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Showing posts with label software. Show all posts

Sunday, May 11, 2008

39 Web-Based Tools That Don't Require Registration

Online Conversion
FLVIX simply lets you convert video from URL source into a file that you can keep on your desktop and play it on your PC, Mobile, iPod etc. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it into FLVIX textbox; Choose desired format : AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3; Click on the convert button, and download the converted file.

Convert text to audio file with vozMe to use free on your site or blog. It is really don't get easier than that: Copy-paste the text that you want to convert onto their textbox, and generate yourself an audio file within seconds.

It's the fastest way to resize and convert your pictures and images. You can apply rotation, add some effects, and more. Just select your picture file, choose some process to apply and click on OK. Fixpicture comes in two versions: Flash or HTML.

Convert any file with the powerful ZAMZAR - Free online file conversion. Select file from your compute or URL to convert, choose the format, and receive converted file by email.

Update:
Convert websites to PDFs with active links and embedded video. htm2pdf is a very, very simple to function app that convert webpages to PDFs!

Generators
Web20Badges is a free set of cool web badges. Choose your desirable badge shape, text and color, then generate your badge, and download it to your machine.

With the famous Loader Generator service, you can generate and customize GIFs that you can use free in your site or blog.

Strip Generator - Fastest way to create a stripe. An Ajax-driven diagonal stripes background tile generator.

Online favicon.cc generator is an editor that allows you to create transparent icon graphics for your site or blog. Choose a color; Click on the squares and paint your icon; Download when you're finished, and put the favicon file into your webserver directory.

LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone. When the recipient clicks on the tiny LinkBunch link, he/she will be presented with a page that contains all the links that you put in the bunch.

If you own a blog you must know how important is to tag your post with relevant tags. You also know how annoying it can be sometimes... But with Turbo Tagger you can instantly create Technorati tags for your site or blog without spending too much time and effort.

Utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.

QuickRibbon is a completely free generator which lets you create a custom ribbon, insert a link in it and place it in the top right corner of your website. It will take you less than 5 minutes to generate your own website ribbon with this trendy widget and add a stylish Web2.0 look to your page.

Create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons, or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted.

Message Tools
Send free postal mail letters (to anywhere in the US) right from the browser. eSnailer automatically prints, envelopes, stamps, and mails your letters within 24 hours.

forlater is an easy to use e-mail reminders. Just enter your message, your e-mail and a date. forlater will then remind you at the right time.

Note2email is a web application designed to send quick text notes to any email address in the world. No need for password or username. Note it down and send it, as simple as that.

Have fun with your note. Send innovative messages contains photo, video, and music. Share your Onesenss e-cards with family and friends via email.

Video-Mail
Mailmotion is a video-mail platform that enable anyone with a webcam to quickly send video to family and friends. Record a short message (or upload a video file), specify recipient email(s), add some text to you video-mail, and define date to send.

voxlite is a great Flash-based video-mail application that allows you to send a video card using a webcam and a mic. Note that you have 20 minute recording time limit (which is A LOT)

GabMail is a free, easy-to-use video email service that enables anyone with a webcam or video camera to send, reply to and forward messages to anyone with an email address. Each recording can be up to 5 minutes long.

Easy Storage and Sharing Files
TinyLoad, a service that allows you to upload files to multiple services at the same time. With their new Bookmarklet you'll be able to upload files in no time to: MegaUpload, MediaFire, RapidShare, DivShare, BestSharing, SendSpace, Uploading, FileSend, EasyShare, and Amazon S3.

Senduit's service provides users with the ability to upload a file via HTTP-Protocol and receive a custom URL address to download the file from Senduit's servers. This address can be shared by the user freely and can be used to download the file a reasonable number of times.

3 step process to upload large files which can be sent to another person. Your recipient will get a link where he/she can download the file to his/her computer.

