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Send Photos & Videos Directly From iOS Keyboard With QuickPhoto

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When it comes to  jailbreak tweaks, there are ones like FullForce, FolderEnhancer, Winterboard themes et al that significantly alter or enhance your user experience, and then there are one-trick pony tweaks that subtly change one very specific part of your operating system to get one thing done right. Developed by CocoaNuts - the folks who developed the RageBoard keyboard add-on - QuickPhoto is a recently launched jailbreak tweak that's a good example of the latter. It allows you to add photos and videos from local albums to your message compose box directly, much like the Emoji keyboard that you can enable from Settings > General > Keyboard. Check out our hands-on look at it after the jump. Read More

Add Rage Faces & Memes To iPhone Keyboard With RageBoard

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Rage faces have been all the rage since memes became mainstream from being a mere niche interest of 4chan, tumblr and reddit users. Lately, they have been quickly gaining popularity in messaging apps, but you have to go through a lot of steps before you can insert one into your next text. iOS apps like SMS Rage Faces allow you to copy rage faces to your clipboard and then paste them into your messaging app, but it’s a bit too much of a hassle. What if, like inserting Emoji, you could insert rage faces into messages directly from your iOS keyboard? Well, there’s a jailbreak tweak on Cydia for that! Read More

Collusion: A Firefox Add-on Allowing You To Visually Track Your Online Activity

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If you’ve enabled cookies on your browser, the online activity undertaken is usually sent from websites to third-party tracking websites. This creates a network of company-tracker linked list, which can be used to construct your long-term usage history. Although this is a major privacy concern by some, Collusion, an experimental Firefox add-on, lets you access this information for better and safer activity. Moreover, understanding the concept of intricate dependencies within websites has been simplified by the user-friendly animated layout coupled with relevant information displayed on the sidebar. Using this add-on, you can easily identify websites using third-party cookies, to track your activity while monitoring a spider-web of data dependencies, which motivates you to further pursue your online interests. Read More

OpinionCloud Creates A Word Cloud To Summarize YouTube & Flickr Comments [Chrome, Firefox]

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Comments on popular services like Flickr and YouTube can be quite useful when you want to find out what the crowd thinks about a particular video or photo, but at the same time, too many comments can make things complicated, especially if they span multiple pages. OpinionCloud, a Chrome extension and Firefox Add-on, changes the way you read user comments on YouTube and Flickr. It does this by summarizing comments into a negative and positive word cloud of sorts, providing an overview of the overall public opinion. The bigger the word, the more common its occurrence is, and the colors denote positive or negative points of view. Moreover, clicking one of the words pulls up a list of related comments. All of this appears underneath the video, and you can easily toggle the keywords on and off by clicking the OpinionCloud button. With it, you can simply  and look at decent videos and photos that actually interest you. Read More

Tab Badge: View Count Of Unread Items For Pinned Tabs In Firefox

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Recently, we covered a Chrome extension called Icon Badger that displays a count of unread messages or items on the favicons of various popular websites for pinned tabs. Tab Badge is a similar add-on for Firefox that adds a small badge to your tabs to alert you, for instance, when you have new messages and notifications on websites like Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and others. The add-on makes the badge visible even when the tab is pinned, so you can always see when something new comes up. Moreover, you can access the Options to change the background and foreground color for the badge. Read More

Browsizer: Customize & Switch Between Different Window Sizes [Firefox]

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Browsizer allows you to switch between different window sizes and positions through the toolbar. If you like to have your web browser at a certain size for certain tasks, then this add-on can be quite useful.  By default, this Firefox add-on has three preconfigured dimensions, viz., 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. These can either be deleted, or you can add new ones. The add-on is fully customizable, and the dimensions are displayed right next to the address bar. Simply right-click the dimension in the toolbar to access all other dimensions in a tiny pop-up, select one, and the browser window will instantly switch to the selected size. Read More

Transform The Location Bar Into A Breadcrumb Display [Firefox]

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Location Bar Enhancer changes the location bar of Firefox into a Breadcrumb display, with rich and interactive features. This handy add-on displays the URL in a Breadcrumb trail manner, with visual tags for easy identification, and also provides an easy to access context menu for each part. With it, you can quickly access the original URL in plain text, either by clicking the right of the last part, or Ctrl+ hover your mouse over any part. Moreover, each part can be dragged and dropped to any location, for instance, the Bookmarks toolbar, Bookmarks folder, tab, desktop or any other folder. The add-on also Includes a feature for detecting and replacing gibberish parts of the URL with meaningful text. Furthermore, the options allow you to fully customize the add-on according to your preference. Read More

