Friday, November 4, 2011
some good add-on's or plugin's for your browser
Most of the companies are into producing different apps that is useful daily in one or the other way. It has become a part and parcel of every company existing in the present world. Here are 10 Best Browser Apps meant specifically for Web users or Browsers.
Ghostery
Ghostery, a free add-on for the Firefox Web browser, which searches Web bugs capable of quietly tracking user's visits and alerts. Being followed by tags, tracking cookies, Web bugs, beacons, and more, Ghostery helps one find out when and how user is being tracked, and gives user the power to put an end to it.
When the add-on finds one, it displays a small pop-up naming each one it found. A casual browsing is all it takes for Ghostery to show its stuff. If one is interested in knowing how he is tracked on the Web, then this will be helpful as a browser app. While Ghostery does its job of telling the user what's on a page, it doesn't include an option to block the bugs. Ghostery is available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.
LastPass
LastPass is one of those handy utilities that don't bother users. It helps you keep your viewed sites secretly from other unknown viewers. LastPass keeps its focus solely on passwords, even though it does offer additional features. LastPass is compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and several mobile browsers.
LastPass offers a vault where you can organize and view information about your logins. You can see when you last accessed sites and can view your login info and assess its strength. LastPass will generate strong passwords for you and using LastPass means you don't have to worry about remembering a randomly generated password on your own.
Angry Birds
There's a web version of the game available on the Chrome web browser. The Angry Birds has continued to attract fans from different age groups. This insanely addictive game is available in a browser-based version. Angry Birds started as an app available through the Chrome Web store, but it is now compatible with all major browsers.
Angry Birds has now smashed more than 500 million downloads and becomes perhaps world's fastest selling mobile game. Angry Birds achieves the milestone in less than two years since its launch. The games are available for all major Smartphone platforms, including Android, iOS and Symbian.
Speed Dial
Speed dialing is perhaps one of the best features that a browser can have. It's a fast way of getting to the right page without actually having to read the page title; users can simply identify the website from the thumbnail and start browsing. Speed Dial makes accessing your most frequently visited sites easy.
This add-on brings the same functionality to Firefox, allowing you access your favorite websites from the custom keypad. Consisting of site preview images, the layout can be launched in several ways. These include opening a blank tab or window, pressing a toolbar button, or entering a chrome command in the address bar.
Advanced options give you the ability to set the number of sites as well as to group specific sites so they are opened quickly. Speed Dial is available through Firefox.
Random Magic
Random Magic is composed of four mini applications: a coin flipper, a dice roller, a random number generator and a random letter sequence generator for those hard times deciding or password choosing. Random Magic featured virtual coin flipper and dice roller helps you make your choice.
And in case one is looking for help generating a password, the app offers random number and letter sequence generators, too.
Adblock Plus
One of the best known and simplest Firefox add-ons, AdBlock Plus effectively blocks online ads from a predefined list of ad providers. Adblock Plus runs continuously in the background, and right-clicking an ad brings up message box, through which one can easily add to the list of blocked ads.
Removing an ad from the blocked list also is as simple as clicking and choosing the appropriate option. A user can customize certain sites and pages to show their ads, but keep all others blocked. This is especially useful for when AdBlock Plus interferes with streaming videos that air short ads when you play them. Adblock Plus add-on for Chrome and Firefox.
Morning Coffee
Firefox add on Morning Coffee instantly loads those and other designated favorites into their own tabs, effectively splaying them out across the browser like the sections of a newspaper. User can see a new coffee-cup icon just to the left of the Firefox address bar. Morning Coffee has the enviable capability of letting you designate different favorites for different days of the week.
If one wants to look at work and business related sites during the week and more leisure oriented stuff on the weekend. He can manage his picks remove entries; change the display order by clicking that same down-arrow and then choosing Configure Morning Coffee.
Firefox users can configure the browser to automatically load multiple homepages on startup. With Morning Coffee, loading your favorites is optional and must have add on app.
Yoono
Yoono for Firefox and Chrome lets you access multiple social accounts all in one spot. With the capability to chat on AIM, Yahoo, and Live messenger while surfing your Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr accounts, this Firefox extension is a good choice for people who enjoy constant social updating.
The Web version also supports YouTube, LinkedIn, Friend Feed, and Google Talk. The interface is extremely similar to the desktop version; all of the functions for social Web browsing and Yoono's columns are the same. After setting up the social accounts you would like to use with Yoono.
It includes the option to change Yoono's background color and a sharing feature where one can share an entire page or just a highlighted portion with your online buddies and updates. Choosing this Web version is a matter of personal preference.
Yoono browser app is for Chrome and Firefox.
Speckie
Speckie is a spell checker that works in real time, alerting you to misspelled words and helping you correct them before you fire off a faulty email or submit a problematic Web form. Speckie is the first spell-checker for Internet Explorer.
This free add-on brings real-time spell-checking to text entry fields in Microsoft's Web browser. It's compatible with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 9. Speckie is a great idea that can save a lot of wasted time and confusion by checking your spelling in IE as you type.
It's great for searches, data entry fields, and other daily business, it is able to check your spelling in online forums and similar postings before you send.
FoxyTunes
FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, and much more with a click from your browser. It supports Winamp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, Windows Media Player, Real Player, and many other players. The interface is easy to use and is highly customizable.
