VC’s Techie CockTail

Continuing from the previous post on some great Firefox add-ons. Here are some more for you to consider,

• Sage by The Sage Team

  Sage helps you discover and read RSS and Atom feeds from your favorite websites. Watch your friends’ blogs, or stay on top of hundreds of online publications with notification of new content and easy-to-read newspaper-like rendering.

• Performancing by Performancing

  Performancing is a full-featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted content, including images, from the page you are browsing and take notes as well as post to your blog.

• Jeteye by Jeteye Technologies, Inc.

  Jeteye enables you to collect links, images, text, and videos into a Jetpak. Share Jetpaks with friends and family and make them public or private according to your preferences.

• FoxyTunes by Alex Sirota

  FoxyTunes places remote controls for the media player of your choice within Firefox so that you can control your music without leaving the browser.So enjoy your music while browsing in the same window with no hassles.

• StumbleUpon by Geoff Smith

  StumbleUpon allows you to discover and share great Web content matched to your personal preferences. Whether it’s a website, video, picture, blog, StumbleUpon helps you find interesting pages recommended by like-minded people with a single click of the Stumble! button

• del.icio.us Bookmarks by Yahoo! Inc.

  This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web.By using this with Firefox it makes it much easier to access your bookmarks wherever you are and keep them organized no matter how many you have.

If u have used and come across some useful add-ons please post it in the Comments section, I will come out with a Top-User Rated Add-Ons in the near future…so post your comments

written by Vignesh

• FlashGot by Giorgio Maone

  Flash got helps you to download one link, selected links, or all the links of a page at once with a single click by sending the request from your browser to any of the download utilities installed in your PC.

  Note: Free DownloadManager is a great download manager which you can use for resuming of interrupted downloads, scheduling & acceleration.

• Video Downloader

  This cool add-on allows you to download videos from sites like YouTube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm etc. And you can also download embedded objects on a webpage like mp3, flash, video, quicktime.

• Answers by Asher Szmulewicz

  1-Click Answers™ saves you time by instantly delivering the information you are looking for. Press Alt (or Option on a Mac) and click any word to get a quick, relevant definition or explanation, drawn from a collection of over 100 reference titles.

• JAJAH - Web-Activated Telephony by Gilad Katz

  JAJAH lets you make free or very low cost global telephone calls directly from Firefox using your regular mobile or landline phone.

• Adblock Plus by Wladimir Palant

  To block out the ever annoying intrusive advertisements. If you encounter an ad your subscription does not take care of, right-click it and select “Adblock”.

• Download Statusbar by Devon Jensen

  Manage your Internet downloads from a tidy toolbar, without the download window getting in the way of your Web browsing. Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window.

In the next part I will be listing out more great add-ons for Firefox. If you are interested in other open source software you can read about my 3 blogs on Open Source softwares here.

written by Vignesh