I have been fighting my own battle with the new Yahoo! Mail beta ads for some time now. Thanks to their partnership with my DSL provider AT&T, I now have the new “ads” feature and for some darn reason I just can not warm up to it. Well thanks to a reader submission I now have a way to ditch them and go back to the clean Yahoo! Mail beta interface.
All you need to do is to pick [...]

I know I have been a little light on the posting as of late – just been busy with a dozen different things. I am about to make it up to you though by giving you all the links I collected over the past few days and have yet to share with anybody. Your the first to get a look – now don’t you forgive me?

Remove 3rd Party Apps from Facebook.com!
Tips – Customize and Sync Firefox
Increase RSS Feedburner [...]

Hey I see you, walking down the street – keeping your eye on me. Don’t think that I am not on to your little tricks, because I know exactly what you are doing. You are tracking me aren’t you?
If you have found yourself in the same boat I am in right now you might want to pick up the TrackMeNot extension for Firefox. Not sure what its about? Here is how the creators explain it:
TrackMeNot [...]

Remember the old trick to open Google Notebook in the Firefox sidebar? Well the same thing works with the helpful Remember the Milk to do list web site. All you need to do is bookmark this link here:
+ Bookmark This Link or Drag it to the Bookmarks Tool Bar!
Then once it is bookmarked…
Right-click on that bookmark and select “Properties”.
Check the box that says, “Load this bookmark in sidebar” and you are good to go! Go to say [...]

Need to find a new Firefox theme, but don’t want a new way to browse through them all? There is no doubt that there are a lot of themes out there to pick from – and the folks at Learn Firefox have put together a really nice way for you to navigate through them.
Welcome to Firefox Themes presented by Learn Firefox! Here you will find screenshots of all themes that are compatible with Firefox 2.0. The link located [...]

Unlike most parental software you can put on your PC, I think Glubble might stand a chance to really do some good. Glubble is an attempt at making a kid friendly version of the Firefox browser. To get it up and running, all you need to do is to install an extension. Its just that simple
Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the [...]

Ever think of your browsing as a movie? Instead of getting big explosions are awesome fight sequences, you get pictures of web sites as your staring roll. Ok, nobody said your browsing would ever make an exciting movie.
ThumbStrips is an extension that lets you view your history in the form of a filmstrip of screenshots. You can save and share filmstrips on innovation.intuit.com as well.
This is a really neat and new way to look [...]

Need to do a little on screen measuring? If you have Firefox then the MeasureIt extension should do the trick.

As you can see it delivers a brain dead simple way of seeing how big that area of your screen is. I could see this tool being really helpful for web developers or anybody else that works with graphics on the Internet.

Trying to browse through your old saved browser history can be a pain in Firefox in comparison with Internet Explorer.
IE has “Temporary Internet Files” – Firefox has a pain in the rear interface for browsing through its cache. One way to fix this design blunder though is do download and install the CacheViewer extension for Firefox.
This extenion is a GUI Front-end of and for “about:cache”. It allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files. [...]

Feeling a little paranoid these days?
If people are peeking over your shoulder or watching what you are doing you might need a little help to feel like you are staying secure. I have a Firefox extension in my vanilla colored top secret folder that I am ready to pass under the proverbial desk right to you.
So what is the Distrust extension for Firefox all about?
Distrust is a Firefox extension that came to fill the need to privacy on your [...]