Comments on: Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week Aug 7 2007

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:07:34 +0000

Stephen, I must have thought that was your current post.. stupid of me! I am heading over there to read your posts. Thanks for the mention.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:37:45 +0000

K (Yes that is much easier ),

If you are talking about the Rounded Text Boxes in Posts article, I wrote it months ago - I just didn’t link to it in the post you read (I’ve done so now!). I also wrote a color selector for both types of text boxes, which creates the code for (so you don’t have to use my boring grey).

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:57:57 +0000

Stephen.. you are probably tired writing K-IntheHouse.. Just call me K.
Thanks for that excellent clarification of how that extension works. Sounds like a real time saver to me if it can bring those translation services to your fingertips. I am all about using technology to increase productivity although the very thirst for it makes me waste time online.

I subscribed to your blog ad looking forward to that next CSS article.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:38:12 +0000

K-IntheHouse, actually FoxLingo lets you choose which service you want to use for the translation. It includes Google and AltaVista and a whole heap of other ones I’d never heard of. They are all about as effective as each other from what I can see (translating from Chinese to English which is pretty hard).

So really this doesn’t give you anything new that you can’t already do, but it does put it at your fingertips - no need to go Google’s website, go to the language tools page, enter the URL to tranlsate etc - just click a button. I’m sure there are other toolbars that do this, but this one gives you the option of lots of different services, so if the first one you try can’t make sense of the page, you can quickly try another.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:48:31 +0000

Stephen, let me know how you like the translations by this extension. If it’s any good I will add it to the Top Firefox extensions in my Resources page. Stylish is great too.. I just wish there were more work on styles for various sites like Greasemonkey.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:50:39 +0000

K-IntheHouse, Another great list - thanks! I am definitely going to check out Stylish and FoxLingo (if it can do a decent job of translating Chinese sites, this will be fabulous for me).

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:52:54 +0000

Appreciate it, Matt.

By: Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:30:17 +0000

stopping by and stumblin’ ya

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:20:27 +0000

Nirmal, thanks man!

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:16:30 +0000

Great list again.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:35:05 +0000

I knew it was you, Baron. Thanks for the confession though..
Kyle, Stylish is awesome and I just found it a couple of months back. When I looked back I realized I haven’t posted about it.

You are right about Speed Dial. Sometimes when I hit Ctrl T for a new tab, it is nice to see the thumbnails of my fav sites to choose from. But, nothing I couldn’t live without!

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:50:56 +0000

I’m a big Stylish fan. I think I’ve written about it once or twice on my site.

Speed Dial is the Opera feature, right? I haven’t found much use for that yet, but I’ve heard others like the feature.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:38:01 +0000

Aha! You knew I was waiting for this right? Hehehe now to try them out.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:49:24 +0000

Welcome to ShanKri-la and thanks a lot, Charles! Will definitely look forward to that..

By: charles

charles — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:22:07 +0000

very nice site will def. have two write about it.