I come across friends & family who are forking out big bucks for everyday software like anti-virus, Office, spyware, photo editing, etc. They do so, not because they like to spend the money but because they have no idea that there are excellent, free, open source alternatives available. Today. Right now. I have nothing against [...]
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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 08-03-20
Today marks the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumnal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. In layman’s terms, the Sun will cross exactly over the Earth’s equator today. This will mean that the night and day will be about the same length all over the world! Now on to the main intent of this [...]
GTalk Gadget + Prism = GTalk Alternative for Linux and Mac Users?
It’s no secret GTalk client is for Windows only. Linux and Mac users have so far sought out other IM alternatives thanks to GTalk using Jabber protocol for their IM client. I use openSuSE 10.3 as my primary desktop and have had trouble getting some of the excellent IM clients like Pidgin to work behind [...]
SecondBrain: One Place to Store All Your Favorites
If you are a web application lover, you probably have accounts everywhere in different web services such as Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. And it could be incredibly hard to remember which service has something you saved or marked as a favorite or bookmarked or dugg or shared via RSS feed. The information you need is [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 4 Portable – Run with Firefox 2
Firefox 3 beta 4 was released recently and some of you voiced that you’d rather wait until Firefox 3 was released as a stable version. I am going to tempt you again to try it. There is a portable version of Firefox 3 Beta 4 now available for download that you can try risk-free along [...]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 08-03-13
Elliott Spitzer, the New York state Governor, resigns after getting caught in a prostitution ring. Every news outlet is repeating how he spent $80,000 on hookers. How about we take a break from that and look at some cool Firefox extensions? Bookmark Previews: Have you seen the CoverFlow in Apple products? It’s where the album [...]
Mozilla Prism: Bringing Web Applications To Your Desktop
Mozilla Prism is an open source initiative from Mozilla Labs which attempts to bring web applications from the browser to run directly from your desktop. In Mozilla’s words, Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop. Web [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 4 Available for Download
Firefox 3 is one more step closer to its final release with Firefox 3 Beta 4 now available for download. Here is a gist of new features in this release: Better search support in the download manager and the ability to zoom entire page or full text. Better integration with Vista, Linux and Mac Better [...]
Top Browser Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are tiny useful javascript nuggets that can be easily dragged and dropped to the bookmark toolbar in a modern browser such as Firefox, Opera, etc. They can be used to quickly perform a task without having to visit the website/web service with just a single click. I have compiled a list of bookmarklets that [...]
Open Google Talk Gadget in Browser Sidebar
I have become a big fan of opening some of my most used web services/applications in my browser sidebar after starting to use a widescreen monitor. It gives me good use of the extra space I have in the browser with most sites I frequent being fixed width and don’t really have to be as [...]
BBC Homepage Gets a Mega Facelift
BBC Homepage just became more user friendly getting a new customizable homepage just like Netvibes or Pageflakes. You can customize the home page by turning on or off categories that you are interested in. The few category choices are: Blogs, Business & Money, Children, Entertainment, History, Music, news, Radio, Science & Nature, Sport, TV, Weather [...]
Get a GrandCentral Number Now
I love the GrandCentral idea and have been kind of waiting to see what kind of integration Google is going to bring to the table after they acquired them. After a long wait, we are starting to see some activity in this front. GrandCentral has been in private beta and new account sign-ups were only [...]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 2008-02-21
Firefox 3 has been getting a lot of coverage here. We saw the release of Firefox 3 Beta 3 , which I am really fond of as well as the new Firefox Add-ons site that’s about to debut with the release of Firefox 3. Let’s look at some of the Firefox Extensions that I came [...]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 08-02-14
Extend Firefox 2 was a contest run to see who develops the best Firefox Extensions from around the world. Obviously with my addiction for new Firefox extensions, I checked out the winners and decided to dedicate this week’s Picks of the Week post to these great extensions. 3 Grand Prize Winners MiniMap Sidebar Extension by [...]
Craving for something new? Firefox 3 Beta 3 Available for Download
Here is some good news for all the Firefox fans who aren’t afraid of trying something at the bleeding edge. Firefox 3 Beta 3 is available for download now. If you have already been using Beta 2, you’d probably notice the improvements in this new beta release but if you are really interested in figuring [...]
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