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More Firefox addons for you

In the first post of this topic here, I told you about 5 very useful Firefox addons. Now I bring you more of the same. Its not that I’m tempting you to slow down your Firefox or something. Its just that they’re all so good.

I would recommend you not to install a lot of extensions for your browser. Having too much of a good thing isn’t very good.

Now lets see what we’ve got this time around. Its a pretty nice collection of addons. But I’ll tell you, This ain’ the half of it!

(1) DownThemAll!: This is officially the first and only download manager built inside Firefox. This thing is said to increase the download speed by 400%. Now I don’t really know how much of this is true. But I can tell you this. Its really good. Oh ya… it has the old pause/resume function for downloads too. It has a damn simple interface. It integrates into Firefox’s save/open dialog and it does it well. Once you have supondefined where you want your files downloaded, it makes it default. You can even save webpages with this little tool.

(2) StumbleUpon: Now if you are anything like me you will really want something like this. You might have heard of it anyway. It, as an addon, just adds a toolbar to Firefox and of course to use it you need an account at stumbleupon. Once you have got that

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August 11, 2008 Posted by Jayghosh Rao | Firefox addons, Useful Softwares | , , | No Comments Yet

Firefox Addons you really have to install

Surfing the web can be a real annoyance sometimes bcuz of those stupid ads, awful looking pages, javascript apps, flash animations and all that. Well no more days of surfing the web that way. If you’ve got firefox, you’ve got a solution. You guessed it! Addons, Extensions, Plugins, whatever you call it, they’re great. They let you practically own the web. Its not only clearing the junk out, you can also change the way a website looks, add extra features, collect feeds, share files, photos, videos, and much much more.

Here Im going to list a few addons which make you really glad that you chose to use Mozilla Firefox over an utterly ridiculous Internet Explorer. Read more »

June 4, 2008 Posted by Jayghosh Rao | Articles | , | 2 Comments

Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts You Probably Don’t Know About

First of all I would say to those still using IE to go get themselves something better. And that something better is Mozilla Firefox.

Its the best internet browser I’ve come across with millions of customisatioons, addons, extensions, plugins, themes, etc. which will be explained in another post.

Now to get to business. I’ve got a few good shortcuts for firefox which most of you using it will know, and for those who don’t, you can get them here. Read more »

May 13, 2008 Posted by Jayghosh Rao | Articles | , | No Comments Yet

A Few Good Open Source Programs

What is Open Source is the question most of you would like to ask. Open Source softwares are free softwares available for download and customisation. The source code of the program is open to all. This is a boon to programmers as it allows them to change anything about the program.
Here are a few Open source programs i find most useful in my daily computing life. Read more »

May 12, 2008 Posted by Jayghosh Rao | Useful Softwares | , , | No Comments Yet