Entries tagged with “tools”
31 October 2007 : del.icio.us proxy v1
A way to save bookmarks to your del.icio.us account without going to the del.icio.us website itself.
11 April 2007 : vCard Tools in Mozilla Thunderbird
Sharing an extension for Thunderbird that provides really useful vCard features.
17 October 2006 : Indispensable Firefox Extension
Discovering the Session Saver extension for Firefox. Update: Firefox 2.0 has its own Session Restore feature!
7 September 2006 : Quick Tip: Sage and the Feed Pseudo-Protocol
On problems with the Sage feedreader extension for Firefox not parsing some of my feeds due use of the “feed” pseudo-protocol.
13 May 2005 : Grab Firefox Tabs for Offline Use
The ScrapBook extension for Firefox is a very useful little addition. Here’s a tip to help you save your open tabs for later use.
- 5 May 2005 : Free Personal/Project Management Tools
Following on from my last post on the Manage-Do Flipbook, I thought I’d also post a few links to free personal/project management tools that I use from time to time. Feel free to add to the list.
- 21 March 2005 : Add “Validate Entire Site” to Web Developer Extension
It can be useful to be able to validate an entire site using a tool such as a bookmarklet. Here’s a quick tip to add such a tool to the Web Developer Extension.
- 21 March 2005 : Blagging Bookmarklets
OK, having not had so much time recently to play with bookmarklets, I finally came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to be able to finish this post as I first intended. As a precursor to developing some Firefox extensions, bookmarklets was never going to cut it anyway. I just wanted to brush up on some JavaScript – I’ve been spending more time working on developing my skills in accessible design than with my geeky programming roots. Anyway, I’m yet to do anything even remotely complicated with bookmarklets, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been up to recently.
- 4 March 2005 : Quick Guide to Bookmarklets
Recently, I’ve been playing around with writing Firefox extensions to add toolbar buttons that allow me to add a couple of simple tools I’d like to see on my toolbar. More on that soon, but in the process I’ve written a couple of bookmarklets to test some of my ideas. So my next couple of posts will be about bookmarklets. Here’s one to get started.
