03.26.07
Addictive typing lessons
Author: Tom Kennedy
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/creativetom2001/addictive_typing_lessons.html
Version: 1.1.1
Works with: 1.5+
Learn touch typing, or improve your typing.
Each of the 27 lessons generates an endless number of one-line drills.
A timer starts at the first letter typed and stops at the end of a line.
Your wpm(words per minute) and errors count are shown after each drill.Saves your best-ever scores and your 15 most recent scores for each lesson.
To open the program, click the keyboard icon in the status bar.
You will lose your scores from the previous version of Addictive Typing Lessons, sorry.
Now has a customizable lesson, so you can use it to learn the top row keys, or the Dvorak layout, or the Qwertz layout.
You can also paste in your own collection of words to type from.
A Purplebunny!
Author: Jerry Liu
Homepage: http://www.purplebunny.com/
Version: 1.0
Works with: 1.0 – 1.5.0
With a PurpleBunny, you can quickly and easily read and write comments about the web page you’re viewing. You can praise a page, ask a question, read comments about an entire site, discuss the content of a web page with other web surfers — the possibilities are endless!
PurpleBunny stores these comments in a centralized location for easy access, and the handy toolbar alerts you when a page you’re viewing has comments. Using PurpleBunny is like writing notes for future readers in the margin of a library book, but without messing up the original material! Plus, it’s more organized — PurpleBunny groups comments by web site, and you can also sort all comments or search for specific keywords.
1-ClickWeather
Author: Stacy – weather.com
Homepage: http://www.weather.com
Version: 1.1.4
Works with: 1.0+
Because weather is important to you everyday… weather.com offers you instant local weather conditions, alerts, radar in motion, satellite maps, and forecasts all within your Firefox browser.
1-ClickWeather enables users to quickly view current weather conditions and up to 5 days of forecast information within the browser and allows for instant access to detailed and customized weather content through clickable icons. All weather data in provided by weather.com.
In addition, the extension features color coded severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service and links to unique features available from weather.com.
All of the weather information displayed by 1-ClickWeather relates to a user-selected geographic location. This information includes:
Weather Videos – pre-selected weather video from weather.com. Choices include Top Story, Severe Weather Outlook, European travel forecast, US national forecast or a choice of one of four US regional forecasts.
Radar – animated in-motion Doppler radar image pre-selected by the user from one of nine US regions.
Satellite – satellite map pre-selected by the user for a defined international geographic region. Choices include Europe, Russia, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Quick Launch – up to 16 user-defined quick launch links to unique content on the weather.com website, including local 36-hour forecasts, local 10-day forecasts and links to customized lifestyle content such as Personal PetCasts, Baseball Game Day Forecasts and PollenCasts.
03.23.07
StumbleUpon Toolbar
Author: Geoff Smith
Homepage: http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Version: 3.0.4
Works with: 1.0+
“Next time you want to wander the Web, forget about Googling it. Stumble it.”
The Wall Street Journal“Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users”
BBC World“Ranked one of the 100 Best Products of the Year. When you click a toolbar button in Firefox, it will transport you to a random site that fits your preferences.”
PC World
03.22.07
Poker Eval
Author: Poker eval
Homepage: http://www.poker-eval.com/
Version 1.2
Works with: 1.5+
This tool helps improve your performance at playing poker by evaluating hands.
The evaluation is performed by dealing thousands of hands and comparing against the hand you set.
The extension requires the java plugin to be installed and enabled.
NBA Scoreboard 2007
Author: Ryan Linneman
Version 1.40
Works with: 1.5+
Get today’s scores and news from the NBA.
NBA Scoreboard takes you directly to:
> NBA.com Scoreboards (today, yesterday and previous)
> Boxscores (today and yesterday)
> Recaps (today and yesterday)
> Previews (today)
> Team News with integrated RSS feeds
> Current NBA standingsThere are also heaps of other features:
> NBA Scoreboard Lite
> NBA Leaderboard
> NBA Scoreboard Media Player
> NBA Courtside Live LauncherJust place the NBA Scoreboard button on your toolbar. With comprehensive options to choose from, you are one click away from all the action of the NBA.
[Basketball scores are provided by NBA.com]
NBA Scoreboard decides which scores to load based on your computer’s regional settings, so the scores are always up to date.
Foxytunes
Homepage: http://www.foxytunes.com/
Version 2.2.5
Works with: 1.5+
Extension that allows you to control your media player through a small status bar panel. I didn’t find much use for this extension, Mostly because i use windows media player and i have the toolbar to control it, Although i throughly recommend it for anyone who is using an alternative player.
Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web?
Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...
Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.
