Flutter, a Kinect-like gesture control startup bought by Google

Flutter since 2012 allows Mac users to control music and video on iTunes and Spotify using the hand gestures just like Microsoft's Kinect. Flutter or renowned for "Kinect for OS X" is a free app for Mac that enabling gesture controls to OS X computers. It is compatible with iTunes, Spotify, Winamp and Windows Media Player. The Next Web reported that the company has acquired by Google.

It is believed by this acquisition Google is will leveraging the gesture controls to its Android system or its Google Glass. A video showcasing the how the Flutter works follows below:

The acquisition was confirmed by the Flutter's homepage where they post :

Today, we are thrilled to announce that we will be continuing our research at Google. We share Google’s passion for 10x thinking, and we’re excited to add their rocket fuel to our journey

Some said, this acquisition will not affecting the current Flutter app.

Via TNW

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October 2, 2013

Skitch 3.0 on iOS 7 revamped

Skitch on iOS 7 is now with its new looks. The concept and its user interface is change. No more pinky heart that usually reminds us to love symbol. The logo is now a pairs of feathers that usually on an arrow. I don't know what this new logo try to signify, direct, stable and fast perhaps ?, I don't know.

Evernote has update this marking and annotation with new features, such as Quick shot mode where you can snap, annotate and send the photo off in seconds. This smart effortless sharing includes, Send to Meeting, which lets you send your annotated images to the attendees of an event on your calendar; Airdrop sharing lets you share with nearby iOS7 devices; and sending to Evernote

New Skitch for iOS 7 is also redesigned and improved it layout and tools. The new tool and style bar are matching the iOS 7 stylings.

It’s completely redesigned to emphasize the features that provide the best mobile annotation experience and makes getting your point across faster and more intuitive than ever.

Skitch is free apps for iPhone and iPad and available on the Apple Store

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September 27, 2013

How to download Videojug.com's videos

I've been using Internet to find inspiration for anything, including cooking. There are many sites with cooking videos, one of them is videojug.com. Videojug is renowned for its great videos content. Very often I need to download the videos provided to my PC for later viewing, and for my cooking videos library, but videojug is only providing download options to cellphone, iPod and PSP. Here I want to show you two ways on downloading videojug's videos.

Fullfilling my curiousity here is how I downloads videos from videojug.com.

Using Maxthon Browser

Maxthon is a powerful browser, previously known as myIE2 , Maxthon is a browser with rich capabilities that may rival Firefox. One feature that Maxthon I love the most is File sniffer, which lets you see which file are loaded by the websites you open, and that's is useful for knowing where the Videojug's FLV files location is. By doing so, we can download the FLV using downloader. Here is the preview downloading video from Videojug.com using Maxthon browser.

Point to Videojug website and choose the video you wish to download by clicking it. Upon videos is played, there will be an icon ( plus sign inside a green circle) appears on right or left corner of opened videos, click the icon to show the menu. Click the File sniffer menu.

On the Sniffer tab, there will be list of URL of sniffed URLs. Right click on the URL, choose Copy , if you wish to copy the link (for downloading with independent downloader) or Download by Maxthon Donloader if you wish Maxthon download it for you.

And downloding video from Videojug is undergo.

Using Firefox Browser

This method is the hard way, which was my old way on downloading videos from Internet. This method works is by finding manually the link of videos inside the Firefox cache, and copy it, then download it.

Put this command into Firefox address bar about:cache?device=disk to see the Firefox cache.

Cache entries are now shown in browser window, now do find a FLV ( Ctrl+F, type FLV).

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Click on the link, the cache information for that link will shown (image below). Copy or 'Save link as' the link inside cache information to start download the FLV file.

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As I said, this is the hard way, because it takes time, to be able to get the link information from cache, you must let the video run until it finished on the browser, otherwise you wont get the link inside the cache. Using the Maxthon browser, you are able to download the videos without waiting for the video is finished, so it is faster. I recommends using Maxthon for downloading videos from Videojug, it is also works for Youtube and others online video sites.

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May 26, 2008

3 Top Free VirtualDesktop Managers for MS Windows XP

Virtual Desktop Manager is a tool that allows you organized your opened programs windows into separated desktop called virtual desktop ( workspace) and allows you to switch between them, makes you easy to work on multiple programs without cluttered desktop.

