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1. AWStats Xtended Info

AWStats Xtended Info inserts the awstats_misc_tracker.js in every page which the WordPress serves and thereby allows you to track the additional items that includes the screen size, Flash, PDF and Java support.

For more fine control, you can choose which type of pages will include the script from the AWStats X options page. AWStats Xtended Info plugin will be handy for those who use AWStats and WordPress.

Plugin info: http://www.michael-gerard.com/creations/wp-awstats-x

2. Backlinks inbound links counter

This plugin can display the number of inbound links to a blog. It would count all the links. The backlinks draws a beautiful graph that displays how your number of inbound links would develop over time using the MSN Search API along with the nuSOAP in order to count the backlinks.

Plugin info: http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/

3. Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV)

The Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV) monitors the events that occur in the wordpress install. The BTEV tracks the events like password_reset, delete_user, wp_login, lostpassword_post, profile_update etc by default. The installation of BTEV is very easy.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bluetrait-event-viewer/

4. Bsuite

The BSuite is a set of tools that helps in surface interest and relevant posts. It helps your users to navigate your content and helps the authors in developing and publishing the content.

The main features of Bsuite are it is cache-friendly stats tracking and also search word highlighting. There are widgets to show some of the popular posts and the recently commented posts. It can either insert a list of similar items for the present page or post it. It offers the necessary tools that are required to make it easy for the readers to link, share and embed the content. It adds a number of short codes. These codes makes it easier to build and manage the content. It also makes the search results in ranked order, displaying pages and posts. The bsuite adds excerpt, tag and category inputs to the page editor. It includes a generic tag importer that imports the tags from the post content.

Plugin info: http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11613/

5. CountPosts

The Count Posts is a simple plugin which provides a template function to count the posts. It also filters based on category and over time in days. The function can return or provide the result. This plugin is easy to use.

Plugin info:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/countposts-v-10-wordpress-plugin/

6. DownloadCounter

The DownloadCounter counts the number of times a file has been downloaded and some misc statistics. It automatically generates the link and the code that you need to put in your website. Managing your files is possible and statistics can be viewed at the administration page.

Similar to this, there is also an ImageCounter that generates an image with the help of another one that the user selected to be used as the background. In the administration panel, the counter can be fully customized. That is, the font, font size, text position, background image, font angle, font color etc. It supports the GD and TTF fonts based on your server’s configuration.

Plugin info: http://n0id.hexium.net/wp-plugins/

7. Dschini Bot Checker
This plugin released for the Wordpress synchronizes your local bots database with the Dschini BotService via SOAP. The requirements for this plugin would be Wordpress and PHP 5.
After the installation, the Dschini Bot Checker will be there in the Options where you can define the bots to track. You can select between “High Popular” bots like the Googlebot and “Medium”- and “Low” Popular Bots. Each time your options are updated, the Dschini BotService refreshes your bot database simultaneously watching the existing trackings too. The Bot Checker Management Panel checks the bots and gives informations about the pages that the bot visited.
Plugin info: http://manfred.dschini.org/dschini-botchecker-plugin/

8. Feed Statistics
The Feed Statistics is a plugin meant for the Wordpress blogs that tracks the statistics for your RSS/Atom feeds. This includes the number of subscribers, which feed readers they use, which posts they view and which links they click on.
This plugin has a “Feed” section in the Wordpress administration panel which further has four subdivisions such as Feed (Options), Feed Readers, Post Views and Clickthroughs.

Plugin info: http://www.chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/feed-statistics/

9. FeedBurner SiteStats Enabler
The FeedBurner Sitestats Enabler is the first plugin that issue to the public. It is a simple plugin that allows you to switch easily to the Sitestats FeedBurner on your site without the need to change a single line of your theme. The FeedBurner offers a statistics service not just for feeds but for the pages of the sites too.
Once you install the FeedBurner Sitestats Enabler, all got to do is enter the name of the site under your FeedBurner feed. The plugin is equipped to localization in different languages and is found in the zip-file and the Italian language, the file-catalog for translating to other languages.

Plugin info: http://www.wordpressmania.it/feedburner_sitestats_plugin/

10. FeedBurner StandardStats

The FeedBurner StandardStats Wordpress plugin is very easy to install compared to the StandardStats from FeedBurner. The FB StandardStats makes installing the FeedBurner’s stats code very simple. There are no files to edit. All you need to do is, put in your user ID. The plugin will take care of the rest. This plugin can also be used to show the FeedFlare links on each blog post.

Plugin info: http://bloggerdesign.com/133/fb-standardstats/

11. FeedStats

Here you can customize the options like the amount of days that is supposed to be saved in the statistics, minimum level of WordPress-user who is given the permission to see the statistics, time of a stay/visit, visitors online time, IP that is supposed not to be saved, statistics can be shown on the dashboard etc.

