Tab Mix Plus for Firefox 3 July 17, 2008

I’ve been seriously mourning the loss of Tab Mix Plus for FF3.

Having to right click, open in new tab to get a link or bookmark to open in a new tab was driving me crazy.

Every time FF3 told me it had found an update for one of my add-ons, I could hardly bear the excitement, thinking could it be, just maybe, Tab Mix Plus?….but disappointment abounded.

But, no more!

I did a manual check today, just out of curiosity and lo and behold, there’s a development build of the add-on on the Tab Mix Plus website. O glory be!

Evernote out of private beta (and working for Firefox 3) June 24, 2008

Evernote, the desktop & web-based note taking software, is out of beta today (and finally working on Firefox 3!)

I’d previously used OneNote 2007 (which comes with MS Office) but I’m liking Evernote a little more.

Although I prefer the ‘notebook’ look and feel to OneNote, I love the ’synchronise’ feature of Evernote – basically whatever I save to my desktop version appears in my web version and vice versa.

Sending/ saving to Evernote is effortless. There’s a web clipper for the web and desktop versions that you can pick up from the website.You can also email stuff direct and even save photos to Evernote. The example they give is taking a phone picture shot of a business card, sending it to Evernote, and it becomes searchable – even any handwriting (whether this works is pretty hit or miss, I find, depending on the clarity of the photo). Overall, it’s too handy not to change over.

And of course you can tag your notes.

I prefer the look of the web version which gives you thumbnails rather than lines of text to look at, but I’m getting used to it. And for free, who wouldn’t?

HTML signatures for Gmail June 23, 2008

BlankCanvas have a new release of their Gmail add-on: Gmail signatures.

I know Better Gmail 2 has an HTML signature option but I find it can be a bit ‘cranky’ – works some times, not others.

The BlankCanvas add-on works a treat (unless you’re using the Gmail Redesigned skin, in which case, again with the crankiness).

But if that doesn’t bother you, you can check it out here.

Zoomii ‘real’ bookstore for USA and Canada June 23, 2008

If you use Amazon to buy your books (and even if you don’t) you’re going to love Zoomii. It’s a virtual book store, with ‘books’ (big and small) on ’shelves’.And it’s available in Canada too. Sweet.

You can browse, search, check out different categories such as ‘bestseller’ or ’self help’, and add to wishlist or cart. If you can’t find what you’re looking for among (or simply want some more information on) the 20,000 or so books in the ’store’, you can click the link to do the same search on Amazon. And you’re automatically directed to Amazon to complete your purchase.

It’s pretty slow on Firefox 3 right now, but they’re working on it.