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Interview with Yongqian Li of FastestFox

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by srikanth.

FastestFox is one of the more popular and quickly uprising Firefox Add-ons with over 3,346,783 downloads so far. I got an opportunity to get in touch with the developer behind FastestFox to answer a few questions about the extension.

Briefly, FastestFox is a Firefox extension which helps you browse faster by speeding up common tasks such as searching Wikipedia, Google, visiting your bookmarked sites and more. It saves you time and accelerates your browsing experience. It provides you with parallelized downloads and a convenient way to open your favorite bookmarks with customizable shortcuts (qlauncher).

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Launch your programs easily with Launchy

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Launchy is a small but useful free program which brings all the applications, files and folders in your system just a few keystrokes away. Launchy is specially designed for the people who hate to keep their desktops crowded with shortcuts. Launchy allows you to access all the files, folders, applications or even websites on your system just by hitting few buttons on your keyboard.

All you have to do to launch the files, folders, applications or websites you want is to type in the first few letters, then Launchy drops down the list of items whose names match with the letters entered by you. That’s how easy it is.  Just a few letters and a press of the enter key, and you have launched your favorite programs.  Let’s learn a little more about the software.

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Ultimate Freeware List: Application Launchers

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by srikanth.

Here at LostInTechnology, we strive to give you great information on great tools and software.  Most articles tend to focus on one or a few specific tools or programs.  The Ultimate Freeware Lists are changing that format around.

We are going to provide you with tons of different tools that are all free and will really expand your arsenal of great programs and software.  These lists are by no means going to be perfect, and we ask all of our loyal readers to help us complete the lists by adding some comments.

In the first list we covered media players. This time we are on a quest to provide you with the ultimate freeware list of Application Launchers.

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