The Plugin is available in english language and also have the german and traditional chinese translation in language-file.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedstats-de/

12.FirStats

The FireStats is a web statistics system. It is free for non-commercial usage and costs 25$ per installation for commercial usage.
This plugin features- protect the privacy of your users, real time statistics, recent referrers, search engine keywords, recent popular pages, browser and OS trees, IP to country, that is, know where your visitors are browsing from, multiple users support with the ability to have a control on which sites each user can access, designed to work on all browsers, compacts old data to improve performance and reduces the database size etc.

Plugin info: http://firestats.cc/
13. GoStats web counter

GoStats offers a free hit counter that is easy to use. It keeps track of your website stats for your blog. Once you start with it, you can view your stats. This can easily be done by accessing your GoStats account and clicking on “my sites” and “stats”. You can also receive weekly emails from GoStats about your hits.

Plugin info: http://counterblog.gostats.com/how-to-place-a-gostats-hit-counter-onto-your-blog

14. Lightstats
The Lightstats shows information in images. It also generates a few bar and pie graph images showing the statistics about the posts, comments and categories. It is compatible with PHP 4 / PHP 5 and Wordpress 2.

Plugin info: http://laitsas.com/category/plugins/

15. Live

The Live can track every single activity that would take place on your blog. You can see and scan via your blog activity in real time. This plugin shows who your visitors are, where they come from, which pages they are browsing through etc. There is also a graph that tells you about the traffic your blog is getting over a span of time.

Plugin info: http://www.headzoo.com/live

16. Open Web Analytics

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a set of PHP and HTTP APIs that the application developers can use for integrating the web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for some popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

Plugin info: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

17. Posts/Comments Time

In this plugin a chart is generated to display the number of posts and comments. To install the plugin, all you need to do is, extract the zip file and copy the subfolder “pocoti” to your plugins directory. Then set write the permission for the server for this directory and finally activate the plugin and go to options panel where you can choose among the various options such as colors, titles, size.

To display the graph, include an image referencing the chart URL. You can include the chart into blog entries or the template files. The files are generated when a new post or comment is made and hence it is always up to date. The graph is generated by the JpGraph Library.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postscomments-time/

18. Search Phrases
This plugin helps in finding the last search on the blog. For this there is an option in the left sidebar under “Latest search terms to see ‘. There is an option of Advanced Usage where you can change the behavior of the plugin in the admin panel in Options – Search Phrases.

Plugin info: http://gluehwein.junkies.ws/2006/10/16/plugin-search-phrases-anzeige-der-letzten-suchbegriffe/#english
19. Social Traffic Monitor

Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin that monitors your blog traffic for the activities that come from the social news or bookmarking sites. When there is a click on a link to your blog on one of the major bookmarking sites such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit, StumbleUpon etc, this plugin starts logging on the visits to that page. This data can then be shown in the form of a graph of visitors per hour.

Plugin info: http://www.chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/social-traffic/

20.Ultimate Google Analytics

This plugin adds the Google Analytics JavaScript to every page on your web blog without any changes to your template. It can also add tracking to the outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links. It is highly configurable. It basically starts with a simple configuration screen and hides the advanced configuration in an Advanced Configuration mode. The simple configuration screen will be enough but if you are interested in tweaking and tuning this plugin, use the advanced settings.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/

21.Word Count

Just as the name suggests, the Word Count plugin helps in counting the total number of words in all the posts or the number of words in a single post.

22.WordPress.com Stats

Installing this stats plugin is very easy. All you got to do is put your API Key and the remaining is automatic. Once it starts running, it will start collecting information on your pageviews, posts and pages that are popular, where your traffic is from, what people click on when they leave. It will also adds a link to the dashboard which would let you see all your stats on a single page.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

23. WP-SlimStat

Wp-SlimStat helps you in seeing the detailed stats of your wordpress blog. It also filters the details and stats using the filter form inside the Details panel. It can also import wp-shortstat tables and data and is fully localizable. It has improved browser and platform detection. It displays the hits, visitors and unique IPs too.

Plugin info: http://www.duechiacchiere.it/wp-slimstat/

24. WP-Stats

This plugin displays your WordPress blog statistics. It ranges from the general total statistics to top 10 statistics.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats/

Every Design Blogger surfs hundreds of blogs and inspirational resources over the internet in a day. It is natural intuition that he would not remember the blogs until there’s something unique about the design or something interesting in that page. He might want to bookmark it, e-mail it, take a screen capture, subscribe to the feeds and lot other ways. There are lot of advanced plugins out there But, listed here 15 Chrome Plugins that you need the most at the beginning stages.

Read on, as we introduce design bloggers to a pack of Chrome Plugins for enhancing productivity.

Work Faster & Stay Organised

Evernote Web Clipper - Download

Use the Evernote Web Clipper extension to effortlessly set aside all the appealing material you spot whilst surfing the cyberspace. No additional bookmarks, tabs, or open windows. Evernote sets aside the content of your clip along with a link back to the original page. One can easily clip text, images, and links into your Evernote account.