Switch To Different Screen Modes With Full Screen Plus [Firefox]

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Full Screen Plus, a Firefox add-on, allows you to switch between full-screen, full-screen with navigator bar, maximized window or restored window from any other window state. If you like to have your web browser at a certain size for certain tasks, then this add-on can be quite useful. The add-on adds eight small buttons right next to the address bar, but users can also add a one large button to switch between the two different full screen modes. After installing this add-on, right-click the six buttons to change the pattern and layout. You can either display four buttons or one large button at a time. It also allows you to move a particular Firefox window to another monitor without having to drag it. Read More

Firefox 10: Now With Add-on Compatibility, Full-Screen Web Apps, UI Tweaks & More [Download]

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Firefox 10 is now available for download, with some major improvements and changes. The new version automatically hides the Forward button until you navigate back, and supports full-screen APIs for web apps and utilities that can use the entire display. Moreover, add-on compatibility is now supported by default. Mozilla has also designed the ESR feature (Extended Support Release) for companies and organizations that can not keep up with the rapid new version release, after every six weeks. The ESR releases will only increase by a minor version, whenever Firefox’s standard version goes through a major version update. Read More

Side Tabs Arranges Tabs In A Vertical Toolbar [Firefox]

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Side Tabs is a Firefox add-on that arranges tabs in a vertical rather than horizontal fashion. It’s a cosmetic change for those of you who prefer to have tabs cascaded along the side of the browser window. You might not favor it if you’re working on a small or relatively small screen but for larger screens, it’s better than having the tabs at the top where the title, at some point, will be truncated. It simply moves your tabs to the left side of your browser, and is great for widescreen monitors or for people who keep many tabs open at the same time. Using the default tabs in Firefox can be frustrating when you have 20 or more open tabs, and have to scroll back and forth in the tab bar to find the right one. With Side Tabs, tab management and access is easier. Recently, we covered a similar add-on, Tab Sidebar Reloaded, which was more advanced and had more features, giving each tab history, reload and stop options, and displaying website thumbnails in the sidebar. Side Tabs provides the same functionality but with fewer options; however, it should be noted that the add-on is intentionally very minimalistic, and is intended for users who want to keep things simple. The add-on provides the option to position the tabs at the right of the screen but it defaults to the right. Read More

Best 150 Browser Extensions And Web Apps Of 2011 [Editor's Pick]

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Whether you use a Mac or a Windows PC, you’re still using the same internet. Your online peeves, annoyances and frustrations are similar, and you are likely to look for the same kind of services and apps. In 2011, we covered hundreds of web apps, and extensions for Chrome and Firefox. Some aimed to help you find simple solutions, like printing only relevant parts of a web page, while others helped you design webpage mockups. Here’s a round up of the best web apps and extensions we covered last year. Read More

Play All YouTube Videos In A Specified Default Quality [Firefox]

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YouTube plays videos in 360p by default, and in 480p when videos are viewed in full screen. Some users with limited bandwidth might prefer to view YouTube videos in low quality, while others may always like to watch their videos in HD. Users who want to watch videos in a different resolution have to change the quality every time they watch a new video. This whole process involves a lot of unnecessary clicking. Youtube Video Quality Manager, an add-on for Firefox, can be of great help for all such users, as it allows them to set a different default quality, and this pre-specified quality is then automatically set on all YouTube videos, provided that the particular resolution is available. All you have to do is click the Q icon in the status bar and, select a your desired, predefined quality. Read More

Google Search Link Fix: View Actual Links For Google Search Results [Firefox]

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Google Search Link Fix is a Firefox add-on that prevents Google search from modifying result links when clicked. Google search changes the result link to something different instead of showing you the actual URL, and this can be quite frustrating, as even when you right-click a link, you get some gibberish instead of the actual link. Google Search Link Fix disables this behavior on any Google domain, and allows you to view and copy the actual links. All you need to do is install the add-on, and get rid of this annoying behavior. Read More

Facebook Auto-Logout Expires Session 60 Seconds After Tab Is Closed [Firefox]

