Get your own loader
Customize, generate and download funky web 2.0 ajax loading animations for free.
Steal Homer’s thunder
If you feel that you’re not taking advantage of your company’s broadband, watch the Simpsons movie online. You can also watch Disturbia, Boogyman, Knocked up and a few others here.
Body scare
Another great viral ad - open it up and click on a link… or just wait!
Axe - Let the game continue
Remember the Axe “Tickle the hot girl with a feather” ad viral that flooded your inbox a few years ago?
Here’s their latest over-the-top ad viral. Let the Game Continue!
Moving from Blogger to Wordpress
Naveen, a long time blogspot blogger and a buddy from school wants to move to Wordpress but is worried that he’ll lose his visitors. Here’s a way to move your posts while keeping your permalink structure intact and you SE rankings.
Move From Blogger To Wordpress and Maintain Permalinks And Traffic
Permalinks for wordpress on IIS
It’s taken me months to get this sorted, but I finally found a way to get nice, pretty permalinks for my wordpress installation in Microsoft’s web server IIS. Permalinks are natively supported by the Apache web server with a little help from the Mod_Rewrite module. Unfortunately there isn’t any equivalent module built into windows.
I downloaded the Wordpress URL rewrite plugin and it worked without any installation hassles whatsoever. Be warned though - you will need root access to your web server as the .dll needs to added to the ISAPI filters on IIS.
Hopefully the plugin works for Wordpress Mu - going to try that next.
Blog theft!
What do you do when someone grabs your RSS feed and uses it to feed content onto their own blog? If you’re using wordpress, you can try ©Feed - a plugin that adds a copyright signature to your RSS feed.
Get online videos onto your iPod
Check out Flvix, a new online service that lets you convert any video from Google Video or YouTube into the .MP4 format - so you can watch it on your iPod.
Tools for facebook
I’ve noticed increased activity on Facebook and declining activity on Orkut of late. So for all your facebook freaks, here you go:
Facebook Powertools: 150+ Apps, Scripts and Add-ons for Facebook
If you’re like me and can’t be bothered going though 150 apps, here’s someone who’s done all the work for you:
Essential Firefox extensions
If you use Firefox (which you really should!) you would know about the plethora of extensions available for it. Here’s a list of extensions I use with Firefox, and why:
Web Developer
That’s what I am, so this is an obvious extension for me! It add loads of useful web developer tools to Firefox. Every time I see something on the web that makes me think “hmm… wonder how that’s done?”, this toolbar gets me the answer much faster that looking through the source code!
FoxyTunes
Control your music player straight from the browser. Especially useful on slower PCs, when switching from the browser to maximize iTunes or Windows Media Player takes a good few seconds more than you can stand. Also has an alarm clock for your favourite morning song!
IE Tab
Some older websites (and newer ones designed by strange web developers) are designed only for Internet Explorer (Air Deccan, for instance). This lets you quickly switch a web page to use IE’s rendering engine.
ForeCastFox
Displays the local weather forecast in the status bar. Not very useful for me, but I like the pretty satellite images. 
DownThemAll!
Download manager. If you’ve got the bandwidth, this can increase the speed of a download by upto 400%. Supports resuming.
Google Toolbar for FireFox
Pop-up blocker, and all-in-one search tool. If you use Google extensively, this is a must-have.
Wizz RSS News Reader
Self-explanatory. Read my earlier post on why I prefer this over other news readers.
Gmail space
This lets you use your 2.5GB (and counting) Gmail space to store large files, without having to attach them and send them to yourself. It has a nice FTP-style interface.
SiteAdvisor
This one from Mcafee helps to keep your PC spyware free by warning you about dangerous websites. Integrates with Google search results.
FoxyMeter
Tells you how many pages you have surfed so far, and other information. Mine tells me that I’ve surfed 58414 pages since September 22nd 2006, at 768 pages per day. I really do need to get out more.
This list is by no means exhaustive - they are only the extensions I have come to find useful. You can download hundreds of extensions from the Firefox Add-ons site. Also see what Download.com and PC Magazine have to say about it. Remember that installing too many extensions can slow your system down, depending on it’s configuration. This dude installed 100 firefox extensions at the same time just to see what would happen. Wonder what he was tripping on!
What’s the extension you cannot do without?
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