17. December 2008

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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 2008-12-17

It’s time for more fun and useful Firefox extension picks. Without further adieu:

Tark (Temporary Bookmarks): Is your Firefox bookmarks littered with bookmarks that had only short-term bookmarks that you failed to clean up after you used them? Tark lets you save those temporary bookmarks with an expiration date. After the time elapses, Tark’d bookmarks icons [...]

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15. December 2008

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VLC – Best of the Free Media Players

We looked at Mozilla’s iTunes alternative SongBird last week. When I was writing about SongBird I realized I had never shared my views on one of my favorite free multimedia player for a long time – VLC Media Player.
VLC media player – Quick Features

Highly portable capable of playing multiple media formats
Plays audio and video [...]

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11. December 2008

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Top WordPress 2.7 Tips, Hacks, Plugins & Resources

WordPress 2.7 is here! As usual the WordPress community has been very active even when WordPress 2.7 was in beta and were publishing a lot of good resources. I have been reading them and collecting them.

What’s new in WordPress 2.7

Ten New Features in WordPress 2.7
Demetris of op111.net has posted on 10 new features in WordPress [...]

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11. December 2008

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Let’s Welcome WordPress 2.7 Coltrane

After much anticipation, WordPress 2.7 dubbed Coltrane has been released today and is available for download.

There are a ton of new features available in WordPress 2.7. That means some of us geeks are going to jump up and down with excitement to be a part of this great Open Source community that isn’t afraid to [...]

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10. December 2008

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SongBird – Excellent Open Source iTunes Alternative

SongBird is an open source music player built on Mozilla’s technology. After being in development for 2 years, SongBird just reached version 1.0 and is looking greater than ever.
One great feature of SongBird is that it is extensible with community developed add-ons just like Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird. This lets us add functionality via SongBird [...]

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9. December 2008

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is Available for Download

Update: 03/13/09 – Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is available for download now!
Firefox 3.1 is a little bit closer to it’s final release with the availability of beta 2. This beta brings about some cool new features such as

A new Private Browsing Mode or more popularly dubbed as the Porn Mode. {more info}
Function to easily [...]

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8. December 2008

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Gladinet – Access Online Storage via Windows Explorer

Online files storage services make storing your files in the cloud and make it accessible anywhere. I use plenty of services like Google Docs, Windows Live Skydrive, Box.net, etc.

Some of the most popular services where you might be storing your files are Google Docs, Amazon S3, Windows Live Skydrive, etc. But, at best they are [...]

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