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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

stumbleupon firefox

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Better Gmail

Better Gmail 2 0.7

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

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

Yoono - Socialize your browser 5.0.7

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!

Facebook Toolbar

Facebook Toolbar 1.2.1

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

ThumbStrips 1.5.1

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.

BlogRovr

BlogRovr 1.1.779

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

Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.104

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.

Clipmarks

Clipmarks 3.5.0

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

Shareaholic 1.4.1

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.

meebo

meebo 1.1

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!

Capture Fox

Capture Fox

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 0.9821

Read It Later 0.9821

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.

Yahoo! Toolbar

Yahoo! Toolbar 1.5.2.20080717

Use Yahoo! and the web faster, safer, and easier with new mail notification, search suggestions, online bookmarks, free spyware scanning, and more…

ReminderFox

ReminderFox

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.

TinyUrl Creator

TinyUrl Creator

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

TwitterBar

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.

Free Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System (ARS), PowerPoint Polling By Poll Everywhere

poll-everywhere

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary hardware-based response systems with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging.

You can conduct quick comprehension checks in training, replace expensive classroom clickers, collect donation pledges, power silent auctions, let large audiences submit questions and feedback to a presenter, and even as an anonymous way to collect answers to sensitive questions with Poll Everywhere.

Statistical Link Tracking For Social Networks And Beyond - Shrink, Track, Grow With BudURL

BudURL was designed from the start to give small businesses and marketers insight into previously invisible click traffic. Not everyone has access to Google Analytics and most of those that have it don’t know how to use it. BudURL makes link tracking amazingly simple. Shorten the link, put it somewhere, and watch the clicks roll in. It’s that easy!

bad url

BudURL is easy to use! Just paste in a large, unruly web address in the box above and click the “Shrink It!” button. You’ll get a unique BudURLâ„¢ that you can use anywhere you’d like such as social networks, instant messages, emails, ad campaigns, electronic newsletters, etc.

Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

Guerrilla Mail

GuerrillaMail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

The Best Hosted CRM application, And It Is Free!

Bizroof platform is a collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system, which is the best way to store, organize and share the useful information collected from interactions with customers.

bizroof

Now Manage All Your Existing IM, Email, And Social Network Accounts From One easy to use application.

digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

digsby

It can work as an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ with just one click. digsby is a social networking tool as well that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

The RoundCube Webmail Project

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. See screenshot from here.

round cube

RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires a MySQL or Postgres database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

Manage Your Contacts And Clients Online With Simple Customer

Simple Customer was developed for anyone who needs a simple and easy way to keep track of their clients, customers and contacts. Developed with PHP/mysql, Simple Customer is light-weight, sleek and professional. You can also take a demo to see Simple Customer in action.

Simple Customer

Features

Windows Live SkyDrive, A Free Password-Protected Online File Storage From Microsoft

When you sign in to Windows Live SkyDrive, you’re in charge for each folder you create, you choose who has access to it. Add new folders, rename them, or change who has access at any time.

windows live sky drive

Always where you need them

How they help protect your files

23 Free And Online Web Based Applications Specially If You Are Designer Or Developer

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Today, we are listing 23 free and online web based applications specially for web designers and developers which may be very helpful for you as well when you are at work. Designers and Developers will must like this list but you can also use them and will love whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

You are welcome to share if you know about any free web based application which our readers may like.

LaterThis / Links you like - Later

laterthis
LaterThis allows you to save and manage links in an ordered fashion. When you save links using LaterThis, the links are automatically organized for you. All your links are archived as long as you want and you can add “stars” to remember your favorites.

LaunchSplash

LaunchSplash

LaunchSplash allows you to create a Web 2.0 “Coming Soon” Launch Page for your domain quickly and easily. Read more…

Freewebs - Make a web site with photo albums, blogs, videos, forums and more

freewebs

Make a website in minutes with simple tools for individuals, groups, or small businesses to share photos and videos, open a store, and build a member community.

CrowdSound - Listen To Your Customers

crowd sound

crowdsound gives your users the tools to suggest ideas to improve your product or company, vote on others’ ideas, and get your direct feedback in a way never before possible. Read more…

Filemail.com - Sending large files has never been easier!

filemail

Filemail is a great free solution to send large size files to anyone. You can send upto 2gb size files with filemail. You will just need upload one or multiple files you want to send to the filemail. Files are encrypted on the servers using a 128bit AES algorithm to ensure security and privacy. Read more…

FreeTranslation

FreeTranslation

Allow your visitors to translate text or web pages directly from your website by adding FreeTranslation service in less than five minutes.

W3Counter - Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats and Web Counter

W3Counter

W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them. Read more…

FreshBooks - Online Invoicing, Time Tracking and Expense Service

Fresh books

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

Web Graphics Maker - Free Online Generators

Web graphics maker

Free online tools which generate web graphics like backgrounds, lines, bullets for your site or blog.

Jott.com: Free voice to text service

jot

Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.

Qipit - Copy and share documents

Qipit

Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!

Arkiva. All your Digital Files. One Place

Arkiva

With Arkiva you can secure offsite file storage, sharing, and media conversion. This is free up to 1 gb.

corlive - your contact form, e-mail alternative, no email! Free.

corlive

Corlive.com is an alternative to e-mail. Only humans can send messages, so there is no SPAM. Also, there are no anti-SPAM filters, because they are not necessary.

ShareTabs - The easy way to share your links as tabs

share tabs

Add a list of links to the form below and submit it to get a single link to them all, conveniently displayed in tabs. Great for sharing in Email, IM, Twitter, or SMS.

websnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Site

websnapr 2.0

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness. Read more…

CollabTRAK

CollabTRAK

CollabTRAK is designed with web designers in mind. Manage, collaborate, and track design projects with ease. Enjoy the ability to create unlimited users and manage unlimited projects.

Code collaboration for Web Developers: Springloops

springloops

Springloops is a unique source code management tool focused on web development teams. It allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely concentrated on results, not on lost changes or overwritten files. Read more…

Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes background designer

stripe generator

Generate seamless striped background images with ajax diagonal stripes background designer.

WhatTheFont

what the font

Using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.

Google Trends

Google trends

With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time.

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

browser shot

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.

TinyPaste

TinyPaste

TinyPaste is a service that lets you take large amounts of text and put it all in one place, and then gives you a tiny url to share it with your friends.

Dexrex - Preserve Your Memories

dexrex

Dexrex is the free add-on for archiving IM & SMS text. Sign in with your screen name, download the plugin, and start saving your world one message at a time.