Google Mail Checker - Download

As the name suggests, this comes across as a handy software that displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can, in addition, click the button to access your inbox directly.

Xmarks for Chrome Beta - Download

Xmarks synchronizes across multiple computers, and across web browsers including: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Once you have installed the add-on, click on the notice to set up Xmarks and begin backing up and synchronizing your bookmarks.

Greasemetal - Download

Greasemetal is a user-script runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts user-scripts (tiny javascript files that alter the web pages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari.

LastPass - Download

Lastpass is an online password supervisor and form-filler that aids in making web browsing easier and more protected. Log on to your preferred sites with a single click, fill up forms in seconds; end pulling out your wallet to find your credit card number, safely and securely share logins and notes with friends and allow others to share with you.

Smoothscroll - Download

This extension adds smooth scrolling behavior to Google Chrome/Chromium. It, in addition, features auto update and Smooth Scroll. To install the extension straightforwardly, open the file by means of your Chrome browser.

Session Saver - Download

A session manager that allows users to save and supervise several sessions. It saves all tab URLs for all chrome windows which is extremely useful for bloggers who browse through a number of websites at the same time.

Aviary Screen Capture - Download

Take a screenshot of whichever webpage and edit it straight into your browser with Aviary.com applications.  It will execute a screen capture of the noticeable part of any webpage and then open the capture instantly in a fundamental image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), amend (crop, rotate and resize) and get the precise pixel colors of the image.

Discover & Promote New Content

RSS Subscription Extension - Download

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page a blogger is reading and upon discovering one will present an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.

StumbleUpon - Download

StumbleUpon assists a user to find out great websites that interests him. Just click the Stumble button and witness the most excellent websites. This feature has managed to leave Chrome users elated. Many agree that they have finally been offered the best ever tool to surf and bookmark the web. Such applause comes even at a time when some of the known and experienced features aren’t yet available in Chrome. However, it is being promised that the features would gain in performance in the comi8ng days. .

Chromium Delicious Plugin - Download

The Chromium Delicious Plugin features of this plugin are that it saves bookmarks unlike other plugins it can automatically add a description to the bookmark. One needs to select the text on the website and then click on “Save Bookmark” link.

Brizzly - Download

Brizzly is a reader for Twitter and Facebook. It makes things easier while you are browsing and updating experience, while adding a few ingenious extras. If you are looking at much simplified browsing, Brizzly is the place to be. In fact, it promises more than a user expects. Right from enabling video viewing from YouTube and Vimeo, or browsing through pictures from Brizzly, Twitpic or Flickr, it has all that one wants. Further, it also helps hide a user’s updates making it useful to keep one away from unwanted or not so significant updates, even if t is for a short period of time. You also have the unmute option anytime.

Google Chrome Backup - Download

Google Chrome backup is a diminutive tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. The most recent version in addition supports Chromium, which customized version of Google Chrome, for convenient use.

Stay Alert & Secure

AdSweep - Download

AdSweep is a diminutive add-on that aims to conceal advertising from the web pages a user visit like Adblock. AdSweep is intended for standard-compliant web browsers for example Opera, Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla Firefox 3.1+ or Apple Safari. Further, it also boasts of the flexibility that lets a user to go about regular styling to fix web sites, even on a per-site basis.

Web of Trust - Download

Web of Trust is an exclusive community-based secure surfing tool that uses a spontaneous traffic-light style rating system to assist Internet users stay protected as they search, browse, and shop online. With so many software applications and add-ons for the browsers bloggers can promptly create blogs safely, creatively and with least wastage. Going by WoT recommendations can assure you of the confidence while shopping online shops and downloading unknown sites. So, from now on, it is blogging in the most trouble-free manner all the way!!!

Zotero is a free Firefox extension which is easy to use and will help you in collecting, managing and citing your resource sources. These items could be anything from articles, documents and books to web pages, films, artwork, bills, sound recordings, bills statutes or cases, among many others. You can attach notes through the Notes tab; web pages as a snap shot or link and any types of files to the items.

Since Zotero runs within Firebox, it is really simple to create new items from the information you get on the internet. Users of Zotero can create interest or collaborative groups. Resource sources and materials can be managed collaboratively using shared group libraries, both online and through Zotero client.This free tool serves students and teachers well and it is also meant for anyone who keeps track of information on the web.

MashLogic is an extension of Firefox, which enriches the webpage with information and media that you care about. You can personalize web pages with links to sources that you prefer. It is easy to use and respectful of your privacy. With MashLogic user can choose his sources on the web but by downloading the consumer version of MashLogic as a plugin for the IE or Firefox browser, it lets readers outline topics of interest so that they can get web-surfing to their needs.

