Below is a collection of 12 firefox extension. This was a to do list prior to the New Year and I finally got it.  I hope it be useful for my readers, and for lovers like me of Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Firefox Extension Tabs

Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window.Tabbrowser Preferences is a extension that provides a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it. TBP 1.3.1.1 has been released for Firefox 2.0.

Scrollbar Anywhere allows to scroll the page as if the scrollbar is under your mouse pointer. Just hold the right (or any other) mouse button down and move the mouse. Scrollbar Anywhere version 0.9.1 is compatible with Firefox 2. It fixes a bug where context menus don’t display on Mac OSX. This package is compatible with Firefox 2.ColorfulTabs Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Firefox Extension Links

FirefoxView is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer.Linkification converts text links into genuine, clickable links. This Firefox extension contains many options, all of which are accessible by (1) right-clicking the status bar icon, or (2) clicking “Tools->Addons/Extensions” and double-clicking the Linkification entry.

Linky will increase your power to handle links. It will let you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows. You will just need to right click any link or web address, select the Linky menu item and choose the desired action. You can even specify what option you want to see available in the Linky menu through its preferences.IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. This extension is derived from the famous extension IE View, but much different. While IE View always open IE-only pages in a seperate Internet Explorer window, IE Tab can view them in a Mozilla/Firefox tab.

Firefox Extension File Download

DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

FlashGot is the free Mozilla / Firefox / Flock / Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive (“all” and “selection”) downloads with several external Download Managers.

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.

PDF Download removes the pain of dealing with PDF files on the web and is one of the most popular Firefox add-ons ever. PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software lets you regain control over PDF files in Firefox. When you click on a PDF file, PDF Download lets you know, can tell you how big it is, and can then give you the choice to open, download, or convert it to HTML. The add-on for Firefox lets you decide what to do with the PDF files you click on and customize and automate how they should be handled.

There has never been a better time to do things independently using the internet as your platform for your work. If you are on the lookout for some new useful tools that they can help you better to manage your distributed virtual, today the3dtechnologies provides a list of free useful tools that help you to simplify your job.

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ScreenStream is a free software that lets people ‘watch’ your screen on their computers over the network or the internet. Once you have downloaded the small application and started the sharing session, other computers on your local network or connected to the internet see waht you see.

Beam It Up is a free online service that you can use to compress files and send them on any mobile phone. It simple to use, In little steps you can download pictures, videos, music, docs or any other file to your cellphone. Once uploaded your file, Bean It Up will send you an SMS/text message with the download link.

Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols.

Easy Message Is the worlds smallest unified instant messenger of 240 kb that allows users to chat on multiple instant messaging networks (MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo) from one only place. So what does Easy Message do? It allows to send and receive files, group chat and mail notification.

Ulteo is a free web-based tool that lets you run OpenOffice 2.3 online. You can work with your documents online in various formats like OpenDocument, Microsoft, and PDF and share them with other people. Altea enables you manage your documents for up to 1GB per account.

Oh My god! this was a long list to compile:

Office And PDF

Foxit Reader is a small PDF reader for you to view and print PDFs mainly. With the latest version of Foxit Reader, it also has many powerful features such as Typewriter to type on anywhere of your PDFs, annotation feature, highlight feature, pure text view feature, pure text option, and etc.

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Mozilla Sunbird® is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to provide you with full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us.

Graphic And DTP

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Gimp, It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other (proprietary) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint. An alternative free editor is the KOffice project, Krita. Users wanting to edit photographs will certainly want a raster editor like GIMP. Graphic designers and illustrators may prefer a vector editor depending on their tastes.Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Internet

Firefox2 Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.Opera is the Web pioneer that delivered tabbed browsing in 2000, and Opera 9.2 features lots of other great tricks for quick navigation, including Speed Dial, a quick way to put all of your favorite daily sites at your fingertips.

Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.

screamer-radio. There is little reason to listen to commercial FM radio anymore, it is an old medium that provides little choice of music and is saturated with ads. For the last couple of years there has been an alternative, streaming internet radio. An alternative that has been somewhat complicated to use. Screamer Radio attempts to remedy this problem by bringing most of the required steps into a single, easy to use, freeware program.

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.

RSSOwl is an applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or “aggregators.” RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It’s easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It’s platform-independent.

eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Thanks to it’s open source policy many developers are able to contribute to the project, making the network more efficient with each release.

Miro is a free application for channels of internet video (also known as ‘video podcasts and video rss). Miro is designed to be easy to use and to give you an elegant fullscreen viewing experience.FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

Multimedia

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, … Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

Security

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.

avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met!

What do you use to edit your photos? Recently, someone asked me if we can do editing images without using expensive programs as Photoshop or if there an alternative to it. So, today I want to talk about a few programs that offer a set of very basic features to upload, edit and retouch digital images and photograph in a simple way and absolutely free.

