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Posted 17 Aug 2009 — by Ellie
Category Technology
Love Facebook?Add its chat to your sidebar in Fireofx 3.5.
- Navigate to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks. A window will open.
- Click on the folder where you want to place the bookmark. Now press Organize and Add New Bookmark.
- Name the bookmark “Facebook Chat” and paste http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
- Checkmark the box that says “Load this Bookmark in the sidebar”
- Close the windows.
- Now try to use your new bookmark. Facebook chat will now open in your sidebar.
Now you can chat with your friends without having to open Facebook in a separate tab.
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 — by Amit Banerjee
Category Technology
Search other social networks of a Twitter user
If you want to befriend a Twitter user on multiple social networks, Identify, a Firefox add-on will come in handy. This add-on provides you with more information about a Twitter user and you can also add him (or her) as a friend on other popular social networking sites.
To get started, install Identify in your Firefox and restart. Then browse to any Twitter profile. Press the shortcut Alt+I (or Control+I on the Mac) and you can see more Information about the user.
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3 Great Ways to Find Social Networking Information of a Twitter User
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
CustomizeGoogle is one of my most favorite Firefox add-ons. I love its breadth of features and ability to tweak Google to fit my needs. BUT, I have noticed that my favorite features of CustomizeGoogle no longer work. It is as if the Google Gods have intentionally broken the magic that made CustomizeGoogle work.
In a nutshell:
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
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Posted 23 Mar 2009 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Okay, I admit, I’m a bad Geek Girl. Some of my passwords are not as secure as they could be. It is a hassle to try to make up passwords of the right combinations of random letters, numbers and symbols. Some password systems do not want you to use symbols, others require upper and lower case letters, and the requirements combinations go on and on.
Posted 17 Dec 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Leaving comments on WordPress powered blogs can be tiresome and frankly, tedious.
There are two ways to work around this problem – one is a Firefox extension and the other is a browser bookmarklet.
I’ve mentioned bookmarklets here before, and this one works just the same. Single click and drag this link (WordPress Comment) to your browser toolbar. Be sure to edit the name, email and website values after saving by right clicking on the link and going to preferences. A WordPress comments bookmarklet could come in handy on many blogs, but the developer says there are problems with some themes not having the right coding, so the fields do not automatically fill in. Note: I have only tested on Firefox 3. (Source: i0nutzb)
Posted 17 Nov 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
I read quite a few articles over the weekend about top Firefox extensions, and while several of them mentioned using add-ons like Speed Dial and Morning Coffee to set up your home pages in Firefox, I dug deep in the Geek Girl’s archives and found a way to do this manually, without adding any additional add-ons to my Firefox installation!
First, go to the menu bar and click on Tools, and then Options. Then, click on the Main tab.
Screenshot of the Home Page Options
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Posted 10 Nov 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
One of my favorite jobs was working in tech support for a large international company. Not only did I learn a lot about to troubleshoot OS and software issues, but I also got hipped to Firefox! When I first got introduced to Firefox, it was version 1.0 and it was November, 2004! Now, 4 years later, I’m using version 3.0.3 and loving every moment of it!
If you are serious about web surfing, you will quickly find that many websites render (load) faster in Firefox, it is easily customizable through the options available out of the box, but you can choose from hundreds of add-ons (extensions) to add additional functionality!
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10 Must Have Firefox Add-ons for Serious Web Surfers
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Posted 05 Oct 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
These are some great sites I’ve come across in the past few weeks. I wanted to share them with you!
Some of these websites are helpful, some are funny, but all are definitely bookmarkable and worthy of a visit.
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Posted 28 Sep 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
About time! Firefox 3 officially supports built-in Gmail as your default email client support!
I showed you a hack back in July that would force Gmail to be your default email client.
However, for those who aren’t as comfortable with coding, try these quick steps to set your Gmail account as your default email client:
- Open the Options window (or Preferences on Linux and Mac).
- Click the Applications tab.
- Type “mailto” (without the quotes) in the Search Field.
- In the Action column Select “Use Gmail”.
- Click OK.
You do not have to restart your browser.
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