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· August 11, 2008 at 5:58 am · Firefox Usability
It has been a long time since I spend a lot of quality time with Digg.com, but I know a lot of you might be excited to see they released a new toolbar for Firefox 3. You can divide things into two major features, the new notifications and the toolbar itself.
Here are Digg’s official descriptions of these two new key features:
Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can discover popular Digg stories and stay up to date on what your friends are Digging, submitting and commenting. These notifications are fully customizable. Within your preferences you can track different categories and media types, and turn notifications on or off.
Digg Toolbar: Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar, which is collapsible to save space. Note that the toolbar respects user privacy by passing only hashed URLs to Digg to check if they’ve already been submitted.
Overall I’d say it was a lot more unique than I was expecting, so if you spend a lot of your day going back and forth on Digg, this toolbar is for you. You can download the new add-on on Digg.com.
· July 31, 2008 at 6:57 am · Firefox Themes
Browsing through some of the most popular themes out there, the dark themes always seem to hold the top spots. So which dark themes out there are the most popular? Here are the top ten choices people have been making.
Aero Fox - All black and blue, kind of like how I ended up after the last Internet Explorer 7 fan club meeting I attended.
NASA Night Launch - Want to shoot off to the stars? Well you might not be able to go to space yourself, but why should you? Bring space to you!
Aquatint Black Gloss - Another shinny black and blue theme with icons so glossy I can see myself in them.
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· July 14, 2008 at 6:08 am · Firefox Usability
I have made not secret that I am a big fan of Plurk, one of the newer social status micro blogging services out there. I needed a way to keep tabs on it without taking over any of my current browser real estate though. The solution? Another bookmarklet!
This one I call mini plurk. After you have clicked, it will launch a popup window you can move around to where you need it so you can both browse the web and Plurk about it at the same time.
Just drag and drop this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
mini plurk
That isn’t the only Plurk love I have for you though:
So do you like to Plurk or do you need a friend? Feel free to add your favorite Firefox fanatic to your own friends list. (*cough* that would be me *cough*)
· July 8, 2008 at 8:37 am · Firefox Usability
Too many web sites and not enough time, right? I’m always finding tons of awesome things on the Web and hardly have time to check ‘em all out myself. What do you do to manage this virtual to do list (or would it be a to visit list?). Here are a few techniques that might help.
Create a “Read it Later” Folder
The easiest solution to this problem would be to create a special folder in your bookmark toolbar called, “RIL”. Then each time you are on a web site you want to save for later, drag the URL from the address bar into the special folder you have created.
Use Your Unsorted Bookmarks
Thanks to Firefox 3, we have yet another simple solution to this age old question. Want to save that link for later? Just click on the big star located in the address bar. This will move it to your unsorted bookmarks inside of your bookmarks manager (hit Ctrl+Shift+B to bring it up). Then later you can decide to keep ‘em or trash ‘em.
Read It Later : the Extension Solution
The Read It Later extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
Bookmarklet Help in Instant Paper
This is the method I use the most right now. Just sign up at InstantPaper.com and then drag the bookmarklet they provide to your bookmarks toolbar. Find a link you like? Hit the bookmarklet with your cursor and it will save it to the list you can read later.
Then just go to InstantPaper.com/u to see all your unchecked saved links.
How do you save things to read later? If you have a system that works better than these, please feel free to share!
· June 20, 2008 at 11:00 am · Firefox Usability
Gotten use to the AwesomeBar yet? This is the new stylish name for the Firefox 3 address bar. Any ol’ browser can have an “address bar” only one can be awesome though. Here are a few tips and tweaks you can do to make your awesome bar even more awesome…er?
oldbar - Oldbar makes the location (URL) bar look like Firefox 2. If you need another alternative to this, try out Old Location Bar. Why two add-ons that do the same thing? I don’t know either.
Hide Unvisited - You too can hide pages (bookmarks) that you haven’t visited (since deleting or clearing history) from showing in the AwesomeBar.
Enter Selects - This Extension allows you to press enter in the AwesomeBar to select the first result (without pressing down).
Hidden Places - Stop URLs from specified domains being added to places and the AwesomeBar.
Edit Middle - Show AwesomeBar results when editing in the middle (not just at the end).
For a bonus tip, be sure to head over to Mozilla Links. Over there they have nine more configuration tweaks you can do to configure you AwesomeBar till you get it just the way you want it.
· June 18, 2008 at 8:50 am · Firefox Themes
Already tired of the default Firefox 3 theme? Here are 5 of the best of the best when it comes to changing up the look and feel of Mozilla’s latest web browsing creation. If you find any other good ones leave a comment and let us know.
Silvermel
I have been using Silvermel since RC2 of Firefox 3 and it is still possibly my top favorite when it comes to Firefox 3 theme alternatives.
Phoenity Reborn
Continuing the “phoenity” line of themes, this newest “reborn” creation has a well deserved spot on this list too.
Classic Compact
I know there are always minimalistic fans out there, so couldn’t leave them out. Classic Compact is the best little theme you’ll ever get.
CrystalFox Modern
Updated for Firefox 3, CrystalFox is another favorite old theme that has made the jump to the newest version of Firefox.
StrataStripe
Want to mix the old with the new? This theme mixes the best from the Strata theme and Winstripe to make one heck of a nice combonation.
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· May 2, 2008 at 6:48 am · Firefox Hacks, Greasemonkey
I figured this hack was in the works for some time now, just happened to run across it this morning. Thanks to Firefox, Greasemonkey and a little creativity from a scripter out there you can download music from the MuxTape web site. Here are the words of wisdom from the script creator…
This downloads muxtape songs. Just click the “Download me!” link, change the file-name to your liking and append .mp3 to it.
There you go! Pick up the Greasemonkey script in question here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24382
Now of course I am not encouraging you to go out there and be a pirate, but for those tunes up there that you can not find anywhere else or may be original works from an independent artist you would like to enjoy - the option to download is now there. I have a feeling though they will more than likely get this fixed soon on the MuxTape side of things.
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