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Swiss Army Knife of Firefox : Powerful and Productive Addon

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 03:16 AM PDT

Addons have always been useful to increase productivity of Mozilla Firefox browser. Here’s a one which enables you to research, process, translate or manipulate any selected text on a web page.

Hyperwords addon is something with which you can literally interact with any text you select on a web page. Double-click on a word (to select), or click and drag (to select) a number of words and instantly displays a context menu with various options: search, share, etc.

In addition to all the options that comes as default it has ability to add our own search engines or websites, edit (remove or put) that menu and assign keyboard shortcuts to different search engines or if there are any actions that we use very frequency.

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By selecting a word or phrase Hyperwords menu allows you to:

Search: Google in the same web site where you are, social web (Twitter, Facebook, etc), Images & Video (Flickr, YouTube, etc.), maps, news, etc..

Share: Email, Twitter, Facebook, delicious, and so on.
Copy includes an option for authenticated by double-clicking a word or select a phrase or a paragraph. You can also create a text file, send it to the printer, etc..

Search: Wikipedia, Google Definition, IMDb, Urban Dictionary, etc.

Translate: Translation will not take you to another page but right there in the place where he had selected the original word or phrase.

View: Find more sites on the same page where that word was referred.

SEO: Find links that link to this page, information from Alexa, Pagerank, blogs pointing to this site, etc.

Convertor: When you select text that contains numbers, you can convert currency, temperature, distance, etc.

Other options: Remember that you can edit menus and so you can add or remove items as well.

Download Hyperwords Firefox Addon

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Excellent Visual CSS Editor Freeware

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:10 AM PDT

If you are a web designer or started to create your own web pages you realize that implementing CSS on your site is crucial, not only the bases of HTML but also you can achieve an excellent design.

Working on a Program in CSS can sometimes be somewhat difficult. It becomes a laborious task when some code implemented do not work the way you want.

Personally, I struggled a lot to edit style sheets for several reasons, but if you’re in the same situation as me, ArduoCSS will help you. This is an application that lets you edit your style sheets, but unlike you can perform all operations in a visual way, ie not necessarily have to write pure code. Being a visual editor, it becomes even easier because the program shows you the preview of your work, the result is displayed if you wish.

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Another advantage is that it allows you to compress or optimize your CSS if your style sheet is too heavy through the tool CSSTidy. The tool is free and for installation, it is necessary to have. NET Framework 2.0 which can be downloaded and installed during ArduoCSS installation.

Download ArduoCSS