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Top 5 Safari Plugins

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by srikanth.

Safari has been one of the best browsers in the market, known for its speed, rich look and feel and standards support. Safari allows you to install plugins in order to customize your experience with the browser.  The following are my five favorite plugins that take my browsing experience to the next level.

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Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

About 16 months ago, Google took the world by surprise, when it announced its intention of launching a web browser of its own. Touting it as the web browser for the next generation, Google made several innovations and modifications to the architecture and style of the existing web browsers.

Google Chrome is based on the Webkit layout engine, which is known for its excellent rendering speeds. Besides that, Google introduced a number of other features and enhancements such as the JavaScript processing engine V8, and insanely fast loading speeds along with other improvements such as sandboxing and private browsing mode for improved security. Even though Chrome had all the ingredients for a perfect browser, it still lacks when it comes to add-ons or extensions.

While Google Chrome is still no where near Mozilla Firefox when it comes to extension support, there are still some pretty good add-ons out there which can greatly enhance your browsing experience. Here’s my list of the top 5 extensions that are a must have if you are a Google Chrome user.

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Create Your Own Toolbar with Conduit

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Do you have a website or blog? What things do you constantly do to stay in touch with your readers and make readers stay in touch with your site/blog? You provide an RSS feed, you create a twitter account and several other things.  Well, now you can easily create your own toolbar.

To help you create an awesome and useful toolbar for your own community, Conduit is here.

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Discover New Websites with iWeavr

Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Every Internet surfer has their own preferences. For instance, I don’t really go to websites or blogs related to cars, pets, churches or religions. What I’m interested in is technology, gadgets, fictitious stories, news and a few other topics.

Most of us enjoy finding new websites and articles about the things we are interested in, but it can be hard to find these new articles.  We often get stuck in the rut of going to the same websites over and over.  What if you had a handy tool that would allow you to find some similar websites to the page you’re currently browsing?

Well, here comes today’s topic: iWeavr. iWeavr is a nice browser-bookmarklet that will help you find similar websites to the one you are currently browsing.

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10 Resources Bloggers Will Love

Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by srikanth.

Blogging is all about ‘Freedom for Expression’. It is THE trend of Web 2.0 and everyday we come across many tools from Widgets to Platforms(WordPress, Blogger, TypePad) to Scripts to Web Apps, which aid the process of blogging.

Though blogging platforms provide us with a variety of features and other extensions, you might need a few tools for specific tasks like image search, file  compression, time tracking, desktop publishing clients, RSS, subscription services and yes…Twitter.

To make your quest for the right resources to blog easy, we present you 10 tools which you will really love as a blogger.

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Internet Explorer 8 Speed Test

Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Jonathan Schlaffer.

In case you haven’t heard by now Microsoft has released the latest version of Internet Explorer now at version 8.0. There are a few new toys to play with in it such as the addition of “Accelerators” and some security “improvements,” but the most important feature of a browser to me is speed, and IE8 utterly fails in this department.

Take other browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari 4.0 beta.  All of them have long been proven to be faster than IE8 in just about every single benchmark known to man and even in most practical tests.

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Flock is the Web Browser That Gets Social

Posted on 25. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Flock is a web browser that was built from the base code of Firefox.  This fact already gives Flock some promise and credibility, because Firefox is such a great browser already.  The idea behind Flock is to turn your browser into the ultimate social tool.  It integrates several social networks, email services, blogging services, social bookmarking and media sharing sites.  This integration makes it easy to stay up to date with all of the things going on around the Internet.

Let’s take a quick tour of the vast amount of features that Flock has to offer.

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Put an FTP Client in Your Browser With FireFTP

Posted on 07. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

In the past, I have always had an FTP client that was independent of any other piece of software.  In my article Top 5 Free Applications Every Blogger Needs, I mentioned FileZilla as one of those necessary applications.

I still believe that FileZilla is a great application and would recommend it to anyone, but I must admit that I have switched to the Firefox plugin FireFTP.  I have found that with Firefox 3 being faster than its predecessor I can use many more extensions than in the past and still get the performance I want.

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