FlyUpload is a service which allows you to share video, audio and photos online. You may share anything with FlyUpload. Share files (up to 2GB), Unlimited downloads per 24 hours, Unlimited downloads (2000MB).

with Wikisend you can upload and download lots of files, big files, small files, data files, media files, archives or backups - any files. Share files with your friends using e-mail, MySpace page, your blog, forums etc,.

esyURL purpose is to turn long complex URLs to short easy ones, so they can be shared in blogs, forums, e-mails and so on. Furthermore, you can upload files (in a limit size of 2Mb per file) and receive an esyURL to access it, fast and without registration required.

Text Tools
Orangoo spell check application lets you check for spelling mistakes from any system or computer that has Internet access. You can Spell check text (in 27 languages) or a whole website page (English only).

Textris is a sweet little site for manipulating text in different ways. Alphabetizes, sorts, formats, changes case, uppercase, lowercase, even tools for coders.

In case you need another notepad... EditPad is pretty similar to the one you have on your desktop, web-based version.

TextSnip convert your text into a clean tabbed format allowing you to easily past text/code examples into a blog, form, or any website.

shortText is a simple tool to post text online, with minimum fuss. Write whatever you need and shortText will convert it to easy-to-share URL. You can also add pictures and video to your text.

Quick Statistics of your Site
A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more. You can also generate a state widget to place on your blog.

BuiltWite is a massive tool that providing all the technical analysis and SEO optimization info you need to know on a site.

Picture this...
If you need an avatar for one of your favorite social network, mypictr helps you to get it in few seconds. First upload your picture, select and crop yourself from it, choose which network, and click 'picturit' to get the result!

A simple tool that turn your photos into cool reflecting images.

kwout allowing you to quote part from any web page as image with an image-map. You can upload the results directly to Flickr, Tumblr, or website. A new feature called 'my-kwout' will let you show the collection of the sources that you quoted via kwout.



Online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners, for avatars and images.

ResizR is a very useful little helper that allows you to resize an image from your local computer or the web, then download the results to your computer - Free.

Pixenate is simply a great online image editor, that enable you to edit your image with lots of effect tools. When you finish, you can upload your creation directly to Flickr, Myspace, Web, or your own computer.

Last service is my favorite one, I use it constantly so I highly recommend it:
It is actually a Wii application, but it works great on the web as well. Just pick your favorite artist/band, and finetune will play hours of music based on your taste.



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Friday, February 08, 2008

OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI, and Tara Reid

OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI, and Tara Reid

OpenOffice 2.3 Aqua Beta

There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store.

We love OpenOffice.org, hereby referred to as OpenOffice like normal people do. We like the fact it does pretty much everything we need for free, we like the out-of-the box PDF and Flash support, its better-than-Word ability to work with large documents, and the joys of using a standard file format that’s actually, you know, a standard.

But the Openpoffice.org website is a rather scary place. We managed to find this conference presentation lurking in the shadows before running away in fear of mid 90’s web design. Here’s the best bits:

Native Mac OS X Aqua version

The Mac finally gets a native OpenOffice. This has been going on for a while - you can already download the native OS X OpenOffice 2.3 beta, but this time it’s official.
Sure, NeoOffice already does this, but OpenOffice 3 for Mac is new code that will be released and updated at the same time as the Windows and Linux versions. Speaking of Windows, Vista users also get some kind of unspecified ‘integration’ for 3.0.

New PIM

We love our Pimms with ginger ale, lemonade, citrus fruit, cucumber and ice. OpenOffice 3 has a different recipe:

  • Email
  • Calendaring with meeting invites and free/busy publishing
  • Task management
  • Server connectivity to CalDAV servers, Google Calendar and Sun Calendar Server, as well as the obligatory iCal support. Alas, no mention of Zimbra.
  • Specifically touted by OpenOffice developers as an ‘Outlook replacement’

Support for Everything

Remember showing your mates the Flash export in OpenOffice 2 Impress? Well drag them round again, as OpenOffice 3 takes it a step further.

  • PDF files can be imported into Draw and edited with all their layout intact. Yum.
  • The whole Openoffice suite can save ‘hybrid’ PDF documents that can be viewed as PDFs or edited as OpenDocument files.
  • Edit wikis directly from OpenOffice without learning Yet Another Needless Wiki Markup Format.
  • WordPress and Movabletype blogs can be edited too.
  • Support for MS Office 2007 XML. Microsoft confusingly calls this ‘Office Open XML’. We call it Stop Naming Your Unstable Undocumented Shitty Format To Sound Like Ours Thanks.
  • Math fetishists can enjoy enhanced Latex support.