MashLogic lets users choose and highlight sources and order them based on the priorities. Users have to download a Firefox plugin in order to use it, but there is no toolbar. MashLogic makes browsing and research much easier.

RSVP Reader is a utility that stands for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, which lets people, read text on the web much faster. It presents the selected text one word at a time at a pace you choose. If you are a person who reads online a lot and use Firefox as the browser, you could use this application to make reading on the computer much faster.

There are web developers is every platform; be it Linux, Windows or Macs and each have a strong following. Here we will take a look in to some of the 10 best tools that MAC has to offer. No offense to other platforms, but Mac does have some of the best tools for web development and it will be a pity if you don’t get acquainted with these wonderful tools.

BBEDIT 9

BBEdit is a leading HTML and text editor for Macintosh based systems. The product was developed to attract the web authors and software developers market segment. It is replete with features and does not compensate for performance either. The BBEdit is best in its class for its features like editing, searching and manipulation of text. A new addendum to the BBEdit 9 is the intelligent interface which makes the interface easy to access as well as fully reap the benefits of the software. Features like grep pattern matching, allow search and replace across multiple files which is applicable to unopened files on remote servers, project definition tools, function navigation and syntax coloring for different source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support, text and code completion integrated to a set of robust HTML tools gives the software a lead in its segment.

TextWrangler

If you cannot afford BBEDIT 9, you may as well turn to TextWrangler from Bare Bones software. This software is an ideal OS text editor. TextWrangler global search and replace function give the software a edge over all other softwares and puts it at par with BBEdit. The interface sets apart both BBEdit and TextWrangler as the former has a professional outlook and great support. Nonetheless, TextWrangler also has a great support system which can satiate your requirements. The TextWrangler can also open files from (and save them) to remote FTP and SFTP servers, possess a significantly more powerful grep engine, supports multi-byte and non-Roman text files and can perform Find Differences on pairs of files or folders, and can also be invoked from the Unix command line.

SubEthaEdit

SubEthaEdit is a yet another powerful and lean text editor and the only one that is fun to use. That makes this one of a kind. It is built on Bonjour platform which is the world’s best text collaboration engine, which allows collaborative text editing. Furthermore, SubEthaEdit also includes various advanced features to add to the text editors functionality. The UNIX command line utility allows for complex and interactive pipe workflows with your terminal. The Overhauled printing, including all bells and whistles, applicable to collaborative metadata. Exporting to HTML is compatible with with metadata. The customizable syntax highlighting through styles is left to user preferences and can also support for editing files as administrator. What is the secret? The Improved AppleScript which supports to allow control of sharing features.

TextMate

TextMate is made for Apple, by Apple, for Apple. The text editor forges a chain between UNIX and GUI which helps both experts as well novice users. The text editor harnesses the power of UNIX in creating regular expressions, which we know are indispensable tools for programmers. The special feature to create Snippets helps reduce redundancy that is usually associated with coding and help reduce development time. The Macro support further simplifies things as you can easily convert a 20 click process in to single click! The code block function is very useful for programmers especially during debugging when it hides all the code other than the block you are working on. Syntax Highlighting and Clipboard history functions addons to the software have helped increasing the popularity of the software.

CSSEdit

CSSEdit helps all users alike. It can help you design beautiful and innovative as well as performance centric websites as if you were just watching a movie. The CSSEdit is able to deliver these features due to its focus on style sheets, and also offers features in accordance to your user level. The Selector Builder and advanced visual editors will help you understand CSS and get the job done for you in no time. It also includes the Live Preview and intelligent source environment which help in reducing time. It also includes the omnipotent X-Ray web page inspection, the best CSS debugging suite in the whole wide web (not world).

xScope

The software was designed for designers by ARTIS Software & The Iconfactory, the xScope offers developers a powerful set of tools that are suited for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts. The real value of the software lies in its accessibility which can be done with the Mac OS X menu bar, or xScope’s flexible tools which will float above desktop windows or UI elements making measuring a breeze. xScope is a compilation of seven tools in to one software to help a designer complete the work as fast as possible. These tools are Dimensions, Rulers, Screens, Loupe, Guides, Frames and Crosshair.

Caliper

Calipers are universal tools of science tools for measurements. The web tool Caliper is a cross platform tool to assist developers to measure any thing on the monitor. This tool will be useful for web designers as it can help in making layout measurements or for graphic designers for photo and illustration measurements or CAD engineers for measuring architectural drawings. The Caliper is a free floating tool on your desktop that is draggable, rotatable and can perform pixel perfect measurements. It is compatible with any software and offers a range of hot keys to assist.

Slammer

In a nutshell, the geometry box for developers. It contains all tools organised in a meticulous manner. It is best for creating layouts. It approach is very much mathematical; i.e the grid systems can be chosen from fibonacci series, golden sections or harmonious sections. You can use Slammer to refine a website. It also Slammer also has rulers, a magnifier and a color picker to help you make the right choices. The Complete Featureset *Inspect – inspects your design in order to optimize it.

