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Five Microblogging Extensions For Firefox

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Unless you've been living in a cave for the past year, you know that microblogging is all the rage. Web sites like Twitter, Identi.ca, and Laconica are incredibly popular for exchanging snippets of information, chatting with others, and quickly sharing links to interesting online content. It's really a pain to jump from site to site to read your friends updates or provide your own, so here are five microblogging extensions for Firefox to help you out.

ShortenURL - Microbloggers don't want to waste precious characters on long URLs so it's customary to shorten links you display in status updates. Pasting a Web site location into URL shortening service homepage is so last week now that you can do it right from your browser's toolbar. ShortenURL makes quick work of this repetitive task by letting you crop Web addresses right from the toolbar. It supports over 100 URL shortening services already but if that's not enough, you can request more.



5min How-To Video Site Abounds With Free, Open Source Lessons

Today, instructional video site 5min has announced that it has secured $7.5 million in Series B venture financing. Led by new investor, Globespan Capital Partners, the round also includes existing investor, Spark Capital. 5min has aggressively pursued syndication deals and partnerships with many media companies, and many people in the open source community may not realize the breadth of how-to videos on open source topics that you can find at the site. It's an excellent resource for open source tutorials that you can start and stop as you see fit.


An Early Look at Firefox 3.7

Want to take a very early peek at themes for Mozilla's Firefox 3.7 browser? Initial Windows theme mockups for it are now available for viewing via Mozilla Wiki. The mockups come very early in the Firefox 3.7 development cycle and aren't final, but they provide glimpses of the kinds of interface implementations that Mozilla will probably pursue. Version 3.7 is slated to arrive next spring, and here are some of the things Mozilla is working on.


GButts Firefox Extension Lets You Jump Straight to Your Google Apps

If you happen to use Google's applications and tools, here's a very handy Firefox extension to install (and it works with version 3.5): GButts. After checking out the visual tour of GButts at The How-To Geek blog, and more input from Lifehacker, I loaded it, and it is indeed a very convenient way to set up an easy-to-access launchpad for your various Google tools and applications. It's a very simple extension, and here's how I customized my installation of it.


Mozilla's New Inititiative Showcases Firefox Extension Developers

Recently, we covered Mozilla's overhauled version of Jetpack, which is designed to make it easy for almost anyone to create Firefox extensions. Jetpack is one of several initiatives from Mozilla focused on the main advantage that Firefox has over other browers: the huge ecosystem of outstanding add-ons. Today, Mozilla's Firefox Add-Ons Lead Nick Nguyen and his team have announced the Contributions Pilot Program. It's a way for developers to better showcase themselves next to their Add-ons, as well as be eligible to receive a suggested contribution for their work through PayPal.


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Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability self-inflicted. The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.



Mozilla Delivers Overhauled Version of Jetpack, for Firefox Extensions

In May and June, we covered Mozilla's Jetpack, which is an API and framework designed to make building extensions for Firefox easier and faster. It won't require extensions to be written in XUL, and will allow developers to use standard technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Notably, Jetpack will also allow Firefox users to load extensions without annoying browser restarts, and will resolve compatibility issues between older extensions and newer versions of Firefox. Over the weekend, Mozilla announced a 0.3 update to Jetpack, downloadable now, and provided some information on how the project is moving along.


Over 20 Free Tutorials for Top Open Source Apps and Linux

Open source applications and platforms take regular criticism for not having the same level of documentation as proprietary ones, but for many top open source projects, there are lots of free resources. In some cases these are delivered by the community behind particular projects, and sometimes they are from enthusiasts and other third parties. In this post, you'll find an updated collection of our last tutorials roundup, with over 20 good resources for popular open source applications and Linux. A little time spent working with these resources can pay many dividends.


Mozilla Releases Major Ubiquity Update

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Ubiquity, the extension that adds command line functionality to the Firefox browser, got a major upgrade this week. Ubiquity 0.5 supports a bunch of new languages and drops the need to use hyphens in commands. The development team is also experimenting with smart suggestions, a feature that lets Ubiquity make educated guesses about the meaning of unfamiliar data.

The good news is Ubiquity 0.5 adds nice features and updates to this handy tool. The bad news is that it breaks compatibility with third-party commands. That is sure to cause headaches and workflow problems for some of Ubiquity's 400,000 users. Fortunately, Mozilla has a plan.



Five Password Management Add-Ons For Firefox

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Firefox is a wonderful browser in so many ways but its password management leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately, there are several add-ons to help manage your passwords and easily generate new ones in a flash.?

Show My Password - If you're tired of having your password field scrambled even though no one else is around to peek over your shoulder, then try this add-on. It shows your passwords as you type them, making typos easier to catch before they slow down your logins.

 



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