Avast: Another free Anti-Virus software. Just as good as AVG. However this one is more system intensive than AVG or NOD.
Bitdefender: Popular anti-virus software- Free of charge. (Free- NOT real time scanning -only manual scanning)
ClamWin: Small and non-intrusive anti-virus. Like Bitdefender (Free- NOT real time scanning -only manual scanning)
AntiVir: An anti-virus that has been around for a long time - still free for home use.
Blink: First security solution to build all of the necessary protection layers into a very lightweight package. (Contains a software Firewall)
NOD32: The absolute BEST anti-virus protection. (I know, I clean scumware for a living). 30day trial. Or purchase.
Kaspersky: A very sweet anti-virus software with a 30day trial. Be sure to JUST get the AV, not the full suite of bloatness.

TheCleaner: This finds/prevents trojan horses. This is on a 30day trial, however very recommended - try it.
DiamondCS: Many high-end programs for worm/Trojan detection, 30day trial.
Windowsecurity: Free online Trojan scanner.

Ad-Aware SE: Great for getting rid of spyware and malware - the items that can cause annoying pop-ups.
SpyBot: Similar to Ad-Aware, however more aggressive. Clean up spyware and hijack attempts.
SpyCatcher: Active Protection. One of the most advanced antispyware solution available as a free service.
AVG AntiSpyware : Clean annoying malware such as spyware, Trojans and hijackers. Great compliment to an anti-virus.
MalwareBytes: Since programs like Ad-Aware have become.. crap, this is a GREAT replacement for cleaning.
CounterSpy: Probably the best shield against spyware. The best database cleaner there is. Period. 30day trial.
Comodo BOClean: This is more of a “real time” (run the the background) anti-spyware. Not a fan of TSR’s, but this works.
CWShredder: Takes care of many hijacking software - run if you get many pop-ups/redirecting pages.
HijackThis: Tool to find out if there is “hijack” software on your system. Use the logfile analyzer if your not sure.
Kill2me: Another stomper of spyware - bring it on.
KillBox: Very nice for taking care of “Abetterinternet” and other n00bish software.
a² free: This bridges the gap with anti-virus and malware. This free scanner cleans Trojans, worms, spyware (all malware).
SpywareBlaster: Active prevention against spyware, adware, browser hijackers and dialers.
HitmanPro2: Incorporates all major Anti-Spyware software and updates/runs them all for you. Too cool.
WinDiz: Windows updates with FireFox. Great if ActiveX is damaged by spyware.

POPfile: Perfect/Free ani-Spam tool. Involved installation, but once it’s set - it’s good.
IHateSpam: For Exchange (V5.5, 2000 and 2003) was uniquely developed to be both user and admin-friendly. 30day trial.
Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the net. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out.
SpamBayes: is a tool used to segregate unwanted mail (spam) from the mail you want (ham).
SpamPal: Mail classification program that separates your spam from the mail you really want to read.
OSpam: A great and simple spam solution for any POP account.

Sygate. Just bought by Symantec - now it’s going to be crap. Hurry and get this before it happens.
Tiny: Tiny is a free firewall. It is designed for the more advanced due to the heavy features included.
Comodo: Great little personal firewall. This is pretty new and robust.
OutPost: An Opensource based firewall. Works very well protecting against worms, trojans and hackers.
Kerio: Smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects PC’s against hackers and internal misuse. The best.
Protowall: Very small application that blocks IP address. Very cool.
Prevx: Stops the attacks that bypass anti-virus and firewall products.

