AKA Riptide Furse

Anyone that knows me knows that I look down on anyone that uses Internet Explorer as a web browser. It’s klunky and slow and the main reason they give is “it came with the machine”. Soooo 20th century. Time to move on and up to a higher intelligence. Firefox alows you to do addons or extensions. This hopefully will show you how wrong you have been in using IE.

Foxmarks - Bookmarks and passwords synchronizer. Foxmarks is your perfect connection between home and work. An bookmark you make one computer instantly is a bookmark on another computer. They recently added password sync too. You make a login on one machine and it is synced so Firefox remembers it on your other machine. Just remember to load it on each machine you use wth Firefox.
http://www.foxmarks.com/

Autocopy - This is hands down the first addon or extension that I add to a new install of Firefox. Think about it. It’s so logical and makes so much common sense. 99% of the time you highlight something you copy it it right? YES so why not have that put to the clipboard automatically. This does it. Just highlight anything and you can paste it anywhere. Truly is one of the MUST HAVES.
http://autocopy.mozdev.org/

Adblock Plus - Are you concerned about kids clicking on ads and ending up someplace they shouldn’t? This blocks most attributes of ads on web pages so they almost never show up.
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Cooliris - Cooliris is well uh er just COOL. Any website that loads their code allows ou to browse or show picutres in a 3d sense. It is an awsome way to show pictures or to just browse and find a pic you want to use.
http://www.cooliris.com/

Tab Mix Plus - Last but again one of the first to install is Tab Mix Plus. This gives you so much conrol over your tabs it is unbelievable. Always want a new link to open in a new tab. You got it. Want a tab to reload every 3 minutes? You got it.Take control of your tabs with tab Mix Plus.
http://tmp.garyr.net/

Do you have a favorite Firefox extension?Let me know in the comments.

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I like to try different tools all of the time. It’s an addiction. Anyway, I thought I would share five tools that you can use to grab a screen shot r capture from a web page to use when you post to your DEN blog.

Kwout (quote)
http://kwout.com

Kwout offers a couple of ways to activate the screen capture process. One is via a Firefox extension and the other, the one I use most often, is by bookmarklet.

Click the bookmarklet and it loads a copy of the web page you were just on. Select the part you want to capture by dragging to highlight the selection. Then click Cut Out and you get sent to the next page. There you get to choose what to do with your capture. You can post to your blog using the embed code or post to several photo sharing sites or email it to your self or others.

Here is a sample from just posting it to your blog.

kwout | Firefox add-on via kwout

Screengrab

http://www.screengrab.org/

Is another Firefox extension. It puts an icon on your status bar at the bottom of your screen. You click this and have the option of copying or saving the complete page, the visible portion of the page or selecting the part of the page you want.

Here is an example of one that I saved and then uploaded to Flickr to use here.

Abduction

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

This is a nice neat little Firefox extension. On any page you only have to right click and choose Save Page as Image…
You then get a new window where you can make your selection. Save the image and you can upload it to a photosharing web site for putting it in your blog.

Here is a sample from Abduction.

WebShots
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6168

This is another Firefox extension. You activate this one by going to View-Sidebars-Webshots. It takes a screenshoto of the whole page. You can then save it. Then upload to your favorite photosharing site and use the pics in your blog.

Picnikhttp://www.picnik.com

I saved my personal favorite for last. Picnik is an image editing program that works online. It’s integrated with Flickr so editing images on Flickr is easy. They too have a Friefox extension. When you are on the page you want an image from just right click and select Send Page to Picnik…
Then when you are in Picnik you can crop or resize or use any of the many tools they have there to edit and perfect your image. Then you can send it again to one of the many photo sharing sites an post to your blog.

So what do you think? Give these a try or if you use something different that I should look at please let me know.

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Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

How would you like to tell your family and friends and grandkids that you helped break a world record? Well you can next Tuesday. Just download Firefox 3 to all of the computers that you manage on Tuesday, June 17. That’s when the new version of Firefox 3 will be released. It will be awesome so come join the party.

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Flock Browser: Eco-Edition | Green Content Delivered Daily

Having more than one browser on my computer is a necessity now. It’s primarily from having different accounts for different tasks. I try not to mix my school stuff with home things and then there are the Second Life DEN accounts. So I use Firefox for most of my everyday tasks. I use Safari for most of my school tasks. Now I use Flock for most of my personal learning network stuff.

Flock is fantastic if you do any social networking as so much of the feeds and updating are built in. Whether you use Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, etc. Flock makes it easy to stay connected and on top of things. Flock is based on Firefox so most of the extensions that you love in Firefox will also work in Flock!

I was happily surprised when I saw a little heads-up that they had a special edition Flock with a focus on the environment. So with the new channel coming out today I thought I would share this browser goody with you.

So to get you started just head to http://browser.flock.com/eco/

On this page you’ll notice that they show you preview of the browser. Over on the right side is the download button. For most people it will no if you need the Mac, Linux or even if you are still using Windows.

You’ll notice that one the recommendations is the Treehugger blog. This is one of the best eco-friendly blogs out there and is associated with Discovery’s Planet Green. I would put it as a definite add to your Google Reader.

After clicking the DOWNLOAD FLOCK button you will be presented with the next page. Your download should start automatically. The steps on the page will walk you through the installation process.

Once you have gone through the installation, you’ll want to launch Flock for the first time. You will have the choice to import your bookmarks and some settings from your other default browser. The first time it comes up you’ll see the screen you see to the right.

Take some time to explore. Click the tabs. Flock helps you along the way in adding your social networks no matter what it is. If you go to a site that Flock knows and works with, it will give you a tip.

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About Add-Art | Add-Art

I really love this Firefox extension. I strongly recommend Adblock Plus which hides most of the advertising that you see on web pages but I am now a believer in Add-Art. Now you can get the ads replaced with art.

iGoogle has new themes featuring artwork from a wide array of artists. If you use iGoogle as your homepage like I do then you may want make new choice for a change or have a different theme for each tab. iGoogle Artist Themes

Buy it later, originally uploaded by krossbow.

Take a look at this! Most of the teacher I know are not raking in the big bucks so anytime we can save some money we jump on it. Well here is a way to help you save money when shopping at Amazon.

You can install this in Firefox and Flock. Get this! It will even work with Twitter! Awesome!

I’m installing this now to check it out. I’ll report back later. If you try it out let me know what you think!