The lyric and album art searches have been expanded with 'FoxyTunes' which provides feeds from Google, YouTube, Amazon.com, Last.fm, and several online radio stations to make music discovery easier. FoxyTunes utility is meant for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Ghostery
Ghostery, a free add-on for the Firefox Web browser, which searches Web bugs capable of quietly tracking user's visits and alerts. Being followed by tags, tracking cookies, Web bugs, beacons, and more, Ghostery helps one find out when and how user is being tracked, and gives user the power to put an end to it.
When the add-on finds one, it displays a small pop-up naming each one it found. A casual browsing is all it takes for Ghostery to show its stuff. If one is interested in knowing how he is tracked on the Web, then this will be helpful as a browser app. While Ghostery does its job of telling the user what's on a page, it doesn't include an option to block the bugs. Ghostery is available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.
LastPass
LastPass is one of those handy utilities that don't bother users. It helps you keep your viewed sites secretly from other unknown viewers. LastPass keeps its focus solely on passwords, even though it does offer additional features. LastPass is compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and several mobile browsers.
LastPass offers a vault where you can organize and view information about your logins. You can see when you last accessed sites and can view your login info and assess its strength. LastPass will generate strong passwords for you and using LastPass means you don't have to worry about remembering a randomly generated password on your own.
Angry Birds
There's a web version of the game available on the Chrome web browser. The Angry Birds has continued to attract fans from different age groups. This insanely addictive game is available in a browser-based version. Angry Birds started as an app available through the Chrome Web store, but it is now compatible with all major browsers.
Angry Birds has now smashed more than 500 million downloads and becomes perhaps world's fastest selling mobile game. Angry Birds achieves the milestone in less than two years since its launch. The games are available for all major Smartphone platforms, including Android, iOS and Symbian.
Speed Dial
Speed dialing is perhaps one of the best features that a browser can have. It's a fast way of getting to the right page without actually having to read the page title; users can simply identify the website from the thumbnail and start browsing. Speed Dial makes accessing your most frequently visited sites easy.
This add-on brings the same functionality to Firefox, allowing you access your favorite websites from the custom keypad. Consisting of site preview images, the layout can be launched in several ways. These include opening a blank tab or window, pressing a toolbar button, or entering a chrome command in the address bar.
Advanced options give you the ability to set the number of sites as well as to group specific sites so they are opened quickly. Speed Dial is available through Firefox.
Random Magic
Random Magic is composed of four mini applications: a coin flipper, a dice roller, a random number generator and a random letter sequence generator for those hard times deciding or password choosing. Random Magic featured virtual coin flipper and dice roller helps you make your choice.
And in case one is looking for help generating a password, the app offers random number and letter sequence generators, too.
Adblock Plus
One of the best known and simplest Firefox add-ons, AdBlock Plus effectively blocks online ads from a predefined list of ad providers. Adblock Plus runs continuously in the background, and right-clicking an ad brings up message box, through which one can easily add to the list of blocked ads.
Removing an ad from the blocked list also is as simple as clicking and choosing the appropriate option. A user can customize certain sites and pages to show their ads, but keep all others blocked. This is especially useful for when AdBlock Plus interferes with streaming videos that air short ads when you play them. Adblock Plus add-on for Chrome and Firefox.
Morning Coffee
Firefox add on Morning Coffee instantly loads those and other designated favorites into their own tabs, effectively splaying them out across the browser like the sections of a newspaper. User can see a new coffee-cup icon just to the left of the Firefox address bar. Morning Coffee has the enviable capability of letting you designate different favorites for different days of the week.
If one wants to look at work and business related sites during the week and more leisure oriented stuff on the weekend. He can manage his picks remove entries; change the display order by clicking that same down-arrow and then choosing Configure Morning Coffee.
Firefox users can configure the browser to automatically load multiple homepages on startup. With Morning Coffee, loading your favorites is optional and must have add on app.
Yoono
Yoono for Firefox and Chrome lets you access multiple social accounts all in one spot. With the capability to chat on AIM, Yahoo, and Live messenger while surfing your Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr accounts, this Firefox extension is a good choice for people who enjoy constant social updating.
The Web version also supports YouTube, LinkedIn, Friend Feed, and Google Talk. The interface is extremely similar to the desktop version; all of the functions for social Web browsing and Yoono's columns are the same. After setting up the social accounts you would like to use with Yoono.
It includes the option to change Yoono's background color and a sharing feature where one can share an entire page or just a highlighted portion with your online buddies and updates. Choosing this Web version is a matter of personal preference.
Yoono browser app is for Chrome and Firefox.
Speckie
Speckie is a spell checker that works in real time, alerting you to misspelled words and helping you correct them before you fire off a faulty email or submit a problematic Web form. Speckie is the first spell-checker for Internet Explorer.
This free add-on brings real-time spell-checking to text entry fields in Microsoft's Web browser. It's compatible with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 9. Speckie is a great idea that can save a lot of wasted time and confusion by checking your spelling in IE as you type.
It's great for searches, data entry fields, and other daily business, it is able to check your spelling in online forums and similar postings before you send.
FoxyTunes
FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, and much more with a click from your browser. It supports Winamp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, Windows Media Player, Real Player, and many other players. The interface is easy to use and is highly customizable.
The lyric and album art searches have been expanded with 'FoxyTunes' which provides feeds from Google, YouTube, Amazon.com, Last.fm, and several online radio stations to make music discovery easier. FoxyTunes utility is meant for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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