PowerCrypt 2000: Encrypted files, folders and E-mails. This free file lets you hide all your data.
PGP: “Pretty Good Privacy”. Actually it’s probably the best encryption software out there. Free - PC/MAC
Cryptainer LE: Secure your data and ensure absolute privacy with Cypherix’s powerful 128bit encryption.
BitCrypt: A sophisticated tool allowing for encryption of plain text within a bitmap image.
EasyCrypto: Encrypt both standalone files and entire folders. Many cool options here.
Truecrypt: Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003.
MD5HashGen: Simple application that can generate one-way MD5 hashes - Great for password generations.
PerfectPasswords: GRC’s Ultra High Security Password Generator.
RoboForm: A free password manager and one-click web form filler. Just be carefull who uses your PC.
Password Safe: Allows you to have a different password for all the different items that you deal with - remembers for you.
CutePasswordManager: Form filling software that auto fill user/password. Stores info with 256-bit AES encryption - 1click login. *
PIN’s: Storing of any secure information like passwords, accounts, PINs etc. 448 bit Blowfish. Does not install.

Eraser: FBI just kick in the door? This little program will erase data to a level that the Dept. Of. Defense uses.
KillDisk: KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M.
AutoClave: Hard drive sterilization on a bootable floppy.
SuperShredder: Shred’s individual files. It’s stronger than DOD specs.
DBAN (”Darik’s Boot and Nuke”) is a self-contained boot floppy that makes it an appropriate utility data destruction.

Anonymizer: Installs a small toolbar into your browser. Moves your connection to proxies around the word. Slows connection.
Proxify.com Spoof your IP address without installing software. The paid version is much faster.

SpeedFan: Allows you to see your CPU temperature. Good for overclockers and modders.
Motherboard Monitor: Like speedfan, reads temperature and fan RPM data - alerts you when there’s trouble.
Si Meter: Great/free/small application that does live monitoring on system resources.
TDIMon: Lets you monitor TCP and UDP activity on your local system.
InterMapper: Gives a visual in real-time view of traffic flows through and between critical network devices and links.
WinBar: A compact program that lets you monitor your system and provides easy access to frequently used controls.

RegSupreme: Clean up the registry from old entries, speed up your system. 30day trial.
RegSeeker: Very tiny - does not install. I have tested this and trust it. Many tweak options with it.
RegscrubXP: A great free registry cleaner for XP. Fix those “weird issues” with Windows.
Beclean: is the complete suite of system cleaner. Registry to history - cleans many things.
CCleaner: Removes unused and temporary files from your PC - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and saving space.
MyUninstaller 1.0: Uninstall anything,clean out old video drivers, uninstall programs that are not in “add/remove”.
DriverCleaner: Made to fully clean out the drivers of ATI and NVIDIA.
MSconfig: Get rid of startup programs that slow your PC down. This would be for Windows 2000.
Starter: It’s better than Msconfig. Also works with Windows 2000, which is nice due to the fact that 2k doesn’t have msconfig.
PreFetch cleaner: A pre-fetch scrubber to clean out files that are used commonly - can be corruption or spyware hiding.

Belarc: Takes a snap-shot about a PC (hardware-software) with a full profile report. This is very handy.
SIW: A small .exe that when ran - gives you all kinds of info about your PC and software. Need this on your tools disk.
PcpBios: Very tiny script that looks at all BIOS related information. RAM, CPU and motherboard instant info.
EVEREST: (recently AIDA32). Like Belarc, gives full system summary of hardware and software/keys.
SpaceMonger: A tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. It shows a graph of files and sizes.
IP subnet calculator: A diagnostics tool to calculate your network latency and subnet information.
CPUid: A very small application that tells you about your specific specs. (FSB, core clock, dual channel etc.).
PC Pitstop: A good site to check how your doing on fine tuning your computer. It will also help you fix your issues.
PowerMax: Diagnostics for hard drives made by Maxtor. Download, put on a floppy or CD and test your HDD.
MemTest86: Diagnostics for your RAM. Download, put on a floppy or Cd and test your RAM.
Monitor Asset Manager: A Plug and Play monitor information utility. Provide detailed technical information about the target display.
ShieldsUP: Port scanning of all ports or custom scans. See how good your firewall is doing.
BandwidthTest: Test your internet connection speed.

