Here are some of my favorite add-ons for Firefox 3.x, which I am referencing here so I can remember them the next time I install a new user a computer or a whole new operating system.
Scrapbook - Webpage copier for offline viewing (Great for preserving documents to read later)
DownThemall - Download filter and que for all/one tab(s)
Flashblock - Turn off the automatic loading of Flash animations. A play icon appears instead and you have control over activating which animations to play and when. It interfers only when the entire website is Flash-based, which is a stupid approach to web design anyway and the site probably does not deserve to be viewed.
Adblock Plus
Wired Marker - colored marking of web pages, stored in a scrapbook file. You can port this file to another computer for them to share your markups. I have not explored whether you can port individual markups or even certain pages of markups yet.
PermaTabs - Make certain tabs permanent, so when you start Firefox these appear every time. Also, when you use close other tabs permatabs are not closed.
Video Download Helper
Fast Video Download
Firefox Universal Uploader
Media Wrap - transparently wrap ActiveX (test site http://members.aol.com/jrzycrim01/mozilla/wmp/wmpaxtest.html) and it identifies locales such as PL (Poland)
Splash - sound, opacity, CSS customization, custom images, and much more. You can add {appVersion}, {buildID} and {userAgent} to the loading text.
Abduction - Screenshot of a web page or part of a page
Image Tweak - image viewing and resizing
Fox Saver - Firefox turns into a screensaver/photo viewer from any source
YouPlayer - play or download from Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace and YouTube
Duplicate Tab - clone a tab along with its history
TabX - makes the close 'x' stay always visible
ColorfulTabs
Morning Coffee - load up set sites each morning in your tabs
Tab Renamizer - rename embarrassing tabs
Undo Closed Tabs Button
Remove Tabs - to the left/right of highlighted one
TabAway - double-click to close tab
Multiple Tab Handler - features to handle multiple tabs, especially closing
gui:config - This is an extension for advanced preferences. gui:config makes it easier to change preferences that can only be found in the “about:config”
Tab Sidebar - display previews of your tabs in the sidebar
As you can see, in my opinion Firefox still has a long way to go with prefecting the Tab management features and making it easier for programmers to update their Add-ons to stay compatible with the newest browser. I have lost a few add-ons along the way with the upgrades to Firefox, none of which were integrated into the browser. However, with the upgrade to 3.0x I have lost MANY, though maybe two have been integrated. This is the sad reality of the Mozilla Foundation. I still would never trade it for the slow-changing MSIE or the confusing and difficult interface of Opera. Firefox ROCKS the WEB!
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Know Your Ancestors!
It's been too long since I posted something here. I just ran across an excellent quote while searching for a piece of software to put up genealogy info about my family on the web (accessible only to my family memebers as a collaborative effort). This quote tells two of the sober reasons for knowing your ancestors:
So the person who said the above was absolutely correct! We might have a stronger sense of planning for the future to create a new extension of the past that is as great as the one we hear of that supports us. We would have greater respect for our predecessors, knowing that they belong not only to us, but to a timeline of others who stretch back into the fog of memory and that these people built a past out of which we arose and in which we still live.
So the person who said the above was absolutely correct! We might have a stronger sense of planning for the future to create a new extension of the past that is as great as the one we hear of that supports us. We would have greater respect for our predecessors, knowing that they belong not only to us, but to a timeline of others who stretch back into the fog of memory and that these people built a past out of which we arose and in which we still live.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
World Peace and Perversion of Truth
Considering world peace has brought me to a different place in my journey so far. I do not believe there can be any stable agreement on world peace. It would have to come about through personal and national devastations, either natural or man-made. The other possibility is through brainwashing and indoctrination under the assumption that the content justifies the methods. Yet the results are a perversion of truth, nevertheless.
Scientific education has long taken the leadership role in the training of our children's minds. However, while the content has been fairly reliable, the methods have created generations of brainwashed adults. They are happy to advocate scientific theory, whenever they might understand it enough to re-iterate it, and they certainly are proud enough to turn it against spiritual beliefs that are connected in any way to the Judeo-Christian faith. The use of something so good against something else so good, perverts these children's perception of truth. If good is calling good evil, then it makes the nature of good and evil unclear in these developing minds. Then when they become adults and assume that they have a grasp on good and evil, this perceived conflict causes them to turn toward a denial of truth, calling it truth.
