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17 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons For Social And Communication Purpose!
As you already know that Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. This is the age of social networking and strong communication. To keep this in mind I have made a list of 17 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons For Social And Communication Purpose.
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StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.
Wizz RSS News Reader Lite 3.0.0.2
A stripped down version of Wizz RSS News Reader. It has all of the functionality of Wizz RSS News Reader, without the Watch List and without the weather.
Yoono - Socialize your browser
In a single browser sidebar, Yoono users can interact with the best of the Web more than ever before by discovering, communicating, and sharing with friends across multiple networks and platforms all in one place. Users can stop wasting time checking for updates and visiting multiple networks and instead can start enjoying!
Integrate your Facebook life into your browser. Search Facebook from anywhere
The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.
ThumbStrips is a Firefox extension that creates a filmstrip of thumbnails — ThumbStrip, get it? — so you can see your history, and stop guessing at page names in the history sidebar. You can even share your ThumbStrips! After you install it, a small icon will appear in your browser’s toolbar. Click the icon to view your ThumbStrips at the bottom of the screen.
You don’t have time to read ALL those Blogs! Let RovR do it for you. RovR fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on. BlogRovR also suggests popular items AND lets you Twitter about any site you’re on too.
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
Instead of copying and pasting links, Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites.
Shareaholic allows you to quickly share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a very wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites - such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Reader, MySpace, and StumbleUpon, without cluttering up your browser.
Get a sidebar with all of your buddies visible while you’re browsing. Get visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag and drop links and images from web pages right onto your friends!
You can use this tool to capture firefox window or the whole screen and make screencast videos. You can compose tutorials, e-lessons or videos. You can also record your voice.
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
Use Yahoo! and the web faster, safer, and easier with new mail notification, search suggestions, online bookmarks, free spyware scanning, and more…
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application.
Easy shrink any long URL or link in the page to something you can email or Twitter using the TinyUrl service with a single click in your browser.
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.
13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
As we have already published a post few days ago about wordpress themes. I have also in my mind to write about wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and power using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to 13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy the post.
You are welcome to share if you know more useful wordpress plugin that our readers/viewers may like.
WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin
This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.
With DivvaFlip WordPress Plugins, you can now use your nextgen ready galleries or the new embedded media management on WordPress.
A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.
AddfreeStats.com provides to Webmasters, free website statistics on their web site visitors.
Insert easily AddFreeStats tracker on your blog with this plugin.
Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. It can also run as a standalone script or even integerate into any other Blog/CMS/Forum software.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
20 Top Blog Summission Directories WordPress plugin
A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.
Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress
Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
I Love Social Bookmarking plugin
There are other social media plugins that do a similar job. ILSB is trying to keep things as simple as possible for both you and your readers, to run with minimal system resources, and to look good whilst she’s at it.
19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know
Today, we are listing here 19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life. Most of them are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity and many of them are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one of you. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.
You are welcome to share if you know about any other open source project which our readers may like.
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WordPress - Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
ModSecurity - Open Source Web Application Firewall
ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone.
SteelBlue Open Source Web Application Server
SteelBlue is an open-source Web application server environment in which Web-database applications can be developed completely in an extended HTML language. Similar to ColdFusion and Story Server, session and user-associated data as well as SQL commands can be directly embedded into the HTML page. Therefore, no CGI programming experience is required to develop applications with SteelBlue, only knowledge of SQL and HTML.
Dolphin :: Smart Community Builder
YouTube, MySpace, Odeo, Flickr, Match and Facebook - all in one, customizable and under your full control. You’re limited only by your imagination - not by software. Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly develop your very unique and successful website.
PURE Unobtrusive Rendering Engine For HTML
PURE is an Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML. Truly unobtrusive, it leaves your HTML untouched. It is cross-browser (IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+).
Bugzilla - Mozilla’s bug tracking system
Bugzilla is a bug tracking system designed to help teams manage software development. Hundreds of organizations across the globe are using this powerful tool to get organized and communicate effectively.
Mindquarry DO - Free Open Source Software Download for Team Collaboration
Mindquarry DO is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work. As a result, you are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever you are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within your team.
EPIWARE - A Open Source Document Management System
Epiware GPL project and document management, for those that like to be on the cutting edge of development. Take control of your information and content today.
jobberBase - The Open Source Job Board Software
jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.
Flex is a highly productive, open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems.
Open source Ticket Request System
OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. Do you receive many e-mails and want to answer them with a team of agents? You’re going to love the OTRS!
phpMyVisites Free Web Statistics And Analytics
phpMyVisites is a free and powerful open source (GNU/GPL) software for websites statistics and audience measurements. phpMyVisites gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization, etc… The GUI Interface is fun and practical. The installation is entirely automated and very simple.
