Archive for February, 2009

Tool Time Friday | Adblock Plus

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

adblock

For those obsessed with a zen-like minimalist approach to web browsing, this Ad Block Plus will surely keep you focused. Kill annoying banners and ads by simplying installing the extension and right-clicking the banner on the page. Once you’ve clicked the banner, you’ll never see it again as long as the extension is turned on.

Sweet!

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Tool Time Friday | Scrapbook!

Much like the Read it Later extension, Scrapbook allows you to quickly save pages for later reading.

scrapbook

However, it has a few more great features, like taking whole snippets of pages (like Google Notebook), searching within snippets, saving whole websites, and you can even organize the snippets like bookmarks. Perfect for researching or in-depth bookmarking.

What more could you want?  Have at it.

MorganLighter

Tool Time Friday | How would you like to….

copy plain text without the hassle of text formating etc?

Have you ever copied something to Thunderbird or Office and been annoyed that the text formatting (bold, font size, etc) came with it? Don’t you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!

This Firefox addon is “Copy Plain Text”.

The name pretty much says it all. If you do a lot of writing in WYSIWYG editors (blogging and other word processors), then this extension can come in pretty handy. Copy Plain Text will leave all the bolds, italics and other unwanted formatting when you copy and paste into text fields.

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F Dash Dash Dash Follower Numbers

Yeah. They’re talking about Twitter again.


From The Twitter Fantasy | Collaboration 2.0
| ZDNet.com

I smell Beanie Babies, Housing Bubbles and Dutch Tulip Manias – there’s a frenzy around followers that will boom and bust.  Few people know why these various followers are of value apart from to try and sell to them, often in a way that would be very at home on the home shopping channel, ideas, services and stuff.

 

It’s already bust among the savvy. The problem is the savvy folks are not the majority of the general population.

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Tool Time Friday | Later, Gator

This Firefox addon is hot.

read-it-later

Don’t have time to really focus on an article you’ve found? This extension will enable you to quickly save the page you’re browsing until you’re able to read it. Once you’re ready to read your saved articles, the extension will open the articles in new tabs with the click of a button.

Have at it.

MorganLighter

Traffic Tip #7 – Give Credit Where Credit Is Due or Even When Great Minds Think Alike

link-chain

This is in response to a direct message I got on Twitter by someone who requested not to be named.

(If you have a question for me that you’d like me to answer in the blog, you can send them to me on our contact page. If you’re reading via feed, it’s a good time to stop by the site and see the last round of changes we’ve made to help you. :) Just sayin!)

The question was:

 I keep getting ideas of what to write from my peers, how do I avoid looking like the “me too” person? 

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Tool Time Friday | Do you need a leech?

No, not leach – it’s a leech!

And what, exactly does it do for you?

Let me tell you.

leechblock

If you’re feeling a little vulnerable to the addictive qualities of certain websites, use LeechBlock to literally force you from visiting them within a certain time period of the day. No joke. Not for the faint of heart, or those with problems with authority.

Ready?

MorganLighter

Tool Time Friday | You oughta copy!

Actually, this Firefox add on is called “AutoCopy”.  What exactly does it do?

Well, let me tell you!

autocopy

The name pretty much says it all. Instead of having to hit cmd+c (or ctrl + C for our Windows readers), every time you highlight text it automatically copies it to the clipboard. If you don’t want it on 100% of the time, you can toggle it on and off in the bottom-right of the browser.

How cool!

MorganLighter