Tools of The Trade
Installing global firefox extensions
By ranjanp at 23 August, 2008, 10:35 am
It’s common for distribution creators and/or admins managing a large set of systems to install common software for users. For the Mozilla Firefox browser if you have a need to install addons that are global, this is how you do it.
The firefox command-line offers an option to do this - “-install-global-extension”
Firefox addons are downloadable as [...]
Foxmarks - Your bookmark companion for Firefox
By ranjanp at 20 July, 2008, 5:16 pm
Most of us keep changing our computer regularly, a different computer at home, a different one at work, browse the web on our mobile devices and sometimes browse at our friends’ computer. So, how to keep your bookmarks in sync and accessible in all these devices? Good news is if you are a Firefox user, [...]
Read More >>Managing multiple email accounts with Firefox
By supa at 14 July, 2008, 8:01 pm
If you are like me, you have 5 yahoo email accounts, 3 gmails and and one of hotmail, AOL and whatever in the world exists. I recently found WebMail Notifier, a firefox add-on that notifies you of mails from multiple email accounts as well as lets you login into any of them with one-click.
WebMail notifier [...]
Top Open Source Apps for the iPhone - 1 - Wordpress on the go!
By ranjanp at 13 July, 2008, 6:24 pm
The automattic team - creators of wordpress and bbpress have announced the availability of a native iPhone app for blogging on the go. The app supports both wordpress.com hosted blogs and self hosted wordpress.org blogs - version 2.5.1 or newer. Time to upgrade our blog from 2.5 to 2.5.1 release I guess!
The wordpress app is [...]
VirtualBox , seamless mode
By ranjanp at 7 July, 2008, 12:36 am
I have been test driving Innotek’s VirtualBox desktop virtualization software. Innotek was acquired by Sun Microsystems in February this year ( 2008 ) - Press release here. The OS support list if fairly complete for both host and guest operating systems and is the first virtualization product to support the Solaris Operating Systems as a [...]
Read More >>ScribeFire - A must have tool for your day to day blogging needs
By ranjanp at 4 July, 2008, 7:55 pm
ScribeFire is the perfect tool for active bloggers, especially if one posts on multiple blogs and on different blog platforms. Most importantly its completely FREE! One of the coolest things I like about ScribeFire is that one can drag and drop text/content directly into the blog post from open browser windows. It’s easy to launch/hide [...]
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