LimeSurvey - The Leading Open Source Survey Tool
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is an Open Source PHP web application to develop, publish and collect responses to online & offline surveys.
dotproject - Open Source Project and Task Management Software
The original theme flagged dotProject as an open source alternative to Microsoft products and other expensive, commercial applications. Right from the start, dotProject had, as it’s core aims a number of simple requirements which are Clean, simple and consistent user interface; Project Management functionality - not another CMS, groupware environment or all things to all people collaboration tool, but a project management environment; Open source and free usage.
Freeway is the most advanced Open Source eCommerce platform and Freeway offers selling methods only previously available in enterprise class or niche bespoke systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build a custom installation, Freeway does what you need out of the box. Of course Freeway is great for selling products but it also sells events AND services AND subscriptions. From appointments and time based bookings to event ticketing and subscriptions Freeway is the eCommerce platform.
AtMail Open - Redefining Open Source Webmail
AtMail is an open source webmail client written in PHP. We aim to provide a elegant Ajax webmail client for existing IMAP mailservers, with less bloat and a focus on an intuitive, simple user interface.
OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Open Workbench - Open Source Project Management and Project Scheduling for Windows
Open Workbench is an open source Windows-based desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality and is free to distribute throughout the enterprise.
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
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Add A Daily Updating TwitterCounter To Your Blog So Everybody Can See How Popular You Are!
TwitterCounter is a service for Bloggers, Social networkers and other well connected individuals to communicate and track the number of followers they have on Twitter. Also check out the top 100 Twitter users and add your own name too!
Add a daily updating TwitterCounter to your blog so everybody can see how popular you are. All you have to do is go to the Twittercounter’s website and enter in your Twitter username, then website generates HTML code that you can copy and paste anywhere on your website/blog to show twittercounter.
ImpressCMS, An Open-Source Community Developed Content Management System
ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining a dynamic web site. Keep your web site up to date with this easy to use, secure and flexible system.
It is the ideal tool for a wide range of users: from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, easy to use blogging tool. ImpressCMS is a powerful system that gets outstanding results!
ImpressCMS is free open source software in the full meaning of the word. It is available for free and anyone can use it and modify it to their own extend.
12 Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers
BlogPerfume has released 12 Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers. These are nice and beautiful icons specially designed for bloggers but anyone can use it freely.
There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format. Please feel free to use it on your personal and commercial projects.
Just Follow Us On Twitter And Get The Latest Updates, News, Events, Contest Etc Instantly On Your Cell Phone Or Instant Messenger!
We are feeling now a days that readers of SmashingApps have very deep desire to know when we come up with some really interesting story here. Hundreds of visitors are already subscriber to our rss feed to find out what is happening here but now every one’s rss feeds are also very crowdy and sometimes it doest not help people to get updated for their favourite website/blog post/articles.  To avoid this situation for SmashingApps lovers we have now created our twitter page. We really welcome you to follow us on twitter.
 
Our twitter page uses the Twitter Feed website to pull our rss feed in and push it out to twitter, so you’ll get the latest updates as quickly as they will publish. This way we will be keeping everyone updated of the latest promotions, contests, news and updates via Twitter too!
If you are new to twitter or never heard about this so let me tell you that Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM. Join today to start receiving SmashingApps’s updates.
I will also appreciate you to say some words in comment section that why have you started to follow us after you will start following the SmashingApps at twitter. Just check it out here that who else are already following us.
Let’s Take A Look On Some FeedBurner’s RSS Feed Analysis Tools
I will appreciate if you can spread the word via Digg or other social media websites, Thank you
FeedBurner, A must have online service to control rss feed of any website specially for the blogs. While browsing from news websites to entertainment or tech websites to general websites everyone is focusing to promote their rss feed to subscribe by their visitors or try to motivate their readers in a different attractive ways to increase his rss feed subscription. And FeedBurner is really helping the webmasters to offer rss feed subscription offer on the website.
Today, we are discussing about few rss feed analysis tools which may help you to analyze any web site’s rss feed subscribers, performance, hits, comparison etc
If you know more tools which may help to analyze rss feeds, you are welcome to share them with us here via comments. We will also welcome your feedback about any tool given below so new user will have success story to read before they will use.
BlogPerfume Feed Analysis v1.1 Analyzes Your FeedBurner Feeds
By the use Blog Perfume Feed Analysis tool, the number of subscribers for each month is neatly shown on the column chart. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart. The best/worst day of the week is also available which is displayed on the pie chart. And also, Feed Analysis can give you an estimated value for your blog / site according to the number of your subscribers.