Extension Manager

Openoffice 3 will have simple Firefox-like extensions. There’s a wide variety of existing OpenOffice extensions already available:

  • Fax support (both send and receive)
  • Google docs integration
  • Remote control for presentations via your bluetooth remote
  • Version control with Subversion
  • Voice commentaries for presentations

Reports

Beancounters and thier minions can now make pretty documents from databases using Base’s new reporting engine.

Tara Reid

This release marks the appearance of Tara Reid in OpenOffice. Witnesses report the anorexic booze hound stumbled into OOs build system by accident, and will now live inside OpenOffice translating documents into a language only spoken when you’ve drunk 8 bottles of vodka.

Unfortunately in current betas, when this feature is enabled, OpenOffice smells vaguely of pee.

So that’s it for OpenOffice 3. Betas are arriving in the next few months, and the final should be done by September.



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Now playing: Luigi Saracino - The Misty Eyes of Dany
via FoxyTunes

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Windows Software <=> Linux Software

Windows Software Linux Equivalent/Alternative
3D Studio Max
K-3D (http://www.k-3d.org/)
Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/)
Art of Illusion (http://www.artofillusion.org/)
Blender (http://www.blender.org/)
ACDSee
KuickShow (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/)
ShowImg (http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/)
Gwenview (http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/)
GQview (http://gqview.sourceforge.net/)
Eye of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
okular (http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/)
Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/)
ePDFView (http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/)
KPDF (http://kpdf.kde.org/)
Adobe Audition
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Adobe Illustrator
Skencil (http://www.skencil.org/)
Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)
Karbon14 (http://www.koffice.org/karbon/)
Xara Xtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)
Adobe PageMaker
Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)
Adobe PhotoAlbum
F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)
KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/)
digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/)
Adobe Photoshop
CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)
Krita (http://www.koffice.org/krita/)
GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
Adobe Premier
PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page)
LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/)
Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/)
Cinelerra (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/)
kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)
Jahshaka (http://www.jahshaka.org/)
Ant Movie Catalog
Moviefly (https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lmc/)
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/)
Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)
APC PowerChute
Network UPS Tools (http://www.networkupstools.org/)
Apcupsd (http://www.apcupsd.com/)
PowerD (http://power.sourceforge.net/)
CDex
Sound Juicer (http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer)
Rubyripper (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper)
ripperX (http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/)
Grip (http://nostatic.org/grip/)
KAudioCreator (http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator)
Collectorz
aviManager (http://avimanager.sourceforge.net/)
GCstar (http://www.gcstar.org/)
Tellico (http://periapsis.org/tellico/)
Alexandria (http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/)
Griffith (http://griffith.vasconunes.net/)
vMovieDB (http://vmoviedb.sourceforge.net/)
Katalog (http://salvaste.altervista.org/)
Dreamweaver
Quanta Plus (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/)
Geany (http://geany.uvena.de)
Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/index.php)
Screem (http://www.screem.org/)
KompoZer (http://www.kompozer.net/)
Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html)
DVDShrink
k9copy (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/)
OGMRip (http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/)
Thoggen (http://thoggen.net/)
xdvdshrink (http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/)
DVD Rip-O-Matic (http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net)
qVamps (http://vamps.sourceforge.net/)
dvd::rip (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/)
AcidRip (http://untrepid.com/acidrip/)
Everest
HardInfo (http://hardinfo.berlios.de/web/HomePage)
Finale
Lilypond (http://www.lilypond.org)
Denemo (http://denemo.sourceforge.net/index.html)
Rosegarden (http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/)
NoteEdit (http://noteedit.berlios.de/)
Brahms (http://brahms.sourceforge.net/)
Flash
F4L (http://f4l.sourceforge.net/)
Forte Agent
Pan (http://pan.rebelbase.com/)
FruityLoops
LMMS (http://lmms.sourceforge.net/)
Hydrogen (http://www.hydrogen-music.org/)
Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop (http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html)
Beagle (http://beagle-project.org/)
Guitar Pro
TuxGuitar (http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/home.html)
iTunes
Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page)
aTunes (http://www.atunes.org/)
Quod Libet (http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet)
SongBird (http://www.songbirdnest.com)
Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/)
Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/)
Listen (http://listengnome.free.fr/)
Rhythmbox (http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/)
gtkpod (http://www.gtkpod.org/)
Legacy Family Tree
GRAMPS (http://gramps-project.org/)
LimeWire
FrostWire (http://www.frostwire.com/)
Meal Master
krecipe (http://krecipes.sourceforge.net/)
Gourmet Recipe Manager (http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/)
Microsoft Access
Kexi (http://www.koffice.org/kexi/)
GNOME-DB (http://www.gnome-db.org/)
Microsoft Excel
KSpread (http://www.koffice.org/kspread/)
Open Calc (http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html)
Gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/)
Microsoft Frontpage
