Fireday - Firefox extensions for June 2, 2006

Friday, June 02, 2006 7:07 AM

Posted by Jonathan Danylko | Tag: Fireday | Comments: 0 | View blog reactions

The newest Firefox extensions reviewed every Friday.

Wow! The week went quick. Here is the list of new extensions for this week.

Internote

I would consider Internote the "Post-Its(tm) for the Internet."

When you install the extension, it places a yellow note on the status bar of your browser. When you click on it, a blank note fades in for you to move anywhere on the web page. If you browse to another page, the note (or notes) will still be there for later.

A possible enhancement for the future would be a collaborative effort with the Internotes. If Dave in Development wrote a web site and wanted Bob in Accounting to look at all of the changes, Bob could attach Internotes to it and let Dave look at the changes.

If you are a someone who uses Post-Its(tm) and are a power surfer, you could attach these to your main portal as to-dos for later, since they attach themselves to individual web pages.

Overall, this extension works like a champ. I would recommend this extension for you Post-It nuts out there. :-)

Rating: 5/5


LinkedIn Firefox Companion

It seems networking is definitely something everyone should be updating nowadays. There is some truth in the phrase, "It's not what you know, it's who you know."

The LinkedIn Firefox companion is an extension for interacting with the LinkedIn web site. The extension takes all of the common functions of LinkedIn and makes them available through a pulldown menu item and through a sidebar.

Installation of the LinkedIn extension was pretty easy, as are with all extensions. The sidebar was pretty obvious (View/Sidebar/LinkedIn Insider), but the LinkedIn pulldown menu wasn't installed properly. If you were looking for the LinkedIn pulldown menu, you need to right-click on the toolbar and click Customize. The icon, depending on your theme you have installed, may be invisible, but have a LinkedIn Companion description beneath the invisible icon. If you click and drag that to your main pulldown menu, it will still be invisible until you click the OK button.

That was primarily the drawback to this extension, but as soon as you add that to your pulldown, everything lights up and works properly.

If you are looking for jobs, use the LinkedIn Jobs Insider. The LinkedIn Jobs Insider will display a list of jobs currently available. The difference is that whoever is in your network, that person may work at the job you are interested in. Make sense?

LinkedIn has been my destination for networking and the LinkedIn Firefox Companion is helping me along the way. Aside from the additional step of adding the pulldown menu item manually, I give this extension a 4 out of 5.

(For those who are still using IE, LinkedIn didn't leave you out in the cold. There is a toolbar specifically for IE users as well).

Rating: 4/5


Googlepedia

For those who are interested in a more informative search instead of ads on the right, you may want to take a look at the Googlepedia extension.

The Googlepedia extension is activated when you google something. Instead of displaying your search results for a particular item, it actually performs a search at Wikipedia as well and displays the results in a window off to the right of the Google search.

This is especially useful for people who don't know what a certain term means. If someone was looking for "what is RSS" and what it stands for, you would type it into Google. The Googlepedia extension takes it a step further and automatically brings up the Wikipedia entry for RSS on the right of the search results.

The Googlepedia extension should take the place of the multicolumn I just reviewed on last Friday (actually Monday). This extension gets a 5/5 in my book.

Rating: 5/5

NOTE: If you want me to review a Firefox extension, let me know and I'll be glad to review it.

See ya next week and have a great weekend.

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