Best Firefox add-ons I install at setup

(UPDATED on October 9, 2009)

For del.icio.us bookmarks I prefer this.

For IE specific sites! I install IETab.

For download management I prefer Downthemall.

Not so necessary but Pdf Download is a good tool for handling pdf links.

For Gmail, the following add-ons and greasemonkey scripts have been particularly useful for me while using gmail. First install GreaseMonkey and then Better Gmail 2... Then you install this greasemonkey script for hiding the labels with no unread messages. And of course Remember the Milk addon for Gmail .

For twitter I use twitterfox (although I am not a fan of Twitter in any way).

For decerasing the size of my always open tabs like gmail, FaviconizeTab.

For my tasks, Remember the milk for gmail.

TabMixPlus is a must.

Some following tweaks;
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground -> true.

My first Dapp , My first google gadget

Add this to your google gadgets for getting Turkish Super League Football results.

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/109749678153669589349/dapper.mod

Billboard releases API!

This is a nice one...

Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

The Billboard API puts the entire rich history of our weekly charts at your fingertips to sample and mix into your web pages and applications.

Billboard - Welcome to the Billboard Developer Network!

Return of the Firefox ! Till Chrome supports delicious, scribefire, downthemall...

I have been a huge fan of Google Chrome. Still I am. It launches fast, shows pages faster, and maximizes the screen usage. However there are some caveats.

I like del.ici.ous. Very much. My bookmarks in my hands whenever I need them. And the firefox del.ici.ous plugin is great. For this sole reason I have switched from 4+ months friend Google Chrome to my old dude Firefox.

Here is the list of firefox add-on Chrome should support before I switch to it again.

Greasemonkey
ScribeFire
Del.icio.us
Downemall!

My 2 cents.

Microsoft Live Mail Review

Have you tested the Microsoft Live platform for mail, blogs and pictures.
I had.
Short conclusion : Slow. Unresponsive.

Why?
I have tried to download my Hotmail mail with Live Mail. First of all I had to enter my password 3 times.
Then it started to show some of my mail. I click on a mail on the left side list, hoping to see the content on the right side, first three mails ok, then it stalled. I just wanted to delete it. No result. Meanwhile while alt-tabbing I saw a popup windows, showing status of downloading. Hey, you SHOULD show that on a single window.

Even the hotmail web site is more responsier than this desktop application.

Verdict?

Stay away from Live merchandise...

Image switch jquery plugin

This is a cool way of changing images using javascript...

http://www.hieu.co.uk/blog/index.php/imageswitch/

Visualizing Sensor With Arduino and Processing

Wish I had some spare time to study something like this...

Visualizing Sensor With Arduino and Processing | uC Hobby

OSGi Hello World

I have been encountering this OSGi stuff more frequently lately and this site seems to explain it in simpler terms...

http://aneeshkumarkb.blogspot.com/

Unix like links in windows xp

This program came very handy when I tried to have a clone folder with link to original...

Link Shell Extension

How can you solve sudoku using ontologies and a reasoner?

Sudoku? Ontology?
Seems to be weirdly connected but this guy explains it neatly...

http://www.mindswap.org/~aditkal/sudoku

Greener Gadgets Design Contest

Lots of gatgets with great ideas. Personally I like the Eco-neightbuzz system...


http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/

Check it out.

Java Code Coverage

For some CMMI 3 Metrics, I had to find how much code is covered by unit tests

http://www.eclemma.org/

A nice tool with easy Eclipse integration.

and...

http://emma.sourceforge.net

Both of them are free.