Fastdial

Ok, Fastdial does need a special mention because it’s awesome. I decree that you all use it.

Developed by the lovely people at User Logos (I think) fastdial lets you put together a homepage with links to all the sites which you frequently use. Effectively these are a set of bookmarks displayed visually by a series of icons and logos. Mine are all sorted in to categories because I’m really cool. The User Logos site has icons and well, logos for just about anything that you could possibly imagine and so you can make your whole page look awesome. Which is incredibly satisfying if you’re a perfectionist like me.

The second shot is of my social networks & communications folder – most of the online communities I’ve found my self associated with in some way. Anyway, appreciate the awesome logos and the fact that it’s better than yours.

Notice as well the lack of clutter on menu bars at the top of my firefox – I can never understand why people have a ridiculous number of menus with things they never use. I figured I paid for my screen so I may as well use it.

Firefox Add-ons #1

Firstly, You need Firefox obviously, as I believe we established. Now clearly some of you aren’t paying attention because the FF market share is at just over 20% – which is progress but leaves room for improvement.

Now you need the following add-ons:

And Now we’re getting somewhere! In the whitest possible way, my firefox is totally pimped out. It’s not especially flashy or anything, I can’t really abide tacky skins – it’s just incredibly functional and lets me do what I need to incredibly quickly. I don’t tend to realise how good it is until I have to use the intertubes on someone else’s computer!

I don’t feel the need to explain the purpose of all of the above seeing as it’s mostly self explanatory and if you’re remotely interested it’d be so much easier to just click on the links. So do it!

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