TweakUI: Perfect for somebody who really wants to customize there XP. Made my Microsoft
X-Setup: Like TweakUI but with more functionality and options. Very slick.
ResourceHacker: Get in and really tweak or fix Windows. Great registry GUI hacking.
RenameRecycleBin: I made this registry value in notepad, download/double-click/”yes”/throw away, rename your recycle bin.
Matrix Screensaver: Best (only) Matrix screensaver out on the web. Great options. Here is actual text (change name for you)
FOOOD’s Icons: Great free icons for XP. Default is boring.
Strokit: Advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor.
ReForce: Windows 2k and XP have an issue with Hz in games. This will allow you to set all games at a specific Hz setting.
Keyboard Remapper: Remap your keyboard keys. Easy enough.
ClocX: Analog clock for the desktop.
Xpadder: Map your game pad or RC TX to keyboard keys. Wokrs great for customized controllers.
Alarm: A digital clock that you can set to display a message and play a sound at a time of your choice. AlarmClock
WeatherPlus: Display satellite images and video around the globe, stay updated on current and expected weather conditions.
Nlite: Remove or add Windows components to your Windows CD - for next time you re-install Windows.
AutoStreamer: Just like Nlite, this is specifically for adding Service Packs to your Windows install CD’s.
Digital Blasphemy: Probably the best wallpapers and images on the net.
Konfabulator: Engine that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to.

File Recovery: This is free software made by PC Inspector. Really, Really nice if you lost or trashed a file and need it back.
Smart Recovery: Recover data from flash drives: CF, SM, Thumbdrives, micro drives - etc.
Disk Investigator: Discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk, recover lost data.
File Scavenger: Undelete and data recovery utility for NTFS volumes. 64KB or smaller files can be recovered with free trial.
CDCheck: Utility for the prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD-ROMs and error detection.
Restoration: Tiny program that doesn’t install. Perfect if you trashed a file (even emptied the recycle bin) and you need it back.
RecoverOutlookMail: A little trick for recovering those corrupted .PST files.

FireFox: Drop Internet Explorer and get a superior browser. Check out the add-ons.
Google Chrome: A great webkit based browser by Google. Very fast. *
Opera: If you don’t use FireFox, use Opera. Now that it is free and Ad-free - it is now recommended.
Safari: Apples web browser now for Windows. Great web browser next to Firefox.
Reload Every: Extension for FireFox. Allows you to set reload times on your browser windows so you won’t be logged out.

FileZilla: An FTP program that is superior to “Cute”, and is Free.
WinSCP: Open source SFTP client for Windows using SSH and SCP protocol’s. Secure FTP.
FireFTP: If you use FireFox browser (like you should be) - use this plug-in for FTP functionality in your browser.
Hamachi: Setup two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. How-to’s
FolderShare: Securely keep files synchronized between your devices and remotely download your files from any browser.
LogMeIn: Easy to log into a PC from a PC, MAC or linux machine. No port forwarding involved! Just like terminal services but easier.
Avvenu: Remote connect to your PC from another PC or any web-enabled handheld. Perfect for getting those files you forgot.
Crossloop: Secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. Basically, TightVNC but no port forwarding needed.
TightVNC: Remote control software- see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard.
RemoteDesktop: Microsoft remote desktop client side installer for older Windows versions.
RDPortX: A small app I made to change the defualt 3389 port that Remote Desktop ueses. Great for multiple RD servers on the same network.
eMando: Client/server package which you can use to control and manage a computer over a LAN or the Internet.
DirectUpdate: Get an Email of your WAN IP address changes even behind a router (for dynamic ISP’s). 60day trial ($15.00 - buy).
DynDNS: A full list of dynamic IP administration software tools.

