Goodbye, Firefox
This entry was posted on November 21, 2007
I’m not exactly what you’d call “cutting edge”, but I do like to think of myself as open-minded. So when Smashing Magazine came up with a list of interesting web browsers we’ve never heard of, I thought I’d try something new.
Cue Flock, “a free, next generation web browser.”
When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.
I downloaded it and installed it, which was a painless process. Flock was even kind enough to import all my favourites and browsing history from Firefox, so I couldn’t lose my toolbar full of favicons and the link to that tutorial I was reading the other day.
Upon loading Flock for the first time, you’re taken to a page called “My World” which has your favourite links, some recently-visited links, as well as news feeds and other tidbits. It’s a bit intimidating at first, but I can see why it’d be useful for some people. It’s basically a portal into your e-life.
Flock also has multiple 3rd-party connection facilities. I can post to my blog, see my friends on facebook, update my status on Twitter, upload photos to Flickr, and see my youtube videos, all from the sidebar in my browser. How awesome is that?
To me, Flock looks and feels a lot like Firefox. Some Firefox add-ons even work with Flock. Of course, Flock has its own extensions as well, and so I’ve got my beloved screen-grabbing add-on back. I don’t have my StumbleUpon toolbar back yet though… I’ll have to see if the Firefox version will work with Flock.
So far, I can’t think of anything that Firefox can do which Flock can’t do. I’ve got tabbed browsing, add-ons, favourite, bookmarks, and more. Flock seems to be like Firefox on crack. Let’s hope it continues to stay as good as it is right now.
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My top 5 Firefox extensions
This entry was posted on November 7, 2007
Amelie recently blogged about her top 5 Firefox extensions, and she’s inspired me to tell you about my own top 5 extensions.
1. Leetkey
The leetkey extension “transforms typed or static text to L337, ROT13, BASE64, HEX, URL, BIN, DES, AES, Morse code, DVORAK keyboard layout and to lower / upper case”. For example, if I wanted to write “Here are my top 5 Firefox extensions” in leet, I’d change the text-editor to leet and type normally, resulting in “|-|3r3 4r3 my 70p 5 F1r3f0x 3×73n510n5″. Geeky, but fun.
2. Screengrab!
The screengrab extension “will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.” It’s useful when I need to take a screencap of a webpage to show someone a fault, or to copy pictures people have tried to block with Javascript, and to make copies of websites that inspire me.
3. Stumbleupon
“StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn’t think to search for.” Enough said.
4. Webdeveloper
The webdeveloper toolbar “adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.” It’s useful for many things, but I mainly use it to resize my browser, edit html, and contact the validators. It has a million and one uses though; there’s a use for everybody.
5. FireFTP
“FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.” It’s an FTP client! In your web browser! Who knew Firefox could have so many uses?
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5 apps I can’t live without
This entry was posted on October 12, 2007
Sarah was tagged and I stole this from her. Here below you can find a screenshot of my desktop, as well as a list of 5 applications I cannot live without!
I am a music addict! iTunes supplies me with all my music, videos, and podcasts. I have an ipod mini, and ipod shuffle, an ipod nano, and I love all three of them! I’ve never liked Windows Media Player, but I’m glad to say that iTunes does more than a brilliant job of replacing it.
In modern times you can customise pretty much everything. With Firefox, you can now customise your web browser. I use a theme which makes Firefox look like it belongs on Vista (I was fed up with it looking out of place on my new laptop), and I use various add-ons to help with my web developing. Oh, there’s also an add-on which will let you control iTunes.
This program has been a lifesaver! It’ll batch-resize, crop, tag, and rename pictures for you. Perfect when making thumbnails or renaming pictures from “SSL24150″ to “duck1″. I really do recommend it to everyone. Plus it’s free and that’s rarely a bad thing…
GIMP and Notepad++. I’ve covered these before, though, so I won’t go into them again. This just shows how much I love them though!
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