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[5 Jun 2009 | 8 Comments | ]

I just installed a very cool FireFox add-on which you might want to give it a try! This FireFox add-on is called “Locationbar²” and it basically allows you to formats and linkifies URL segments in your location bar.
At first I didn’t know what to expect but after spending 30 seconds on playing with the options, I have to say that this is a great add-on! It makes browsing even more easier, I mean take a look at the screenshot here below!

As you can see …

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[1 Apr 2009 | 13 Comments | ]

Not so long ago I wrote a post called: “Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer“. Well, make that almost a year ago. Anyway, I’ve used Foxmarks ever since and I really have to say: I can’t live without it! There are just too many times that I’m at work, searching for something which I already had bookmarked at home. In this kind of situation I just log in to my.foxmarks.com and can simply access my bookmarks. Briliant isn’t it?
Now just a couple of days ago I recieved an email from Foxmarks …

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[27 Nov 2008 | 16 Comments | ]

We all have a lot of bookmarks. We bookmark everything which we find valuable and/or which we want to visit again because we liked the website or need the information again.
In the most cases you give it a obviously name and save the bookmark,not knowing that you have saved the same link long time ago under another name.
This can be confusing, so what can you do about it? You can check the links one by one but that’s going to take a lot of time, right? But what if there …

FireFox, Freeware »

[24 Oct 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

Imagine this: you’re searching for some information on Google. As you know Google also shows PDF documents in the search results and you click on one of those links. This means that your browser automatically will open the pdf file. Personally I don’t like that. I want to be prompted before the browser opens the pdf file and having the choice to open the pdf file or download the file.
Well, if you would like to be prompted before FireFox opens a pdf file then you really should use PDF Download, …

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[25 Sep 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

Today I came across a very funny add-on for FireFox called Colorful Tabs. Well, Like the names already assumes, it colors every FireFox tabs in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish! See a screenshot of my FireFox tabs here below.

ColorfulTabs doesn’t only color every tab in a different color and has some more features:

Colors by site domain – Color each tab depending on its server/domain for identifying the website.
Custom tab color – Give your tabs a color of your choice.
Enhanced tab highlighting – Fade the background tabs …

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[28 Aug 2008 | 13 Comments | ]

Is Firefox your favorite browser and do you have a Gmail account? If you’ve answered both of those questions with a yes then you’ve got to try Better Gmail 2 Add-on for Firefox.
But what does Better Gmail 2 do? Better Gmail 2 adds some useful extra features like:

Forcing Gmail to use https instead of http
NOTE: You can change this also in Gmail settings. Log in your Gmail account, then Click on Settings at the top of the page. Set the Browser configuration to ‘Always use https.’)
Highlight message rows as you …

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[18 Jul 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

Today I found a great extension for Firefox and it’s called: All-in-One Sidebar. All-in-One Sidebar adds a sidebar to your Firefox and it provides you easy access to all your panels such as downloads, extensions, history and your bookmarks. It even enables you to view source or websites in the sidebar. All-in-One Sidebar includes a slide-out button and a toolbar which is easy customized; You can set the toolbar to left or right, set the minimum, default and maximum width and the behavior on browser startup.
I have just installed this …

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[24 Jun 2008 | 14 Comments | ]

If you’re using FireFox and you want to visit my site, you can actually use a shortcut! A shortcut for BioTecK.net? Jep, just type bioteck in the address bar of FireFox and hit Shift+Enter. You’ll see that FireFox takes you directly to this blog! Cool isn’t it?!
What’s the secret? Well I have made a special deal with FireFox.. No, just kidding! To be honest there’s no secret! It’s just a standard feature in FireFox and it can be used to go directly to a .net, .com …