CDBurner-XP Pro: Just like it sounds, burning program for Windows. Free.
ImageBurn: A lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.
ISORecorder: Small program to burn images of CD’s. Once installed, right click an .ISO’s or a ROM drive and “create CD image”.
DeepBurner: A full featured Burning app for CD’s, DVD’s and ISO’s. Much like Nero only totally ~~Free

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If you work on windows , you know that shutting it down can be really a hassle and time taking , especially when a lot of programs are running . Most of us tend to avoid shut down due to this reason but we know that shut down is always safer and also considered good for the pc .

There are a lot of shut down tricks and tools available , which help you to achieve a smooth and fast shut down of windows without negatively affecting your pc . However this trick , which was suggested to me by a friend , is probably the simplest one and also the fastest way to shut down your pc .

Here are the steps :-

1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to go to the Task Manager .

2: Click on Shut Down on the Top .

3: Highlight ‘ Turn Off ‘ and while holding down the Ctrl key , click on it .

And thats it ! Just count 1 , 2 , 3…5 and there you go…your pc is off !

I have tried this trick on my XP system and it has worked everytime and hasn’t negatively affected my pc . I haven’t tried this on any other version of Windows but I think it’ll work .

However I advise you to use this trick only when you are in a rush and you need a speedy shut down of your pc .

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Windows Vista has many new features that are designed to help older computers run Windows Vista better. One of those features and the topic of this tweak is called ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost helps your computer by giving it more high-speed memory. If your computer is running low on RAM then it has to kick a lot of applications out of high-speed physical memory to the paging file on your hard drive. This usually results in a big hit in performance and increased activity on your hard drive. ReadyBoost helps this situation by giving Windows an alternative to having to stick data into the slow paging file on your hard drive. Instead, ReadyBoost uses a USB storage device that is faster than a hard disk. This results in a performance boost because Windows will have a high speed alternative than using the slow paging file on your hard drive.

In order for ReadyBoost to work, it requires a USB storage device that meets minimum performance and space requirements:

If you are unsure if your USB storage device meets these requirements, just give it a try anyways. To get started using ReadyBoost, follow these steps:

1. Plug in USB storage device.
2. Go to Computer and right click on the removable storage device and select Properties.
3. If your device is compatible, you will see a ReadyBoost tab. Click on that.
4. Select Use this device and select the amount of space on it you want to dedicate for the ReadyBoost system file.
5. Click OK and you are finished.

Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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Web Developer Toolbar
- Essential tools for any web developer. Too many to mention here. Greasemonkey - “Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.” Adblock Plus - The development of Adblock pretty much stopped in 2004. When more and more people demanded improvements Adblock Plus was created. Adblock Plus is a completely rewritten version of the original Adblock. Tab Mix Plus - Loads of Tab improvements. Changing the behavior of tab opening, focus, closing, mouse eventsion tab and much more. One of the best tab extensions around! IE Tab - IE Tab allows embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla and Firefox. del.icio.us extension - social bookmarking extension BugMeNot -This extension automatically fills in login forms from a list of username and passwords collected from bugmenot.com. With this, you can bypass registrations on websites that you would not like to be registered with will still being able to access their content. StumbleUpon - “StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like€ minded stumblers have liked.” Adblock - “Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker.” Adblock Filterset.GUpdater - This extension allows you to automatically keep up to date Adblock or Adblock+ with G’s latest filterset every 4-7 days. It also provides you with the ability to define your own filters that you want to persist between updates. Download Statusbar - Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar. SessionSaver - “SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even
things you were typing — they’re all saved.” DownThemAll! - The power downloader: lets you download in just one click links, images or other selections contained in a webpage. ScrapBook - ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: * Save Web page * Save snippet of Web page * Save Web site (In-depth Capture) * Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree * Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing tools * Full text search and quick filtering search * Text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes Mouse Gestures - Allows you to execute commands by moving the mouse around. CustomizeGoogle - It enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). Gmail Manager - “This is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.” FlashGot - “FlashGot turns every supported download manager in a download manager for Firefox” ColorZilla - Use and eyedropper tool to find the color of any point in your browser. Fasterfox - performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Forecastfox - Gives a nice weather forecast in the lower right hand corner of Firefox. Sage - RSS and Atom feed reader extension GmailNotifier - A good replacement for Google’s notifier, this extension adds a statusbar item showing if you have new email. You can configure the time between checks for new email. HTML Validator - HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page. All In One Sidebar (AIOS) - Manage a lot of things through the Firefox sidebar, create new toolbars, etc. NoScript - NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice. Foxy Tunes - FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox. It also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted. Stop orReload Button - Combines Stop & Reload into one button All-in-One Gestures Extension - SuperDragAndGo - Drag a link (e.g. google ), text-link (e.g. http://www.google.com ), text-uri (e.g. abc.com), image , or bookmark quicklink from bookmarks toolbar folder and throw it anywhere on your webpage (content area) to open it on a new tab. CSSViewer - A beautifully simple CSS property viewer - hover over any element to see its properties Update Notifier - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Easily configurable for automatically installing updates
when available and checking for updates when Firefox starts. Restart Firefox - Adds “Restart Firefox” menuitem to “File”, and a toolbar button for easy restarting. Great for when you install themes or extensions and
need to restart Firefox. Foxylicious - Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks. Aardvark - The Aardvark Firefox extension is a tool for web developers/designers providing the opportunity of viewing and editing styles (css) and content of the page elements… Things You Can Do With Aardvark : Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding “fluff,” especially prior to printing a page … See how the page is created, block by block … View the source code of one or more elements and more … one of my very favorite … FireFTP - Full-featured, free (charityware) FTP client that runs as a Firefox extension. Tabbrowser Preferences - Advanced controlls for tabbed browsing. Performancing -”Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.” Firebug - Enhanced console and DOM inspector for great web development. SiteAdvisor - Best. WebSafety. Extension. Ever. They trolled 95% of the world’s web traffic and tested e-mail registration forms with unique e-mail addresses for spam and downloads for spyware. Mindboggling - and free. Platypus - Interactive removal of page elements through Greasemonkey. Fleck - Fleck let’s you add notes and comment to every page on the web. Blog or share your annotated pages. **Comarking**(commenting and Bookmarking in one) is what they call it. *no account needed!* All-in-One Gestures - This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page
scrolling. Paste and Go - lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the address bar’s context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. Similarly, you can “Paste and Search” via the search bar’s context menu or Ctrl-Shift-S.” Image Zoom - Adds zoom functionality for images. Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. User Agent Switcher - Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser. Menu Editor - Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File, Edit, View, etc.). MassInstaller - If you have ever had to re-install Firefox, or you a€™re installing Firefox for the first time on a new computer, you know it can be a
pain to hunt down and install your favorite extensions. The Mass Installer extension reads a list of extension URLs from a text file and automatically
installs them all in one fell swoop. FirefoxShowcase - Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox. Press F12, and it generates a page with the small thumbnails of opened webpage. FlashBlock - Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content. ForecastFox Enhanced - Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension. This adds 12 improved radar images and the ability to supply a URL