Scientific education has long taken the leadership role in the training of our children's minds. However, while the content has been fairly reliable, the methods have created generations of brainwashed adults. They are happy to advocate scientific theory, whenever they might understand it enough to re-iterate it, and they certainly are proud enough to turn it against spiritual beliefs that are connected in any way to the Judeo-Christian faith. The use of something so good against something else so good, perverts these children's perception of truth. If good is calling good evil, then it makes the nature of good and evil unclear in these developing minds. Then when they become adults and assume that they have a grasp on good and evil, this perceived conflict causes them to turn toward a denial of truth, calling it truth.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Disjointing the World Protects Us Against Global Manipulation
Here is some attempt to begin wrestling with this issue. However, their conclusion of Let go! is dissatisfying. No one either wants to or is able to actually let go. This quasi-Buddhist mantra is a lame duck excuse to quit worrying so much about something that is so important it ruffles your feathers all night long, yet so vague or ambiguous that your brain aches each time you consider the problem. In a later post, though, he gets it right, especially about the direction of commerce and the online community.
This guy grapples with a specific aspect of the issue much better. He is worth reading.
Here is another aspect of this particular topic about only one company invading the community of citizens. Yet, he looks at it as if he were himself a fledgling company, so-to-speak. His perspective is quite commercial, while missing the whole point. If someone is siphoning your thoughts off your blog, allowing others to converse about it at their place, but not letting you know about it, then you are being pimped and bannished from the conversation that you are generating. THAT's the rub!
Open Source, the Net and media piracy all have strong implications in this mess! Don't get me wrong though; I don't blame any of them. They are all consequences of transcendence beyond borders, as also are the new Germany, the European Union and the U.S. war in Afghanistan-Iraq-soon.to.be.Iran!
In short, the corporations deserve what they are getting. I DO blame them for many of the modern illnesses, starting with pollution, child labor, sweat shops in S.E. Asia, insatiable hunger for war-mongering, manipulation of the sinful nature in us through commerce and advertisements, unrighteous use of the law against people (through lobbying, raising the status of the corporation to higher legal entity than the citizen, curbing citizen's abilities to sue the companies while also limiting the citizen's use of bankruptcy as a defensive tool against their excessive fees and cruel attitudes in collecting debts). I have watched corporations ruin families' and individuals' lives and have been there to try to help these same people pick up the pieces.
I am opposed to Microsoft's bold attempts to monopolize their industry and expand into others with the same attitude. I am opposed to the passive attitude of the individual toward this sort of totalitarian attitude. I am opposed to the careless steward who abuses the people with whatever power they can grasp. I am opposed to the individual who has only their attitude to assault others with and they do not refrain from creating chaos or at least anxiety just to see that they can. The poison runs down hill, like Reagan's Trickle Down Economics.
This guy grapples with a specific aspect of the issue much better. He is worth reading.
Here is another aspect of this particular topic about only one company invading the community of citizens. Yet, he looks at it as if he were himself a fledgling company, so-to-speak. His perspective is quite commercial, while missing the whole point. If someone is siphoning your thoughts off your blog, allowing others to converse about it at their place, but not letting you know about it, then you are being pimped and bannished from the conversation that you are generating. THAT's the rub!
Open Source, the Net and media piracy all have strong implications in this mess! Don't get me wrong though; I don't blame any of them. They are all consequences of transcendence beyond borders, as also are the new Germany, the European Union and the U.S. war in Afghanistan-Iraq-soon.to.be.Iran!
In short, the corporations deserve what they are getting. I DO blame them for many of the modern illnesses, starting with pollution, child labor, sweat shops in S.E. Asia, insatiable hunger for war-mongering, manipulation of the sinful nature in us through commerce and advertisements, unrighteous use of the law against people (through lobbying, raising the status of the corporation to higher legal entity than the citizen, curbing citizen's abilities to sue the companies while also limiting the citizen's use of bankruptcy as a defensive tool against their excessive fees and cruel attitudes in collecting debts). I have watched corporations ruin families' and individuals' lives and have been there to try to help these same people pick up the pieces.
I am opposed to Microsoft's bold attempts to monopolize their industry and expand into others with the same attitude. I am opposed to the passive attitude of the individual toward this sort of totalitarian attitude. I am opposed to the careless steward who abuses the people with whatever power they can grasp. I am opposed to the individual who has only their attitude to assault others with and they do not refrain from creating chaos or at least anxiety just to see that they can. The poison runs down hill, like Reagan's Trickle Down Economics.
Iran - Bush wakes up to it!
In case you missed it in the news, we have proof that U.S. President Bush is slow on the uptake. In this article by the Washington Post, from the 12 April 2008, we read that the Bush Administration has decided that Iran, not Al Queda, is the top threat to U.S. attempts to stabilize Iraqi democracy.
When we attacked Iraq, just before we entered Afghanistan, I told my friends that we would have to fight Iran too. After all, we helped install Sadaam into power in Iraq, we drove him back out of Kuwait (Desert Shield and Desert Storm, under the first Bush) and we were finally going in to remove him from his totalitarian power trip. The whole mess was the result of the U.S. trying to covertly build a buffer between Iran and the rest of the anti-Israeli Arab nations. Certainly, we would replace Sadaam with a far more democratic system that would be deeply influenced by Washington and provide an even stronger buffer against Iran. So Iran now has theological reasons as well as ethnic and political reasons to oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq. From what angle could the Bush Administration NOT see this one coming?
