Convert Any Web Site To Desktop Application: Prism

Google’s own online office suite is a great replacement to all the other software based ones: Google Docs, GMail, GReader and GTalk have literally revolutionized the way many of us think of email, RSS, and Office Documents. There are many ways to embed them into our sidebar to easily bring them up, personalize and make them better with some ad-hoc extensions…But what if you wanted to detach them from your browser and make them live on their own?

Prism is a really cool application by Mozilla, that aims to transform every website into a standalone application. All you need to do, is to give a name and a URL to the application you want to create, and let Prism do the rest.
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Limit Bandwidth Usage In Firefox: Firefox Throttle

Bandwidth utilization is a common issue in computers: we’d all love fast connections, so that we don’t have to worry about how many things we are downloading simultaneously in order to keep our line fast. But sometimes, when fast lines are not our case, we might want to limit the amount of data that our computer receives and sends.

Firefox Throttle is a free extension that lets you monitor and limit your bandwidth usage in Firefox.
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Optimize Browsing Space In Firefox: Littlefox Theme

How many people have small monitors and cannot browse some huge web pages? Is there a way to make the browsing space a little bigger, without removing any element?

Photo Credit: Phil Edon

Littlefox is a Firefox theme that optimizes and makes page visualization better by shrinking and resizing elements in the upper part of your browser.

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Team Whiteboarding And Online Collaboration Solution: Twiddla

It is really difficult for teams to share ideas on projects, documents and web pages, specially if the others can’t see and look at what you’re talking about. So is there a browser based service that anyone can use to chat, share pages and talk?

Twiddla is a free web-based whiteboarding software, but also a complete online collaboration solution for every team that needs to communicate in real-time over the internet by chatting, talking, co-browsing pages, and whiteboarding.
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Use Simple Mouse Gestures And Movements To Control Firefox: FireGestures

Some people love to use keyboard shortcuts…other prefer their mouse…but what do you use more? Recently I have published an article about mouseless browsing for those people who hate their mouse, and would do anything just using their keyboard. But what if you are the opposite?

Photo Credit: Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

FireGestures is a Firefox extension that you can use to control your browser just using your mouse movements, or “mouse gestures”.
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Resize Images Online Just Using Firefox

There are many photo editing softwares out there, that you can use to apply effects, add captions, enhance colors…but why all those functions when we just want to resize an image?

Recently I have published an article on the best services that you can use to edit your images online, but today I want to share with you some web-based tools to resize your image online, just using a web browser.
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Post In Your Blog Directly From Within Firefox: ScribeFire

Blogs are becoming quite popular on the Web: whether they are personal pages, business pages or just a hobby that you publish about what you like, blogs have really changed the Internet.

And you know that there are many editors from which you can write your post and publish it to the world for everyone to see, but if you have lots of blogs, it might be uncomfortable to open many editors at once.

ScribeFire is a Firefox add-on that allows you to write posts for your blog within a small box that appears at the bottom of the web page you are visiting.
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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Review And Mozilla Links

Today I just came back from school, and in my RSS reader everyone was talking about the new Firefox 3 Beta 4.

I personally don’t like beta versions: sure it’s cool to have something before the official release date, but you know it is not as the final product. I have had an experience with Windows Vista RC1, for example, so I was one of lucky guys to have it…But was was the real advantage? None, as many functions were still being tested and not at their best.

While I was reading articles about Firefox 3 Beta 4, I came by a great website that I really didn’t know of, called Mozilla Links.
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How To Spell Check All Fields In Firefox

Firefox has a really useful built-in dictionary that underlines a misspelled word, so you can see at a glance whenever you have typed something wrong.

But you might have noticed that when you type a wrong word into the email subject (in Gmail for example) or any single line element, it doesn’t work.

Yes, the default setting corrects and spell checks all multiple lines areas, leaving it to you to find errors in single lines box such as titles, subjects, tags…
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Browse The Internet Without Using The Mouse: Mouseless Browsing

“In computing, a mouse (plural mice or mouses) functions as a pointing device by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of a small case, held under one of the user’s hands, with one or more buttons. It sometimes features other elements, such as “wheels”, which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features can add more control or dimensional input. The mouse’s motion typically translates into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows for fine control of a Graphical User Interface.”

Source: Wikipedia

This complicated description is the one that best describes the wee handling device that is beside your keyboard, and that is essential to surf and navigate the web, open links, select text…Or not?

Photo Credit: Mingret – Edited by Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

Mouseless Browsing is a free Firefox add-on that you can use to browse the Internet without clicking your mouse.
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