When you open a new tab in Firefox a blank page opens up and same happens with IE and Safari. On the other hand Google when it came out with Chrome replaced that blank page with thumbnails of your most recently and commonly visited websites thus giving you a jump to simply click and go on. Opera on the other hand offers “speed dial” feature with user customizable thumbnails for your favorite websites.
Songbird this week finally made its 1.0 release:
What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.
“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.
SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post
If you are a video site fan and spend allot of time watching online videos or tv shows then we got an essential firefox pluign for you. YouPlayer a video player with playlist similar to winamp inside your browser.
What is youPlayer?
YouPlayer is a firefox Add one that adds a video player right inside your browser. The player has an interface similar to Winamp and support multiple file formats like, mpeg, rm, avi along with video from online video sharing sites like youtube, MetaCafe, MySpace etc. (more…)
With the launch of the beta version of Google’s new browser Chrome, it seems like there are a few features that we might want to add into firefox unlike Chrome we can modify & enhance our browsing experience in firefox by either modifying the setting or using firefox plugins.
Mozilla Corp on Tuesday released Ubiquity an experiment to connect web with a language or a command line to run daily tasks more quickly and more easily. Ubiquity is a sort of a Mozilla plugin which helps in creating command lines for different web tasks or you can say which can help you create mashups that get activated on the commands you set for it.
What really Ubiuquity is ?
According to Mozilla the main goal of Ubiquity is to give users the power to create mashups that can fetch data of there choice with a single command from different websites. It can be a sort of web agent that instead of forcing you to search will get data of your choice from your recommended web properties. With Ubiuquity you can set up commands to manipulate web tasks like mapping, translation, shopping or retrieving entries from Wikipedia, Yelp or Google Maps any many more.
What can i do with Ubiquity ?
If you happen to plan vacation your process of planning would be to first search the list of good vacation spots, then you would find about air fares and available flights, then hotel reservation and compare their price and then of course you want to fetch the map of the location along with pictures of the spot this kind of task can consume allot of your time. For each task you make searches, sort and compare records. But with ubiquit you can simply set up a command line stating ‘vacation’ and create mashup that will fetch data from various websites of your choice including vacation spots, air fares, hotel reservation, and Google maps of the location with just one command line ‘vacation’ & help you compare and make descions. Thus instead of spending more time on search you can create your own web agent that will perform all such tasks for you.
How to install configure Ubiquity ?
The current version is prototype and is available at Mozilla website for free download, you can follow their tutorial to install the application here.
Mac Users > You’ll need to install Growl. This is a Mac OS X system extension that applications can use to display unobtrusive transparent messages. Ubiquity uses Growl notifications to show you the output of commands and tell you about errors.
Windows Users > On Windows (XP and later), you don’t need to install anything special, as Ubiquity will use the operating system’s built-in “toaster”-style pop-up messaging.
Linux Users >On Linux, we don’t have a good messaging system yet. If you have a suggestion for how Ubiquity can display messages on Linux (preferably in a way that will work on all major distros and window managers), please tell us about it.
Source Mozilla Labs, Ubiquity Tutorials
Thought orkut have not opened this channel of customized theme but people have found a way around of changing the themes of the orkut pages. But this change hardly makes any difference, firstly you can change the theme to the one you like but that theme will only be viewable to you only and not your friends.
Still if you want you can change the theme and a get a new look you would need:
If you don’t want to use Mozilla Firefox you can change the orkut theme with Internet Explorer as well just install
Once you have installed the plugins restart you browser, and then either go to [orkutplus] or go to userscripts install the scripts and start enjoying the themes. Though previously orkut experimented by releasing a theme for Holi an Indian holiday for Indian users only so very soon orkut will be officially launching the ability to chose your own theme.
Too many passwords are quite difficult to remeber though if you do but still who wants to type the same user name / password every day so generally a good way is to ask Firefox to save the passwords. But what to do if you really need to know what password you save would you prefer going throught the long password recovery process by all websites or you need some help in there.
Well here is the catch nodoubt its easy to recover passwords but its unsafe as well so firstly. So lets how unsafe they can be. To see which passwords you have saved into Firefox simply go to :
Tools >> options >> security >> Show Password
There you will find the URL’s and usernames of all the sites who’s password you have saved in Firefox now to reveal the password simply click on “Show Passwords” and firefox will show you all the passwords. This is good way of recovering your passwords but very unsecure as well as any one using your computer can easily steal all your passwords and you can’t do anything thing about it. But there is a way.. (more…)
As the globe is turning into a single marketplace regional clocks and keeping an eye on the time in different locations has become an important habit. What if you are working on a project where your designer is in Paris your programmers are in Germany & your Marketing team is in India with completely opposite timezones and remembering he no of hours of difference is quite difficult. So to solve this problem there are two way a Google way or the Firefox way.
Google has been a great help in that regard and i have been using it for a while, with google you can check the current time of any location around the globe by just typing location of the city or country in the Google search bar e.g. ( time : Paris ) and the result page will come up with the exact time of that location.
Another option for global time check could be with the help of Firefox Plugin, though if you want to keep a very strict eye on the clocks around different regions you can simply install FoxClocks , which lets you keep an eye on clocks around the world by putting up small clocks in your statusbar. You can set you own time formats, color code different clocks move them to toolbar or switch icons for it. FoxClock also comes packed with Zone Picker tree to browse virtually the world’s time zone by country / region or city.
5 essential Firefox Addons for Social Networking
Why not bring your social network life into your browser, i have collected and organized a list of Firefox Ad Ons that will bring our favorite social networking life into our browser, it will add ease of use to access, modify and update with sites like facebook, twitter, digg, YouTube.
Social Networking Addons for Firefox
1- Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.
Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need. (more…)
Mega upload is a leading online storage and file delivery system. Unfortunately the service is not totally free, as they offer a premium membership as well as Free download. To control the free download they have limited the no of download tickets country wise , US being on the top with maximum download tickets available and for the rest the tickets are quite less and to get one is quite difficult.
But there are two way to bi pass the download limit by mega upload : (more…)
