Tool Time Friday | Cha-cha-cha changin’
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David Bowie – great song. Oh, yeah – here’s your last “tool” for the day. Check4Change (aka C4C) is a simple extension that allows you to periodically check a web-page for updates. Have you ever found yourself pressing the reload button frantically, waiting for something in the web page to change? Well reload no further! with C4C you’ll just mark the relevant text, set a time interval (e.g. every 1 minute), and you’re done! Usage: 1. Select the text ... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | RSS Ticker
RSS Ticker loads your Live Bookmarks and scrolls their entries across your screen while you surf. It’s perfect for staying informed without having to actively browse entries in an RSS reader. The ticker can be placed at the bottom of the screen (below the status bar) or at the top of the screen (underneath your bookmarks toolbar). Nearly all aspects of the ticker’s display are customizable, including the scroll speed, smoothness, and link width. You can even set a limit for the n... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Not a filly but a colt
CoLT makes it easy to copy either a hyperlink’s text or both the link and the link’s text (in a format you specify). Two handy context-menu items make this possible, and don’t add clutter; the items are only visible when right-clicking a link! CoLT adds two menu items to the browser’s context menu, both of which are only visible when right-clicking a hyperlink. The “Copy Link Text” menu item copies a hyperlink’s associated text to the clipboard, whil... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Homeland Insecurity!
This is just for fun. Displays the current Idiocy Level in the status bar. US Department of Homeland Insecurity. convert this post to pdf. Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Fark You!
Farkode (TM) provides a right-click menu in Firefox to simplify adding HTML (image tags, hyperlinks, font fomatting, etc.) to comments on the Fark.com and TotalFark.com websites. It is based on the excellent BBCode, but is trimmed down and tailored for Fark users. It works in Fark comments, Fark threads, Fark profiles, and optionally on any other website. It includes: - font HTML – like bold, italic, small, colour, big, strikeout, size +1, size +2, superscript, and subscript. - various... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Purple Bunny?
With a PurpleBunny, you can quickly and easily read and write comments about the web page you’re viewing. You can praise a page, ask a question, read comments about an entire site, discuss the content of a web page with other web surfers — the possibilities are endless! PurpleBunny stores these comments in a centralized location for easy access, and the handy toolbar alerts you when a page you’re viewing has comments. Using PurpleBunny is like writing notes for future reade... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Just a little Bit
BitTorrent, I mean.BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files. If you prefer be anonymous and use software done by users instead of 3rd party companies that spy on you and log your search habits, then this toolbar is for you. It doesn’t have weather forcast (sic), email notifier, bunch of sites that are copies of those biggest with same content. It’s simple and easy! Translated to 6 languages: - Polis... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | What’s a RussKey?
Allows typing in phonetic Russian and transforming Russian translit into Cyrillic. F2 for toggling edit mode Ctrl+Shift+M for translit transformations (optionally use RussKey menu items or RussKey status bar button) Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to translate English to Russian. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R to translate Russian to English. Nice. convert this post to pdf. Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | TextMarker!
Allows you to highlight text selections via keyboard and context menu. Also allows for the highlighted text to be copied individually or all. 3 highlighter colors are available that can be customised. With this extension you can highlight important text on web pages and copy the highlighted text. Useful when you have several pages open on multiple tabs, while doing online research for instance. To highlight: 1. Select text to highlight with the mouse 2. Right-click on the selected text OR cl... Read Full Story
Tool Time Friday | Wanna take a Wizz?
Wizz RSS News Reader I mean. A constantly improving RSS and Atom feed reader. It is fairly powerful, feature rich and is well supported. Here’s just a few of the applications- ? Supports all versions of RSS. ? Supports Atom 0.3 and 1.0. ? Supports Podcast (Enclosure) feeds. ? Supports Feed protocol. ? Integrated with Places. ? Supports very rudimentary offline news reading. ? Filter news items on words and/or phrases. ? Feed Search – Finds feeds/OPML identified with correct mime ... Read Full Story