Best Add-Ons for Firefox 4

Mar 242011

One of the best things about Firefox is the huge number of useful add-ons that can be downloaded for it, enabling users to customize the browser to their needs. Some time ago, we put together an official WWD add-ons collection for Firefox, gathering together our favorite add-ons at the time. The speedy Firefox 4 was released this week and some of you may be giving it a try, so I thought I’d update the collection. I’ve removed those add-ons from the list that are now redundant or incompatible with Firefox 4, and added a couple of newer favorites:

Adblock Plus. Gets rid of annoying adverts and auto-playing videos. You can subscribe to filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which can automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains.
Better Gmail 2. Gina Trapani’s extension adds a bunch of useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons and more.
Download Statusbar. View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar, without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
Gmail Manager. A Gmail notifier for multiple accounts; it allows you to receive new mail notifications, along with the ability to view account details.
LastPass Password Manager. A free online password manager and form filler that makes your web browsing more secure.
Greasemonkey. Allows you to customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript. You can write your own scripts, or download one from the hundreds available at http://userscripts.org.
Read It Later. Save pages to read later with a click, then when you have time, access your reading list from any computer or phone, even offline.
Shareaholic. This add-on provides an easy way to share interesting links using Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Bit.ly, StumbleUpon, and more.
After the Deadline. After the Deadline is an intelligent grammar, style and spell checker. It works with most web sites.
Web Developer. Even if you’re not a web developer, this extension offers a raft of useful features: manage cookies, change up styles with CSS, adjust form options and much more.
Awesome Screenshot. Diigo’s handy screenshot tool lets you capture the whole web page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, and then share the output.

What are your favorite Firefox add-ons?

Get Free : Angry Birds For PC

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Mar 242011

Angry Birds has taken the gaming world by storm, as you must have realized by now. I’m sure your relatives all play it, you probably play it, hell your dog probably plays it when you aren’t looking. The only problem about the strangely addicting animal abuse game is that you have to pay for it. Damn capitalism. There is good news on that front though, because you can get the game for your PC for free right now, according to Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

It’s fairly convoluted process, so pay attention! To get it, you have to download Intel’s AppUp Center, which is the equivalent of – you guessed it! The App Store. The catch is that you have to download it off Best Buy’s website (it’s free, no worries) and say that you are in the US. Yes, the offer is only for residents of the US of A, but fibbing works just as well, in case you aren’t. Then you have to make an account on the AppUp Center, and you’ll save yourself the annoying $4.99 fee it takes to get the game. Whew!

Already have the AppUp Center installed? Yes, you have to remove it and re-install it from Best Buy. Hey, anything to save money, right?

Google Circles Effects

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Mar 142011

Google is reportedly set to make a new attempt to crack the social networking market.

Called ‘Google Circles‘, according to tech site ReadWriteWeb it will allow users to share links, photos and video mush like Twitter and Facebook, except with closer attention paid to the different social circles people have, hence the name.

“School and work, friends and family, the sacred and the profane; we’ve always been able to communicate different things to different people in different circumstances,” wrote ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick.

“Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks have collapsed all those contexts into one big bucket. We speak to our ‘friends’ all at once, no matter what we might want to say to one group of people or another. And thus we often feel less comfortable than we might saying anything at all.”

According to the article, it is being developed by Chris Messina, who has had previous social media success with Barcamp and was one of the first to start using hashtags on Twitter.

Messina has denied the story, but ReadWriteWeb is standing by its sources. The network is expected to launch in May.

It’s not the first rumour that Google will be starting a social network – previous names attached to the product include ‘Google Loop’, ‘Google Me’ and ‘Google +1′.

Google’s previous attempt at a social network, Google Buzz, was a PR disasater, revealing users’ Gmail contact lists to everyone they had ever corresponded with. Google subsequently created a fund to assist privacy education groups. Buzz still exists, but its problematic start means it hasn’t had the market penetration of its other products.

Internet Explorer 9 coming March 14

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Mar 102011

It took Microsoft a while to nail down an official date for the release of its next Web browser, but it has done just that now in setting March 14 as the official launch date of Internet Explorer 9.

The date was set to correspond to the SXSW show in Austin, Texas, where Microsoft is hosting an event on March 14. It barely fits into the company’s earlier promise to release IE9 in the first quarter of the year.

Microsoft says the new browser will go live on its servers at noon (EST) sharp on the 14th, and shortly thereafter it will try to push the download to Windows Vista and Windows 7 users.

One noteworthy thing about IE9 is that it will not run on Windows XP, which remains the most widely used form of Microsoft’s operating system.

Speaking of widely used, Internet Explorer has remained the most common Web browser, though it has lost market share to competing products like Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome. The tough competition has forced Microsoft to stay ahead of the game and ensure its browser is as up-to-date as possible.

IE9 comes at the same time Mozilla is planning to update its browser as well, though numerous delays have caused some uncertainty as to when Firefox 4 will actually be available. It had at one point been slated for a November 2010 release.

Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working

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Mar 022011

There appears to be some trouble with Internet Explorer today – messages are popping up all over the Internet about users getting a message on their screen saying:

“Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working

“A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.”

There have been some suggestions to try installing IE9, rather than using IE8, but it is unclear if this will solve your problem.

You can also try resetting Internet Explorer, by taking the following steps:

Go to Start, then Control Panel. Click on Network and Internet, then open Internet Options, and the Advanced Tab, and click Reset.

You then have to “Delete personal settings” and then click on the Reset button.

Let us know if you have been having the same problems below, and if you have any methods to fix it!

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Google Corporate Logo “Google doodle celebrates”

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Dec 242010

It’s the holiday Google doodle that has replaced Google’s corporate logo on its homepage today. Although less flashy in comparison to Google’s bouncing balls doodle on the eve of Google Instant search’s release, the current holiday Google doodle has taken a considerable amount of time to achieve.

Google’s chief doodler, Michael Lopez, and his team of five artists took a total of 250 hours spanning over five months to create the holiday Google doodle. Discussions of the holiday Google Google Corporate Logodoodle started as far back as July, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Google Corporate Logo, For fashion screen appraiser netzens, 17 themed doodles have been unveiled by Google, celebrating the holiday.

“We call our special holiday logos, Google doodles”, said the VP of Search & User Experience at Google, Marissa Mayer on Google Sidewiki.

“The first Google doodle appeared on August 30, 1998. The new holiday Google Doodles are available on Google.com web page.

Who S The Cutest I M Feeling Lucky

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Oct 102010

Who S The Cutest I M Feeling Lucky – Type on the google search box “google gravity” and press the “I’m feeling lucky” button. The new page will appear, just wait a couple seconds and you will see all of the google letters will fall down.

Google sphere

Type on the google search box “google sphere” and press the “I’m feeling lucky” button. The new page will appear, just wait a couple seconds and you will see google and all the letters will collapse and flying.

Google reverse/mirror

Type on the google search box “google reverse” or “elgoog” and press the “I’m feeling lucky” button. The new page will appear, just wait a couple seconds and you will see a reverse (mirror) google where all the letters become reverse or will only can read if mirrored.
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Google AdWords Campaign

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Sep 242010

Anyone who has tried Google AdWords could write a book listing the techniques and complexities of it, but getting started is actually quite simple.

Why Use It

If you are a business owner web site owner, or just interested in increasing your blog traffic, Google AdWords can help. This program works best for any and all business trying either begin a website for their services, or increase their web traffic through advertising and marketing.
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