When we attacked Iraq, just before we entered Afghanistan, I told my friends that we would have to fight Iran too. After all, we helped install Sadaam into power in Iraq, we drove him back out of Kuwait (Desert Shield and Desert Storm, under the first Bush) and we were finally going in to remove him from his totalitarian power trip. The whole mess was the result of the U.S. trying to covertly build a buffer between Iran and the rest of the anti-Israeli Arab nations. Certainly, we would replace Sadaam with a far more democratic system that would be deeply influenced by Washington and provide an even stronger buffer against Iran. So Iran now has theological reasons as well as ethnic and political reasons to oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq. From what angle could the Bush Administration NOT see this one coming?
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The World is Becoming Disjointed
I have watched for some time now as the world has become more disjointed with the rise of the Net. Some people have practically abandonned the Net, while others have abandonned their families and friends, replacing them with remote ones. What is happening?
I read indexes of blogs and wonder, "Who cares?" So what if this person thinks something about nothing! Who is going to waste their time to read that blog? Certainly funny blogs can attrack many people. Serious blogs may attract people too, but only kooks who have an axe to grind. So all the kooks attack each other with their rubber axes, screaming crusading snarls, flailing their coffee cups at their monitors when their axes are shown for what they really are.
Where can we go from here? Where are the real friends? What can the use of this fathomless pit of blogging be? Someone throw me a rope!
I read indexes of blogs and wonder, "Who cares?" So what if this person thinks something about nothing! Who is going to waste their time to read that blog? Certainly funny blogs can attrack many people. Serious blogs may attract people too, but only kooks who have an axe to grind. So all the kooks attack each other with their rubber axes, screaming crusading snarls, flailing their coffee cups at their monitors when their axes are shown for what they really are.
Where can we go from here? Where are the real friends? What can the use of this fathomless pit of blogging be? Someone throw me a rope!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Spoofing your citizenship to servers!
Here's a good trick if you get a message saying you cannot access some resource on the Net because all slots for your country are full or you just get some message saying you are denied access. This only works if the limitations are due to you not being inside the country of the server.
Find out what country the company who is offering the resource is in. Usually at the bottom or top of the page is an About Us button or link. Once you find that out it is rather straight forward. Google free 'country name' proxies (i.e. free russian proxies). You should be able to find a few pages with lists of free public proxies. You'll have to try them one at a time or randomly to get one that works, though most of them might work right off the bat.
Open the settings for the connection of your browser. Don't even ask about how to do this in MS Internet Explorer, though it is easy to do! Stay away from that piece of trash! It is the world's biggest security risk and whore in the world! It spreads VD (viruses) to your computer and allows anyone to have sex with your computer (namely, hackers, who'll have sex with ANY computer that lets them). I think you get the picture.
-->In the section of the connections settings you can mark that your computer is going through a proxy. That is where you also put in the address and port of the proxy in the country you wish to be seen as a bonafide citizen of. The address might look something like this: 134.89.2.22:80 or 219.93.178.162:3128 . There will be four sets of numbers from one to three digits long, separated by periods. On the end of this string of numbers will be the port number of any length, though usually only up to four digits long, set off by a colon.
Then you access your resource again and viola! The server thinks you are Russian or Danish or whatever nationality belongs to the country of the proxy you put in.
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Find out what country the company who is offering the resource is in. Usually at the bottom or top of the page is an About Us button or link. Once you find that out it is rather straight forward. Google free 'country name' proxies (i.e. free russian proxies). You should be able to find a few pages with lists of free public proxies. You'll have to try them one at a time or randomly to get one that works, though most of them might work right off the bat.
Open the settings for the connection of your browser. Don't even ask about how to do this in MS Internet Explorer, though it is easy to do! Stay away from that piece of trash! It is the world's biggest security risk and whore in the world! It spreads VD (viruses) to your computer and allows anyone to have sex with your computer (namely, hackers, who'll have sex with ANY computer that lets them). I think you get the picture.
-->In the section of the connections settings you can mark that your computer is going through a proxy. That is where you also put in the address and port of the proxy in the country you wish to be seen as a bonafide citizen of. The address might look something like this: 134.89.2.22:80 or 219.93.178.162:3128 . There will be four sets of numbers from one to three digits long, separated by periods. On the end of this string of numbers will be the port number of any length, though usually only up to four digits long, set off by a colon.
Then you access your resource again and viola! The server thinks you are Russian or Danish or whatever nationality belongs to the country of the proxy you put in.
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