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Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
SEO allows you to sort and delete search engines that are in the search bar.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
This extension automatically fills in login forms from a list of username and passwords collected from bugmenot.com. With this, you can bypass registrations on websites that you would not like to be registered with will still being able to access their content.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
Reveal creates thumbnails of your tabbed pages, allowing you to select, reorder, or even sort through pages in the session history.
After you’ve installed Reveal and restarted your browser, it takes you through a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use it. This is the coolest new Firefox extension I’ve seen in a while (cool as in 50% fun, 50% useful), and definitely worth a look.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
This extension allows you to open ANY file (executables, etc.) from the internet into the default program assigned by your operating system, without needing to save it first. This is similar to IEs 'Run' function for executables.
DVD to iPod Video Software
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on.
DVD to iPod Video Software
ideora iPod Converter is a free video conversion application developed by the creators of Videora. It allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your iPod understands.
DVD to iPod Video Software
ImTOO DVD to iPod Converter is powerful, easy to use DVD ripping software which helps you rip and convert DVD to iPod video MPEG-4 (MP4) formats and iPod audio formats inculding MP3, AAC, M4A. You can convert DVD movies to iPod directly!
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
1) Unwraps a multi-line URL and opens it in a new tab. 2) Unwraps a multi-line street address and opens it in Google maps.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
Adds "Restart Firefox" menuitem to "File", and a toolbar button for easy restarting. Great for when you install themes or extensions and need to restart Firefox.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
The development of Adblock pretty much stopped in 2004. When more and more people demanded improvements Adblock Plus was created. Adblock Plus is a completely rewritten version of the original Adblock.
Free Portable Software (for USB thumbdrive)
Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3).
Free Portable Software (for USB thumbdrive)
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT.
Bible Verses
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Bible Verses
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Bible Verses
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
Bible Verses
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
Fission combines address bar and progress bar, making the progress bar more visible and allowing for a nice visual effect. This is similar to the Safari browser's progress bar.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
Makes items in extension list shorter, so you can see more at once. Also, sorts them by name (optionally).
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Easily configurable for automatically installing updates when available and checking for updates when Firefox starts.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Using CSS to create standards-compliant, fuzzy drop shadows.
Best Website Scripts and Code
A more flexible implementation of the popular lightbox script.
Free burning software
Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Among the many things to like about Veerle's redesign of her blog is the way she does the hover effects for lists of links. Rather than force others to wade through Veerle's CSS I thought it'd be helpful to show how to create this "block hover" effect.
Best Website Scripts and Code
CSS bar graphs that can be printed, copied, and pasted.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Rounded Corners with CSS are a hot topic in web design: I think that there are hundreds of articles on them. This page is intended to present the solution I came up, that doesn't requires images, extra markup nor CSS. Let's start.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.
Best Website Scripts and Code
This is an AJAX upload progress meter for PHP. The code is released under the GPL.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Show a progress bar during file uploads with Rails.
Best Winamp Plugins
A track change notifier plugin. Displays notification popups with album / CD cover art display from either a file such as folder.jpg or from ID3 tags. Support for Now Playing titles in MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
Best Website Scripts and Code
If you like the way our form fields look on Wufoo.com, here’s how we did it.
Best Website Scripts and Code
In Web applications I've seen numerous — and personally implemented a few — ways to rearrange items in a list. All of those were indirect interactions typically involving something like up/down arrows next to each item. The most heinous require server roundtrips for each modification...boo.
Then I came across Simon Cozens' example of rearranging a list via drag & drop. I was so inspired I had to try it out myself.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Best Website Scripts and Code
A simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.
Best Website Scripts and Code
This class is based on Prototype 1.4. The code is inspired of the powerful script.aculo.us library. You can even use all script.aculo.us effects to show and hide windows if you include effects.js file.
It has been tested on Safari, Camino, Firefox and IE6.
Best Website Scripts and Code
If you change the HTML and the CSS of a page there is a decent chance that a user will get the new HTML but not the new CSS. The problem is that the CSS is cashing on the client side. This is a quick hack that will keep your CSS as fresh as your HTML.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
If you’ve ever had to re-install Firefox, or you’re installing Firefox for the first time on a new computer, you know it can be a pain to hunt down and install your favorite extensions. The Mass Installer extension reads a list of extension URLs from a text file and automatically installs them all in one fell swoop.
Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users
This adds a new option to the right click menu in Firefox which will send URL'S to Xbox Media Center for onscreen playback.
Best Website Scripts and Code
Many articles have been written on the grail, and several good templates exist. However, all the existing solutions involve sacrifices: proper source order, full-width footers, and lean markup are the usual compromises made in pursuit of this elusive layout.
Bible - Best Original Language Resources
Bible - Best Original Language Resources
TV shows
Sick, twisted, politcially incorrect and freakin' sweet, the animated series features the adventures of the Griffin family.
TV shows
In a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take months to achieve, a team of designers, hundred's of workmen and even the neighbors, have just seven days to completely renovate an entire house - every single room, plus the exterior and landscaping.
TV shows
The FOX network's most successful series to date was a spin-off from The Tracey Ullman Show . Originally appearing on that series as a 1 minute filler, the executive producers of that series, James L. Brooks & Sam Simon decided that these characters could support a half hour series. So they did it and started the longest running animated series in primetime network television.
TV shows
CSI is an innovative, new type of crime drama because the characters use cutting-edge forensic tools to examine the evidence to solve the case. Rather than a 'whodunnit' cop show (investigating witnesses/suspects), CSI explores the 'howdunnit'. CSI has been the number one scripted series in the Neilsen ratings for three years running.
TV shows
Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman. It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks. Clark must deal with a variety of individuals given powers by the green rocks, keep his powers a secret, cope with his friendship with a young Lex Luthor, and balance the two girls in his life, Chloe and Lana.
TV shows
From executive producers Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs, David Shore, and Bryan Singer comes a new take on mystery, where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it.
Free Portable Software (for USB thumbdrive)
Just install the program on your computer and copy the program folder onto your thumb drive. I have tested it, and it scans perfectly for me...even without it being installed on the host computer.
Free Portable Software (for USB thumbdrive)
So much more convenient then having to buy and install Nero and just about as powerful. The trail version is almost fully functional (except the CD cover creator).
Web Design Scripts and Code
If you like the way our form fields look on Wufoo.com, here’s how we did it.
Web Design Scripts and Code
Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.
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