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Apr 27 2009

Firefox must-have Extensions and More

November 9th, Firefox turned 1 (1.0 to be exact). To celebrate, I’m featuring some essential extensions including some you won’t find on Mozilla’s site. Of course, to enjoy these you’ll need to get Firefox 1.0

  • Spellbound – Spell check for text boxes
  • ForecastFox – Get weather icons in your status bar
  • Calendar – An iCal based calendar application
  • fireFTP – Transfer files via FTP from inside Firefox
  • FoxyTunes – Control iTunes from your status bar

*All of these extensions are 1.0/Mac compatible

For those of you not browsing with Firefox, here are a couple other nice free applications based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine.

Celtx

This free application is a robust planning/scripting tool for film and video projects. An online feature allows you to maintain these projects online through celtx.com. This tool is as feature rich as many commercial suites.

NVU

This spawn of Mozilla is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that supports CSS. The suite includes an FTP site manager and more.

Thanks for stopping by. Have fun with this week’s gang, and meet me back here next week for more.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Safari Clones and Mobile Safari Tricks

Safari Clones

Safari is a pretty good browser, and with WebKit built in to OS X the rendering is fast. While Safari can be customized, it’s always nice to have alternatives.

Shiira

Shiira is probably one of the oldest and most advanced of the Safari clones. In version 2, Shiira added HUD style widgety windows and a “page dock” at the bottom that replaces tabs.

shiira2 Safari Clones and Mobile Safari Tricks

Shiira requires Tiger and includes a mini companion: a browsing widget for Dashboard. Shiira can even take advantage of Safari 3′s new version of WebKit. This Safari alternative has an original interface and cool features, check it out.

Demeter

With version 2, Shiira picked up some new features, but also some weight. In the spirit of a true Open Source project, Shiira 1 was brought back to life as Demeter.

demeter Safari Clones and Mobile Safari Tricks

Demeter includes the 1.2 features of Shiira and is gaining a few features of its own. If you don’t mind the icon, it is a very fast clone of a clone of Safari and includes an iTunes remote and all the goodies of Safari 3 (DOM inspector, spell check, resizable text boxes).

Mobile Safari Bookmarks

Thanks to near-forgotten browser novelties, you can search your favorite sites more quickly and store documents and web pages for offline use on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Search Bookmarklets

These bookmarks launch a pop-up dialog for searching frequently visited sites. Magnesium Studios has a set of ‘Springlets’ that you can add to your Home screen.

springlets Safari Clones and Mobile Safari Tricks

If you’re on your iPhone, use this link to add quick search links for Wikipedia, IMDB and more. If you’re more the home-brew type, check out the Wikipedia search bookmarklet here.

Data Bookmarks

Thanks to a little-know feature of just about any browser but IE, encoded data can be stored in a URL, and thereby a bookmark. This means a bookmark can be created that actually includes the contents of a web page – including images – that can be viewed offline. What’s more, you can even encode another browser-readable file like a PDF. iWebSaver will grab and encode a website for offline browsing on your iPhone or touch.

websaver Safari Clones and Mobile Safari Tricks

If you’d like to encode files, head back over to Magnesium Studios for Filemark Maker. Drag files to this tiny Mac app and it will encode them into a bookmark-able page that you can sync with mobile Safari via iTunes.

Brian

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Nov 28 2006

Markzware releases update to Q2ID (QuarkXPress 7 to InDesign)

309113167 4e1f90e349 m Markzware releases update to Q2ID (QuarkXPress 7 to InDesign)Markzware has announced the immediate release of the an update for Q2ID (QuarkXPress To Adobe InDesign). This is an Adobe InDesign plug-in and requires an installed and supported version of Adobe InDesign v3 (CS) or v4 (CS2) prior to installing Q2ID. This plug-in enables QuarkXPress files of any version to be converted for use with InDesign CS or CS2. Q2ID [v2] is a one-stop solution to simply import into a InDesign file with the majority of the original QuarkXPress features and settings intact.

Q2ID [v2] will convert QuarkXPress documents that were created on either the Macintosh or Windows platforms. Some of the items that Q2ID will convert into InDesign formatted documents include fonts and style sheets; linked images and graphics, color blends, linked and anchored text boxes, CMYK specifications, Pantone selections and other color models and page positioning.

The upgrade will cost existing users of Q2ID USD$99.00 while first-time users can buy the latest version for USD$199.00. Multi-user licenses are also available.

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