Jun 19 2009

Tool Time Friday | Get your coffee here

Morning Coffee keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs. This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.). Potential future updates include: – bookmark folder integration – separating lists by time (so you can have a morning/afternoon list for a day, for example) Have at it . How To Get Unstoppable Traffic? Go Evergreen . Read the true story of how one of the site owners, ill and preparing to retire, created traffic so powerful that she couldn’t turn it off – and how you can do the same for your site. convert this post to pdf.

Jun 12 2009

Tool Time Friday | Screen Grab

Screengrab! is an extension for Firefox that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image. With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page. Basically Screengrab! let’s you take what you want from a web-page: the entire scrollable document, just the visible bit, or a draggable selection. Screengrab will even save just the contents of an individual frame . Screengrab captures Flash and Java applets as long as you have Java installed. To use it, just right-click a page to bring up the context menu and look at the options under “Screengrab”. It’s pretty self-explanatory! Grab it here ! How to Increase Your Search Engine Visitors Every site needs more search engine visitors. Join Traffic Reality , where we’ll teach you end-to-end Website Promotion Techniques starting with how to get the best out of Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. Learn how to integrate all your promotion efforts into a plan that keeps working even when you’re not. convert this post to pdf.

Jun 5 2009

Tool Time Friday | Let your freak flag fly!

Actually that’s a line out of Stephen Still’s song – Almost cut my hair. For those of you who don’t know who Stephen Still is he was with the group – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (orginally just Crosby, Stills & Nash). For those of you who don’t know who CSN&Y are – well, there’s just no hope. FlagFox displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information. Flagfox is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that shows a flag icon indicating the current website’s server location. It uses relatively little resources, and works by accessing an IP address location database contained within the extension rather than relying on top-level-domain roots like “.com” or “.uk”. Clicking the icon loads Geotool, which provides a map of the location as well as more detailed information such as the ISP, city, and local time. The context menu also provides quick access to information about the country of origin, as well as the ability to lookup the domain’s registrant via Whois. Uses of Flagfox range from simply educating users about the global nature of the Internet to: * SEO and web development research * Indicating the native languages and legal jurisdictions for webservers * Warning when sites that are not in the country the say they are * Quickly viewing/copying server IP addresses for diagnostic and other uses Flagfox is fairly customizable, allowing users to choose between two icon sets with positioning options anywhere in the address or status bar. Advanced users may create their own custom lookup to perform specialized searches for the current server. So, as I said, let your freak flag fly ! How to Increase Your Search Engine Visitors Every site needs more search engine visitors. Join Traffic Reality , where we’ll teach you end-to-end Website Promotion Techniques starting with how to get the best out of Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. Learn how to integrate all your promotion efforts into a plan that keeps working even when you’re not. convert this post to pdf.

Jun 5 2009

Tool Time Friday | Tower of Babel?

Well, not really. How about BabelFish? BabelFish is an easy, highly customizeable, and fast Firefox translation extension: Provides two translation services and additional access to Google’s dictionary! Translate words or a whole text… – with a doubleclick. – just by highlighting – just by hovering a word with the mouse – via context menu – with a middle mouse click – with Alt+leftclick – with Alt+rightclick – even supports keyboard only operations The translation will be displayed as a small popup on the same page, right below the text you wished to translate. So you can keep your eyes on the text and there is no need to close another translation-window. Optional the translation can be displayed in a separated panel below the document or as really tiny tooltip when you hover a word with the mouse. Currently available translation services are Yahoo and Google including Google’s dictionary. Quickly (one click) switch to the other service to see an alternative translation result. This is an important feature as the translation services sometimes provide different results for the same text. Easily switch the translation direction (one click): The backwards translation offers a good way to check a translation for correctness (e.g. in textareas). BabelFish provides many additional features like language detection, service fallback algorithm and even auto-language can be configured. To change the language you may use the statusbar icon, the FireFox tools menu or just click ‘L’ while a translation tooltip is visible. Creation of predefined translations turns any language switching to a simple task. A copy button makes it easy to copy the translation result to another destination etc. What can be easier ? How to Increase Your Search Engine Visitors Every site needs more search engine visitors. Join Traffic Reality , where we’ll teach you end-to-end Website Promotion Techniques starting with how to get the best out of Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. Learn how to integrate all your promotion efforts into a plan that keeps working even when you’re not. convert this post to pdf.

May 15 2009

Tool Time Friday | For all you Twitter Freaks

This extension lets you know your twitter status. The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status. Here’s the link . When I was coming up with the title to this post, it made me think of Rick James’ song, Super Freaky.  Here’s the link – I was unable to incorporate the best version of this song from YouTube due to embedding was disabled. Enjoy! How to Increase Your Search Engine Visitors Every site needs more search engine visitors. Join Traffic Reality , where we’ll teach you end-to-end Website Promotion Techniques starting with how to get the best out of Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. Learn how to integrate all your promotion efforts into a plan that keeps working even when you’re not. convert this post to pdf.

May 15 2009

Tool Time Friday | History anyone?

History Submenus 1.32, formerly named History Menu, this extension aims to make the History menu more usable, and the history sidebar less necessary. The extension adds a submenu for each day and lists all sites visited on that day, rather than just the last ten sites visited… as is in the standard History menu. Some of the extension’s behavior may be changed through its preferences. NOTES: “Today” submenu starts after items in top menu.. e.g. at 11th item in history… if first 10 are in main History menu. So go get History Submenus . How to Increase Your Search Engine Visitors Every site needs more search engine visitors. Join Traffic Reality , where we’ll teach you end-to-end Website Promotion Techniques starting with how to get the best out of Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. Learn how to integrate all your promotion efforts into a plan that keeps working even when you’re not. convert this post to pdf.