FIFA World Cup 2010 is the hottest search on internet now. Many people are viewing football matches online, while some are tracking only scores. If you are also searching for a tool that helps you to keep track of the football matches going on while doing other work, this is for you!

Footie Fox is a firefox addon that helps you to follow live football match scores, right from your browser. The addon helps you to keep track (check) on the scores of any football match, that has happened before, or happening at present. The FootieFox addon sits in the corner of your browser’s (Firefox) status bar and keeps itself updating automatically. You can select any match easily by right clicking the Footie Fox icon in the status bar, or even in the “Options” menu.

This addon is not specifically for the current FIFA World Cup 2010. It has a collection of around 200 leagues and cups of 60 countries, on which you can keep a track on, right from your browser, whenever there is a match going on!

You can also check out it’s official website for other details here. And don’t forget to express your views on this addon here.

Do read our other Football posts:

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[Firefox]- If you are a newbie and don’t know what Personas are, they are just like dresses to your, otherwise plain Firefox browser. You can install any persona, or in other words theme for your Firefox browser from its official gallery. I really like these personas and would have enjoyed using them, if only I had a better PC. If you too are fond of these, then here is something exciting, an addon that helps you to change the personas automatically!

Personas Rotator is a Firefox addon that changes the personas automatically frequently. So, your browser can now wear different personas automatically without a single drop of sweat from you.

The Personas Rotator is an addon which changes the personas at a particular frequency. By default, it is kept at 60 seconds, which you can change in the options. The addon selects the perosnas from all categories by default. But, you can select anyone you want in the options menu.

For this addon to work, you must have another extension installed on your Firefox browser called “Personas Plus”. This can also be downloaded from the Firefox addons site. However, there would be no need of this as the Personas Rotator addon automatically prompts you to install it.

Bonus Tip:  How To Enable Autofilling In URL Bars In Firefox (Like In Chrome)

Go ahead and try this amazing addon for Firefox. I am sure you will like it. And also, do you know any addon similar to this for Google Chrome? Do share your comments here. They add great value to this post!

Install Personas Rotator

Many workplaces say a big NO for social sites like Twitter, Orkut or Facebook. But, most of us are addicted so much to those sites that we cannot leave without them. Today, I am going to introduce you people to some tools that will help you to tweet from Gtalk!

TwiTalker

Twitalker is a nice and simple tool. You can send and recieve tweets from your friends through IM. You can even send direct messages and @ replies to your friends using this tool. You need to verify your account by pinging the access key to their bot. You will be guided through detailed steps to set up your account.

HelloTxt

This is a nice tool that helps you to update your messages not only on Twitter but also on Facebook and other sites simultaneously and instantaneously. To use this service, you have to register at hellotxt.com. After registering, add im@hellotxt.com to your chat buddies list.Verify your account with the code they give and you are ready to update! However, with this bot you cannot receive tweets through IM.

Excla.im

This is again a tool to integrate Gtalk with Twitter.All you need to do is just set up your account and start updating the statuses. However, even with this tool you cannot receive tweets from your buddies.

Twip.me

With this tool, you can not only integrate Twitter with Gtalk but also with your Jabber account or Yahoo! Messenger. However, you can only update tweets through this tool.

TweetSwitch

TweetSwitch is probably the most latest of all the other tools I mentioned above. This works like a charm. It sends and receives updates instantaneously. This has lots of features integrated in it. You can configuure your account to receive only DMs, mentions or tweets. More than that, you can set up multiple accounts so that if you are offline on one account, then you will be receiving it on other account.

My Recommendation

Personally, I recommend TweetSwitch. It has great features and looks like a nice stable service. I liked its features like redirecting tweets and also quickness in updating messages.

I have listed out a few tools that will help you to tweet through Gtalk. If you know any other tool, then pleas share with us through comments. Feel free to add suggestions to my post.

Youtube had recently added some new features like expand video, and also turn-off lights. This turn-off light feature was quite interesting as we could avoid all distractions while watching a video. This feature is actually meant to view videos in theatre effect.

However, we don’t see these options on every video. Now, here is a greasemonkey script that could help you to add the turn-off lights feature on every Youtube video.

For those who don’t know what is Greasemonkey: Greasemonkey scripts are tiny Java snippets that help you to enhance your browsing experience by adding new elements on a webpage. To install a Greasemonkey script, you need to install the Greasemonkey addon first. Here is the link to install Greasemonkey addon.

