Archive for January 9th, 2009

Tool Time Friday | Only for the Inquisitive

Here’s one you might enjoy – others perfer the Safari version.

You choose.

Inquisitor speeds up your searches like no other.
Web results from Yahoo! or Google appear instantly the second you start typing, along with suggestions to help you refine your queries. Inquisitor understands you — learning as you search more so it can personalize your results with web results relevant to you. It gives you the freedom to add more search engines like Flickr, Wikipedia, Amazon, with customized keyboard shortcuts.

Available for Windows and Mac on Firefox 2.0 and 3.0+.

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Tool Time Friday | Wanna be the fastest?

Fast Dial displays a list of thumbnails of your favorite sites in new tabs.

- Press Ctrl+T to open Fast Dial page.
- Add new sites to Fast Dial by right-clicking site page and choosing “Add to Fast Dial”.
- Open thumbnail Properties from context menu or by moving mouse cursor over the top-right thumbnail corner.
- Assign a logo to any site on Advanced page in Properties dialog. Get more logos at userlogos.org site.
- Customize any aspect of Fast Dial in Preferences.
- Themes. Use predefined ones, get more at userlogos.org or create your own.
- Scroll Fast Dial page by mouse wheel or PgUp/PgDown keys if there’re more bookmarks that fit on the page.
- Set any bookmark folder to be Fast Dial home.
- Export/import any bookmark folder.
- Use UserLogos search plugin to search for logos.

You need to have Firefox 3.0-3.2a1pre

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Tool Time Friday | Ever been to a party and downed them all?

Sure, we all have and boy oh boy the next morning was hell.

Here’s another Down Them All that will leave you feeling just fine.

The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

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