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Everyone knows about Mozilla Firefox and some of its popular extensions. But there are some other little known Firefox extensions which are useful but not so famous. Here is a list of 5 such useful Firefox extensions you probably had not heard of earlier.

5 Useful Firefox Extensions

1. Distrust

Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind or in two words it enables Private Browsing. Once turned on this extension monitors Firefox for its activities. Once turned off Distrust will remove history items cache and cookies that were used during the distrust session.

2. Speed Dial

Works very much like the speed dial available in mobile phones. The add-on is very simple to use. Download and install the add-on. Once you have installed, your Firefox toolbar shows the speed dial icons. Click the icon with + symbol to add a new website to the speed dial.

3. Linkification

Some wesbites like Wordpress blogs automatically convert web addresses to hyperlinks but not all sites (e.g. Blogger blogs) are this much kind. You have to copy the URL and then paste it in your address bar. Linkification does that job for you, it converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

4. Download Statusbar

It is irritating to see the Downloads windows of Firefox pop up everytime you click on a download link. Try Download Statusbar. It allows you to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar at the bottom of Firefox- without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

5. Stylish

This nifty little extension lets you customize the appearance of a web page. For an example of how Stylish can change websites drastically see the Google Reader Mac OS X skin. You can find scripts for Stylish extension at UserStyles.

Do you like these extensions ? Were you using them earlier ?

Ever find yourself struggling to explain in IM, what someone should do to fix a technical issue? If yes then this Yahoo Messenger Plugin is just for you. Unyte’s desktop sharing add-on for Skype is now available as a plugin Unyte Lyte, for Yahoo Messenger.

What does Unyte Lyte do ?

The Unyte Lyte plugin for YIM lets you see your friends desktop in real - time. The plugin should be installed on both yours and your friend’s computer to enable desktop sharing. After installing the plugin, open a chat window with the person whose desktop you want to see. Then click on Plugins — > My Plugins. Click on “Start” beside the “Unyte Lyte” plugin. The plugin will start and wait for your friend’s confirmation to start desktop sharing. The first person to start desktop sharing will be allowing his friend to see his desktop.

Be there, virtually! Easy, fast and free, Unyte Lyte provides 1:1 desktop sharing to Yahoo users. With one click invite contacts from your Yahoo! Messenger list to “see” your desktop. Review homework, play new games, co-browse, edit documents, demonstrate software, give presentations.

One of the drawbacks of Unyte Lyte is that, both you and your friend will not be able to see each others desktop at the same time. Here is a preview of how your friend’s desktop will look using the Unyte Lyte plugin,

You will only be able to see your friends desktop, not control it.

Download : Unyte Lyte Plugin For Yahoo Messenger

Wordpress 2.2 Final “Getz” is now available for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration and over two hundred bug fixes.

Some of the major changes in Wordpress 2.2 are :

• Widgets are now integrated into the Wordpress core. This functionality was originally available as a plugin “Widgets”.
• Protection against activating broken plugins.
• Atom feeds have been updated to use the 1.0 standard specification.
• Now you can import posts from your blog on the New Blogger (latest version).
• Improved AJAX comment management.
• Post Preview moved into a popup window

Official Announcement

Wordpress 2.2 Resolved Bugs

Download Wordpress 2.2

One and a half months, after Yahoo! first announced that it was going to give unlimited space to all Yahoo! mail users, it has finally started rolling out the change to all accounts. Yahoo! made the announcement today on its blog.

As promised, we’ve started to roll out unlimited email storage to Yahoo! Mail users worldwide today. When it hits your account, you’ll notice the storage meter has disappeared — meaning, you just don’t have to worry about deleting old messages ever again!

Unlimited storage space coupled with the new Yahoo! Mail Beta interface seems to be Yahoo!’s attempt at retaining existing users and also attract new ones. Yahoo! mail definitely seems to be feeling the Gmail heat. Gmail with 2+ GB space and a cool new interface weaned away a lot of Yahoo! mail users.

But still, Yahoo! offers a measly 10 MB attachment limit. So if you want to store that large file you need to split into 10 MB files. As for Gmail, I think its time to get rid of that ticking space counter on the login page.

Nothing much to write here …

Stop-or-Reload is a simple little Firefox extension which combines the two buttons Stop & Reload in the Firefox browser into one button ( like Safari in Mac ). When the page is loading, the button is Stop and when the page finishes loading the button becomes Reload. As simple as that.

Get rid of one extra button in your Firefox browser. This is something that should have been built into the Firefox browser.

Download Stop - or - Reload Button