Many of you who are Linux users might be already familiar with Virtual Desktop Manager in Unix/Linux operating system. In Unix/Linux, virtual desktop manager is natively part of Window Manager such as KDE,Gnome,Enlightenment,Fluxbox etc. Thus virtual desktops or workspaces become essential for working on UNix/Linux platform.

For Microsoft Windows, there are some tools that can provides you ways to create and manage virtual desktops. Here I will list three virtual dekstop managers I have been tried, one is natively from Microsoft and the rest are from independent developers. Here they are :

1. Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager Powertoy. This program is part of Microsoft Windows XP PowerToy, I was really happy when Microsoft released this PowerToy and found this neat virtual manager included. With this virtual manager you can easily switch between your desktop by clicking numbered button at the Taskbar and see the preview of split-screen of your desktops.
   
   
   
   The one thing this tool lack of is a feature to move or assigning opened program windows to desired desktops without involving the task bar. You do this by firstly open desired virtual desktop and click the program you wish in that virtual desktop on the taskbar, especially if you are in shared desktop mode. However it has ability to assign shortcuts keys for switching between virtual desktops, changing the background images of the virtual desktop and toggle the usage of the shared taskbar.
   
   To install it, firstly download the program from here, run the executable installer. After finish, right click the windows taskbar, toggle the 'lock taskbar' option to make sure the taskbar is unlocked. After that right click again on the taskbar go to 'Toolbars' then check the 'Desktop Manager'. This will make the virtual desktop manager button appear on your taskbar. You then can switch between virtual desktop by clicking numbered button. To configure the virtual window manager, just right click on these button, you can configure the virtual desktop background images, toggle the animation, create the shortcut keys and toggle shared desktop option.
   
   
2. Dexpot. This virtual desktop manager offers more robust features. This virtual desktop manager is not only limit you with 4 virtual desktops, it lets you to create virtual desktop up to 20 virtual desktops. Switching between desktop are done through several ways, shortcut keys, Dexpot desktop manager , desktop preview and desktop window. Dexpot really has rich features, default shortcut keys are predefined, switching desktop is by pressing alt key and corresponding desktop numbers e.g Alt-2 to switch to desktop 2 etc.
   
   
   
   Moving opened programs to specific desktop is by right clicking on the program window and select the intended destination virtual desktop. For each virtual dekstop, users are allowed to configure the appearance such as the background images, the screen resolution, naming the virtual desktop,set a password for each desktop, and also specific screensaver for every dektop. Even you are allowed to set what programs you want to run each time you select the virtual desktop and also ability to set specific rules for each desktop.
   
   
   
   Dexpot is release as freeware for personal use and charging for a minor fee for commercial usage. Dexpot is also support many languages.
   
   
3. VirtualWin is another virtual desktop manager. VirtualWin lets you to open up to 9 virtual desktops and it also has rules feature. As matter of fact, this program is not intuitive as Dexpot or Virtual Desktop Powertoy, but in fact is still a virtual desktop manager that worth to use.
   
   
   

Basically I would recommend Dexpot considering its robust functionality and features, but native Microsoft PowerToy Virtual Desktop Manager is fine and it is already saves you with uncluttered desktops. At last whatever of your choice, its all yours.

There are actually another program called Virtual Dimension thats also offer capability of virtual dekstop manager, but those only three programs above are that I have been tested and tried. For those who have been tested and tried another virtual desktop manager programs, kindly let me know your experience. Feel free to contact me through my contact form.

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May 4, 2008

Zotero: Firefox extension for student and researcher

Zotero is a Firefox extension that helps student or researcher gather, organize and analyze sources such as citations, full texts, web pages, images and other objects, as well as lets users share the results in a variety of ways. Zotero is also availabe as Openoffice and MS Office plugins



Student and researcher are always dealing with list of references. Citing from web pages, library catalogs, online journals, and other objects are part of student and researcher's live. Managing and organizing references could be an overwhelming task too.

Now Zotero offers student and researcher ability to organize, managing and analyze lists of references easily. Zotero lets you dealing with citations in a nice way, organizing, searching and exporting is done in a fast way. It is also able to export your library/citations into other citations format program such as EndNote or Refworks. Zotero is also able to import library catalogs including Mirlyn, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCOhost, InfoTrac, JSTOR, LexisNexis, OCLC FirstSearch, ProQuest, and PubMed.