The web is a dangerous place for those who are not aware of the traps. It is like a jungle full of traps set by poachers (in our case hackers) and they are waiting to trap a cherubic creature. Here we will show you the traps set by hackers, and teach how to work around it and turn you in from a deer in to a conniving wolf! These are some essential tools for securing your Firefox. All of these tools work by disabling JavaScript and Flash, sniffing out suspicious sites, foiling phishing, preventing peeks at private data, and preparing powerful passwords!

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NoScript

This software has scripted its way in to stardom. The winner of the “2006 PC World World Class Award”, this is an ultimate tool for your Firefox. Designed by Giorgio Maone , this has a trusted domains list, and only these sites are allowed to run JavaScript, Java and other executable content. You can also create a guarding; i.e set a “trust boundaries” for a site against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attempts. This is acheived by integrating unique ClearClick technology in to NoScript. These are preemptive strategies to prevent yourself from getting entrapped in one of the internet traps and upgrade your security at no cost or loss of functionality. With NoScript, your firefox is as good as the White House.

McAfee Site Advisor

A free software from McAfee which is a Firefox plugin. The Site Advisor works is reticent, with only signalling according to the website you visit. A green light, if the website is safe. A yellow light, if it is suspected. A red if it sure of threat. Accordingly you can take action. This color coding is applicable to search results and it conveniently appears right next to the result so that you can make the smart decision. The Site Advisor relies on a database compiled by user feedbacks, hence it is update and if it is not; you can chip in.

NetCraft Toolbar

NetCraft is an excellent toolbar that works well with Firefox even if you other security addons like Site Advisor. The Netcraft is a good firewall, but left alone is inadequate to meet your security needs. The Netcraft is good against the general anti phishing scams but if it is convoluted, then Netcraft has a high probability of not detecting it. The toolbar along with LinkScanner Pro or Site Advisor will make a lethal combo to address your Firefox security requirements.

Clear Private Data

This is an upgrade addon for the Mozilla’s inbuilt Clear Private Data function. It makes the features more accessible with a simple right click. You can also enable an optional toolbar.

PasswordMaker

How many passwords do we have? We all have N number of passwords and most of us have one password as the common one. So if that gets hacked, then we loose our digital identity. Fearing the worst, we choose different passwords, which cause more problems because you have to remember different ones. The solution? PasswordMaker is the software to manage to passwords. It can manage all of your online passwords and also generate uncrackable passwords. It can also auto fill webforms, making the slough registration process a thing of past. Now if you ask what if some one bugs PasswordMaker? Well, in reality it nevers stores passwords. It generates them by calculation each time hence no way any one can get their hands on your passwords. Indeed, One Password To Rule Them All!

FormFox

Every time you fill in a form, how sure are you that is going where you are assuming to go? Personal Information misuse if one of the favorite pass-times of recreant miscreants. The FormFox Addon extension traces where the information is going. From your searches to your credit card transactions, the Form fox will swing in to action as soon as you hit the Submit button.

TrashMail.net

Spams are usually considered as innocuous mails which tend to irritate. You are wrong! Some times spams might be as harmful as an malware. It is very important to filter and identify those messages. Even though all the mail clients come with spam filters, these are usually generic. A addon like TrashMail.net will give you the promontory; the edge to stay on top this mess. These spam mails that do get through the filter are usually somehow connected to your email id as you might have filled a form or subscribed to some content. The TrashMail.net creates a fake email id so that you can conveniently subscribe to the content with these email ids that you can get rid of any time!

Petname Tool

Sometimes you might stumble on to fake website that might look identical to the orginal one itself and might get fooled. How can you avoid these traps? All good websites have cryptographic identifiers for retaining their identity. The Petname tool keeps track of these very same identifiers. It attaches remainder notes your entries. Before the exchange of sensitive information commences, the petname tool checks for cryptographic identifiers. If it sums up right, then it allows the website to get the data otherwise prevents the data exchange!

Message Level Authentication

This addon with your generic addons can completely protect you from spams. It authenticates mail by assaying your messages network. It keeps a Mail Reputation, which is based on what type of mails you receive from a user. Thus, by using this method it can selectively scan for unreliable mail for spams or identify if the user sending the mail is outside the network of the MLA user. It also an addon that can even allow you to track the exact geographic location of your senders!

SafeHistory

While as deleting history might be prove to be an onerous task for you as it slows down your browsing experience, there is another way to work around this problem. You can hide the history from the prying hackers using SafeHistory addon. It also checks for cookies as well as the sites you are logging to to determine if you have a history about the site. In case you do, it traces and analyzes all of your previous accesses and conforms it to your privacy level.

