We've shown you some of our favorite Firefox themes, but if you're looking for more than a cosmetic change in your browsing experience, you should get to know Greasemonkey.
This script is simple and easy to use. To change the colours in facebook, use the following procedure;
Changing the facebook icon in the top left is simple too. Simply enter the URL of an image on the menu box. Leaving the boxes blank gives the facebook default, and leaving the hover image blank defaults to the normal image. The initial default colours are set to facebook's default.
Any problems or suggestions are welcome in the script discussions.
Below is a screenshot of where I have picked a pink and black theme, but you can pick any colours you wish.
Customise colours by selecting the menu shown below (whilst you're on a Facebook page);
And pick colours using the box that pops up;
Wikipedia is a great resource, but the layout is a bit much if you're only there to do a little reading and learn some things that might, in reality, be actual facts. As is the case with most big-name sites, a userscript is available that cleans up the cluttered default layout and makes Wikipedia items look more like pages from a printed encyclopdeia.
Load an article, then install Simplepedia and reload. Gone are the logo, tabs, navigation sidebar, edit links, and just about everything else that isn't actual information related to your topic. The end result is a much tidier page layout that is free of unwanted distractions - except words like "hammer pants" in the article I captured.
To see how the result compares to the original article, just click the image. Contrary to what Hammer might tell you, you can, in fact, touch it.
VideoSurf recently released a nifty Firefox extension, which lets you scan through the video on Youtube and in your search results even before you play they video..cool right? (Download from here)
The idea is to save time by scanning through the strip of thumbnails of the video that is instantly created and skip the video if the you don’t find what you are looking for or if the thumbnails don’t seem interesting enough.
I have tried using this plugin on sites like Vimeo, Metacafe, Break, Dailymotion, etc. however, it just worked on Youtube and Google Search. It turns out that this plugin works only on Yahoo Search, Google Search, Youtube and Friendfeed for now, although it would be nice to see more video services on the list of this extension.
The extension earlier existed as a Greasemonkey script which only worked on search results..
The following image shows how this extension adds a image strip of the video and by clicking on any of the thumbnail you can start the video from that point on. Not only that but the extension is designed to recognize if there is a face in the thumbnail and by checking a checkbox you can choose to see thumbnails with faces only..
Interestingly the extension manages to create thumbnails from video services other than Youtube, for example Vimeo. See the Image below …
If you work with Windows Vista or XP on a daily basis you know only too well how these operating systems, despite they are efficient and easy to use, are far from being perfect and perfectly tailored for your needs. As a matter of fact, if you are accustomed to work using a lot of applications and files there is no place in Windows where you can have a wide view of what you need at first glance. The closest thing which looks like it is the Start Menu which, despite it offers a list of programs and utilities, is pretty approximate and rough and, in some case, confuse you more than anything else.
Start Menu is a nice freeware utility whose goal is to enhance and improve your Start Menu in Windows Vista and XP. Let’s see what its most important features are:
If you want to know more, visit the official website. If you want to download it right away, click here. If you are looking for other ways to improve your Start Menu, you may want to read this nice article on how to enhance the Start menu in Vista
MP3 Search is a web music finder with a simple interface. If you're in need of some quick tunes to listen to, or you're hunting down pieces of an obscure mix, take a peek.
Outlook is such a fixture of office and computer life, its potential as a central life-organizing inbox is easily taken for granted. Empower your Outlook with these add-ons, link-ups, and data management techniques.
It's not that it's so difficult to re-send an email with the attachment you forgot last time—it's just a bit embarassing to do it, in front of all those recipients. Skip the forehead-smacking with Lifehacker reader Troy's Outlook Attachment Reminder, a VBScript that checks messages for the word "attach" and its variations and then looks for a certain number of attachments. No attachments present? A little pop-up asks if you're sure you didn't forget something. Small, helpful, and great at keeping your e-name in good standing.
Outlook on the Desktop is one of those little software utilities that are tough for headline-writing Lifehacker editors—the name explains exactly what it does!—but great for anyone who uses it. The utility embeds a transparent calendar with all your appointments onto your Windows desktop, giving you the same kind of at-a-glance awareness as those giant paper calendars made for the physical desktop you put your computer on. The app requires .NET 2.0, but installs it if you don't have it already.