Zotero allows you to organize and manage citations easily, you can create a collection inside a library/citations. Collections is a foldering tools to helps categorize your citations. On individual citations you can add tags, links and notes, and at the end these makes them easier to be searched and identified. Zotero is also gives you a new way of visualizing your citations/library using a timeline view. Timeline band represents a different historical magnification and clicking on an item in a timeline will bring up the corresponding item in your collections. More information about creating timeline for your citations please visit http://www.zotero.org/documentation/timeline_screencast

Very often writing and arranging list of references, citations and bibliography into document become the most difficult part on writing journal, dissertation / thesis and scientific writings. Student will get annoyed by the bibliography writing style standard and its placing order. Small changes in main document could cause big changes in bibliography list, and assuring that they are correct is time consuming task. BibTex is renowned as tool for formating bibliographies, however it is only can be used in conjunction with TeX/LaTeX. Zotero lets you create bibliopgrahy is a click way - Zotero already provides you with all bibliography styles, you just need to choose the right style for you and click 'ok' to generate it. The format can be in RTF or HTML.

As citations program, Zotero is recommended by libraries, writing centers, academic / universities and institutions for their users. List of institutions thats recommeds Zotero can be found here, there you are also can find links to Zotero tutorials.

Zotero is compatible with Mozilla Firefox 2.x for Windows, Macintosh or Linux. Mozilla is also release Firefox bundled with Zotero, aimed for student which is called Firefox Campus Edition. Zotero is also available as Openoffice extension and MS Office plugin.


To download and install Zotero, simply click button below:

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April 24, 2008

Scribefire 2.0 released: a lot new fatures

Scribefire is a Mozilla Firefox extension that lets user blogging easily, and integrated with browser. Now with Scribefire 2.0 , users are offered with a bunch of features for easy blogging pleasure.

I've been using Scribefire for blogging for a year, and love it. Scribefire as a Firefox extension, make it easier to blog without even leaving your browser. Recently Scribfire announced the release of Scribefire 2.0, which includes huge features improvements since the last release.

Major improvements are :

• Tabbed editor windows. Now create multiple blog post within Scribefire is easier. Just click the new tab button, and new editor windows will open.
  
  


• Quickblogging. Quickblogging feature is for quick modification for existing blog post. Just point your browser to your blog, Scribefire quickblogging toolbar will appear. Simply click buttons in the toolbar, whether you want to add images, video or quotes. Then you are asked to click the post's title to do the editing.
  
  
  
  
• Post timestamp. It was only Scribfire for Firefox 3 that has timestamp feature, now adding post timestamp included on all Scribefire. Click the 'options' button to modify timestamp, check the 'modify timestamp' and timestamp you wanted.
  
  
  
  
• New promote window. Promoting your blog post to social bookmarks media is now even easier. Scribefire added new 'Share/Promote' window to help users sumbiting their post to Digg,reddit,Del.icio.us and other social bookmarks.
  
  
  
  
• Flickr and Youtube integration. Users are now easily can add images and videos using Flickr and Youtube integration feature. By activating Flickr and Youtube integration users can search a keyword for Flickr images or Youtube videos, choose an image or video and Scribefire will prompt for a caption for it and simply click a button to insert it into a post.
  
  
  
  

Now you can see that Scribefire offers features thats makes you blogging easily without even leaving your Scribefire window. Before, I was off to Firefox window to search an image on Flickr or to Youtube site to get a video for my post, now I don't need to leave my Scribefire to do that. One thing I currently wondering is the licenses of images searched by Scribefire. I did my Flickr search image through 'advance' option in Flickr website to get Creative Common Attribution Licensed images to be used for my blog posts. Does Scribefire Flickr search result are Creative Common licensed images ?. Yes, I can check the license of the images on the Flickr website, but that wouldn't great as Scribefire is a blog tool thats boast 'easy blogging'.

I believe folks at Scribefire are keep on developing Scribefire, and I do hope new features to come. The developer team is working hard to make sure everything is done properly and bugs are fixed.

