Firefox

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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HP Announces Virtual Firefox

December 8, 2008

HP has announced that it will start offering a virtualized version of Firefox on new desktop computers. The virtual browser will be the initial offering of HP’s Virtual Solutions and it’s based on Symantec’s Software Virtualization Solution (SVS). What does all this mean for the end user? Imagine surfing the web and suddenly encountering a [...]

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