Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on April 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google has released its next version of the popular Toolbar for Firefox. This is Google Toolbar 2 and has some new features that are important to many users. One of the most important features (in my opinion) is the addition of the Google Safe Browsing Extension right into this new toolbar. The Google Safe Browsing protects users from phishing sites (sites that pretend to be someone, like PayPal, in order to gain access to your account).

Of course, they didn’t stop there. They also threw in search features and now when you start to type a search it will show you some popular results (even spelling corrections)!

Google Toolbar 2 will also manage your RSS subscriptions. To make it easy they designed it so that the toolbar will automatically recognize when a feed is on the page you are viewing, and will then let you subscribe to the feed if you so choose to. This was an inevitable addition because RSS feeds are redesigning the way the world receives news, and it needs to be simple for users to subscribe to the news.

If you have the GMail Notifier installed just so that you can use GMail as your default client then you no longer need the Notifier. There is now a feature in the toolbar to let users set GMail as their default email client instead of having the pesky Outlook Express pop-up every time you want to send a quick email.

Lastly, you can now choose how you want to view the Google Toolbar in Firefox. You can have it display the complete toolbar as it normally has in the past or you can have it replace the compact Google search box located in the upper-right corner of Firefox. This is great for those users who try to make everything as compact as they can to increase their screen space.

Get The Google Toolbar 2 For Firefox

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This article was written on December 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

The holidays are a special time of year and it is a time to spread the holiday spirit with others. I’m not sure if there is a better way to spread the cheer than with some festive Firefox wallpapers! If you like any of the following wallpapers just click on them, but the only size available is 1024 x 768:

Check out here and here if you’re looking for some nifty Firefox/Thunderbird wallpapers that don’t have a holiday theme. Unfortunately widescreen Firefox wallpapers are a little harder to come by but Interfacelift has a lot of awesome non-Firefox wallpapers (available in resolutions up to 2560 x 1600).

Posting will be scarce over the holiday weekend for us but our CyberNotes articles will continue as normal. In fact, we have a really special post planned for tomorrow morning that I’m sure everyone will love. *We’re in the spirit of giving for the holidays, hint hint*

News Source: Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog

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This article was written on April 12, 2010 by CyberNet.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.

–News–

Twitter Acquires Tweetie
Twitter took a bold step last week, and instead of developing/marketing their own homegrown iPhone application they have bought one of the most popular apps: Tweetie. This may or may not be good news for consumers. The good part is that they will be slashing the price from $3 down to free, and the developer of the app is joining Twitter’s mobile team. My only worry now is whether we’ll continue to see the same quality updates that we have been seeing.

iPhone OS 4 Hands-On Video
Gizmodo has posted two great videos that show off the new upcoming features in the iPhone OS 4 release. This includes the multitasking and folders which were a highlight of the keynote, but they also go more in depth and look at things like the new mail app and playlist enhancements.

–News in Brief–

Gmail Labs Gets Nested Labels and Message Previews
Google finally lets users nest labels and quickly view previews of messages by right-clicking on them in your Inbox.

Internet Explorer 9 Might Be Getting a Facelift
What’s claimed to be a leaked screenshot of IE9 is floating around the Internet, and shows off a rather drastic change in interface.

Windows 7 SP1 Leaked
Windows 7 SP1 can be found on Torrent websites, but given that this is just a service pack there probably isn’t much worth jumping the gun for.

Ubuntu 10.10 Announced
The next version of Ubuntu will be called “Maverick Meerkat,” and will apparently have some new social networking support.

Chrome Sync Does More than Bookmarks
Recent nightly builds of Chrome show off a beefed up sync utility that handles bookmarks, preferences, and autofill.

Flash 10.1 Release Candidate Available
Adobe has moved on from the beta phase of their Flash player development, and will be releasing this as the final version if no major issues are found.

Xbox 360 Update Brings USB Storage Support
An update to the Xbox 360 gives users the option to use USB drives with the console.

HP Slate Specs Leaked
This is supposedly an internal HP memo that compares the benefits of the HP Slate versus that of the iPad.

