Firefox

Make Reading the Web Easier

March 1, 2012

Spend enough time reading on your iPhone/iPad and you’ll realize every web browser should have a “Reader” button. — Keith Crawford (@tsudo) March 1, 2012 I posted the tweet above last night and until the major browsers include a distraction free reading mode here are a couple of good options in the meantime. A quick [...]

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Firefox tweaks for Twitter

February 9, 2010

Perform any task often enough you’re bound to create a few shortcuts. I’m a Firefox devotee and an avid Twitter user so I’ve developed a shorthand system that I couldn’t live without. So whether you are visiting twitter profiles or searching twitter for a trend or keyword. Here’s how I made these tasks more efficient. [...]

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Organizing my digital life for 2010

December 28, 2009

Perhaps I’ve got some OCD tendencies but I really like order and since a large part of my life is lived in the digital space I have to maintain a clean digital working environment. That digital environment takes time and tools. Here are a few of my systems and how I’m reworking them for 2010 [...]

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New Tools – Download Them All, JavaRa, & more

May 11, 2009

The most powerful resource of this site has long been my ultimate list of tools, applications, and Firefox plug-ins. I’ve recently added some excellent apps that I wanted to highlight. JavaRa – This is a wonderfully small and simple utility that does 1 thing, it detects and uninstalls old versions of Java. I’ve long complained [...]

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RevWatch – Google Earth, Firefox, Chrome, and Backtrack Beta 4

February 4, 2009

Google has released an updated version of Google Earth (5.0.11337.1968). The update includes a host of new features including Google Oceans – The ocean floor is not a 3D terrain instead of the previous 2D map, you can even see wave motions, and now you can fly below the ocean as well. Google Mars – [...]

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Quick Firefox Downloads

December 8, 2008

This is a simple but very useful tip for making downloads easier in Firefox. Add the downloads icon to your firefox toolbar. Then when you are ready to download a file just drag the file onto the icon and presto Download begins. How easy is that? To add the icon to your toolbar just right-click [...]

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Hacking Firefox for Speed

December 8, 2008

TechRadar.com has a great post on modifying Firefox to achieve maximum performance. Personally I don’t implement all of their recommendations but several of the tweaks are really useful. Here is my subset of their list. 1.) Enable Pipelining: Type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, [...]

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Updates to KnowtheNetwork.com/tools

December 8, 2008

I’ve added some apps and firefox extensions to our tools page that I would like to bring to your attention. The apps are listed by category. Wireless inSSIDer – Free Wi-Fi network scanner compatible with XP & Vista Vistumbler – Free, Open SourceWi-Fi network scanner compatible with Vista Firefox Extensions Compact Menu – replaces the [...]

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