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Thursday Thirteen #22 (Revised Number)

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Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Firefox Extentions I Can’t Live Without

We’re all switching over to our personal edition number for the Thursday Thirteen, so this is my 22nd TT!! Woo hoo!

1. A9 Toolbar – This is my absolute favorite Firefox extension! It puts a search engine on your toolbar that works just as well as Google, but for using this search engine, Amazon.com will give you a discount of 1.57% on all orders! It’s not a huge discount, but you’ve gotta use a search engine anyways, you might as well get a discount for it! The search engine also has a sidebar that calls up books from Amazon.com that are relevant to your search (though you can close this option if you want, it’s not disruptive).

2. Calculator – This is another excellent extension. I find myself using the calculator all the time on the computer, and this calculator is exactly like the Windows PowerToy calculator. However, instead of having to go Start->Programs->blah blah blah, you just click a button on your toolbar, and it opens the calculator in a new tab! It’s great :-) !

3. SessionSaver – I have used this one so much. I’m one of those people who will have eight or nine tabs open at any given time, and sometimes I want to remember them all, but I don’t really want to add them to my bookmarks, and I know that I’m going to want to see them all at one time. SessionSaver will save all the tabs that you have open under one convenient bookmark-like option in the tools menu!

4. del.icio.us Complete – Do you use del.icio.us? Then you SHOULD be using this extension! Easy to save new sites to your del.icio.us, and easy to open up your del.icio.us to see your bookmarks!

5. Skype Toolbar for Firefox – This makes phone numbers on webpages clickable so that you can call them through Skype! Want to order a pizza, but need to look up the phone number? Go to yellowpages.com or something, and the phone number will be clickable! Free call from your computer! And if you’re not using Skype . . . oh buddy, we need to talk!

6. Adblock (and also Adblock Filterset.G) – Great for filtering out sites and ads that are just junk or spam. Makes for a cleaner browsing experience ;-) !

7. Google Notebook – Want to remember something about a site? Forget something and need to make a note about it? Google Notebook is the way to go, and there is a very handy extension which makes using Google Notebook so easy that you can’t imagine not using it!

8. 1-ClickWeather – Puts your current weather and a forecast down on the status bar of your browser. Really helpful when you’re trying to get dressed in the morning :-) !

9. PDF Download – Tired of viewing PDFs in your browser and accidentally closing them, only to realize you didn’t save them? PDF Download gives you options for viewing PDFs . . . open it? Save it? The choice is yours . . .

10. FireFTP – Simple and free FTP client that opens in a new tab in your browser. Super easy, super efficient, super necessary.

11. Web Developer – A great toolbar for all web developers. View CSS, view source, disable scripts, auto-enter forms, the works! This toolbar is chock full of goodies!

12. Tabbrowser Preferences – Enhances the simple tab features in Firefox.

13. UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) – Allows you to change the settings in Firefox to what works the best for you!

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My new computer!

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It occured to me that in all my panic about my old computer crashing, I never posted about my new computer!

As many of you know, I went to undergraduate school at Wake Forest University, and they are nationally known for their excellent technology program, particularly for the fact that upon entering the school, every student and faculty member receive an IBM ThinkPad. Upon entering their junior year, all the students trade in their ThinkPad for a newer model, and when they graduate, they get to take it with them.

I recently started graduate school at the Babcock School of Management at Wake Forest. The majority of the people in my program went to Wake Forest undergrad, and when we were told we would be receiving a new computer upon entering this program, we all assumed we were getting the newest ThinkPad.

Not so.

Day one of orientation, and the IT department rolls in with these babies.

It’s a Convertible Notebook, which basically means it’s a laptop, but if you swivel the screen around, it’s a tablet. It’s pretty cool. So far the tablet has been useful for taking notes in class, especially in classes like accounting where I have to draw graphs from time to time.

It’s also a fast little bugger – waaaaaaaay faster than the ThinkPad. That makes me happy, because I HATED how slow that computer was. From day one it was slow.

Downside – there’s a ton of stuff running in the background. It doesn’t run on regular Windows XP Professional or Home or anything . . . it has it’s own XP Tablet Edition, which means there are some additional software features that are running on the computer that area always running.

I haven’t fully decided if I like it or not. There are a lot of features that I do like (the graphics card is pretty decent, and I LOVE the widescreen monitor – that is something I will never go back from), but it is kind of funny to get used to it. Plus, I couldn’t get too excited about it at first because I was so bummed about the crash of the old computer.

So, that’s my newest toy. Does anyone else have a tablet (of any kind)? Any tips or horror stories?

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