Fighting Spam With Firefox

Comments (1) · December 31, 2006 at 5:00 am · Firefox Security

These days it looks like the war on spam is getting to become a harder and harder battle to fight. Thankfully though, there are a few select applications and services that help us fight on the side of good.

One of those would be the SpamReport extension for Firefox. This extension allows you to easily report Web sites using spamdexing methods to artificially improve their ranking through simplified access to Google’s SpamReport service. It might not be a cure to the problem, but it is a start.

+ Learn More About and Install the SpamReport Extension for Firefox!

Blue Ice Firefox Theme

Comments off · December 30, 2006 at 5:00 am · Firefox Themes

Would you like for your Firefox usage to become a little more round and blue? An interesting theme if nothing else, Blue Ice gives you little round blue icons for just about everything.

+ Download and Install the Blue Ice Theme for Firefox!

Really Huge Firefox Logo

Comments off · December 29, 2006 at 7:55 am · Entertainment

You can file this post under useless knowledge - and only interesting for a select few that like to see really odd things. Yesterday I was reading that somebody had possibly created the world’s biggest Firefox logo over at CyberNet. How could this be true?

I’m not sure if this is really the world’s largest Firefox logo but I would have to say that it is pretty close! It weighs in at 9.66MB and stretches 20502 x 19839 pixels. I mirrored the image on FileHo because I didn’t want to link to the private server that Jake sent me in the tip. I furiously tried to upload it to a photo service but Flickr only allows 5MB images for free accounts and AllYouCanUpload errored out each time despite it being a restriction-free photo service.

Somebody has way too much free time on his or her hands.

Different Flavors of the Default Firefox Theme

Comments (2) · December 28, 2006 at 8:32 am · Firefox Themes

Julien promised me that there would be more Cylence themes to come, and I was not disappointed to see them pop up on Mozilla’s Web site a few days ago.

Here is the list thus far:

Cylence Theme
Cylence Theme : Diamond Variation
Cylence Theme : Sapphire Variation
Cylence Theme : Ruby Variation
Cylence Theme : Obsidian Variation

For those of you who do not know, the Cylence themes are a different variation of the default Firefox theme. They provide a polished look, tinted with at least one color for good measure.

Only question I have is where is my emerald theme? :)

Firefox Calendars

Comments off · December 28, 2006 at 8:25 am · Entertainment

I always hate this time of year because I wait till the last minute to find a new calendar.

I like to have a less than digital one so that I can write dates and important information on it. With time management, I am still a little behind the times old school. One set of calendars that caught my attention yesterday were these on and about Firefox.

Now you can promote Firefox all the new year long with this 2007 calendars created by yours truly. They are available as PDFs in A4 and Letter sizes in two colors: Dark and Fire. Hopefully, some more will come soon.

I have to say these are pretty neat and I might have to save one for myself.

+ Get the Firefox Calendars at Mozilla Links!

Wiki Editing Help

Comments (1) · December 28, 2006 at 5:00 am · General Posts

I do not pretend to know much about wikis on the Web, what they are there for or what you should really do with them. Of course, neither does eighty percent of the Web, so I do not feel so much out of the loop just yet. That is where a Firefox extension like Wikipedia Toolbar comes into play.

The Wikipedia extension makes editing of Wikipedia pages easier by adding a new toolbar to your browser and by providing new menu items in the context menu (right mouse key). You can read more details, have a look at it or jump right to the installation..

It might not make wikis any more interesting or teach you how to use it. It will though make editing them a heck of a lot easier.

+ Download and Learn More About the Wikipedia Toolbar for Firefox!

Side Note: to get this extension to work in Firefox 2, you will need to use Mr Tech Local Install

Email This! Tutorials and Help

Comments (1) · December 27, 2006 at 11:23 pm · Firefox Usability

Now Email This has been one of my favorite extensions for some time now.

For those of you who might not know, it allows you to quickly send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and more. I just now found out though that on the official Web site they have put up a video tutorial about the extension as well.

It is nice to see extensions from the past that are still being well taken care of as the versions of Firefox move on.