FoxTor

When you browse through internet, you leave a trail that any hacker can follow. In the path, the hacker will also gain information that you seek to protect. The FoxTor addon helps hide your trail on the internet. It provides anonymous web browsing using encrypted TOR network. The TOR network is known for greater privacy legacy. There are two modes to this browsing: “Masked” and “Unmasked” metaphor. If you are using “Masked” the website you log to will not be able to access your information and vice versa in the “Unmasked” mode.

Firefox addons have grown exponentially. There addons for every single thing you can think of doing on Firefox that , sooner or later you are bound to find addons untenable. Well, the only way to cure a Snake bite is a poison; similarly we are going to tell you about different addons that can help you manage addons.

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1. Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE 6.3)

FEBE or Firefox Environment Backup Extension developed by Chuck Baker allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. It will also help you rebuild your extensions individually in to installable .xpi files. This way you carry your firefox settings anywhere you go!

2. MR Tech Toolkit

The MR Tech Toolkit helps you install and manage firefox extensions and themes locally; in short where you want you can customize your firefox to suit your needs. This extension also provides multi-extension installation support, hacking support to extension/theme manage windows to find and troubleshoot Extensions and themes Build, GUID and Profile Information.

3. Options Menu

Options Menu 1.8 was developed by James.R.Skinner. This addon provides fast access to the options dialogs of installed extensions. To access this addon, you have to go to ‘Extension Options’ cascade menu on the Tools menu or by a Toolbar icon.

4. InfoLister

Sometimes, you just do not get a hang of what all addons are there on your system and frankly the mozilla addons view option is not sufficient to help us to understand what all we have installed; more importantly their use. The InfoLister developed by Nickolay Ponomarev helps list all the addons, extensions, themes etc in a natty organised manner to help us understand why we installed the add on in the first place.

5. ListZilla

Like the InfoLister, ListZilla also does the job of listing the addons, themes, extensions etc that have been amended on your firefox. The difference here is the variety of outputs it offers. plain text, vB code, or HTML file which can be automatically linked to your webpage. So in case you loose a track of your firefox and it crashes, all you need to do is go to the website and download those addons to get your firefox back up and running.

6. RestartFirefox

RestartFirefox, developed by Jed Brown helps you restart firefox which is a very important function since Firefox importunes users with Restart Now messages when you have to integrate a new add on. This addon adds “Restart Firefox” menuitem to “File”, and a toolbar button for easy restarting.Now you can get all the addons, themes etc without actually restarting firefox!

7. UpdateNotifier

Developed by Todd Long, UpdateNotifier does another simple but very important task: notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. It also facilitates quick access to your extensions and themes and checks for both types for any updates. It is easily configurable for automatically installing updates when available and checking for updates when Firefox starts hence creating a more stable firefox.

8. Slim Extension List

Created by Caso Chassot, Slim Extension List helps in slimming your extension list by organising it. It abbreviates the extension so that items names in extension list shorter, hence you can see more at once. If required, it will also sort them. A good tool for firefox addon addict who has one too many to care fore at the same time.

In a race against time, we are always looking to save as much as possible; this is especially applicable to the Website development. A website needs to be developed as fast as possible without compensating on any of features that make it unique and stand out. This is where code snippets show their power. Code Snippet is a small region of re-usable code that are developed in specific modules in order to facilitate smooth integration in to programming. Here, we will show you where can you get the snippet to satiate your needs.

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Snipt

Snipt: the long term memory for coders! A jargon in the programming field in the sense that programmers manipulate memories through their codes. Snipt is a excellent database for CSS codes. The organisation is simple and complete with tags. You will never get entangled in between codes.

Snippets

A non commercial project by Jonas John which started in 2006 for storing snippets for PHP, CSS and XHTML. The website is very simple and jumps straight to the pith of the matter. No adverts or login or any kind of formality required to view the site. The site also has tags which helps in organising the site. There is a toplist icon which gives you statistics on the most used snippets . It also provides free PHP tutorials! The database contains 169 snippets until now and regularly gets updated.

GitHub

GitHub is a more sophisticated website, nonetheless fast and efficient. Its distributed version control system is best suited for collaborative software development. In GitHub argot, these projects are reffered to as fork projects.

As soon as you register, you can start your own fork project; but these projects under GitHub are public, open source projects. GitHub also supports projects by prerolled post commit hooks (IRC, Jabber, Email, Trac, Campfire, etc.) apart from the indigenous web hook system. Every database is supported by SSH for pushing and pulling functions. Private repositories enjoy full SSL support on the web side, as well.

Smipple

Smipple is a social service for saving, storing, organizing, and sharing snippets of code with your friends and coworkers. In a nutshell, a geek’s facebook, it also supports features like freinds. Instead of taking a dumb quiz to check how dumb you are, here you can actually improve your coding by competing with your friends. And like Smipple says “ Earn Bragging Rights!”