Quanta Plus (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/)
Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/index.php)
KompoZer (http://www.kompozer.net/)
Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html)
Microsoft HyperTerminal
minicom (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/)
GtkTerm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkterm/)
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Epiphany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/)
Opera (http://www.opera.com/download/)
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/)
Microsoft Money
KMyMoney (http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/)
GNUcash (http://www.gnucash.org/ )
Gnofin (http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/)
Grisbi (http://www.grisbi.org/)
Microsoft Office
GNOME Office (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/)
KOffice (http://www.koffice.org/)
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/)
Microsoft Outlook (Express)
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/)
Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/)
Microsoft Powerpoint
Open Office Impress (http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html)
KPresenter (http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/)
Microsoft Project
KPlato (http://www.koffice.org/kplato/)
OpenProj (http://openproj.org/openproj)
GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/)
Planner (http://live.gnome.org/Planner)
TaskJuggler (http://www.taskjuggler.org/)
Microsoft Visio
Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/)
Kivio (http://www.koffice.org/kivio/)
Microsoft Windows Media Center
Freevo (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/)
Elisa Media Center (http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/)
MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org)
LinuxMCE (http://www.linuxmce.com/)
Microsoft Word
Open Office Writer (http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html)
AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/)
Kword (http://www.koffice.org/kword/)
mIRC
Konversation (http://konversation.kde.org/)
KVIrc (http://www.kvirc.net/)
BitchX (http://www.bitchx.org/)
Xchat (http://www.xchat.org/)
ChatZilla! (http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/)
irssi (http://www.irssi.org/)
Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)
Mp3tag
Kid3 (http://kid3.sourceforge.net/)
Pinkytagger (http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/)
EasyTAG (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/)
Cowbell (http://more-cowbell.org/)
Audio Tag Tool (http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/)
MSN messenger
Mercury Messenger (http://www.mercury.to/)
Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/)
aMSN (http://amsn-project.net/)
Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)
Mudbox
SharpConstruct (http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net)
Nero Burning Rom
X-CD-Roast (http://www.xcdroast.org/)
Brasero (http://perso.orange.fr/bonfire/index.htm)
GnomeBaker (http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/)
Graveman! (http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/)
K3b (http://www.k3b.org/)
NetMeeting
Ekiga (http://www.gnomemeeting.org/)
NetStumbler
Kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net/)
SWScanner (http://www.swscanner.org/)
Notepad
leafpad (http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/)
NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/)
jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/)
Kate (http://kate-editor.org/)
gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/)
Scribes (http://scribes.sourceforge.net/)
tpad (http://tclpad.sourceforge.net/)
OrangeCD Catalog
GWhere (http://www.gwhere.org)
Origin
SciGraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/)
Partition Magic
GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)
QtParted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net)
Picasa
F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)
KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/)
digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/)
Pro Tools
Ardour (http://www.ardour.org)
Quicken
KMyMoney (http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/)
GNUcash (http://www.gnucash.org/ )
Gnofin (http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/)
Grisbi (http://www.grisbi.org/)
SoulSeek
Nicotine (http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org/)
Nicotine-Plus (http://nicotine-plus.sourceforge.net/)
SoundForge
ReZound (http://rezound.sourceforge.net/)
Total Commander
GNOME Commander (http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/)
xfe (http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/)
Tux Commander (http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/)
Midnight Commander (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/)
Krusader (http://krusader.sourceforge.net/)
Traktor DJ
Mixxx (http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/)
Videora
thin liquid film (http://thinliquidfilm.org/)
Winamp
Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page)
Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/)
XMMS (http://www.xmms.org/)
Windows Media Player
KPlayer (http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/)
VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/)
xine (http://xinehq.de/)
mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html)
Windows Movie Maker
PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page)
LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/)
Avidemux (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)
Cinelerra (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/)
kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)
WinIso
ISO Master (http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/)
KIso (http://kiso.sourceforge.net/)
WinMerge
Meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/)
xxdiff (http://furius.ca/xxdiff/)
WinTV
XdTV (http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/)
tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/)
WS_FTP
gFTP (http://gftp.seul.org/)
FireFTP (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/)
Zbrush
SharpConstruct (http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net)
ZoneAlarm
Guarddog (http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/)
Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/)

