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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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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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Glue Firefox Addon – Share and Get Suggestions

Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Internet users have lately been very occupied by this thing called social networking. Social Networks enable people to get in touch with their friends even with their busy schedules. These web sites act as a great platform to share thoughts and opinions.

Glue is a tool and actually a Firefox Plug-in, which enables you to share your opinions and tastes with your friends. It also serves as a tool to discover books, music, movies and many other things through your friends as you browse popular sites.

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Firefox Plugin Yoono Puts All Your Social Media in One Place

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

I admit, I’m almost addicted to all this social media thing. I will tweet about my Facebook and post pictures to Flickr just so I can blog about it. Many of you also use MySpace, Flickr, Imeem, FriendFeed, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Live.

So let me ask you something. Is it fun having to click a hundred times just to check if there’s anything new on your favorite social media websites? It sure is not for me. I’ve tried many different gadgets and applications to tweet from my desktop. I even enabled the sidebar again! But since Firefox is the program that runs for me most of the time, I had to find something to put it in it.

Yoono is great, but I won’t lie to you, it also has its downfalls. However, once you set the gadget, it works pretty well. You can install it from the Firefox Add-On site, of course for free.

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Bookmark-Powered Web Discovery from Xmarks

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

The much loved Firefox add-on for bookmark (and password) synchronization, FoxMarks, will hereafter known as Xmarks. Along with the change of name, comes several other great changes. It now features bookmarks-powered Web discovery. This is analogous to StumbleUpon, but not quite similar to it.

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