Archive for July, 2008

Tool Time Friday | Another ‘All-In-One’?

Short and sweet.

Here goes!

This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.

That’s it!

WIth 13,403 downloads a week and a total of 2, 403,725 total downloads – how can you go wrong.

Here ’tis.

MorganLighter

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Two Useful Tools for Theme Tweaking

new old pliers
Creative Commons License photo credit: knitsteel

I really only enough about web design to be dangerous- I’ve just been far too busy/lazy to learn how to be a good designer, and there’s really no point in aspiring to mediocrity. Except of course, to know enough about whether you’re hiring a good designer. :)

Nowadays, I am still able to tweak a pre-packaged design, but i frequently get annoyed by two things.

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Theme Testing – All Done

: ))
Creative Commons License photo credit: *fotopiti*

WP Remix turns out to be much better suited to the redesign of our corporate sister sites. For now, we’re using a modified version of the lovely, simple, professional, yet still light and cheery Silhouette by Brian Gardner.

Yes, a lot of people still use this version of the theme, but by some simple color changes (and eventually a logo as well as a future addition to the header) it was easy to make it distinctive and specific to our needs.

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Theme Testing in Progress Today

Susan Kare. On Progress.
Creative Commons License photo credit: alanwoo

I like our present theme a lot, especially because it’s so close to our company colors.

However, not only are there now too many other sites using it, there are certain things it can’t/won’t do to my liking. Plus I want to give the site a slightly more serious look, and when our new company logo is done, incorporate it into the look.

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Tool Time Friday | I can’t believe I haven’t told you about this!

Must be having a brain-fart!

Ever heard if Roboform?

Well, you will now.

See that little doohickey in your tool bar that looks like a robot?  Okay. Here’s the poop.

RoboForm is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password management and form filling.

Features:
- Memorizes your passwords and Logs You In automatically.
- Fills long registration and checkout forms with one click.
- Encrypts your passwords to achieve complete security.
- Generates random passwords that hackers cannot guess.
- Backs up your passwords, Copies them between computers.
- Gives you one set of bookmarks and passwords for
IE, Firefox, Mozilla, AOL, MSN, Avant, MaxThon browsers.

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Tool Time Friday | This Firefox Ad-on nearly made me wet…

my pants.

Okay, I’m easy – but this is just too cool.

I’m talking about FoxSaver 2.2.6.7!

Long Description

* Turns Your FireFox into ScreenSaver!
* Turns Your FireFox into Digital Photo Frame!
* Turns Your FireFox into Media RSS photo viewer!
* New Pictures Everyday!
* Share good pictures to all FoxSaver viewers.
* Easily toggle on/off.
* Full Screen if FireFox is maximized.
* If you have dual monitor, you can move your FireFox to another screen and enjoy the view while working!
* Hide your personal stuff from colleagues and bosses if you leave your desk for a while.
* Search with a picture! OK. It’s just showing a picture on google,yahoo,msn’s simplistic search page, but it won’t cost you any bandwidth!
* Options to display a webpage! This could lead to many creative usage, like linking to any animated HTML page you can imagine! Sky is the limit!

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Tool Time Friday | Do You Play?

This is a must-have addon for all video-site fans!

YouPlayer is a video player with playlist similar to the one in Winamp. You may add/drag a YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe or MySpace link into a playlist window. When you double-click on it, it will be shown in the video window. You may now even drag local files from hard drive into playlist and watch them! You may drag a link to a browser window or right-click it and open in a new tab. You may also add/drag other links, thus the playlist will work as a bookmarker.

YouPlayer also allows you to download video files! Just right-click it on the playlist and select ‘download’.

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