Snipplr

Snipplr is a CSS (and a whole lot of other programming languages) repository with an extended support in including code snippets in to their websites. It provides plugins for different conditions. Snipplr has an extensive database of snippets and allows user to upload, store and organise. All codes uploaded can be used by the public. You can also get a Snippler Tee if you design a plugin to incorporate snipplr codes. Swwwweeeeeeeetttttttt!

Stackoverflow

Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site. You are free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML for FREE. It is optional to register, but if you do you can start collecting Karma points by helping out others. Stack Overflow does not have a developer; it has a group of developers. If you get enough cookie points you can join the club; edit anything much like Wikipedia for codes.

Google Code Search

Google couldn’t keep its fingers out of this pie. Google has developed a search engine to rummage through the code world and get you the code you are looking for. It also has advanced search features where you can specify parameters like the language, license, packages, files and case sensitive to optimize your search results.

DevSnippets

DevSnippets is designed and maintained by the Noupe.com team. It is a public gallery where programmers can sumbit their code and design snippets, tutorials and latest trends in the design blogosphere. DevSnippets has amassed a large amount of code snippets and categorized them making them easy to find.

CodePlex

CodePlex is open source project hosting by the Microsoft thought they do not control any content on the website, just host it. It is well organised and provides statistics with code snippets. You can also start a project and get help from the community at CodePlex.

CodeCodex

CodeCodex is a free wiki for codes. Unlike Google Code Search, where you can just search the codes, here you can get involved with the code too. You can improve the code and Codecodex will take it in to its repository.

DZone

Well, one of the largest snippet storage sites with over 17000 users involved with the website. All Snippets uploaded are public source code. It is easy to tag and share with the whole community using DZone.

Koders

A fitting adversary for the Google Code Search engine. Koders.com, a venture of Black Duck Software Company, is a free on-line search engine for searching the open source software and other web-downloadable codes to succor your project. On a daily basis , over 30,000 users hit the search button on Koders which rifles through over 1 billion lines of codes which are written in over 30 different languages.

CodeSnippets

This a code snippet repository with a huge difference: If you don’t want to share, you can still upload it and keep it private where as other sites subject all snippet uploaded as public domain.

byteMyCode

byteMyCode is a project to help sharing codes in a more efficient way. It has modeled a community service around which you can find, share, revise, comment on, and rate code snippets. byteMyCode also augments it service by providing organizational tools to help you tag and store code snippets.

Krugle

Krugle Select is an updated version of Krugle which has supported over 3000 open source projects. It is highly sophisticated website and a resourceful website for coders who are looking for value added services such as feedbacks on projects, trouble shooting as well as adding the project to search databases so that every one can get access to their work.

Naslu

Naslu, self proclaimed best code snippet sharing application in the world is a free service which helps store and sharing of code snippets. It also provides search feature for any language, Link code snippets into external web pages and Reuse code snippets into various IDEs to just state the most frequently used. There a lot of features Naslu provides which cannot be matched by other online snippet storage sites.

There are lots of free downloadable extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and day by day demands are increasing . Somethings are better if they don’t get uninstalled from your firefox. In fact, they can make your firefox more efficient a. We give you the 15 Firefox addons that a CSS developer should think twice before uninstalling because they will make your life as a CSS Developer much easier :

Let me know, if i missed out any other valuable add-ons.

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1. Aardvark

Aardvark is a powerful and user-friendly selector utility that is used for selecting elements and performing various actions on them. For example: If you want to print this page, you can use this addon to get rid of unwanted elements. The more commonly used one is the feature to make the page more readable, as it makes it easier for analyzing the structure of a page.

Aadvark is very easy to use. You need to install the addon and then right-click on the page and select Start Aardvark from the popup menu. When you navigate through the mouse the page, a red rectangle will surface around the current block element, along with a label showing its type, and if they exist, its id, class, and style. Then you can perform various actions using your keyboard. For example: W to navigate wider, R to remove the element, I to isolate the element, V to view formatted source of that element, U to undo, Q to quit aardvark, and H for help, that is, a list of the 14 or so available keystrokes.

Aadvark is an extremely powerful new command for Javascript developers, that generates DOM code by selecting an element on a web page. It works well with Firefox compared to the other browsers.

Developer Site: http://karmatics.com/aardvark/

2. ChromEdit

chromEdit will not let you mess with Google Chrome. On the other hand, it is a simple user profile file editor. It gives access to various css scripts that you can implement in your website.

For example:

userContent.css which is used for adding user styles to the webpages.

userChrome.css is used for overriding UI style.

prefs.js to provide read only access.

user.js to make the changes in preference permanent.

Well, to add to it a basic ASCII editor suited for quick effect changes like disappearing styling menus would be possible. If you want to be more economical with time then a better approach would be selection by ID; though that requires DOM Inspector or XUL source knowledge.

