http://www.friedbeef.com Solving Everyday Problems With Simple Technology - Freeware, Productivity, Useful Tips & More Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:28:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   It may come as a surprise to most people that when it comes to languages used on the web, English only accounts for 30.5% of all Internet users.  If you're using the Firefox browser, here are some free extensions to bridge any language gap you come across ... http://www.friedbeef.com/top-5-helpful-foreign-language-firefox-extensions/   No matter which browser you've picked for everyday use - chances are you've customized your browser to make it your own.  Here are 5 free tools which will let you backup and preserve your browser profile, so all the tweaking you've done is safe. 1. How to ... http://www.friedbeef.com/how-to-backup-any-browser-5-tips-for-google-chrome-firefox-safari-internet-explorer-and-opera/ Yes, I may be a Flock user now, but I fully appreciate the fact that Flock wouldn't exist if not for the kind folks in the Mozilla Foundation which have worked tirelessly on the development of Firefox and have made the source code openly available...  All of ... http://www.friedbeef.com/help-set-a-world-record-with-firefox/ We've already talked about various ways to save your eyes from your screen, but here's one more tool that I came about on which makes your life so much easier if you're having vision problems and struggling to read text on the screen.  ... http://www.friedbeef.com/how-to-set-website-specific-text-sizes/   Yes I've STOPPED using Firefox! Well not quite... I've actually been using the Flock Browser (which is based on the open-source Firefox engine) for the past 3 months now, and I haven't looked back since! Why Flock? 1. Flock is the iPod of browsers ... http://www.friedbeef.com/top-5-reasons-why-you-should-switch-to-flock/ If you use Adsense to monetize your sites, you may be frustrated with the fact that adsense reports tend to be fairly simple and does not allow you lots of flexibility with charts and graphs, so you can best visualize your information.  Graphsense is a Firefox ... http://www.friedbeef.com/how-to-graph-your-adsense-reports-quickly/ This ain't the only blog in town.  I've decided that I should make it a point to highlight useful posts other people have done, which are in line with this blog's objective of solving everyday problems with simple technology.  This week's theme: Useful Firefox tips - Enjoy! Best Ways to ... http://www.friedbeef.com/how-to-get-more-out-of-firefox/ The ability to use tabs for web browsing was one of the key reasons why I switched over from Internet Explorer 6 to Firefox all those years ago.    Now that IE7 has come along and has incorporated tabs in their own browser as well, does it make Firefox any less ... http://www.friedbeef.com/top-10-ways-best-ways-to-manage-firefox-tabs/ Firefox is so flexible that there are currently more than 2000 ways to customize its features!  Everything from better ways to read news, quicker way of downloading, to better organized bookmarking can be adapted to your needs. It is also offers up powerful tools for handling images on the web.  Here are ... http://www.friedbeef.com/top-5-firefox-extensions-for-images/ I've had quite a number of posts on this site which talk about the many ways you can improve Firefox with some top notch extensions... This however, is a list of extensions to AVOID.  Many of them have spyware or adware installed and are maliciously released to the community.  ... http://www.friedbeef.com/massive-list-of-firefox-extensions-you-dont-want-to-install/ Open up Firefox and take a look at the top right search box. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you’ve chosen. Now, since the very beginning of Firefox - Mycroft has been ... http://www.friedbeef.com/see-how-easily-you-can-roll-your-own-firefox-search-plugin/ Based on my web stats, if you're reading this, there's a 72% chance that you're already on the Firefox browser - in which case you're in the perfect position enjoy the browser extensions and tweaks below. If you're one of the 24% STILL on Internet Explorer, it's time to consider a ... http://www.friedbeef.com/5-firefox-extensions-that-make-all-the-difference-in-the-world/ There's a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it's advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here's a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process. All ... http://www.friedbeef.com/google-firefox-free-music-downloads/ If you’re a Firefox user like 52% of this site’s visitors, you would have probably heard of ‘Spread Firefox’, which is a community aimed at promoting the use of Firefox as alternative browser among the general Internet population. I recently managed to catch up with one of its active ... http://www.friedbeef.com/an-interview-with-a-firefox-evangelist/ World Firefox Day was launched on in the middle of last month, in conjunction with it's birthday. If you convert someone over to this fantastic browser, you and your friend’s names will be placed, and immortalized on the ‘Firefox Friends Wall’, which will be part of Firefox 2.0. This ... http://www.friedbeef.com/21-days-left-to-immortalize-yourself-in-firefox-20/