The other day, we covered the winners in this year’s Extend Firefox contest, which is Mozilla’s annual effort to recognize the best extensions for the Firefox browser. In addition to the new ideas that won, though, Mozilla has also recognized a couple of strong updates to well-known Firefox extensions. Two of them can be very handy for web workers.
Read It Later is a quick way to save web pages of interest to read later, for when you don’t have time to stop, including offline reading. Many Firefox users simply bookmark pages they want to read later, but that can quickly turn your Bookmarks list into a giant mess.
When you access “Your Reading List” with ReadItLater you get a list of the pages you’ve flagged, and you can also see when you flagged them. You can also sync your reading list with other computers. Read It Later initially had some problems with cookies and JavaScript, but the developer has addressed these with a recent update...
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Open Thread: How do you Give Back?From: webworkerdaily.com
Post Date: 2008-07-24 11:00:00
Those of us who work on the web are often keenly aware of the volunteer efforts that make our lives easier. Need a CSS tutorial? A quick search will find dozens, none of which cost you a dime. Have a thorny development question? Take your pick of groups and discussion boards, where someone will spend time and effort to get you an answer. Need to know what the capital of Andorra is? Wikipedia is your friend.
It’s easy to consume this wealth of free support - but do you produce any of i...
more Information Overload: Overrated?From: webworkerdaily.com
Post Date: 2008-07-24 08:00:00
Over at Lifehacker, Gina Trapani has posted an excellent opinion piece taking a second look at the deluge of studies that tell us how much information overload is keeping us from getting work done. Like Lifehacker, we’ve certainly been a cog in the machine that keeps up this drumbeat of studies and solutions, all designed to protect us from the deluge.
But we’re also in agreement that the message of overload gets used to promote products more than it does to really get to the ...
more More Secure GMailFrom: webworkerdaily.com
Post Date: 2008-07-25 08:00:00
Google’s GMail has always used the secure https: protocol to protect logins, but it would allow you to switch to an insecure http: session after you were connected. While this can speed things up, it’s potentially a problem for those of us who are on-the-go: unencrypted mail traffic can be snooped on by anyone in WiFi range of your laptop.
That’s why its nice to see the new “Browser Connection” item in GMail’s settings; you can use this to force all ...
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