hands-on review: Sony Xperia X1

It’s not an iPhone, and for many that’s half the appeal: Sony’s $800 (unlocked) Xperia X1 is the most expensive mainstream cell phone on the market, but it’s one of the sexiest handsets around that doesn’t start with an “i” and end in “phone.”

The main X1 interface is unlike any other handset you’ve tried, and you’ll notice the difference immediately as you punch into the XPanel home screen, a custom dashboard that lets you quickly — and stylishly — jump from one application to another, usually with just a single touch. You get nine panes to work with. By default they include an FM radio, calendar, clock, photo viewer, and the Opera web browser (a much appreciated improvement over the IE browser included with Windows Mobile, atop which all of this is built). Some Xperia-specific apps, including a bizarre system that uses colored fish as alerts, are also on tap to baffle you for months. Dig into the settings and you can mix and match the apps you want to appear and download new apps from Sony’s website.

The phone is a horizontal slider, and when closed the front of the phone features a three-inch touchscreen (with a whopping 800 x 480 pixel resolution) with a small collection of buttons beneath it. Of special note is the center action button, which also works as a tiny touchpad in many applications while you drag your fingertip around on it.

Flip the phone on its side and slide the screen up and you get a full QWERTY keyboard, a real blessing for those of us cursed with the inability to type on touchscreens. The buttons on the keyboard are a bit too flush for my taste — typing with two thumbs didn’t work well for me — but it beats tapping on the screen with a stylus. The design is very sturdy (and not too heavy at 5.6 ounces), and the phone, on the whole, feels like it will be able to handle multiple drops to the floor.

Other features include a nice 3.2 megapixel camera (though it’s dog slow to focus) and a microSD slot (no Memory Stick for this bad boy), which is located under the battery panel cover. The phone supports 3G, but only if you use an AT&T SIM card, but it also has Wi-Fi built in to pick up the slack no matter what network you’re on. GPS (and Google Maps) are also in the box. I haven’t done a full battery drain test on the handset, but Sony rates it for six hours. Judging by experience and the size of the battery, that seems like a fair guess.

In addition to notes above, I have a few smallish complaints with the phone. The biggest problem is that Windows Mobile underlies the innovative XPanel, and I found I had to scurry back into WM more often than I’d like in order to get certain things done. I wish Sony would have enhanced the OS it uses on its Walkman handsets instead of building on Windows… though I do understand the benefits that Windows Mobile gets you, including email and application viewers. But still, do we really need both Opera and IE on one handset?

The X1 also has some general performance problems: Apps load so slowly that I often found myself clicking a button twice, which would then inadvertently undo what I was trying to do while I waited for the phone to catch up. Everything is kind of pokey, even the web browser. Whether it’s a slow CPU or all those layers of OS that slows the Xperia down I don’t know, but it’s bothersome to the point of frustration.

Lastly there’s that little matter of price tag. Who will pay $800 for a cell phone? No matter how excited I am about the mini-touchpad and the XPanel system, I can’t justify spending nearly a grand on this handset. Subsidize it to $200 with a contract and I’m on board.

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firefox addons – Some of the very Best Firefox Add-Ons

November 14, 2008 at 7:48 pm · Filed under computer, firefox, Operating system, tech, technology, windows ·Tagged , , , , ,

Speed Dial: One of the Handiest Firefox Extensions

My collection of useful extensions for Firefox is always growing and being edited, and my latest favorite extension is Speed Dial. You may be familiar with what Speed Dial does from using either the Opera or the Google Chrome browser. The extension lets you collect web sites that you visit frequently in one location so that you can easily “speed dial” your way to them. It’s a one-minute installation if you use Firefox, and well worth having.

After you install Speed Dial and restart Firefox, you can put an Add to Speed Dial icon directly on your Firefox toolbar. It’s the purple icon at the far right of the toolbar shown above.

To add a web site to your Speed Dial list, just go to the site, and use the purple Speed Dial icon to add it to your list of sites you frequently visit. There is a small black arrow at the bottom right of the icon that lets you pull down a numbered list of your Speed Dial sites.

There are several ways to get to your Speed Dial sites, and you can get there much faster than typing a URL in the address bar. My favorite is to simply use the Ctrl key on my keyboard plus the number I’ve assigned to a particular site. For example, Ctrl+1 on my keyboard will instantly pop up WebWorkerDaily.com.

Once you’ve assigned your Speed Dial sites, you can enter this string into your Firefox address bar to see thumbnails of all your Speed Dial sites: “chrome://speeddial/content.” You can also choose to have this Speed Dial view sit in a new window or in a new tab.

The similar features in Opera and Chrome are well-liked, and time-savers. If you’re not using this extension in Firefox, definitely try it.

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