for your own radar image. It also allows for pausing, restarting and setting the frequency of automatic updates. Operator - Operator lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful. For instance, Flickr + Google Maps, Upcoming.org + Google Calendar, Yahoo! Local + your address book, Delicious + Answers from Yedda, and many more possibilities and permutations. All of these scenarios are possible due to **Microformats**, an emerging standard for injecting semantics into HTML. Measure It - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage. IE View Lite - This is a cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub, which is 47.4 KB. All the same UI and features are there. It has a right click menu item
to open a page in IE and a list of sites to always open in IE. Everything’s just been rebuilt from the ground up to be smaller and more efficient. Plus, it has
the ability to pass extra parameters to the executable (very helpful for use with WINE), which is not included in regular IE View. SpellBounddevelopment version - As you type spell check in every text fields. Supports all the dictionaries provided by mozilla. SiteAdvisor FirefoxExtension - “We test the Web to help keep you safe from spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.” AutoCopy - Select text and it’s automaticaly copied to the clipboard, like Trillian or mIrc. LiveHTTPHeaders - View HTTP Headers on the fly. Extremely helpful for debugging web applications. FEBE - This is a brand new Firefox extension that allows you to create a backup of all your installed extensions and themes. The backups are created in an
installable xpi format so you can easily port them to another computer. Fission - Fission combines address bar and progress bar, making the progress bar more visible and allowing for a nice visual effect. This is similar to the
Safari browser’s progress bar. Torrent Finder Toolbar -Torrent Search Toolbar that enables all Torrent Finder search functions from your own Firefox browser. The new Toolbar should give you more flexibility and feature rich to make you find torrents in a snap. “Using Firefox” Recommended Extensions - Updated list and review of best Firefox extensions and themes. Convenient download links. Extreme Web Site Makeover - Does your web site bring in new leads? Does it increase customer satisfaction or generate additional sales? If not, it may be
time for a web site makeover. Below are a few key questions to consider before you redesign your web site. Organize Statusbar - Rearrange or hide any item (icon or text) in the status bar The Web 2.0 Toolbar - FireFox users save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Free Web 2.0 Toolbar aggregates the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video and Social News websites Torrent-Search Toolbar - Best RSS torrent feed on the net. SplitLink - View the true url that you are being redirected to. Plain Text to Link - Plain text to link is able to select plain text in a page and save it in a text file. Gmail File Space - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to “Gmail Drive” on windows platform. Your gmail account looks like a FTP host and you can upload and download your files. LiveLines - Add RSS feeds to web-based readers, reader extensions, or desktop readers with the RSS icon on the status bar. Colorful Tabs - A simple, but elegant idea: color the tabs in Firefox. Beautiful, and I love it. Cookie Culler - CookieCuller is an extended and enhanced version of the Cookie Manager that comes with Firefox/Mozilla. Copy Plain Text - Copies text without formatting. Download Embedded - Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, movies, music, etc., and a lot easier than digging through the page source or through Firefox’s
Page Info. Slim Extension List - Makes items in extension list shorter, so you can see more at once. Also, sorts them by name (optionally). Autocopy - Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. It works in much the same way as does Trillian or mIrc. Mouseless Browsing - GREAT extension to browse with the keyboard *only* - I can’t imagine living without it anymore Screenshot and additional explanation on http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=3179.0 Firefox Table ToolsExtension - Sort table cells with hotkeys + click. Google Toolbar - Google Search, Autolink, Translation and SpellCheck in one toolbar. BetterSearch - Enhances Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com, AllTheWeb, del.icio.us and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info, a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results Reveal - Reveal creates thumbnails of your tabbed pages, allowing you to select, reorder, or even sort through pages in the session history. After you have installed Reveal and restarted your browser, it takes you through a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use it. This is the coolest new Firefox extension I ha€™ve seen in a while (cool as in 50% fun, 50% useful), and definitely worth a look. Add Bookmark Here - Allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera. Cacheout! - Especially for Digg.com and Slashdot.com users, how many times are you unable to access a particular article because the remote server has been
slammed by the Digg/Slashdot Effect? Cacheout! lets you try to access articles through Google’s caching service and CoralCDN.org. More being added all the
time! Load up webpages using Google’s caching service and CoralCDN.org. Colorzilla - You cannot discuss about colors but you can catch them Search EngineOrdering - SEO - SEO allows you to sort and delete search engines that are in the search bar. Sort Extensions and Themes - It does just that. Deepest Sender - Deepest Sender is a blogging client for Firefox. What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of having to go to the Update page on
