Monthly Archives: December 2009

Skip Clicking And Waiting Time On File Sharing Sites In Firefox: SkipScreen

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Tired of waiting for a file hosting site to allow you to download a file? Do you want to skip all of those boring procedures when downloading files, and do something else during the queue time?

SkipScreen is a Firefox add-on that skips the clicking and waiting time on sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more: just click on the link, let SkipScreen follow the download procedure while you don’t even pay attention to that page and, when the file is ready to download, it’ll just appear for you to save it.
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Alltop Adds Browserland To Its Mozilla Page

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Did you ever come across a website called Alltop.com? Do you know what it is all about?

Alltop is a news aggregation site that imports stories from top news websites and blogs for any given topic, and displays the headlines of the five most recent stories from each one of them. Its main purpose is to allow visitors to have a unique place where they can find the best news about everything they want: divided by category, you can find sections that space from tech, gossip, sport, health and more.
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Quickly Tweet Selected Text In Firefox: TinyTweet

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Almost everybody who browses the web is using Twitter (or has used it once!): whether if you are a blogger and use it to share your latest discoveries or posts (like we do at Browserland), if you just want to share with people you daily activities, or for any other reason that you can think of.

Twitter is very easy to use, but maybe we could make it even easier and faster to post with, using Firefox.

TinyTweet is a Firefox add-on that allows to instantly tweet any selected web page text, automatically creating a bit.ly link to the page where the text lives on.
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Add A Notepad To Firefox: QuickNote

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Bloggers and PC geeks usually copy lots of line while working, and maybe use clipboard managers to organize all of their copied text. Well, if you are a Firefox user, a really useful extension may be what you are looking for.

It is called QuickNote, and as the name suggests, it is an add-on that adds a simple notepad to Firefox in which you can copy and annotate everything you want.

Installing QuickNote is really simple, and can be done just by visiting the add-on page and, after this has been done, you have various ways of using it:
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Incognito Mode: What Is It And How To Use It

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There are times when you want to browse the web in stealth mode, without leaving any trace of what you did on the computer, maybe because your boss wouldn’t want you to do so, or maybe because you are planning a surprise for someone and you don’t want them to know…Well there is Firefox Private Mode that allows you to browse the internet without leaving signs about what you just did, but Google has its own in its Chrome browser, and today that’s what we are going to talk about.

Incognito mode is a particular state of Chrome in which the pages you visit won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. This does not mean that the website you visited won’t have records of you, but just that anything you just on your computer has never really happened.

However, any files you download or bookmarks you create during the incognito session will be preserved, and visible by anyone who has access to the machine.
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Make Firefox Look Like Opera 10: Fopera Theme

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In the past we have discussed topics about how to make your Firefox browser look like another one: for example we can actually turn Firefox into Google Chrome with just two add-ons, and can give it the look of Internet Explorer with a single theme.

Today is Opera’s turn, and we will completely change Firefox to look like Opera in a matter of seconds.

Fopera is the theme we will use, and it actually redesigns the aspect of the toolbars, and even the scroll bar, to give Firefox a new look, reminding you of Opera 10.
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Add Search Features To Firefox Address Bar: Quick Search

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Firefox’s address bar is almost perfect, but sometimes we would like it to do more: for example, if I want to search something on Ebay I have to type “Google item“, then browse the Google’s search page and find a page from Ebay.

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Quick Search is a Firefox add-on that enhances the address bar’s functionality, as well as adds search options to the right click menu, allowing you to easily make researches on Google, Amazon, Bing and Yahoo.

Let’s see how it works:
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Universe Firefox Is Now Browserland

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A few days ago, UniverseFirefox.com has suddenly closed without any notice, but now we are back under the name Browserland, with more content and news to come.

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The reason why we had to close is that Mozilla claimed a trademark violation for the domain name, so we had to close immediately because we did not ask for permission when we opened Universe Firefox back in 2007.

We used to have almost 1000 visitors per day, and it’ll take a while to regain our traffic and PageRank, but we have tried to work out something in the Google index and maybe they will do something about it…or maybe not!

If you can, spread the word about this domain change, as we continue to work on optimizing the site again.

Thank you all, and sorry for the inconvenience!

Photo Credit: Dez Pain

Display Google Services At A Glance: Google Shortcuts

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What do you do if you need to make a research online? You type Google.com! What do you do to read your mail? You log into Gmail! What do you do when you want to read some RSS feeds? You open Google Reader!

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Everything we do, there’s always a way to do it with Google: whether you want to save bookmarks, create documents, organize pictures, create and read RSS feeds, look up paces on a map…and I could go on almost forever!

But does it not bother your to have your toolbar full of favorites pointing at any Google’s service you know, or even worse having to type the URL every time you need a specific service?

Google Shortcuts is a Firefox extension that displays all Google’s services in one single toolbar or, even better, in a small drop down menu next to the address bar, which can show only the places that you use more frequently, and that can behave as you wish.
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Increase The Readability Of Any Web Page: TinyRead

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While reading news and articles online, a lot of sites pay very little attention to the readability of their text, format and display. Instead, the reader’s eye is constantly drawn to other UI elements, ads, and widgets, which tend to make the content seem bad while it might be very good.

So what to do to prevent this and improve pages readability?

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TidyRead is a Firefox extension that renders web pages for better readability, giving them a look similar to eBooks, by accurately extracting the context text and removing the cluttered materials, so that you can read what you should and nothing else.
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