FeedCompare Helps To Compare Your FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers With Others
FeedCompare helps us compare our FeedBurner Feeds Subscriber Numbers with others. You can simply type in the FeedBurner Feeds (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmashingApps). You can type maximum four FeedBurner Feeds and then press submit to compare them, FeedCompare will then shows the subscriber numbers of different sites on a lovely line chart.
Feed Commander Gives Complete Control Over The RSS Feed You Display On Your Website
Feed Commander is and online software that allows you to easily configure an RSS feed to display any way you like. With a few simple choices from the menu, you can hit the preview button and see exactly how the generated code will appear. When you have a preview that you like, you simply choose to generate the code, and copy and paste it wherever you wish.
Create A Simple Graph Of Your FeedBurner Subscriber Circulation Data
With this simple FeedBurner subscriber analysis graph tool you can extract the circulation data for a blog for a given period of time. If you do this for f.i. the last year, you can draw a nice graph of how your RSS subscribers have progressed over time. To do this, you need your FeedBurner name, for instance, use the FeedBurner URL SmashingApps.Com which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/smashingapps, and see the performance of last 6 month, 1 year, 2 year or 3 year.
Pixelpost, An Open-Source, Standards-Compliant, Multi-Lingual, Fully Extensible Photoblog Application For The Web
Pixelpost is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible photoblog application for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Pixelpost for free.
If you want an easy to setup photoblog that gives you complete control over how your photos are displayed, Pixelpost is for you. You can download one of the free templates, or you can easily create your own original look & feel. With Pixelpost, it’s all up you you!
Click here for screenshots or feature list in details
New Features
- Smooth Install Assistant
Installing & Upgrading Pixelpost has never been easier. - Fancy Admin Stuff
More refined and easier to use. - New Template Tags
These new tags will make the template system still easier to use. - Cool Feed Options
Take full control of your rss/atom feeds. - Brand New Front Workspaces
Making addons more powerfull than ever, and easier to install! - New SPAM fighting addon added
Make your choice to use Akismet or the new kid on the block, Defensio, to fight comment spam.
9 Extremely Addictive Digg.com Related Articles Which You May Be Looking For!
If you found this post interesting, please dont forget to digg this.
Social media sites are the fastest growing website over the web. The community is getting stronger and stronger everyday. Digg.com is one the top in the social media website which have millions of addicted users (I am one of them 
) and growing everyday. But just to be an addicted is not necessary to get success on the digg.com. Every digger (digg user) should know how to digg.com algorithm is working? What are the success factors on digg.com? Why any story can get a position on digg.com homepage? How to get maximum diggs? What should to do to be a good digg.com user and what should not? How to write article to be promote on digg.com? and alot of question just to know how digg.com is well for any individual?
Here’s the list of 9 useful articles which has alot of information, tips, suggestions, experiences, analysis etc. You can find them very helpful to know some interesting facts about how you can be a successfull digg.com user or digg addict.
Top 10 Diggers: How They Lost Their “Virginity�
In this article, writer traced back the beginnings of the top 10 digg users according to Chris Finke’s list. What were their first bases (submissions)? How about their first home runs (first page)?
Analysis: Top 100 Digg Users
Interesting Analysis on top 100 digg user that what number of stories submitted, what number of stories gone popular, what percentage of submissions that hit the homepage etc
Tips on How To Get to The Front Page. (On Digg)
Tips from 11 of 30 Top users of Digg. Let’s see what advice they have for the up and coming Top Digg Users?
What is the most popular “top (number)� list on Digg?
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Digg you’ll know how popular the “top (number)� lists are. Top 5, 10, 50 and 100 lists regularly reach the front page - but which number list is the most popular of all?
Top 10 Reasons This List Will Be Popular on Digg
Top 10 lists can always be seen on Digg’s homepage, and to give you an example � here are ten things that will help this post become popular on Digg.
Digging: Does it Still Work?
This article not only explained how to get to the Digg front page, but also managed to do that by getting more than 1200 diggs!
How to Get Digg Frontpaged
How you can get your humble little blog Digg frontpaged without breaking any rules or using any blackhat/spammy methods.
How To: Get 3,000+ Diggs In 24 Hours
You don’t need to be in a group to get your submissions on the front page.
75 Suggestions, Best Practices & Resources for Digg
This is a collection of ideas, tips, best practices and suggested guidelines related to success on Digg that can be found in many different places and are echoing many successful Diggers and Social Media Experts.
I know, I have missed lots of articles which are worth reading but I am waiting for you to participate in this post via submitting your knowledge base about digg.com using comment section. I also welcome you if you can share your experiences with digg.com that how did you enjoy your social media life as an addicted digg.com user.
Also, dont forget to share with us that how do you enjoy reading the above articles?
