LostInTechnology

Zotero Helps You Easily Manage All of Your Internet Research

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Finding the required information from Internet for a research project is never as irritating and time consuming as collecting and managing all the information you find. Suppose that you are looking for some information on the Egyptian Pyramids. Then how would you collect and catalog your information?

You would follow the conventional way of copying it and pasting it into a document or text editor. This whole activity can get confusing and isn’t always the best way to manage your research if you are working on a large project. Under such situations, Zotero proves to be a very useful tool and its offerings seems to be incomparable.

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How To Send Exe Files in Gmail

Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Bryan.Castleberry.

Isn’t email great? Beaming messages and files all over the globe in a matter of minutes has always seemed pretty cool to me. But what about when you want to send an attachment that GMail (my email provider of choice) or any other email provider doesn’t like?

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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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Customize the Web with Greasemonkey

Posted on 22. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Have you ever wanted to get a little more functionality out of the websites you visit?  Have you ever had an idea on how to make them better?  Well, Greasemonkey allows you to take your wants and ideas and make them a reality.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that uses HTML scripts to customize webpages.  These scripts make the changes to the HTML website while you are loading it, so the only difference you see is the new functionality.

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Firefox Extensions Arg!!

Posted on 19. Sep, 2007 by Kyle Judkins.

Well, this is the first official post for LostInTechnology, and what a better day to start on than Talk Like a Pirate Day. Firefox and its extensions really have nothing to do with Talk Like a Pirate Day, but neither does technology. I just like pirates ok…well talking like them at least. I am still working on my posts about my favorite extensions, but it so happens that Lifehacker has a great article up on the greatness of tabbed browsing without extenstions, so my first article (link) about extensions isn’t even about extensions.

Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques [via Lifehacker]

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