9. August 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

A friend of mine sent me a really neat plug-in for just about all of the main browsers.

It’s called PicLens. What it does, is take images and videos on the web, puts them into categories.  Allows you to search for videos and images. Allows shopping products from Amazon. Keeps you up to date on the news. It does all of this, by putting your screen in a 3D mode, or the appearance of 3d. It may not help you do a lot of work, but it sure does look nice and it’s a pretty neat program to have.

Best part about it, is it’s free.

Download here  http://www.piclens.com/

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25. July 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

I was looking at my bookmarks today, and it dawned on me that I have over 2000 online accounts. I have them all it seems, file storage, photo storage /share, document storage /share, virtual desktops, web portals for different things. Not to mention all the forums I belong to. Do I really need all of these? No, but some how I can’t say no the the webs free sites.

My question, which I will try to answer latter, is which of these accounts can I get rid of? Do I really need 5 photo hosting and sharing sites? etc… My goal is to get rid of some of my bookmarks. The only way I can do that is to transfer all the data to one type of account, and dare I say it, pay for the site? Yes I know you get what you pay for, but so far I have had few problems with any of the free online accounts.

So now do I take 4 years of stuff I have saved and move it, delete it or just don’t log back into those accounts again?
What are your favorites and what ones could you live without?

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15. July 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Thanks to the reader who gave me the link to the new update, I must say after only a few days, I am back loving Sxipper.
If for no other reason, it makes my day easier again, and there are no more annoying bugs or at least I have not found any yet. I am sure the people who make Sxipper will have newer things coming our way in the future. I look forward to it.

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12. July 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

After using Sxipper for about 2 months, I find that there are a few quirks in it. One being if someone who has a higher trainer ranking then you do, you can not retrain a form or login area. Another is it will pop up after you have already logged in to an account. Not a big deal only happens every once in a while but still annoying. Biggest quirk IMO is it wants to log into every page that has a login area, even when your just browsing. I still do like it, however I will be looking for a new fourm, passwork manager over the next few weeks.

Edited on July 12, 2008

After trying the new version, I have yet to have any problems with Sxipper! Thanks to the poster for the link

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3. July 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

There are so many new and hacked applications (software) out
that it’s hard to keep up. What I recommend for those of you who are looking
for something special is to subscribe to the RSS feeds of a few sites. One
would be Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/
if you have questions or would like to ask a question then sign up and they
will try to help. This is a free site, and I have learned a ton of stuff from
them. Keep in mind when I use the word hacked or hacker I am referring to
making a program work better, not hacking into someone’s files or
computer. Another good site for new
applications is App Scout http://www.appscout.com/ which is also a reader friendly place. If you’re
a fan of Gmail then a must have is Google Operating Systems http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
Tons of info on all the things you can access through your Gmail account. Don’t
have Gmail? Get it, it’s free and it’s really simple to use. If you’re new to Firefox
then you need to check out the add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/ the last site that is Ghacks, http://www.ghacks.net/ Sometimes with this
one I get system overload in my mind. However it’s a great site as well.

These are just a few sites I subscribe to their RSS feeds,
in order for me to keep up to date on what’s new. There are more, but these sites
so far have given me more information that I have used then any others. Keep in
mind there are more sites that are great, these are just my top 4, for this category.

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22. June 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Having used this for over a week, it’s very helpful.However as good as it is, it sometimes can be a pain. Of course, part of the problem is me, since I did not read the how too. Today I went back in and fixed the things that I should have set up the first time, and have had no problems so far. It allows you to manage a few different profiles, so if you are into a few different things on the web like I am you can manage those web forms using different profiles, without closing Firefox.
There are some other good web form fills that are really good, however since using this, I think I may uninstall robo, and stick with Sxipper.

Thanks to Adam at Lifehacker who turned me on to this! http://lifehacker.com/

Plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4865

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17. June 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0/

If you have an ftp client you can download FireFox 3 now. If not you will have to wait till it’s loaded on to there regular site.

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17. June 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

If you have an ftp client you can download FF3 now

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0/

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16. June 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

Sxipper is a great password manager as well as filling in forms. The form fill can use some help, unless you have the time to set it up right. However for me it’s the password manager that does it.

Better Gmail 2 enough said, works great! You can add skins, signatures and macros.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer I have been using this since the first version, there is nothing better for a person who uses more then one computer, or for a person who use’s friends computers. You can sync your bookmarks, or if your at a friends just sign into you’re free account and all you’re bookmarks are there.

Digg if you use Digg then you know what this one’s all about. If not no need to explain.

Open it Online allows you open up just about anything online. No need to install software. Plus can help prevent downloading any type of trogans, etc.

Adblock Plus gets rid of those annoying ads and banners. Speeds up page loads.

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12. June 2008 by Patrick Budowski.

The folks over at Mozilla just came out with a release date for FireFox 3,  it will be Tuesday June 17th.  For those of you who do not know what Firefox is, my question to you is have you been living in a cave?  Firefox IMO is the best browser around. Plus it’s free and has so many free plug-ins.

Download date is June 17th.

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