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Mozilla add-ons to brighten your life for 2009!

February 2nd, 2009
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This list has in no way been exhausted! Please if you have any others that work well for you, leave a comment.

Netvibes add feeds and share links. A nice fast way to add to your Netvibes page.

All-in-One Sidebar. This is a great one to control all of your settings in one place. Nice and handy with lots of options to tweak.

Answers. What does that word mean? Right click on the word, click look up anwers.com and bang you’re there!

Autopager. Loads the next page for you automatically. No more clicking next page.

ColorfulTabs. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Cooliris. Transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search and enjoy online photos, videos and more.

Delicious Bookmarks. The official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.

Downloadhelper. The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

Downthemall! The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!This baby proclaims to be able to speed downloads up to400%.

Facebook toolbar. For the facebook junkie requiring immediate updates all day long. Stay connected.

Forecastfox. Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive add-on.

Foxclocks. Lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar.

GCal Popup. Google Calendar in a nice overlay so that your calendar can be updated without ever leaving the web page.

Gmail manager. Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

Google Reader Watcher. Checks your Google Reader for unread news.

GooglePreview. Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

IE Tab. Enables you to use the embeded IE engine within Mozilla firefox. Great for groupwise!

Instaclick. Right-click on links to open them in new tabs. Firefox does this by default with middle-clicks, but many laptop mice (touchpads) don’t have middle buttons.

Morning Coffee. Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs.

Mouse Gestures. Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

Screen grab! It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.

Scribefire. A full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Session Manager.  Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs.

Sxipper. Forget your passwords! Sxipper accurately fills in forms, manages passwords and your OpenIDs.

Tab Catalog. This shows contents of all of tabs as a thumbnail-style list.

Thumbstrips. Find what you seek — visually.

UrlbarExt. Extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through sequential URL’s,View page cached version,Unblock filtered websites and Surf anonymously using online phproxy servers)

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Now that the hardware is connected……

August 9th, 2008

We must socially connect!!!!!To blog or not to blog

And what better way to connect than telling the world what you are up to. As educators especially elementary, the use of newsletters is one way we keep the school community connected. It’s great to be able to see what everyone is up to and look at the wall of newsletters, but why not start your own blog and keep us up to date a little more regularly?….This doesn’t mean that you post daily, it just means that you post when you want. One week you may post  only once the following week twice, maybe three times….it’s up to you.

SAS has many bloggers, and the software for you. Of course your elementary tech guys Mike Romard and I are blogging but, so are staff all over the campus, from teachers to admin! Check out the following…. Kimbra in grade 5, Amanda Decardy in Middle School, Principal Ron Roukema, Deputy Super Andy Torris, Shaun McElroy, Alfred Olivas, just a few to get you started. Once you have visited these few I suggest turning your attention to educators blogging all over the world that contribute to education and pedagogy allowing you to view things differently and incorporate new ways of doing things into what you are already doing…check out the following bloggers…..Jeff Utecht, David Warlick, Jenny Luca, Tim Munnerlyn, Viki Davis

Some links won’t work here in China…mostly anything that has bloggerspot, wordpress.com etc in its URL. I would suggest downloading hotspot shield a free nifty little thing that is a vpn…much like a secure bank line out of China that can’t be read by the amazing firewall “protecting” us all in the PRC.

Now to read all of these can take some time and we can talk more about this in a future post….but start thinking about putting some of your energy into creating your news online rather than paper. And ask questions, we are more than happy to help one and all!

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Make sure you’re connected

August 3rd, 2008

Well, we are back…and connected big time! More of that in a moment. First up though, what a summer break….we arrived back in Australia to temperatures I forgot existed!!! Just when summer in Shanghai was firing up we headed home to extreme cases of the flu, Chickenpox, rain, rain and more rain….followed by food poisoning. Fun times……all in an apartment you couldn’t swing a cat in!!!! The place we stay is fantastic, especially in good weather with the back door open and sausages sizzlin’  but when it is constantly raining the space seems to get smaller!!! Luckily I wired it with extra fast internet, airtunes, B&W speakers, LCD TV etc……all those Chinese DVD’s we brought home were fantastic.

And now we are back and feeling very positive….a new apartment with a gorgeous big kitchen, Satellite, 2 Macs and Kimbra’s pc laptop. 3 days of connecting TV’s, networking the house…..wirelessly of course and things couldn’t get any better……but wait….tech, tech and more tech this year!!!!!! I just can’t wait. For those requiring a hand or advice on how to network your home be sure to ask as I love working out the best way possible. It is good getting all our machines and equipment “talking”.

Here’s what we have set up at home……

1 Airport extreme giving ultra fast connectivity…yes in China! to any computer that has permission to join the “Powerpad” …which is just the 3 computers. I debated this one heavily….invest in the time capsule, or go for the Extreme with hard drive connected…obviously I went for the latter I already had an external 500 gb hard drive…..I like to see the hardware and being locked in to the time capsules 500gb or 1tb scared me…what happens when I want more? Printer also hooked up so all computers can print wirelessly. 

1 20 inch imac 2.4 ghz, 320 gb….big graphics card…I couldn’t justify the 2.6 ghz.

1 old Powerbook G4 still humming along…starting to show its age when sitting next to the imac in terms of speed.

1 windows laptop.

itunes and iphoto are now running on the external hard drive allowing all computers to be up to date with incoming media….when you update on one computer then move to the next one…bam it’s up to date and raring to go! I am finding when changing albums in itunes it does take a second or two to register, but no lag when the music flies through airtunes!!!!

LCD 37 inch…….big enough…..I am finding with Dream satellite that the picture is pretty good…any bigger and the grain would become annoying….but DVD’s…..ooohhh  aaahhhhh!!!! Next in the artillery collection will be those ELAC bookshelf speakers or Focal…whichever is cheaper on Fuxing Lu… that pump out gorgeous lifelike sound…..no dodgy surround sound for me and those little speakers that feel like flies hovering behind your head!

The best thing about the system is there is room to move and change which is great as I am sure there are faster ways to keep connected. The other investment will be for Time Machine.

Yes most is Mac….and I go for it because as the video says…it just works…..having said that with school utilizing both platforms being bilingual is very handy and very easy

So welcome everyone….keep connected and let me in on your home network!!

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