hehe, been in testmode again ;)

As SL is boring me a bit lately, i did some testing on toys again and indeed found some funny stuff. To be more precise, i been looking for addons for firefox 3, cause updating led to losing some funny ones, wich lead to browsing and testing. ;)

Here some results:

Cooliris (win only) and Cooliris Previews
  • first: Cooliris is a picture wall wich indexes searchword related pictures from different sources, like google, flickr and youtube (yes it plays vids too)
  • second: Cooliris Previous gives you a (navigatable) preview of a website when you hover over a link, very nice stuff

FoxyTunes
  • ever been annoyed for having to minimize your browser for changing a song in your player? Also you have a button to look up track and artist just playing now and get results from various pages

Ubiquity

Speed Dial
  • provides a start page with a choice of 9 configurable site-previews, to quickly access your favourite sites

Google
  • there are several google related addons, like googlepedia, google preview, and customize google among they are partly covering each other and i haven´t look into any options yet, so you might wanna have a look on your own ;)
  • LOL or you just use http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm for some cleaner search results and (maybe) less data mining ;)

Security addons
  • Adblock Plus, Flashblock, NoScript - there are tons of others, but that would need a deeper look into it

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi ,

Thank you for posting about Cooliris! We truly appreciate it. We're delighted to hear that you are enjoying Cooliris and we hope your readers will too.

Cooliris works not only on Windows but on Macs too. Cooliris also works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. So there is more Cooliris all around!

Interested readers can check out the full spectrum of Cooliris features at http://cooliris.com/demo and please stay tuned for more exciting developments.

Thanks again,
Luna and The Cooliris Team

Jacomo Beltran said...

hehe.. you can send me a macbook for testing osx, aaaand of course i am waiting for the linux version much more ;)