Developer Site: http://cdn.mozdev.org/chromedit/

3. CSSMate

This addon has evolved the inline CSS Editing. This is a software which has been developed from EditCSS tool; in fact, all the extra features have been removed to create CSSMate. It can make each stylesheet load into a separate tab and has removed the save load clear functionality. An addon to this addon is the added in support for loading stylesheets that have a media type of "all" instead of "screen".

Developer Site: http://www.malard.co.uk

4. CSS Validator

It is always good to double check your work. With CSS Validator, you don’t have to do the double checking; the addon will do it for you! It validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. The steps to be followed to implement this are very simple. You just need to add an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. It will analyze and displays the results in a new tab. The only condition is that it will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated.

Developer Site: http://www.nu22.com/firefox/cssvalidator

5. CSS Viewer

CSSViewer is a simple addon to view the CSS page elements of a particular website. It is an addon to firefox. CSSViewer is actually an extension of a simple CSS property viewer.

Developer: Nicolas Huon

6. EditCSS

To be precise, EditCSS is a stylesheet modifier for sidebar. EditCSS makes this part really easy and well as intuitive attributed to its approach. It come with features like live inline previewing of styles and a unique grouping system, which is providing a lot of competition in this field because EditCSS is a bargain. Miscelleaneous features include CSS grabbing from other sites, favorites for often-used styles and font sets, etc.

Developer Site: http://editcss.mozdev.org

7. IE Tab

The perennial problem: If i design for IE how will it look in Mozilla and vice versa? Well, due to this glitch many of the website developers face they are not able to deliver solutions in time as it takes a lot of time to test in both browsers. Hence, the IE TAB addon in Mozilla will be a great tool for the web developing community as it will significantly reduce the time in testing and troubleshooting phase. This addon will display how the webpage will be displayed in IE with a single click and with another click, back to Firefox. Ahoy! This is not magic.

Developer Site: http://ietab.mozdev.org/

8. Style Sheet Chooser II

Style Sheet helps to keep your website in vogue. The Style Sheet Chooser II provides alternative styles for the website and implementthought the webpage. By installing this addon, the Style Sheet Chooser II will replace Firefox’s built-in style sheet switcher. This functionality can be accessed in Mozilla via the [View]->[Page Style] menu item, one-click stylesheet rotating Toolbar icon and Statusbar icon. Using Extension preferences, Icons by switched between On/Off.

Developer Site: http://wood.sandbox.cz/style-sheet-chooser

9. Firebug

Firebug is a holistic addon for Firefox. It adds a whole lot of tools for Firefox which helps you to access the development with a single click. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page! The “INSPECT” tool is the favorite tool of the developers. If you want to check any object in any website, all you need to is to click on the object and inspect it!

Developer Site: http://getfirebug.com/

10. YSlow

Y be Slow? Thats the exact question this addon is going to answer. In fact it is addon to addon. YSlow is a Firefox add-on to integrate with Firebug tool for Firefox. YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance which is based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. There are three predefined rulesets or a user-defined ruleset to test the performance of a page. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.

Developer Site: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

11. Webdeveloper Tool

This is an amazing developing tool. It adds more functionality to your firefox. It provides extra menu selections for using and disabling different cascading style sheets so you can test them out.

Developer Site: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

12. Dust-Me Selectors

Yet another useful addon for Firefox, the Dust-Me Selectors finds unused CSS selectors. It is compatible with only version greater than 1.5. The Dust-Me extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing. It then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are unused. Then this data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors are removed from the list as they’re encountered.

There are two modes of implementation: individual or spider an entire site, and in both cases you will get a details of selectors which are not used anywhere. In other words, they are dust and you can get rid of it.

Developer Site: http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/

13. CodeBurner

CodeBurner literally burns codes for programmers. An tool for Firebug, CodeBurner has become an indispensable tool for web developers. It displays syntax, code samples, and browser compatibility information in a small dock located at the bottom of the browser. The tool was was created for SitePoint by James Edwards, a Javascript pundit.

The latest version of CodeBurner which has been released does not rely on Firebug- in nerdy terms it’s a standalone extension, and for the early bird it comes bundled with a free book! Why don’t you go and get yours?

Developer Site: http://tools.sitepoint.com/codeburner

14. GridFox

GridFox is an extension that will overlay a grid on a selected website. It applies grid on top of any website you open in Firefox. The real use of GridFox is to customize, or allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.

GridFox is extremely easy to use. Once you had added it, right click on any website and select the GridFox menu and the addon will impose a grid on the website. You can then toy around with GridFox and fit it in your website.

Developer Site: http://www.puidokas.com/portfolio/gridfox/

15. CSS Usage

The CSS Usage addons allows you to quickly and securely inspect the CSS code behind a webpage, so that you can see which lines of that code are used.NOTE: The CSS Usage add-on is cross-platform and it works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Developer Site: http://spaghetticoder.org/cssusage/