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DownThemAll!: A great way to speed your downloads

Posted on August 23, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Best download manager in Rule The Web

The Best of 3 Billion Add-on Downloads (mozilla.org)
11 Productivity Tools for Firefox (distilled.co.uk)
Mozilla Firefox 17: better add-on security but some add-ons may break (ghacks.net)
GMail Add-ons for FireFox (darcsfalcon.wordpress.com)
Adblock Plus is the most popular Firefox addon (neowin.net)
Firefox spell check — How to default to English (United States)? (ask.metafilter.com)
Winners of the Favorite Add-ons Contest (mozilla.org)
Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure (h-online.com)
Over 3 Billion Downloads for Firefox Add-ons (news.softpedia.com)
Supercharging Firefox (firstdigital.co.nz)

Wordle and the future of Data Visualization

Posted on November 29, 2008August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder

I’ve been testing this neat new app called Wordle which I found out about on the Many Eyes site made by Martin Wattenburg and will create visualizations of any text. I applied it to my delicious bookmarks and to my blog. It’s also been applied on Many Eyes to analyze speeches and more.

10 Visualization Tools Selected by Educator for Educator (classroom-aid.com)
Mathematical Practices Wordle (dmpbrockton.wordpress.com)
Using Word Clouds for Topic Modeling Results (dhs.stanford.edu)
Talking Wordles Here (claudsy.wordpress.com)
Wordled Wonder (2voices1song.com)

Web Developer Add-ons for Firefox: test HTML/CSS changes in real time on any page

Posted on August 28, 2008August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder

The Web Developer toolbar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Web Developer :: Add-ons for Firefox.

Allows you to test HTML/CSS changes in real time on any page

Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure (h-online.com)
Over 3 Billion Downloads for Firefox Add-ons (news.softpedia.com)
GMail Add-ons for FireFox (darcsfalcon.wordpress.com)
Firefox 15 Will Finally Fix Memory Leaks Caused By Add-Ons (webpronews.com)
Mozilla Firefox 17: better add-on security but some add-ons may break (ghacks.net)
Firefox Add-ons Has Reached 3 Billion Downloads (techfleece.com)
Firefox Now Uses Less Memory to Make Browsing Faster (mozilla.org)
Firefox 15 remembers to forget old memory (download.cnet.com)
Firefox Add-ons Reach 3 Billion Downloads (tomshardware.com)
Adblock Plus is the most popular Firefox addon (neowin.net)

Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers

Posted on August 28, 2008August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder

“O” logo used by Opera Software as the browser logo. Since a single letter cannot be copyrighted, this image is in the public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers.

Best browser for stability, reliability, never crashes.

Opera Mini browser for iPhone? (reviews.cnet.com)
Opera readies mini browser for iPhone (reviews.cnet.com)
Hands on Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 (reviews.cnet.com)
Opera And Google To Remain BFFs Until 2014 (webpronews.com)
Starring role for the web on media players (opera.com)
Opera has more than 200m mobile users (mobile-ent.biz)
Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat, Google Deal Stays Put (techcrunch.com)
Google screams into top Opera soprano gig – again (go.theregister.com)
Mobile web trends in Africa (opera.com)
Opera Software has a new bright and shining beacon in Silicon Valley (opera.com)

Techmeme: cutting edge trend spotting

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

Techmeme.

We’re not sure what kind of secret sauce Gabe Rivera uses to find stories for his TechMeme news aggregator (he simply says the site uses a “software agent“), but what we do know is that TechMeme brilliantly unearths the hottest news stories.

Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera interviewed by The Verge (nextlevelofnews.com)
Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera weighs in on Guy Adams’ Twitter suspension (twitchy.com)
Building a Better Techmeme (launch.co)
Scripting News for 8/2/2008 (scripting.wordpress.com)
Cheers to Mediagazer: read mode facilitation (zemanta.com)
The downside to being well-known (worldcadaccess.typepad.com)
The Drill Down 245: OffLive (preview) (thedrilldown.com)
We’re entering a golden age of news geekery (marshallk.com)
Don’t Just Publish a Magazine, Build a Magazine Rack (hubspot.com)

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