Below is a collection of 5 digital image editing tools available online. I want to shared these tools with you so that you can save yourself a lot of money on others expensive image edithing programs.

Photo credit: Shelby Karns

Preloadr

When time is of the essence, Preloadr offers a free professional service to optimizing your photos. Utilizes graduation curve, histogram, layers, improves colors, sharpness, and contrast. It allows to customize your images with several tools like cropping, sharpening, color correction and set tags before to send them into your Flickr account. www.preloadr.com.

Features:

• Upload: PC
• Direct upload to photo sharing services: YES
• Crop and resize: YES
• Correct exposure: YES
• Get special effects: YES
• Input file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Output file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Price: Free

XMG Image

XMG Image is a free editing tools that allows you to upload, edit and share with several different sharing options your images with your friends and family. Through advanced functions you can, crop, rotate, enhance, and add effects to images with 1-click. It also is able to create beatiful web galleries completely free. www.xmgimage.com

Features:

• Upload: URL and PC
• Direct upload to photo sharing services: NO
• Crop and resize: YES
• Correct exposure: YES
• Get special effects: YES
• Input file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Output file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Price: Free

OnlinePhotoTool

OnlinePhotoTool offers the swiftest and easiest means to edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. You can use photos and images from your hard drive as well as pictures on the Internet. If you want to save your images online you need to register. It allows to resize, rotate, crop, saturation, add text and set up special effects to any pictures. OnlinePhotoTool is completely free to use. www.onlinephototool.com

Features:

• Upload: URL and PC
• Direct upload to photo sharing services: NO
• Crop and resize: YES
• Correct exposure: YES
• Get special effects: YES
• Input file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Output file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Price: Free

Cellsea

Cellsea.com, founded in 2002 and headquartered in New Jersey, is a site that lets you to upload, draw, rotate, resize, and crop photos for free. Just click and drag your mouse to draw circles, ellipses, lines, polylines and polygons on the images. There are over 15 ways to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems. It is also possible to add professional-looking blur effects to your photos. You can upload pictures from your PC or from an URL. Free to use.  www.cellsea.com

Features:

• Upload: URL and PC
• Direct upload to photo sharing services: NO
• Crop and resize: YES
• Correct exposure: YES
• Get special effects: YES
• Input file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Output file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Price: Free

Picnik

Picnik is photo editing that allows you to retouch all your photos online. Major features include the ability to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. The service also allows to share photos with the main photo sharing sites. It’s free for anyone. www.picnik.com

Feature:

• Upload: URL and PC
• Direct upload to photo sharing services: YES
• Crop and resize: YES
• Correct exposure: YES
• Get special effects: YES
• Input file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Output file formats: gif, jpeg, png
• Price: Free

I am great lover of technology and when I money to spend, I seek always to buy something first than the other people.  However, this isn’t always the better way to go about purchasing new technology. Research is the best way to determine an product worth or value.

To help you on how to choose a new online product, keep the following tips in mind:No hurry when you buy something you really need. If you buy without you’ve at least thought first you will end up throw money earned on things you’ll never use.

Don’t buy always at the same store even if you have one favorite place where you like to buy all your techie products, but find other stores where you buy the same thing at a more competitive price. Also, look for discounts whenever possible.

If you don’t know where to buy you can always keep an eye on allbusinesstools website.It’ s designed to find the best small business software products of Software for Personal Finance, Adobe PDF Converter, and Accounting Software
to help you improve your business activities. It provide their reviews, along with third-party reviews of small business software for small business end-users. You better think a lot when you purchase a things for example on Ebay or other similar sites, especially showing attention buying used items. Compare people that sell products. On Ebay you can view a seller’s rating. Remember to buy from people who has up to 1000 feedback rating.

If someone has very little feedback rating (less than 20) or several negative comments, then you looks for someone else to shop with. Safety are critical factors for any purchase. Buy it once you’ve researched. However, If you don’t feel comfortable buying an item, then don’t.

We have a pretty important release available for everyone.
In fact HP announced the launch of ‘mscape’, its new software and service for sharing individual information.
Mscape has been announced at 2007 HP Mobility Summit in Shanghai, China.

HP mscape run on HP iPAQ or other GPS-enabled handheld devices with the Windows Mobile operating system.

I’m yet to test mscape but it seem to offer a nice blends digital images, video, audio and interactions with the physical landscape. Games, guided walks and tours, and destinations are among the mediascapes created to date.

I came across free CloneDrive utility and I have to say, so far it’s an incredible alternative to Daemon Tools.
CloneDrive can support file format like (ccd, dvd, bin, iso, and img) and Mount a disk image to emulate physical disk.
Unfortunately , CloneDrive is available to download for Windows only.

Source: lifehacker.com