Archive for April, 2008

Tool Time Friday | Jumping Jack “Flash” It’s A Gas

Get ready, get set, GO!

Download one link, selected links or all the links of the page at maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

What is it?

Well, it’s flashgot.png FlashGot – the free Mozilla/Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird extension, meant to handle single and massive downloads with several external download managers. It’s also compatible with Netscape.

Works with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Here’s the link to get the addon. If you need a little help then go here.

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Tool Time Friday | “It was just my quick translantion, running away with me..”

Oh, yes, I stole this from the Temptations’ song, “It was just my imagination, running away with me” – released on their album ‘Sky’s the Limit’ in 1971.  Song made the #1 spot on Billboard, replacing Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee.”

So shoot me.

How would you like to have an easy translation extension to go along with all your other cool Firefox goodies? Thought so.

The main features of  quick-translation.png Quick TransLation are:

  • Translation at a click
  • Search-box translation
  • Page translation
  • URL preview
  • AND MORE!”.

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Tool Time Friday | IE, IE, OH!

Yeah, I know it’s supposed to be ‘Ei Ei Oh’ as in ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’ ei, ei, oh’, but what we’re talking about here is a great tool for all you web developers.

With  ietab.png  IE Tab you can easily see how your web page is displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

If you need a little help, visit the official website.

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Tool Time Friday | Need a little protection?

Don’t know exactly what kind of ‘protection’ you’re looking for, but this particular kind is related to  Firefox.

I allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run ONLY from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site and guards the ‘trust boundaries’ against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).

This preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities – both known and unknown – with no loss of functionality. It’s called NoScript 1.5.6.

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SO!  Check it out ’cause we all know that we all need protection of some sort, and by the looks of the icon, well, you know.

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Tool Time Friday | Ever been annoyed….

by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the friggin’ page?

Makes you want to scream, yes?

Well, here’s a tool called    adblock.png    Adblock Plus that once installed will rid you of those ubiquitous banners and advertisements.

Way cool.

MorganLighter

Tool Time Friday | FTP for FREE!?!

FireFTP is another Fifefox add-on that turns your browser into a full-featured FTP client. FireFTP opens in a new tab that offers a two panel interface that permits you to browse and transfer files between the remote server and your local PC.

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Its only major drawback is that it does not support SFTP or SSH – but maybe Firefox will fix that in the near future.

Here ‘tis.

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