You've explained how to grab files from the office intranet more than a dozen times already. Save yourself another pic-and-text time-waster with Quick Parts, an Outlook 2007 feature that our own How-To Geek has thoroughly walked through as a serious time saver. Whether it's a simple note about your new contact information or an illustrated guide to office refrigerator policies, you'll never feel a sense of email deja vu again.
Out of the box, Outlook is designed to make sure you see all your mail, not help you act on and get rid of it. Our founding editor is not one to leave things set to default, though, so she compiled a list of tweaks to empty an Outlook inbox faster. Folders, toolbars, item counts, add-ons—everything in Outlook can use a little fine-tuning for a no-worry, on-time data flow.
People move, addresses change, typos are made, and the end results is your contacts list looking like a database engineer's nightmare. Tech-Recipes.com has a straight-forward and quick system for killing the dupes, and our Outlook-savvy users dug it. They also, however, recommend Anti-Dupe, a freeware app that does much of the same kind of smart contact cleaning.
They were certainly weren't born under the same sign, but your web-centered Gmail and desktop-focused Outlook can live in astral harmony. The How-To Geek's Gmail IMAP in Outlook 2007 guide explains the settings needed for both Gmail and Outlook, and explains how you can use each platform's features—flagging an email in Outlook, for example, can star the same in Gmail, and the Large Mail folder makes for a handy clean-up tool.
Maybe you've finally finished your magnum opus message, but you don't want to send it out at 2:13 a.m. and have your recipients wonder about your sanity. Perhaps you want to be out of the office when your message about the new coffee pricing hits inboxes. In those and many other situations, delaying your email sending can be a great idea. You can change the options on each individual message to delay a sending, as we've explained, but the How-To Geek (this guy really knows his Outlook, eh?) offers a compelling argument for delaying all Outlook messages by something like five minutes. That way, you've always got at least a few deep breaths' time to go back and fix Exactly What You Think About Steve and similar messages.
OneNote doesn't get a lot of love around these parts—we're pretty partial to Evernote and other go-anywhere solutions. But Microsoft's integrated capture system can fill in everywhere that Outlook doesn't quite fit. As explained in a 7Breaths post, OneNote can serve as the container for all the stuff that gets thought up, sent to you, and collected, to eventually end up on the "hard" Outlook calendar and reminder setup. Or it can serve as the go-between for your personal and career schedules. Either way, OneNote features lots of other cross-Office-product magic. For a good primer on getting going with OneNote, check out Jason's guide to using OneNote as a note-taking power tool.
In the realm of Can't Believe They Haven't Been Bought Yet, free Outlook helper app Xobni rates pretty high (they've even got a Bill Gates statement on their home page!). One download gives you a look at all your email in/out data, fuller contact cards, speedy indexed search that also remembers corporate hierarchy (so you can find, for instance your contact's secretary), Gmail-like conversation threads, and a lot more, as demonstrated in this video:
No matter where you go or what you have to type on, Outlook's calendar can be available for your appointment-checking acccess. The best ways to get your Outlook data into the cloud is one of two steps (or both):
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Enjoy safe, fast and easy email, Mozilla-style. The Thunderbird email client includes intelligent spam filters, powerful search and customizable views.
Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.
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Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.
Breakaway Audio Enhancer dramatically improves the quality of the listening experience by digitally remastering audio in real-time with the same technology used by the pros in the music and broadcast business. Any media player playlist can sound like a professionally produced CD with automatic adjustment of volume dynamics and spectral balancing. Breakaway Audio Enhancer incorporates state-of-the-art 4, 5, 6, or 7 band dynamics processor (depending on selected preset) that examines and adjusts the audio thousands of times a second. Low levels are intelligently raised and loud signals are kept under control, all in real-time. Anything playing in the media player or web browser, including MP3s, Video, Internet radio, or CDs will be digitally remastered for consistent volume level and spectral balance. Files are not scanned or modified. All the audio processing takes place in real-time while the audio is sent to your speakers or headphones.
With Breakaway Audio Enhancer there is no longer a need to purchase separate audio enhancement plug-ins for each of your media players. Breakaway Audio Enhancer will enhance the audio for all Windows audio video players. It provides audio processing for the complete computer system.
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