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Top 10 Ways Best Ways to Manage Firefox Tabs

The ability to use tabs for web browsing was one of the key reasons why I switched over from Internet Explorer 6 to Firefox all those years ago.

Now that IE7 has come along and has incorporated tabs in their own browser as well, does it make Firefox any less appealing? Not with amount of development which has taken place with the tabs function. Here are some prime examples:

1. Color tabs to make them more distinct

chromatabs

The ‘Chromatabs‘ Firefox extension tints browser tabs with a color specific to the website loaded. This helps you identify tab contents based on a distinct visual cue. It can pick a random color automatically (based on the site’s hostname), or it can pick a color based on the site’s tab icon.

2. Group tabs automatically

With the ‘Separate Tabs‘ extension, tabs can be grouped automatically by host URL making the arrangement of tabs much more logical.

3. Preview all tabs at once

showcase

Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.

4. Preview tabs as you mouse over

tabscope

While the ‘Showcase’ extension described above is useful, Tab Scope provides a much more subtle approach to the situation, displaying tab previews only when the mouse is moved over the tab. Don’t be fooled though, it even allows interaction navigation within that preview itself.

5. Share your tabs to a friend via email

The ‘Send Tab URLs’ extension adds a File menu command to the main browser window; when choosing this command, a new email message is automatically created, containing a list of URLs from all browser tabs in the current window.

6. Enhance your tabbing options with Tab Mix Plus

‘Tab Mix Plus‘ enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

7. Save space to view more tabs in a single screen

favourite

This extension adds a new ‘FaviconizeTab’ option to the context menu of the tab. When it is clicked, The width of the tab becomes small up to the size of favicon. It returns to the former size when ‘FaviconizeTab’ is clicked again.

8. Count the number of tabs you have open

‘Tab Counter‘ is a simple extension that counts the number of open tabs per window and displays the count in the toolbar. Mainly for fun or you need an indication of how much system resources you are clogging up by having that many tabs open at once.

9. Identify unused tabs

aging

If you have too many tabs open and need help identifying the tabs which you are probably no longer using, the ‘Aging Tabs‘ extension makes unused tabs fade with age. This highlights potential tabs which may be just adding to clutter.

10. Control Tabs With Your Keyboard

Firefox makes mouse-less browsing a breeze with these simple shortcuts:

  • Ctrl T will open a new tab
  • Ctrl shift T will undo closed tab
  • Ctrl Page Up and Ctrl Page Down will scroll through your tabs
  • Ctrl Number will bring you instantly to a certain tab. eg. If you hit Ctrl and ?3? you will go to the third tab
  • Ctrl D will bookmark the current tab
  • Ctrl Shift D will bookmark all the tabs in the window

Bonus Tip #1: You can move Firefox browser tabs from one window to another by dragging and dropping it.

Bonus Tip #2: Disable tab scrolling : Although it does make tabs slightly easier to read on occasion, scrolling through tabs is a hassle. The How-To-Geek blog goes through two useful ways to work around this scrolling feature.



