Great Firefox extensions and other neat things

Steve Rubel writes about some very cool extensions for the Firefox browser – Spellbound, Bloglines and Scrapbook. Get the details from Steve’s post.

I want to mention one of them here, though – Spellbound. I’d not heard of this one. What a neat extension. As Steve noted, an excellent help for spell-checking things like comments you’re writing in a blog post, or filling in online forms. Works very well indeed. Multiple-language dictionaries, not only English. Definitely a good recommendation.

Let me add a positive comment about three more extensions which I’ve been using for a while, each of which is fully-supported by the latest Firefox 1.0 release:

• Tabbrowser Extensions: adds significant functionality to Firefox’s existing tabbed browsers. A must-have extension.
• IEView: adds a right-click menu option to ‘View This Page in IE.’ Yes, sooner or later, you will need to view a page in Internet Explorer. This neat extension makes it so easy.
• Firefox Googlebar: all the neat things from the similar Google bar on Internet Explorer. I especially like the browsing arrows, where you can navigate from your Google seacrh page within the same tab, always being able to easily get back to the search results. Saves opening pages in new tabs or windows all the time.

Re other neat things, I wrote about Konfabulator for Windows last week and the cool little widgets you can run on your desktop. With its simplicity and sheer style, it’s a winner. Free to try, $25 to keep.

Here’s another very useful and stylishly-done app – Entbloess. What this curiously-named application does is very simple: it gives you an extremely stylish way to switch between running programs. Windows Alt-tab? Forget that with this program and do it with real panache! A port of an app originally written for the Mac. Free for 100 uses then $7.99 to buy. I just love this, so the purchasing decision is a real no-brainer (and the New Zealand developer accepts PayPal).

Read an enthusiastic post and comments about Entbloess by Marc Orchant on theofficeweblog.

And if you’re wondering where on earth the name ‘Entbloess’ comes from, you’ll find an explanation in the comments in Marc’s post!