After installing the above addon, go to this link and download the script. [Note: You have to keep your Greasemonkey addon enabled] The script automatically downloads and now you can see “Turn-off lights” feature on every video.

Do you watch Youtube videos a lot? How do you like this Youtube feature? Do not forget to leave comments below!

Happy watching!

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Tweaking browser configuration increases its efficiency and further enhances one’s browsing experience. There are lots of tricks that you can do with browsers using its about:config editor. Here is a set of tricks and tweaks which  I am sure most of you don’t know.

A general note: To perform the below tricks, you need to login to the preference editor of your browser. To do this, in the address bar, type “about:config” without quotes. Firefox will show you a warning message. Ignore it and click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Now, you are in the preference editor. Follow the instructions to perform each trick.

1) Remove Favicons From Tabs

You might have seen small icons on the tabs and the address bar in Firefox. These are known as Favicons. They were first introduced in IE 5, which was soon adopted by Firefox. They usually represent a site’s logo.

These favicons, even though small, consumes memory sometimes. Here is a tweak that can help you to disable those favicons in your browser. In the “Filter” option, enter the keyword “favicons”. You will get a list of preferences. Among those, search for this: browser.chrome.favicons. Double-click on it to change the value from “true” to “false”. Restart Firefox.

Now, instead of seeing the site’s favicon you will see the “document” icon on the tabs and address bar.

2) Remove Or Tweak The Position Of Close Button In Firefox

Firefox 2.0 had many new features added to it. Among them, one was “Close” button on every tab. As you have seen there is a close button on tab that you select. You can tweak the behaviour of this tab button using the following tweak. In the “Filter” option enter the keyword “tabs”. Select browser.tabs.closeButtons from the list of preferences.

Now, this preference is a boolean and has many values. The default is set to 0. Here are the valid values and their functions.

• 0 – This is the default. The Close Button will be on the active  tab.
• 1 – This value places the close button on all the tabs.
• 2 – Hides the close button from all the tabs.
• 3 – Displays the close button at the end of the tab strip.

3) AutoCopy To ClipBoard

If you are a linux user, then you might be knowing that selecting the text simply, copies the text into the clipboard. Here is a Firefox tweak to make it work like that. In the “Filter”option type “clipboard” without quotes. You will see a preference saying clipboard.autocopy. Double-click on it to change it to “true”. Now select any text and paste it somewhere. You can paste the text without using the “copy” command!

Also Read: Opera 10 Tips and Tricks

4) Change Your Toolbar Style To Make It More “RAM-Friendly”

This is a very good tweak, if you are low on memory but still want to use Firefox. It tweaks the toolbar. It is also a boolean and ahs many values. The valid values and its functions are given below:

• 0 – Displays toolbar buttons with icons only.
• 1 – Displays toolbar buttons with text only, no icons.
• 2 – Displays toolbar buttons with both icons and text. [Default]

This will help you to lessen the memory consumption by choosing alternate styles.

Also Read: Change The Tab Size In Firefox

5) Get Another Firefox Window Inside A Tab!

Well, this sounds amazing, right? Yes, you can get another usable firefox window inside a tab. To make this possible, enter the following URL in the address bar: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul. [See the pic below.]

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“Nowadays everybody is tweeting about twitter on Twitter!!”. Yes, that’s the popularity that twitter has gained over the last few years.

Now, this is a good eye-catcher if you are a twitter addict. Power Twitter is a firefox addon that helps you to enhance the quality of you twittering life. This is a simple addon for FF users which puts in some great features on your twitter dashboard. Below are some of the great features that you find in this addon.

1. Retweeting automatically: Retweeting (RT) is a very good custom on Twitter religion. RT helps you to build a relationship between you and your followers. The first superb feature of this addon is the retweeting. (Did you say what’s special in that, see the pic below). You need not write the whole tweet again. Just click on the “RT” button and update.
2. Tweet Images Directly From The Dashboard: Twitter is associated with many other sites like Twitpic, Yfrog, Tweetphoto, TwitGoo and so on for image tweeting. Power Twitter enables you to upload images to twitter right from you Twitter dashboard. You can have a look at the pic of how to do it.
3. Shorten Links From Dashboard: With Power Twitter you also have the option to shorten your link manually. You can do this directly from you Twitter dashboard.
   