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Have you ever logged into Facebook from a public computer and then forgotten to log out? As careful as you are, this is something that can happen to anyone. Even if you deligently log out of all sites you’re signed in to whenever you get up from a computer, the chance that you might forget is still there.  It isn’t just public computers that you have to be careful about; if you share a computer with a family member or often check your Facebook account at work then leaving your account logged in can be detrimental. Facebook Auto-Logout, a very simple but handy Firefox add-on, easily circumvents this by logging you out of Facebook automatically after a predefined period of inactivity, defaulting at a minute after you close your Facebook tab, or when you completely quit Firefox. All Facebook cookies are removed, so you're not traceable at least by these cookies, and the best part is that you don’t have to go through any options or settings - it just works automatically! Read More

Translate Menu: Translate Webpages & Terms via Right-Click Context Menu [Firefox]

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Firefox is truly feature rich and while people who use other browsers will argue otherwise, it’s hard to deny that this browser isn’t good or that developers prefer it over most other browsers. While the browser is great, it’s ‘differentiated’ from others by the excess or lack of a few features. In Chrome, if you visit a webpage that isn’t in your local language, it automatically asks you if you want to translate it and works with Google Translate to give you a hint of what the page is about. Firefox does not have a translate option. Translate Menu, a Firefox add-on, translates text that you select to almost any other language. It supports a very large number of languages, which means people of different origins can use this add-on for a better browsing experience. Just select the Translate This Page option from the right-click context menu. With this add-on, you don’t have to copy and paste the text or link to any other website, such as Google Translate. Read More

All-in-One Sidebar: Quickly Access Bookmarks, History & More [Firefox]

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Want to see all your bookmarks, history, downloads, add-ons and more in a single pane?  All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is a Firefox add-on that adds a slim sidebar to the left side of your browser that not only provides quick access to bookmarks, history, downloads and add-ons, but also lets you view website information and entire websites, all without having to obscure your view of the main browser window. You can click on the left edge of the sidebar to hide or expand it, or set it to expand automatically when the mouse hovers over the left edge of the browser window, and hide when the cursor moves away. The sidebar is fully customizable. You can align it to the left or right of the browser, adjust its width, customize individual panels and assign keyboard shortcuts to each. Read More

Quickly View & Download Original Flickr Images With Flickr Original [Firefox]

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Flickr Original, a Firefox add-on, allows you to quickly view and download original Flickr images. You no longer need to go through the lengthy and time consuming process of downloading images by using the Save Image As option. The add-on adds View Original Flickr Image and Download Original Flickr Image options to the right-click context menu. So, whenever you want to view or download a Flickr image in its original form, just double right-click it, and use these two basic options from the context menu. Read More

Tab Mix Plus Enhances Firefox’s Tab Browsing Capabilities

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Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox add-on that enhances your browsing experience by letting you customize tabs. It features a large number of options, such as tab duplication, reloading, closing, renaming, merging, focus, undo closed tabs and much more. Furthermore, you can use your scroll wheel to browse tabs or control tab switching. There is even an option that prevents annoying blank tabs when you download files. In addition to that, it also shows warning messages when you are about to close a tab or window. The add-on does not only improve the browser's tab capabilities, but also features its own robust session manager with crash recovery. Read More

Tile Tabs For Firefox Displays Multiple Websites In A Single Tab

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Hate switching between multiple tabs while working on something? Tile Tabs, a Firefox add-on, allows you to display multiple websites in a single tab without switching between multiple windows and tabs. Click the arrow on the button to open a context menu with tile tab options. Using this, you can tile tabs, tile new tabs, tile duplicate tabs and assign tabs. Furthermore, you can also expand tiles and choose a layout from the list. Clicking the Tile Tab, Tile New tab and Tile Duplicate Tab options opens a submenu with options to add the tab at the top, bottom, left or right of the currently selected tab. The add-on lets you display three, four or even more websites in a single tab. In order to remove a tile, click Untile Tab, and to go back to the normal mode, click the Tile Tab button once. Read More

Open Links In Private Browsing Mode From Right-Click Menu [Firefox Add-on]

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The need for privacy is pretty basic for just about everyone (unless you’re a reality TV star, then it doesn’t matter) and privacy is all the more important when it comes to your online activity and there are always situations when the HTTPS protocol doesn’t cut it. At times like this, browsing in private mode is the best option since it stops the browser from saving your browsing session, accepting cookies or tracking your browsing history. Open in Private Browsing Mode is a Firefox add-on that is designed to open links in private browsing mode when right-clicked. When you come across a link you'd like to open, but privacy is a concern, this add-on can come in handy. Just right-click a link and select Open in Private Browsing mode, and Firefox will switch its function, launching the link you selected with it. Read More