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April 22, 2008

Gmail now supports IMAP

Gmail now supports IMAP, yay, a long waited feature from Google. I have switched my account to IMAP , I use Thunderbird 2 for my mail client and the setup is easy.

Firstly I have to enable the IMAP feature. This can be found on Setting menu under 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab on your Gmail webmail. Then setup the mail client. However this feature is likely only available to random sets of Gmail users, I saw few users are failed to find the IMAP option on their account, hence this is not a system-wide change, yet. If you can't find the 'enable IMAP' option your setting, you would shortly find the feature for your account, you may wait for some time.

Click here for setting up Gmail IMAP on iPhone

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October 25, 2007

Halloween pumpkin carving patterns templates for your Jack-O-Lantern

Halloween yay, now is your turn to make your own Jack-O-Lantern. Be ready with your instruments for carving, now the designs, got no idea ?. Don't worry, use the power of Internet. You will find dozen of templates for Jack-O-Lantern, from easy design to the advanced one, with various themes and best of all, most of them are free.



Brent Evans of Geektonic has compiled a list of websites where you can find the best and free Halloween Jack-O-Lantern carving templates. Get ready for carving, make your Halloween night fantastic. Do it your self your Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween creatively, the list even has extreme Jack-O-Lantern templates. Just go a head to Geektonic's list of Jack O Lantern templates sites he also has 14 geek-themed Halloween Costumes

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October 24, 2007

Rsizr: Coolest Image Resizer

Rsizr is a free web, Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG and Gif images on your computer. Rsizr lets you to process normal image rescaling and cropping , and also can resize image by using a new image resizing algorithm called Seam Carving ( a method of image retargeting ) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

Here is what Rsizr can do, it pretty amazing.

This is the original image:



And this is the result, ( click to enlarge )



Do you see the different ?, the above process shows how we can stretch the image into the panoramic view, but keep the object intact. The object at the center is not stretched, only the surrounding area is stretched. You can check what Rsizr can do at their image gallery.

More info about Rsizr can be found here. Don't forget, that Rsizr requires Flash plugin 9.0.45 or greater.

Image taken from Rsizr homepage

[via BrentEvans]


Technorati Tags: Photo editor, Image resizer

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October 2, 2007

Blogger Play: watch blogger recently uploaded photos in slide show

On September 14 Blogger launched Blogger Play, a cool way to show you photos and blog posts that recently added to blogger. Blogger Play will shows streamsof images that were just uploaded to Blogger blog in never-ending slideshow.

Can you imagine, that this neat application was developed since two years ago and kept at Blogger offices on a monitor or projector ?.

Shortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of our engineers whipped up a web page that would show us the pictures that were being uploaded in real time. The result was fun, often beautiful, but above all, compelling. We couldn’t stop watching.Over the years we’ve kept this photo scroller as part of the Blogger offices, on a monitor or projector, as an interesting (distracting?) slideshow, and a reminder of the diversity and vivaciousness of Blogger blogs. The fame of the scroller spread within Google, until one day we were asked, “so, when are you launching this?”

You can also view the info within the photos by clicking "show info" which simply open the overlay with the blog title and a snippet of the blog post corresponding to the photos and profile of the blogger who upload the photo. More information on Blooger Play can be see on Blogger Play FAQ.

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September 17, 2007

oSkope, cool visual search for Flickr and Youtube

I like oSkope very much. oSkope is a visual search service which allows you to search Flickr, Youtube Amazon and Ebay. oSkope displays any relevant images that match the search keywords. It will pulls list of images based on the search term that match the products.

I like the way they show the images, oSkope gives 5 ways to view the images; Grid, Stack, Pile, List and Graph. Its intuitive user interface just ease you to search the products without change or going into another pages. All are done on one page. Once you click on Youtube video finding, you are also can play the video.

Overall, oSkope is just great and I'm hoping for better features in the future such as navigation to revert back to my previous search result. However, I saw that registered user are have right to save their search results, but switch back and forth option is just basic for a web service.

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Free Translator from Windows Live now in Beta

Another free online translator has been released. It is reported that Microsoft has released its own online translator. Microsoft is now trying targeting online services as Google did, this time is to compete Google translator.

Windows Live Translator is a free online translation service from Microsoft which is powered by Systran. It will compete with existing translation services such as Google Translate and the famous fish, Babelfish.