4. Answer Daily Questions: You can answer the #dailyquestion on Twitter from your dashboard.
5. Beware While Clicking Those Links!!: It also gives you the full link separately ( if any present in the tweet). This prevents you to click on the malicious link.

Power Twitter is thus a must-use addon if you use twitter a lot. Go ahead and experience the wonderful twitter addon and don’t forget to leave comments about your experience. Happy Tweeting!! Please do subscribe to my blog if you liked the post.

Google Chrome is a very light browser that the “speedophilic” Google has launched. Even though it is light and fast, still most people don’t like it because of the features lacking in it. But still some features like Omnibar, autofilling and its easy switching of tabs are really good that you would really like to get those on your browser. Now here is a little trick to implement the autofilling of the tabs option in Firefox.

Now, to do this as you might have guessed you need to go to the firefox den, I mean about:config editor. (To do this, tap in the following words in the address bar wihout quotes. “about:config”). After this, click on the “I’ll be careful, I promise” button and enter into the den.

Firefox is a widely used famous browser that most of the windows users  users use, or maybe even the non-windows users too. Now, every user wants to use his product to its utmost efficiency. I think that’s why you are here searching for some or the other tips and tricks while using the browser to get its maximum advantage. Go and read a simple trick to change the size of the tabs in firefox to make your browser look clean.

So, now let’s get into the topic. You need to go to the configuration edtior. To do this go to the address bar, there type the following (without quotes) “about:config”. You will get a warning message to not to enter. Ignore it and enter into the editor.

How to change the maximum width of a tab?

In the filter form, type the following: “browser.tab” (without quotes). After this, browse a little down to the list and search for “browser.tabs.tabMaxWidth”. Now after getting this, double click on the item and change the value to your desired value. (You can check out the correct width by trial and error method). For your information, the default value is 250 (pixels).

How to change the minimum width of a tab?

Now, what you edited just now was the maximum width of the tab. To change the minimum width of the tab you need to search for “browser.tabs.tabMinWidth” this. After you get this again double click on that and change the value to you desired one. But you desire should be limited here, because due to the tab desgin the firefox does not show any effect on values less than 38 (pixels). Also, note that the default value is 100px.

Here is how it looks when the maximum width is set to 500px. Also I came to know that there is 1000px in a tab bar. (Click on the image to view it clearly)

While using internet we often face many problems like browsers crashing, system crashing, power cut, server down etc. Now imagine a situation where you are working on a big document or a post and suddenly one of these monstrous problems attacks your fate. And more to the frustration, you forgot to save the document!!  I guess that would be the most frustrating moment for anybody. Writing a whole lot of thing again really gets everyone out of their minds .

So, here is a tool for firefox that helps you  to recover lost forms after it is hit by these troubles.

Lazarus is a firefox addon that helps you to recover lost text that you had entered into any form in Firefox browser. This is a life saving jacket for people while working on a large document or post. This saves the text you type in continuously and gives it back when you reopen it.

So, how to work with it??

There is nothing much to explain about working with it. Go back to the place where you were working and right clock on the text input form. There will be a lost of saved sessions, out of which select any one you need and you can continue your job from there.

You can also search for the text you were typing even though there was no form you were writing earlier. To do this: Go to Tools>> Addons>> Extensions>> Lazarus>> Options>>Database. (Or you can also right click on the wand icon situated at the right-bottom corner of the browser.)My suggestion: “save time”

You can also clear the saved forms while clearing the “Recent Data”. To do this: Go to Tools>> Clear Recent History>> Check Lazarus saved forms.

Go ahead and install it on your browser here: Lazarus

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Firefox, with countless number of services stands out ot be one of the best browser.Some of those unique features of  this browser is tabbed browsing, password remembering etc. Here is an other option in firefox reviewed for you readers to take your browser to the utmost efficiency.

I have often seen many people asking “How to get the “Remember Password” option back after pressing “Never for this site” button?”. So I thought of writing a post on this. You can get back the “Remember Password” option even though you have accidentally pressed the “Never for this site” button. Here is the way.

Visit Tools>>Options in Firefox and then click on the “Security” tab. Click on the “Exceptions” button in the dialog box. (i.e. in the passwords section). In the dialog box opened, remove the link of the site for which you want to get the “Remember Password” option.

After you are done with this successfully, you will get a “Remember Password” option, the next time you login to the site.