LiveJournal/WordPress/Blogger/whatever, or loading up a separate client program, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+\, or click the button in your toolbar, and you can start posting. Hyperwords - Hyperwords allow you to interact with all the text on the web. InfoLister - InfoLister is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Nvu that collects various information about Firefox/Thunderbird and saves it to a file. Currently it prints the list of installed extensions, themes and plugins. Copy URL+ - The Copy URL+ extension enables you to copy to the clipboard the current document’s address along with additional information such as the document’s title, the current selection or both. It allows you to add your own custom menu entries. Foxlingo - Foxlingo translates websites with their current interface; many languages supported. SwitchProxy Tool - “SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.” Ready2Search - Ready2Search makes search settings for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. Ready2Search is also useful as an image operator. CNET 10 Besst Extensions for Firefox 2 - FoxyTunes, Tab Mix Plus, MR TECH Loacl Install …. FoxClocks - The world is my oyster, the time is my lemon Roll Your Own FireFox Search Engine - Create custom search engines for your Firefox Search Bar. Chatsum - Chat with other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you. Includes cool stats, profile pages, and a web2.0 chat interface. Firefox Showcase - This is a great extension, list it up!:-) XBMC Fox - This adds a new option to the right click menu in Firefox which will send URL’S to Xbox Media Center for onscreen playback. X-RAY - This one will show you the html TAGS while you’re watching the site itself. COOL idea and it’s still getting developed for further usage. userstyles.org - A collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications. Session Manager - Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows. Cache Status -Easy cache status & management from status bar. Foxmarks - Synchronizes bookmarks across multiple machines. Tab X - Adds a close button to each of the browser tabs, and removes the close button at the end of the tab bar. Get jetable mail - Get a time limited mail alias to avoid spam, via context menu. Works great 1-Click Answers - Hold down Alt and click on any word to get quick definitions and facts. (reliable facts and definitions from over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and almanacs) Context Search - Context Search transforms the “Web Search for…” context item into a menu containing your Mycroft search plugins. This is very convenient, since it allows you to decide which search engine you use. Firefox’s default is to use the currently selected search plugin only. Yoono - Yoono’s Firefox toolbar automatically suggests similar sites to the current one based on other people’s
bookmark folder structure. It additionally allows you to sync your bookmarks
with a server and share them across multiple computers. MenuX - “MenuX was designed for laptop/tablet use where maximum screen realestate is desired. Adds the ability to collapse any toolbar. Adds a library of toolbar buttons.” A real time-saver and really useful for 1-click access to options, sidebars, extensions, etc. deskCut - This extension adds desktop shortcut creation to the context-menu. Both Windows and
Linux (KDE/GNOME) desktop shortcuts are supported. CookieButton - Another approach to controlling cookies by site permissions. Currently has many user ratings of 5 out of 5. SearchPluginHacks - adds a context menu to the search plugins drop-down list, which allows quickly deleting unneeded plugins. Peekko Chat - An IRC Client links with visiting web page. “Peekko Chat is a new Firefox extension that makes every web page a place where people can congregate.” SearchStatus - View PageRank and AlexaRank in the status bar as you browse. Also has many shortcuts for search engine checks. trovando - With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare results from 250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images,
Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL). Chickenfoot - automated web browsing tool. Web agent within firefox. SEOpen - Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer,
and more. a Better delicious - This extension to post and manage del.icio.us bookmarks is far better than the one they provide. Slogger - Slogger is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is a very flexible tool for creating a complete log of your browsing history (thus the name: Slogger =”browse logger”). Adsense Notifier - “Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.” Answers.com for Firefox - Click on any word on your screen and get instant, accurate facts and definitions. I urge you to try it! View Cookies - It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies of the current webpage. This is interesing for developers, privacy-concious
users and others. ViewSourceWith - View page source with external applications, you can also open images using GIMP or ACDSee or open PDF link using Acrobat Reader. Stealther - Temporarily disable history and cache. Smiley Xtra - Lets you insert smilies from a huge online database into forum posts and blogs. Feed Your Reader - Feed Your Reader allows you to use the RSS Autodiscovery in firefox to launch external aggregators, such as Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon or web based aggregators such as Feed Lounge. By default, FYR uses the feed:// protocol allowing a wide range of aggregators to be supported. However, FYR can be also be configured to support various web based aggregators and desktop applications which do not support feed://. FYR replaces the functionality of the built-in RSS icon, if you wish to add a live bookmark, hold down the shift key when you select your feed. refspoof - A simple toolbar that allows to load a page with a different referer. Bookmarks Synchronizer - sync your firefox bookmarks between multiple computers using ftp/webdav…the most useful extension ever used! EasyGesture - easyGestures is a pie menu that pops up inside the browser when you click the mouse and then let you perform various actions at the tip of the mouse pointer with minimum mouse movement. POTO Sidebar - The original Opera-like sidebar. Not cluttered like the derived All-in-One Sidebar. Unwrap Text - 1)Unwraps a multi-line URL and opens it in a new tab. 2) Unwraps a multi-line street address and opens it in Google maps. Permit Cookies - Manage cookies permissions site by site. Informenter - Easily fill forms with information you often use. FxIF (Firefox exIF) - FxIF (Firefox exIF) allows you to view the EXIF data contained in JPEG images from the convenience of your Firefox browser. Color Contrast Analyser - Determining the colour contrast between foreground and background colours is a time consuming task, but is greatly aided by colour
contrast analysers. This Firefox extension reveals the colour contrast of all elements in the DOM. If you evaluate websites for colour contrast, this extension will be useful for saving you time, and also take out the guesswork required to determine which colours to test … OpenDownload - This extension allows you to open ANY file (executables, etc.) from the internet into the default program assigned by your operating system, without needing to save it first. This is similar to IEs ‘Run’ function for executables. NukeAnything Enhanced - Allows you to remove anything from any website. FootieFox - Soccer scores for today’s matches of many European leagues - live and almost instantly. FlickrFox - Browsing Flickr Images in the sidebar. Habari Xenu - An integrated XUL reader for feed (RSS/Atom)