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20 Open Source Windows Apps For You

1. 7-zip
7-Zip7-Zip is a open source file archiver program for windows. It supports packing and unpacking of 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR format files and supports onlu unpacking of RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. It provides better compression ratio than WinZip for ZIP and GZIP formats. It is an alternative to programs like WinZip

2. Audacity:
audacityAudacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.Audacity can be used to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.

3. Blender:
blenderBlender is a open source free software for creating 3D animations. Blender can be used for modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender has robust features et similar to programs like 3ds Max and Maya.

4. ClamWin:
clamwin free anti virusClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin is a good alternative to commercial softwares like Norton, McAfee etc. Clamwin features include High detection rates for viruses and spyware, Scanning Scheduler, Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database, Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer, and Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

5. eMule:
emuleeMule is a open source peer to peer file sharing (P2P) client tool.

6. Feedreader:
feedreaderFeedreader is free desktop RSS aggregation tool. “Feedreader automatically downloads updates from your favorite Web sites. So, it eliminates the need for you to constantly monitor multiple Web pages, while allowing you to immediately identify and retrieve new articles”

7. Filezilla:
filezillaFileZilla is a free, open source FTP client for Windows. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS protocols. It has all the essential features required for a FTP client. The main features of FileZilla are Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads, Site Manager with folders, Keep Alive system, Timeout detection, Firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support, SSL secured connections, Upload/Download Queue, Drag&Drop.

8. Firefox:
firefoxThe best cross platform supported web brwoser available on the net, it doesn’t need any introduction and many of you might be using. The wide range of Firefox Add-On’s make this the most powerful browser for all types of users. Firefox is an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

9. GIMP:
gimpGNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is free open source raster graphics editor for manipulating photos or images. GIMP is an excellent software and alternative to expensive photoshop, it is used for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

10. hugin:
hugin:panorama photo stitcherhugin is a open source easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging tool. Using hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into as complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

11. Inkscape:
inkscape: vector graphics editorInkscape is an open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape is a good alternative to commercial vector graphics tools like Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or Xara X. Inkscape uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. It can be used to create web2.0 buttons, banners, logos, icons etc. (see earlier review)

12. Juice:
juice: podcast aggregatorJuice is a free open source cross-platform podcast receiver application. It is used to download podcast media files, such as oggs and mp3s. Using juice you can schedule the podcast and juice will let you know when a new podcast is available. The downloaded files media files can be automatically copied to a digital audio player.

13. OpenOffice.org:
openoffice.orgOpenOffice.org is the open source office suite similar to Microsoft office available to different platforms. OpenOffice.org is a collection of applications with the features similar to Microsoft Office. The Components include Writer, Calc, Base, Impress, Draw, Math, Quickstarter etc.

14. PDFCreator:
pdfcreatorPDFCreator is a free program for creating PDF documents from windows programs. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF.

15. Pidgin:
pidginPidgin, formerly known as Gaim is a multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used IM protocols. Pidgin is a free software and supports IM’s including Yahoo, Google Talk, Jabber, MSN, AOL, ICQ etc.

16. Programmers Notepad:
programmers notepadProgrammer’s Notepad is the free, open source, text editor for programmers.
some of the features of Programmers Notepad: Code Folding/Outlining, Docking tool windows, Excellent external tool support with user-configurable output matching, Export to HTML (using CSS) and RTF, Word Wrapping

17. Scribus:
scribusScribus is an open source desktop publishing (DTP) application. It has some nice page layout features and can be used as an alternative to Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. “It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.”

18. Sunbird:
sunbirdSunbird is open source desktop calender application from Mozilla foundation. Sunbird is a cross platform, open standards application built on Mozill Toolkit.

19. Thunderbird:
thunderbirdThunderbird is the open source desktop email application from Mozilla foundation. Thunderbird has the best features in the industry. “Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.”

20. VLC Media Player:
vlc media playerVLC Media Player is a open source media player from VideoLan project team. It is the best media player available in the net, it plays almost any file format available. It also supports streaming protocols. It is a good alternative to different media players.