–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

Firefox 3.7 Nightly Lets You Put Tabs on Top
For a little while we saw Aero glass support in the Firefox nightly builds, but while we wait for its return there is something else you can play with now. When right-clicking on a toolbar one of the new options is to place the tabs on the top of the screen. Many themes are already capable of doing stuff like this, but it’s nice to see it natively supported.

Convert PDF Files to ePub
The iPad supports any ePub files you may have lying around, and with a little work you can also get your PDFs into the iBook app by converting them to that format. The process takes a little work, but it gets a little faster once you’ve done it a few times and get the hang of it.

–Tips in Brief–

Stream Your Home Music Library with Windows Media Player 12
You can use Windows Media Player 12 to stream your entire media collection over the Internet.

Mozilla Tests Plugin-Isolated Build of Firefox
A beta release of Firefox 3.6 now includes plugin isolation, which will prevent the entire browser from crashing when a plugin, like Flash, has issues.

Uploadr Makes Sharing Screenshots and Files Easy
This portable app lets you quickly upload files to Localhostr with a single drag-and-drop operation.

Sync Open Tabs with Xmarks
Xmarks added a feature to their Firefox add-on that lets users sync their open browser tabs across all their computers, and says the feature will also be coming to their Chrome counterpart.

Snap Links Lite for Chrome
The Firefox extension called Snap Links as been ported to a Chrome extension, but with a little less functionality. You can now bulk open links by simply drawing a box around them, but it doesn’t have all the customizability that the Firefox extension offers.

–Downloads–

• AbiWord 2.8.3 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• BurnAware Free 2.4.5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Defraggler 1.18.185 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Flash Player 10.1.53.7 ^RC [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Launchy 2.5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Spring ^{Beta 1} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Opera 10.52.3347 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Paint.NET 3.5.5 ^{Beta 1} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• PasteCopy.NET 0.9.7.4 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Pc Decrapifier 2.2.4 [Homepage] [Mirror]

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This article was written on March 04, 2008 by CyberNet.

February was a good month for almost all of the browsers out there except for Internet Explorer, according to Net Applications. From December 2006 to August 2007 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser was able to maintain a substantial 79% marketshare. In the last 6 or 7 months, however, they’ve been dropping just under 1% each month. Yep, they’ve lost nearly 5% of their marketshare in the last half of a year.

Of course if IE is losing there has to be other browsers gaining, right? Firefox is the one swooping up most of IE’s marketshare loss having increased over 3% in the last year. Last month it hit its all-time high at 17.27%, which is the same time IE hit its all-time low.

Safari took a small dip in February, but Opera has been steadily increasing rolling in a marketshare of 0.69% last month. Opera just announced that last year was a big year for them having increased their number of monthly users to 20 million, which is 55% more than the previous year.

Browser Marketshare for February 2008

And then there’s the comparison of the operating systems. Naturally Microsoft is going to lead the way with their sheer market domination, but you might be surprised to hear that Windows usage has dropped about 4% in the last 2 years. Apple is the primary cause of the drop in marketshare having gained over 3% themselves in the last two years. And as you can see from this chart the iPhone is even on the board:

Operating System Marketshare for February 2008

In January 2007 the Linux marketshare sat at just 0.35%, and so there has been some significant growth there as well.

It’s becoming apparent from both the browser and operating system stats that users don’t mind turning to other alternatives to get the job done. The vast amounts of content available on the Internet definitely helps ease the transition for users from one browser to another, or from one operating system to another. Microsoft still controls a majority of the market, but given another several more years the tides could really start turning.

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Web Browser Wednesday

URL’s make the Web go round, and depending on how easy or hard they are to remember can make a huge difference as to whether someone will return to a site or not. So it makes sense that URL’s and links are a good item to target when trying to make yourself more productive.

To get us started, I thought I would roll out some interesting stats that you may not know regarding the length of URL’s. Have you ever tried to see how many characters your browser would support in a URL? It’s fine if you didn’t, because one guy did and this was the result:

• Internet Explorer: The longest URL that’s supported is 2,083 characters
• Firefox: The longest URL that’s supported is 100,000+ although it stopped showing the characters in the address bar after 65,536 characters.
• Safari: The longest URL that’s supported is 80,000+ characters.
• Opera: The longest URL that’s supported is 190,000+ characters, where the author noted that in Opera 9 the URL was still “fully editable, copyable and pasteable” even at 190,000 characters.