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It’s amazing if you think about it. The new generation of web-browsers has become so flexible, so adaptable and so easy to use that you can design and use it according to your personal taste and needs. So if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can add almost any functionality you ever thought about via external extensions. Furthermore, you can also personalize your web-browser, changing its look with Firefox Themes. Thus you can let your browser have a fresh Vista look or appear like Opera, Internet Explorer or Mac-Browser. But which look can you choose to guarantee the most enjoyable browsing experience? Well, it’s a tough one.

In fact, there are many of them. We’ve selected some of the most beautiful Firefox Themes, which work in Firefox 2 and listed them below. Usually the changes concern not only the visual appearance and interface (icons and background colors), but also the functionality of the “adapted†Firefox - e.g. extensions.

Update (28.02.2007): thanks to all of you (particularly the Digg-community) who let us know about some beautiful and useful Firefox themes we’ve missed in this post. We’ll add them till weekend. Thanks!

Firefox Themes

Mostly Cristal

Aluminium Kai

Abstract Classic

Blue Ice

Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)

myFireFox
Firefox appears to become Internet Explorer 7.

Metal Lion - Vista

Kempelton PE

iFox Smooth

Pink Paula / PP 2
Firefox fur Madchen. Gibt es auch in Blau.

Aluminum Alloy

Red Cats (green flavor)

MidnightFox

macfox II

Azerty III

Acid Burn

Qute

Phoenity
Classic.

Tinseltown

Scribblies Kids

Ubuntu Human Theme

Opera Theme

Full with various plug-ins - Saferfox Xpanded, designed by Mankin Studios.

How can I install a Firefox Theme?

Just click on the selected theme on a web-site you can download it from, the Firefox changes its look immediately. Alternatively you can also drag the installer into the theme-window (â€Tools†–> “Add-onsâ€). There you can activate or deactivate the theme.

Please keep in mind that not every theme works in every version of the Firefox browser.

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