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Add-ons for IE7

Some add-ons for IE7 that are worth getting:
Bloglines Browser Plug-In: The Bloglines Browser Plug-In will enable you to use the Bloglines RSS aggregator from your browser and subscribe to RSS feeds with one click. The plug-in will be integrated into the RSS Aggregator functionality of your IE7 browser bar and will be accessible through the [...]

GPS needs to become ubiquitous

Find an old photo taken with a film camera and ask yourself, “Where was that picture taken?” Now find a whole bunch of old photos and try answering that question for all of them in a split second. Thanks to digicams we now have time and date stamps along with other photo-specific data [...]

Session Manager saves & restores the state of all windows & tabs. In other words, this extension allows you to save the current state of Firefox (history, text data, cookies) and return to that state at any later moment. Besides the manually saved states, Session Manager automatically stores the current state in case [...]

The NewsForge review of Drupal 4.7 gives you an idea of some of what the latest version of Drupal can do.  I don’t agree that an upgrade from 4.6 isn’t worth the effort but do warn that it can be error prone.  I still prefer Drupal over Joomla but there are pros and cons with [...]

Now, while I doubt I’ll use Word 2007 for all blog posts, it is nice to have as an option. Good work team. Oh, and I should say, the UI update for Word is AWESOME! I’d add more but I’m speechless writeless at the moment.

If you’re reaction is the same as mine then don’t answer just yet.  Read Joe Friend’s Blogging from Word 2007 post to learn more about changes in store, such as those to the toolbar to make blogging simple.
 
Clean HTML sounds nice and I look forward to seeing seemless support for more than just Blogger and MSN [...]

Firefox Extension of the Day - CopyURL+

The Copy URL+ extension enables you to copy to the clipboard the current document’s address along with additional information such as the document’s title, the current selection or both.
You might find this behavior useful when you want to send (IM, email) an interesting link to a friend and out of laziness convenience you don’t want [...]

This extension brings the http://tinyurl.com functionality closer to your fingertips. It will convert a long URL into a much smaller, more managable one which is easier to share through email and instant messanger. This feature is useable from the Tools menu or as a Toolbar Element (Firefox).

Greasemonkey lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior thus allowing you to easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.
For example, if you’re a Flickr fanatic and enjoy commenting you may appreciate the Flickr Rich Edit script which adds limited rich editing [...]

With many people now using Thunderbird and Outlook it seems high time that we all start using digital certificates to sign (and when needed, encrypt) our emails.  So I’m working on some instructions, based on my experience, to help make the process easy for people who’d rather not figure out how to do this stuff.  [...]