So today I want to present some Firefox extensions that will make your life easier when trying to copy or manipulate URL’s and links. Here we go…

–Ones You Probably Know About–

The first thing that I want to point are the extensions that you probably already know about or ones that we have already written about. I decided not to count these against the 10, but thought I would point them out anyways:

1. Locationbar² (Homepage)
   This extension has become very popular because it makes the actual domain stand out in the address bar, as well as make different parts of the URL clickable similar to a breadcrumb trail. It was even nominated as a feature that should be included with Firefox 3.
   
2. Linkification (Homepage)
   Makes text links clickable that aren’t otherwise clickable. For example, someone pastes a hyperlink in a forum and it isn’t clickable since they didn’t use the proper code…Linkification will make that link clickable.
3. Link Alert (Homepage)
   When you hover over a hyperlink there will be a little icon showing you what type of file it is, or whether the link will open in a new window.
   
4. Snap Links (Homepage / Our Review)
   Lets you draw a box around a group of links and have them all open. It’s really nice when reading news, and is very configurable.
   
5. iReader (Homepage / Our Review)
   Shows a text-based preview of the the site being linked to. It’s similar to the Snap Previews that show the thumbnails, but this is purely text.
   
6. Next Please (Homepage / Our Review)
   This adds buttons to Firefox that are similar to Opera’s Fast Forward and Rewind. These are especially useful when going through search result pages where clicking the button will take you to the next results page.
   

–Address Bar–

The Address Bar is undoubtedly the most popular location for a URL to reside, so here are some extensions specific to the Address Bar:

1. Tab URL Copier (Homepage)
   Ever have a bunch of URL’s that you want to send to someone? With this extension you can copy the URL’s of all open tabs to the clipboard.
   
2. New TabURL (Homepage)
   This extension isn’t unique because it lets you pick the homepage for all new tabs that you create. Instead it is unique because you can adjust the settings so that it will load the URL that’s on the clipboard when you open a new tab.
   
3. URL Fixer (Homepage)
   Automatically fixes the errors you make when typing in a URL, such as “.con” instead of “.com”. You can set it up so that it notifies you before making any corrections to the URL.
   
4. MyURLBar_a (Homepage)
   Adds search-by-name capabilities to the address bar, so that you can type the name of the site you want to visit. It will search both your bookmarks and browsing history, with the bookmark results being placed on top.
   

–Hyperlinks–

Hyperlinks are an amazing tool, and with them we can navigate the Web faster. There’s always room for optimization though.

1. TinyURL Creator (Homepage)
   Makes a TinyURL of the site you’re currently on through the use of the right-click menu.
   
2. LinkChecker (Homepage)
   Checks to see whether the links on a page are valid, and highlights them accordingly.
   
3. Super DragAndGo (Homepage)
   Dragging a hyperlink and dropping it anywhere on the current page will open it up in a new tab. It’s essentially the same thing as holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on the link, but Super DragAndGo makes it a one-handed operation.
4. CoLT (Homepage)
   Let’s you copy a hyperlink into a specialized format. For example, you can copy a hyperlink into a format that makes it ready to be inserted into a forum. It even lets you create all of your own formats.
   
5. All Your Maps Belong To Us (Homepage)
   Translates URL’s to other mapping sites into a Google Maps link. It tries to avoid translating unsupported URL’s and seems to do a fairly good job.

And Last, but Not Least…

I came across one extension on my journey that did something I had never heard about. The extension is called Mobile Barcoder and it creates a 2D barcode (also known as QR Codes) that can be scanned using certain cellphones. By having these barcodes you could quickly scan a URL into your phone so that you didn’t have to type it in.

As of right now this feature is found mostly on Japanese phones, but if you have a phone that supports it, this barcode should take you to our homepage :

–Overview–

So there you have it…URL madness! I’m sure there are a lot more useful extensions for managing and manipulating URL’s, so hit us up in the comments below with related extensions!

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