Archive for December, 2008

Tool Time Friday | Last Christmas Present for you!

Tired of going to History -> Recently Closed Tabs just to undo a closed tab?

Then this extension is for you!

This extension, called Undo Closed Tabs, allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.

Isn’t this insane?

FIREFOX 2.0.0.* users can download the Firefox 2.0 compatible extension from here: http://code.google.com/p/uctb/downloads/list

You must add the button by going to View -> Toolbars -> Customize, then drag and drop the button anywhere on the toolbar.

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Tool Time Friday | Another Christmas present just for you!

See my disclaimer here -> “I know. Not everybody celebrates this holiday.  So, for those of you who don’t, just put your finger over the word “Christmas” and deal with it”.

How would you like to be able to have a tool that:

Adds a whole bunch of options to customize how tabs look and act. (screenshot of options)

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Tool Time Friday | Just one of three Christmas presents for you!

I know. Not everybody celebrates this holiday.  So, for those of you who don’t, just put your finger over the word “Christmas” and deal with it.

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

Happy Holidays!

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Tool Time Friday | You don’t have to go to school to be a better …

GReader!

Now, with just a flick of the wrist, you can preview web pages inline in Google Reader, collapse the header and sidebar for more reading area, add favicons to feed subscriptions and more with Better GReader.

It’s true, it really is.

Compiles some of the best Greasemonkey user scripts and Stylish skins for Google Reader into one convenient interface. Click on the script homepage in the About tab for help and more information.

Get your GReader now.

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Tool Time Friday | Wanna have Live Bookmarks in your sidebar?

What? What’s that you say?

Yes, all you Tool Time Friday Freaks – you can, yes you can, yes you can, can can!

Here’s the scoop.

The Feed Sidebar is an extension for Firefox that displays the items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar. It is intended to be a lightweight extension of the RSS capabilities already included in Firefox, not a completely new feed management system.

Installing the Feed Sidebar will add a new sidebar to Firefox that, when opened, will display the unread items from the feeds that you have bookmarked in Firefox. Clicking on an item will show a preview in the bottom of the sidebar, and double- or middle-clicking will open the item in the browser and remove it from the sidebar. The Feed Sidebar will also notify you of broken or unavailable feeds, something which I wish Firefox did in a more obvious manner.

You can choose to have the sidebar continue displaying items you’ve already read. If you do, these items will appear grayed out. If all of the items in a feed have been read, the feed title will be grayed out as well.

The Feed Sidebar will continue to check for new items when the sidebar is closed and will notify you when new items are found. As of version 3.0, it also has offline support, so you can read all of your feeds even if you have no Internet connection.

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Tool Time Friday | “Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Your nose is longer than a telephone wire”.   Anybody remember this song written by James Donna. It was a classic from the ’60’s.

Anyway, our Tool Time Friday Tool – reminded me of that song….

FireGestures 1.1.6 is just the thing to make you able to customizable mouse gestures extensions which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.

You can execute various commands and user scripts with five types of mouse gestures:
- Mouse Gestures (Move mouse with holding right-click)
- Wheel Gestures (Scroll wheel with holding right-click)
- Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-click and vice versa)
- Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
- Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar)

Additionally, you can install and make your own scripts to add functions. For more details, please visit the homepage.

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[rant] Okay, Let’s Be Specific : The Marketing Tweetroversies: Part 2

If you haven’t read the first part, you may view this post in a different tone than it is intended. Please read Part 1 of the Marketing Tweetroveries first.

While we’re on the topic of social media, no, I’m not part of the team upset at Guy’s Twitter Twool post or the one on How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter. I’ve been asked about this several times, and not answered. Well, here’s my answer:

Guy and I have had a few conversations and I believe he’s a good guy who was just answering questions people asked him, honestly. Not that he needs me to defend him. He’s probably too busy to even realize there was a controversy over it. Again, people are asking my opinion, and I’m tired of answering the same question individually.

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Try Hearing the Conversation With The Phone Up Your Butt : The Marketing Tweetroversies Part 1*

Before I get into the discussion of the actual Twitter controversies that happened recently, and answer all the questions about my opinion of something I have nothing to do with, I wanted you to know my stance on Twitter.

As far as I’m concerned, here’s the only rule of Twitter.

Don’t tell me how to Tweet. You can tell me what’s best, or what your experience has been, but there isn’t just one way to use it. So. Shut up.

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