In the past we have covered some Firefox’s plugins that enabled you to take screenshots of web pages’ regions on the fly: their names were Screengrab and Fireshot.
There’s also a new extension that I’d like to share with you, which has been launched by Aviary.com, a suite of web based products for image and audio editing.
Its name isTalon, and it is a Firefox plugin which lets you capture regions of your browser with the click of a button, edit them online, and then save them as PNG files on your computer. Continue reading →
This add-on allows you to generate a TinyURL for the page you are currently viewing. The URL created is copied into your clipboard so you can paste it into e-mails or IM messages instantly.
You can choose to create a direct link, or you can choose an option that allows the recipient to preview the link before visiting it.
Many times bloggers feel the need of creating video tutorial to best express what they want to communicate to people. There are a bunch of free and paid applications that help you do that, also web-based actually such as ScreenToaster (which I really recommend to anyone as you can use it on any operating system or browser, and which I will cover soon in an article), but a Firefox’s user dream would be an add-on that lets you record your screen.
It is calledCapture Fox, a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer, and not only in your browser as you would think! It records your screen frame by frame, as well as your voice, to AVI files. Continue reading →
If you’ve downloaded, like me, the Firefox 3.6 Beta release and you’ve seen that your favorite extensions don’t work on it this guide is for you.
I have not given up when my extensions didn’t seem to work properly and I tried a solution, and finally I found the solution in the How To Geek‘s web site. Here it is:
Who doesn’t knowPhotoshop? You may not be able to use it correctly, or maybe you just want to spend money for a license, but I am sure that when someone mentions “picture editing” you suddenly think of Adobe’s editor program.
It might have happened that, away from home with just an Internet connection, you feel the need to make some simple improvements or changes to your images, and that’s where online image editors come in to help you but I am sure that the best is currently Adobe’s online counterpart to PS.
It is calledPhotoshop.com, and it allows you to modify your images using any web-browser: it is much easier than the standalone program to use (in fact the features are pretty limited), but it is more than sufficient for you to enhance colors, add captions, resize and crop, adjust lighting and more. Continue reading →
While surfing the main thing is to pay attention to safety. For this reason, today, I submit to you this list of the best add-on to improve your browser’s security.
There’s no way to reduce to zero your risk of picking up some piece of malware while browsing.
Much emphasis has been placed on the enhanced security features of the latest versions of the popular browsers. Whether one is any safer than another is anybody’s guess, but no browser gives you more ways to thwart a Web-based attack than Firefox via its wealth of security add-ons.
Today I want to present a fantastic add-on that lets you browsing safer, its name is: LinkExtend Continue reading →
The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape’s sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite’s software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox (and Thunderbird).
Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server’s development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox.
Source: Wikipedia
Currently at version 3.5, and with a version 3.6 just around the corner, the Mozilla foundation has completely redesigned the standard of web browser for a faster, more secure and reliable way of surfing the net.
Here is a short video, posted by the SpreadFirefox Community that briefly tells the browser’s history through these five years, from 2004 until today:
Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would.
Source: Wikipedia
I have been using Wolfram Alpha for graphing functions and calculus problems, but you can use it for any question that needs to be computed, such as calculations, weather tables, measurements and unit conversion etc.
Today I want to show you a way for embedding Wolfram Alpha’s results directly into Google’s search result page: the answer is a simple add-on for Firefox called Wolfram Alpha Google. Continue reading →
WithXmarks you can sync your password and sync and backup your different bookmark to different PC using Sync Profiles.
Bookmarks Syncronization:
To sync your bookmarks it’s easy. Just install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks in sync.
