Are you one of those people who can’t live without watching videos on YouTube or similar everyday? Would you like a simple a fast way to grab and download your favorite videos from major sharing sites?
NetVideoHunter is a Firefox add-on, that you can use to instantly download videos and music from almost all video-sharing sites, supporting Youtube, MySpace Music, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, Putfile, iFilm, Videoegg, Veoh, Blip.tv, and more.
Tired of hand translation of your documents? Looking for an automatic and efficient way to get all of your works translated?
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Today I want to suggest you some tools that you can use to translate some words or an entire web page without downloading any software, but just by using your browser.
Here are the three add-ons i selected for you:
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I just want to share with you a new extension I found bouncing around on the net, that will allows you to batch download sets of Facebook photos with one single click!
You could simply click on every single photo and download it, but when they become more than 20, the job starts to get boring.
FacePAD is a Firefox extensions that makes this effort easier because,letting you grab all the photos from any Facebook album in a single move.
Better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader, FacePAD will not only let you grab your own photo album, but will also let you download your friends’ photo album, event albums, and group albums with the click of a button.
Here is the video:
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Everyone who runs a blog or has created a website in his life knows how important it is to have an FTP client in order to transfer files to a web server. Many are the choice available on the web, free and not, but today I want to show you what my personal pick was.
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FireFTP is a Firefox extension that integrates a full featured FTP client right into your browser, so that you do not have to install any other software apart from Firefox to completely manage your blog.
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I have been asked in comments to other articles, but also in person, whether it is possible to restore Firefox default settings: if you have tweaked your about:config page to speed your browser up, or simply installed an add-on that messed up your configuration, Firefox 3 has a simple method to restore all default settings back without uninstalling the software.
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Here’s how:
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Yesterday I presented a cool extension that allowed you to immediately check your Gmail inbox on your Firefox status bar, but now you might be wondering: “what about Google Reader?”
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Google Reader Notifier is a Firefox extension that easily enables you monitor all your unread feeds directly on your Firefox status bar.
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How many of us daily use Google mail service, Gmail, and wish to add as many options to it as possible? We have seen a great extension already to add an HTML signature to our Gmail messages…But how cool it would be to be able to see if you have new messages, directly into Firefox’s interface?
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Gmail Notifier is a fantastic extension that enables you to see if you have new messages without even opening Gmail, but just by looking at your screen’s right bottom.
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Google’s web browser, one and maybe the only alternative to Firefox, Chrome, has been out for a while now and many have been the reactions to this: people will bet it’ll be the best browser ever developed, others believe it will never overcome Firefox…
Personally I don’t know what will happen as newer versions are released, or how this “battle”, if it how we can define it, will end.
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What I do know, is that Chrome is spreading rapidly and the number people who are falling in love with it is increasing everyday. That’s why I decided to look for a news site that will give you as much information as possible regarding Google’s Firefox counterpart.
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One of the most common queries nowadays is “how to speed up your browser”. In fact, one of the top articles of Universe Firefox is called How To Speed Up Firefox 3, which covers only a few tips I’ve found around the web, and that I will maybe collect in one guide.
But for now let’s go back to present, and let me tell you what I have found today.
Tweak Network is a fabulous Firefox extension that allows you to tweak your network settings with a GUI interface. You can set all the parameters as you wish, with two preset buttons that you can use to switch between Default and Power mode.
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Obsessed with downloads and speed? Are you one of those who downloads a lot and wants to know how the files are coming down, how fast, and how much time is left, at a glance?
Today I want to present you a very simple but very efficient extension, that lets you monitor your download activities on the right bottom of your screen.
Download Status is its name, and it does nothing more than adding a small panel to your browser bar, in which you can see how many Kb/s you are downloading, as well as the number of files, downloaded size and estimated time left.
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