The best thing about OpenSource technology is that there is a huge community of developers who are constantly coming up with some useful tools. Among the web browsers, my favorite is the Firefox. Simply because it is effective in blocking the ever-annoying pop-ups from several webpages, its effective in providing security from any spyware installations happening without our knowledge, plus it comes with a huge community of good souled folks providing numerous extensions - which not only enrich our user experience but also make our work easier.
One such add-on which I came across recently was PicLens. If you use Flickr or any such photo galleries, or rather any website which has a lots of photos to browse through, this could be a great tool to have. It provides you a virtual 3-D gallery of all the photos on that particular root URL. And its not just Flickr, this tool currently supports all the popular web hotspots like PicasaWeb, Photobucket, MySpace, Friendster, Google Images etc. It is currently supported on Windows and Mac platforms. If you are the person who spends a considerable share of your browsing time looking for images, then this is the tool which is a must-have ;) Give it a try
This is how my Flickr gallery would appear if your browser has PicLens.
Talking about add-ons, I would like to share two other tools which I personally find to be very useful.
One such add-on which I came across recently was PicLens. If you use Flickr or any such photo galleries, or rather any website which has a lots of photos to browse through, this could be a great tool to have. It provides you a virtual 3-D gallery of all the photos on that particular root URL. And its not just Flickr, this tool currently supports all the popular web hotspots like PicasaWeb, Photobucket, MySpace, Friendster, Google Images etc. It is currently supported on Windows and Mac platforms. If you are the person who spends a considerable share of your browsing time looking for images, then this is the tool which is a must-have ;) Give it a try
This is how my Flickr gallery would appear if your browser has PicLens.
Talking about add-ons, I would like to share two other tools which I personally find to be very useful.
- gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for Firefox browser. Its a very practical tool which has a drag-n-drop feature to upload your local documents onto your Google Docs directory. I personally find it very helpful while working on any of my documents hosted on GoogleDocs. To give it a try visit here.
- DragDropUpload is a Firefox add-on which helps you to attach files into your mails very easily. By just selecting a file and dragging it into the textbox area of the mail attachments we can provide a link to that file directly. It reduces the time needed to browse through the dialog box into the particular folder to provide the needed path of the attachment file. To install this add-on visit here
5 comments:
Hamza ! How r you mate!
We r missing you big time over here!
How 's US treating you?
hey dude, one additional plug-in makes the web so much more personal is the grease monkey plug-in.
Here is a list of things you could do with the grease monkey plug in (taken from Wikipedia):
Alter Gmail to embed Google Reader into it, thus providing an RSS feed option.
Remove advertisements from many sites, including popups and Google text ads.
Alter the layout of pages, including sizes of elements and screen sizes other than what the author considered.
Autofill forms.
Filter specific posters from message board sites.
Enhance the content of pages by correlating information from related pages on the same site, and/or other sites.
Let a user save an FLV file from popular video streaming sites such as Google Video, YouTube, and recently Facebook
Discover any RSS feeds in the current page, displaying them in an expandable floating panel.
and much much more.
~Vaishak Belle
vaishakbelle.wordpress.com
Thanks for the comments Vaishak .... I have been using GreaseMonkey for a while but was unaware that it was useful for so many other things as well ;
Sehr sehr shon plugin, danke.
Ich habe gerade dein flickr gesehen!
wunderbar!
"Life in Metro" gefallt mir sehr viel!
Du solltest arbeit andern!
Andrea
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