I have shown you before, the awesome Stylish user style Gmail Redesigned before. The version two of this awe inspiring graphical facelift just adds to the greatness that was already there.
There are three additional scripts you can add to Firefox though that promise to make it even more customized to suit your needs.
Feeling a little blue? Google can too, thanks to this user style!
The Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC) user style adds a ‘bit of blue to the otherwise white and bland Google background. To use this style, you will need to install the Stylish extension for Firefox. Also as the designer points out on the page, this style only works for google.com. To make it work for other countries, use a plain text editor to search for “google.com” and replace all occurrences with “google.co.uk” or whatever you use.
Need a quick reminder as to what you need to do today? Now there are several ways of making Google Calendar more accessible to you via Firefox, but not too many extensions. the Google Calendar Notifier has been updated to Firefox 3 though to handle that problem for you.
Living in your status bar, the extension will pop up with your daily to do list. It provides you with robust notifications and display of your Google Calendars for today, as well as showing any upcoming all day events for tomorrow.
On the positive side, this add-on for Firefox looks like it would make the perfect companion to the browser (if your a Google Calendar user). On the bad side, if you visit the official web site for it the author says he’s not supporting it anymore.
Maybe he could hand it off to somebody interested in keeping it up?
Pick it up while you can, the Google Calendar Notifier promises to keep you up to date when it comes to keeping track of your schedule.
Like the idea of the Google Notebook add-on but you don’t want to be bothered with installing yet another extension? Google has released a useful bookmarklet for people using browsers who can’t take advantage of the browser extension.
The secret here is that this bookmarklet also works for handy dandy Firefox.
All you have to do is visit the Google Notebook Bookmarklet web site, and drag the “Note This” to your bookmark toolbar. Your done! Now clicking that link will bring up a pop-up window asking you to “Please confirm that you want to add a note from this page.”. Hit “yes” to do so, or “cancel” to go right to your notes.
Need to make Firefox a little better you say? From Gmail to Flickr and all the neat applications in between, the “better” series of add-ons for Firefox is getting, well… better looking every single time I check them out.
Here are the list of the “better” Firefox extensions and what has come with the most recent update:
Better Gmail 2 - Version 0.5.2: Updates and fixes the Redesigned skin; Adds Hide Gmail chat script.
Better Flickr - Version 0.3: Adds Firefox 3 support, Rich Edit, Photo Page Enhancer, and Thumbnail Page Enhancer.
Better GCal - Version 0.3: Adds the Redesigned skin beta by Globex Designs.
Better GReader - Version 0.3: Adds Colorful List View; Updates the Minimalistic skin; Adds international domain support including google.co.uk, google.es, google.de, and others.
Better Lifehacker - Version 0.2: Adds HTML Helper and Nested comment replies.
Better YouTube - Version 0.4.3: Adds Firefox 3 compatibility; Fixes FlowPlayer (alternate, non-autoplaying player) and YouTube Theater view.
I’ve always enjoyed Gina’s work on these plugins, cause with each I am shocked and amazed with how much functionality she’s able to pack into there. Make your Firefox a little better with these additions too!
Is Firefox 3’s search functions not powerful enough for you?
If you’d like to power it up some, you need to pick up CyberSearch. This extension allow you to perform various Google searches right from the address bar. The fun doesn’t stop there. It also displays the results in the awesome bar format along with your history.
You can do a number of special searches too, depending on the keywords that you use. You can do a Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, News Search, Book Search, Image Search, or Patent Search.
If you still need help wrapping your mind around this tool, be sure to check out the video tutorial on it they have put together for you.
Pick up this Firefox add-on on the Firefox Add-ons site or from CyberNet News. Also big congrats to Ryan and Ashley for putting out such an awesome Firefox extension! Great job!
Told you last week about Google’s plans to kill off the semi-popular Google Browser Sync extension. According to Ars Technica, while they were tossing the dirt in the hole - somebody decided to do this:
Google is distributing the Browser Sync source code under the BSD license and is making it available through a Subversion source control repository on the Google Code website.
Good news for those of us who really liked this add-on. The reason for its popularity is that it didn’t just sync up your bookmarks. It also would transfer your passwords, history and cookies.
Personally, I am looking forward to giving Weave a shot (Mozilla’s version of the same service) due to the fact that Mozilla would know how to do it best. Right now from what I have seen, it looks like it is still kind of buggy.
Not much is up on the Google Code page for BrowserSync but will be worth keeping an eye on in the next few weeks and months ahead.
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