Here are three less-known Firefox extensions that could really lift your productivity, particularly if you are an RSS user. The first is ScrapBook [1]. This allows you to save web pages, page snippets and links into hierarchical collections. Kind of like bookmarks on steroids with the web content available for offline use. All material you save can be annotated and you can even edit the raw material itself. On top of that, you can search saved collections including all saved web pages. Just the thing for all you information hunters and collectors for saving interesting information from web sites as well as your favorite blogs and feeds. The second extension I’d like to recommend is All-In-One Sidebar [2]. This allows you to select and load any of your Firefox sidebars with a single click. That includes bookmarks, history, Download, Sage, Scrapbook and more. I’ve always found the Firefox sidebar a little awkward to use but this extension pretty well solves the problem. It’s a real timesaver, particularly if you a switching between Sage and ScrapBook. It also provides a number of other benefits like listing your extensions alphabetically and giving you fine control over how clicked links open in tabs. The third extension, "Livelines" [3], is a little more mundane but valuable in its own way. It allows you to add an RSS feed to Sage (or Bloglines or many other RSS readers) simply by clicking the Firefox Live Bookmarks icon that appears in the browser status bar of RSS enabled sites. It’s simple, neat and effective. All three extensions work with the current V1.06 version of Firefox.
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We’ve pored through years of back issues, picking the best tips, to create these ebooks:
- PC Maintenance Guide
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- Windows 7 Guide Vol 1
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- Win XP Survival Guide
Top-scoring articles in the past 12 months
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- The sorry tale of the (un)Secure Sockets Layer 4.42
- RPV: Win7′s least-known data-protection system 4.33
- Recovery: the last step in total data security 4.30
- Time for a .NET update we can’t ignore 4.30
- Getting the most from Windows Search — Part 1 4.25
- Revising printing habits saves money and trees 4.25
- Upgrades end in erratic, partial hangs 4.25
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- Beating back Duku and a plethora of other threats 4.20
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- Don’t pay for software you don’t need — Part 3 4.16
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- Is your free AV tool a ‘resource pig?’ 4.15
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- Keeping you up to date: say no to .NET — again 4.14
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- The advanced system-recover toolkit 4.13
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- Readers’ best personal-privacy tips 4.11
- Getting the most from Windows Search — Part 2 4.11
- Re-examining Dropbox and its alternatives 4.10
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