The service is still in beta stage, some upgrades and improvements would be needed to make the service even better. For the time being the service can be reached through the following urls:

• translator.live.com
• translate.live.com
• windowslivestranslator.com

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September 12, 2007

Make your own iPhone ringtone for free

On 7 September 2007, "cleverboy" discovered an easy way to make your own iPhone ringtone from any AAC files. Just renaming AAC to M4R extension will do, here is how:

• Create your ringtone and save it as AAC file
• Rename M4A extension to M4R, double click it to loads into iTunes
  
• Click your iPhone in iTunes and go to ringtone section to make sure it there.
• Do sync if you unsure

Read full instructions on macrumors forums.

But within 24 hours, Apple has released its iTunes 7.4.1 update that affects the above easy discovery. But don't worry there are other ways to do it. Cleverboy explained what he did , Engadget is also has its own tips on this

UPDATE: At arstechnica you can find explanation on some tools to create your own iPhone ringtone

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Mobile Storage for iPhone from Box.net

Box.net who allows you to store and share files with your peers released their service for iPhone. Head you iPhone browser to i.box.net , start to store and access your files anywhere via your iPhone.

Box.net comes with 1GB space quota for a free account and optional additional space for a couple of bucks.

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July 29, 2007

iBloglines, released its iPhone RSS Reader

Not like Google Reader which is not release its official iPhone version yet, previously Newsgator, now Bloglines has released its own iPhone version RSS reader.

Point your iPhone browser to i.bloglines.com , and enjoy reading your RSS feed in iPhone.

More screenshot on cartonbarry and Paul Journal

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July 25, 2007

Gatineau: Microsoft's web analytic tool in beta soon

One more Microsoft hit. Some screenshots of Microsoft's web analytic tool, codenamed 'Gatineau' has leaked on the Internet. Dave Naylor has put it on the web after attending adChamps in London where he saw a demo of Gatineau there. Miscrosoft has planned to make an announcement soon. More explanation inside !

It is said Beta 1 of Gatineau will be launched by this summer and the beta version is a work-in-progress to adds more features and reports to the product. Microsoft is also inviting beta-tester to participate.

It has Age and Gender too
Beta 1 will include the ability to segment data by both age and gender buckets, so you can get more of an idea of what kind of visitors you have. Microsoft said they digs the data from users' Live ID (formerly known as Microsoft Passport) profiles. No personally Identifiable Information, such as name or e-mail address is involved in this product.

Let see next !

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RSS Reader for iPhone

Following the Google reader on iPhone , now Newsgator has its own iPhone application. Now all Newsgator users can read rsss feeds on that multimedia cellphone.

Google on iPhone reader uses javascript to provide an iPhone-sized interface for the feeds. For testing you can try it on Safari 3 for Mac or in Windows, Pete Cashmore of mashable has explained more here.


Update : Bloglines now has its own iPhone RSS reader

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PocketPutty: PuTTy in your pocket

Okay it maybe sounds late, but I just want to post it. PocketPutty is a Putty port for Windows CE. Which means, you can SSH-ing your *nix-based server via your Windows CE-based mobile devices.

PocketPutty was initially developed as part of a diploma thesis of a Czech student and is released as an open-source project under the BSD License.

Features:

• SSH1
• SSH2
• Telnet
• Serial
• Tunneling
• Private key authentication
• Color terminal emulation

PocketPutty requirements :

• Windows Mobile 2003 / 5.0 operating system
• 1 MB storage
• 1 MB memory
• Network connectivity

Download PocketPutty here

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July 19, 2007

xB Browser: a free Firefox and Tor-based secure anonymous portable web browser

Fear of your identities being revealed by eavesdropper, data thieves, your naughty network admin, and your hostile competitor or government will spy on you while surfing the Internet or to bypass website censorship and firewalls?. The xB Browser from XeroBank is for you, xB Browser is an anonymous portable browser, it's designed to run off a USB stick and keeps surfers' identities private and scrubs tracks from host computers and browsers.

xB Browser, formerly named TorPark is a combination of Portable Firefox browser and Tor the onion router. No need to explain what is Firefox, you knew it well. What is Tor ?, Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

Screenshot and more explanation inside.

Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. People or organization who are paranoid of FBI's carnivore and magic lantern or just want to keep web surfing activities private from eavesdropper or key-logger, Tor will help you. Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are supporting Tor's development as a mechanism for maintaining civil liberties online. You might have read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, and curious about NSA's super computer named "TRANSLTR" or their activities on sniffing citizen telecommunication and fear of a conspiracy theory out there, Tor is providing you a way to defend against the possibility of privacy threats.



By combining the power of Firefox and Tor, you'd get the secure portable internet browser, you're just a click away from anonymous surfing. The browser clears all data that was created upon exit or on demand. For the security reason Tor does not allow you to run another version of Firefox concurrently. You can test whether xBBrowser anonymity is running by pointing the browser at a Web site like whatismyip.com or ipchicken.com; the IP address reported by the site should be different than it is in a native browser


Since the Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth, your web traffic bounces and encrypted through so many servers spread so far apart, therefor the speed might be a bit slow, but it is worth for the security you gained, and the more people who run servers, the faster the Tor network will be. Just by providing 20kb bandwidth each way you can run your own Tor server. For speed reason, you can turn the Tor routing features off by toggle the Tor preference at the right bottom corner of the xBBrowser whenever you don't need its security enabled, with Tor off, your browsing speed returns to normal.

XeroBank, is also offers paid services total network encryption for professionals.


[More on xB Browser and Tor]

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July 17, 2007

My top 10 Firefox extension for web development

One reason why I stick with Firefox is because of its capabilities to expand its features with a wide range of optional extensions or adds-on. Customization, is the power of Firefox. People can do extensive customization on Firefox user interface via extensions. Firefox has many extension useful for web development.

Here is my top ten Firefox extensions I mostly used for developing a website :

1. Web Developer : The Web developer adds toolbar and many functional menu to the Firefox. It has tons of functionality which are useful for web developer including CSS view and edit, cookies, forms and image handling, element outlining, validation and more. This extension almost has most of features that you need for developing a website. Check out all features on Web Developer official website. The Web Developer is designed to work on any mozilla-based browser such as Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This is definitely an extension a web developer must have



2. FireBug : Firebug is another powerful extensions for Firefox. It integrates great web development tools while you browse a page. It's offering functionality including HTML elements inspection and HTML editing, CSS tweaking where you can make changes and check how it is rendered instantly,Http headers examining, XMLHttpRequest monitoring, Javascript debugging, profiling and on the fly execution, DOM inspector and many more.Once said, Firebug combines 'JavaScript Console and DOM Inspector'.



3. CSS Viewer : This is an extension that enable you to view CSS properties or elements and outlining the elements just by hovering your mouse pointer to the intended area. I personally use this extension for CSS tweaking with help of Web Developer.



4. ColorZilla : ColorZilla is a firefox extension that enable you for picking color from any point of your browser. It instantly show you the pointed area's color in RGB and HEX format.



5. MeasureIt : this extension helps you deal with measurement on developing a site. By selecting an area after clicking the MeasureIt you'd get height and width of the area easily.



6. IE Tab : this extension allow you to check how your page is displayed in Internet Explorer easily. It will open your page in Firefox new tab by embedding IE.


7. SnagIt for Firefox : an extension that gives you the power of Techsmith's SnagIt screen capure. This extension gives you ability to grab the web into an image. Useful for collecting websites design for your own reference.



8. ScrapBook : this extension maybe not exactly related to web development, but I found it extremely useful. This extension is enable you to capture websites, whether is a page, a snippet of a webpage or in-depth capture. Just like any other web copier such as HTTTrack. It also helps you to keep your captured pages manageable and organized. This is just a great web capture program which is come as an Firefox extension.



9. SEO for Firefox : this extension from SEOBook is a tool you need to get useful market research data. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results. The extension also has link to many useful tool for SEO, various infos such as pagerank, Alexa, technorati, Yahoo, Google Cached, and many more. This extension is very useful if you are in the SEO game.



10. FireFTP : last but not least, an useful extension for uploading your web work to the hosting FTP server. It has features including synchronization, directory comparison, proxy support, drag and drop and many more. Its multiple account and intuitive menu system ease you in managing your web work within the power of Firefox.

I do believe there are many alternative to the list above, but those above are I personally currently use. If you have any other extensions worth to replace those above, let me know.

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