Posts Tagged With: text
· February 18, 2008 at 7:18 am · Firefox Usability
Many designers, when they are in need of some dummy text to fill in a layout won’t do what I do. Personally, I like just to write random sentences such as, "The duck likes to party with the midget at Wrestlemania." over and over.
The dummy text they use has a name though - it is called Lorem Ipsum. While it does resemble classical Latin, it (much like my sentence before) has no real meaning.
Dummy Lipsum, a Firefox extension, does the hard work for you and will auto generate this text for you. After installing you can setup how it starts, you can show HTML tags and you can also set how much text it generates and how it is formatted.
When your done, you just hit the generate button, and then copy it to your clipboard. From there, you can paste it any place you might need it. As a bonus tip, I’ll also share this little tidbit of information. You can do the same without an extension by just visiting the lipsum.com web site. The Firefox addon though does make this auto generation a little more handy to have when your in a hurry to generate some text that really means nothing at all.
Tags: firefox, generate, greek, latin, lipsum, lorem lpsum, text
· December 26, 2007 at 6:27 am · Firefox Usability
Your problem? Making none clickable links clickable again!
The solution? The Plain Text Links extension for Firefox solves a problem that many of us run into. With any text that can be treated as a URL, while using this extension you can right click on the text and select “Open this URL”.
This one simple tool will make Firefox smart enough to know what to do with that link when you want to click on it. Now if it doesn’t do what you need it to do - I have an alternative.
Another Fix! Plain Text to Link is a totally different extension, no matter how similar you think the name is. This handy helper is able to select plain text in a page and save it in a text file. It can also open links written in plain text.
Here are a few more suggestions that do pretty much the same job:
Hey Mitch, what about a non-extension fix? For that, give Linkrr a whirl.
Tags: click, extentions, firefox, help, links, text
· August 2, 2007 at 6:39 am · Firefox Usability, General Posts
At no fault of the user, the designer doesn’t always think of usability when designing a web site. Sometimes fonts can be to small, web pages can be the wrong color - and text can be seven different shades of wonky. The Accessibar extension for Firefox looks to change all of that for you.
This toolbar provides the following features:
+ Web page fonts, links and background colors can be changed from a selection of 70 colors on current session
+ Icons with configurable shortcut keys to increase and decrease Font size
+ Line spacing can be increased or decreased to five different spacing settings incrementally
+ All images (including Flash) displayed on a web page can be selected as being hidden or shown
As you can see for such a tiny footprint in your Firefox’s browsing space, Accessibar does a lot of work. Does this toolbar do the job for you?
Tags: accessibar, accessible, edit, extensions, firefox, format, readable, text
· May 14, 2007 at 7:32 am · Entertainment
Just call this stupid browser tricks Monday! Ever felt that need to turn your favorite photo you have on the Web into some ascii art?
With this Firefox extension from Photo2Text.com now you can. Now I am not going to pretend that anybody has a good reason to do this. There isn’t one darn good reason you can think of either - go ahead and try. Time to geek out, relax and transform your photos into a load of interesting characters.
+ Download and Install the Photo to Text Firefox Extension!
Tags: art, ascii, browser, firefox, graphics, stupid, text, tricks
· January 22, 2007 at 8:03 am · Firefox Usability
I know I run into this issue from time to time and have yet to find a good solution.
It is hard to select the text of a link and not click on the link by accident. The Copy Link Name extension gets rid of that issue and gives you right-click access to copy the text you need. It copies the name (source anchor) of a link. Just a small extension that adds a context menu item to copy a link’s source anchor. Sure it could do more - but it does not have to.
+ Download and Install the Copy Link Name Extension for Firefox!
Tags: copy, extensions, firefox, link, name, text
· January 18, 2007 at 5:00 am · Firefox Usability
Thanks to Mozilla Links for pointing me towards this Firefox extension. It’s All Text sounds like a very neat tool indeed.
It’s All Text! is a Firefox extension that let’s you edit text entries you may need to do in your preferred text editor. It adds as small transparent button to a corner of text areas which you can press to launch your selected text editor with a uniquely named file IAT! creates.
When you want a little more control over your Web text editing, it sounds like this extension might be the way to go.
+ Check Out More at Mozilla Links!
Tags: editing, extensions, firefox, links, text
· November 20, 2006 at 5:30 am · Firefox Usability
I like being organized and having multiple things available to me at a moment’s notice. When you also add into the equation that I do a lot of tech support, then there is only one extension I should be looking at. The Text Complete Firefox extension makes quick and easy work out of saving text to use at a later time and date.
+ Learn More About Text Complete!
Tags: extensions, firefox, saving, shortcuts, text
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