Status bar widgets and progress indicators for Firefox 4+.

That status bar was removed in Firefox 4.0. While some of the status bar items did find new homes, some did not, and you might not like where they ended up. There were also some nice innovations during the development of Firefox 4.0, such as progress/links/status in the location bar, which unfortunately didn’t make it to the final release.

 
Status-4-Evar aims to bring back (some of) the old status bar items, give you more control over the built-in Firefox features, and provide new alternatives.

Check it out.

Scroogle SSL search (lets you search with Google anonymously).

On a personal level, your support for Scroogle says that search engines should not be tracking you and retaining this information indefinitely. Not only does Google scrape much of the web, but they keep records of who searches for what. If information about your searching is accessible by cookie ID or by your IP address, it is subject to subpoena. This is a violation of your privacy. Someday Google’s data retention practices will be regulated, because Google is too arrogant to do the right thing voluntarily. In the meantime, you should not be leaving your fingerprints in Google’s databases.

Here’s the link.

Morgan Lighter

Some of you may be familiar with Google Reader and some of you might not.

If you haven’t then you’re missing out on a wonderful way to get your blog noticed by other sites that similar to yours or some blogs that aren’t.

Check it out. You’ll be impressed.

Yes you will.

Create basic documents from scratch or start from a template.
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free.

Upload your existing files.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.

Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on.

Take the tour!

Though Google posted this on 10/31/2011 – it’s still fresh to tons of bloggers.

Here it goes:Today we’re rolling out the new Reader design, and the Google+ features that we mentioned just over a week ago. Before the day’s over, all Reader users will be able to enjoy the following improvements:

A new look and feel that’s cleaner, faster, and nicer to look at.

The ability to +1 a feed item (replacing “Like”), with an option to then share it with your circles on Google+ (replacing “Share” and “Share with Note”).

Integrating with Google+ also helps us streamline Reader overall. So starting today we’ll be turning off friending, following, shared items and comments in favor of similar Google+ functionality.

Let’s go get it!

Here we go -

Simple Spark is the place to find and share a new world of web applications. Your website/service/application can be listed here, too. Click on “Add Apps to Spark,” then open an account.

Listio is a user-driven directory that allows you to submit any web 2.0 application for others to discover, rank and comment on. When you submit a new application, it will be placed in a “pending” area until an editor reviews and publishes it. Looks like a Digg for web applications. Click on “Submit a web 2.0 app link” to create an account.

On to Part 3!

You had an idea and you built a site. You added fresh and original content or you are offering a service which could be useful to many. You say “people will love this!”…but…

Now, you face a little problem: how to make people know about your site? There are millions and millions of website out there…how you bring yours upfront?

Online marketing is though and also time consuming…the time of “if you build it they will come” has long gone and never will come back.

Besides other marketing means you can tap also in the social media field and try tap those who look like are being the distributors.

For example, Techcrunch.com is a distributor (beside being a content creator) because its news are syndicated and cited by many other publications (newspapers, blogs, news services). Once Techcrunch writes about you not only the Techcrunch readers will know about you but also readers from other publications. But you have to have an outstanding offer to make Techrunch write about you…

So what do you do?

Here’s a site that just might fit you.

1) Launchfeed (www.launchfeed.com)
Go to “Submit” then fill out the form in order to announce your launch. You need to have an English-language site, otherwise they won’t approve your submission.  I used Launchfeed to announce my site and Killerstartups.com picked it up in the next two days.

Thanks to MyTestBox.com – Tech Industry News

Codetech is another wonderful firefox extension which allows you to edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf. This web page editing tool has the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. For a web developer or designer, which oftenly deals with HTML source code, Codetch is a lite version of a application like Adobe Dreamweaver. It has a similar layout, yet less features, but it helps the user to complete its source based tasks.

Author description says it all. It’s the closest you can get to a professional web editing interface in a browser. Install it as an extension today and have a full featured editor right beside your web pages as you surf!

Plugin Link

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Firebug gives you full control over the CSS, HTML and JavaScript of any page that you choose. Inspect and edit HTML, Tweak CSS to perfection, Visualize CSS metrics, Monitor network activity, Debug and profile JavaScript, Quickly find errors, Explore the DOM, Execute JavaScript on the fly, Logging for JavaScript.

Best of all, every change that you make is done live and instantly, so you can quickly test out different changes and see the results of those changes instantly.

Cool!

The Web Developer Extension is a extension for the Firefox browser and it’s a great tool for web designers. It has a variety off essential tools that allow you to code quality websites and troubleshoot problems easily. It’s a powerful all in one plugin. Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

The added benefit of having Web Developer Tool is the ability to edit CSS on the fly. If you want to try a different font, different size, different color, background, borders, margins, padding, practically anything to do with CSS, you can make the changes in the Web Developer tool and see the changes instantly. The Web Developer tool saves you time when playing around with CSS.

How Cool!

Firefox supports open font formats like WOFF, TrueType and OpenType, meaning site designers are no longer limited to a select handful of web-ready fonts as they create their sites. Because Firefox makes sure to display andrender type properly even if you don’t have the font installed on your computer, you can view a wide variety of fonts while you browse.

Firefox speaks your language like no other browser on earth. Because the Web is a public resource shared by everyone, we’ve made our browser available in as many languages as possible. We have over 85 different translations, from French and Chinese to Finnish and Czech.

Find your language.