Download Blog at download.com has come up with the list of top 10 FireFox Extension for year 2007. Must say they have done some real good research in picking up best ones.

Aptly describing extensions as grains of sand on beach, considering the huge number of FireFox extensions that are available now.

Anyway, here goes my top 5 List of FireFox extensions that rocked and got the users they deserve.

1. DownThemAll - This is one extension that can make life really ease if you are a download addict. It is a download manager that present you everything that is download-able on a given webpage. You can select the type of file, destination (more…)

Are you receiving tons of spam emails? Well, did you publish your email address on any webpage? If your answer is YES, then probably you will continue to get more and more spam emails. However there are ways which can help in stopping or reducing the spam you receive at a particular email address.

Whenever you publish your email ID on any webpage, ‘@’ character is the search target of number of spam bots roaming the web space. So if we eliminate ‘@’ character from email address some protection can be achieved and this brings to our first method in preventing an (more…)

Year 2007 could be the best and most productive year for Blogger. Finally Google took time and revamped lot of things on this blog publishing beauty. Besides celebrating its 8th birthday lot of new things came up. First Blogger Beta finally become ‘Blogger’ and old blogger was shut down.

Introduction of Custom domains was welcomed by all. It was goodbye to long URL like “Blogname.blogspot.com” and welcome to short & personalised domain names like “www.blogname.com”. Just buy a domain name and set your Blogspot/blogger blog to it. No need to buy hosting space for blog or images.

Then came integration of your blog photos and Picasa Web Album. See all your blog photos at one place at Picasa Web Album. (more…)

Google is all out to please cricket buffs. Now you can get LIVE Cricket scores on Google News Homepage (India). Be it any cricket match, anywhere in the world, you get all the latest information. Previously Google introduced Live Cricket Scores feature in Google Search results and now same has been introduced on Google News Homepage.

As seen in the image above, LIVE Cricket information will appear on top-right part of Google News page. You can also customize  contents on the page by using ‘customize this page’. (more…)

Snarl is a notification system that display cool alpha-blended messages on the screen. Unlike other forms of notification, Snarl does not hijack the current focused window, nor does it force the taskbar to be visible.

Also, notifications can either be cancelled by clicking on them, or left to disappear automatically if ignored for a period of time. Messages are extensible too as Snarl will notify the application which displayed the message if the user clicks it.

Snarl is a notification system inspired by Growl for Macintosh. Besides looking cool, notification box is quiet functional as well. Here is how the notification box will appear on desktop screen of your computer. (more…)

Google is doing some experiments with Orkut Privacy feature to “Search Orkut Profiles using Google Search”. Now your Orkut profile will be indexed by Google Search engine and will appear in results as ‘Orkut One Box’. A OneBox is a summary of your orkut profile, including key details like your name, photo and location.

Your information now public? Well not to worry, you have option to opt out of the search results and keep your profile ’safe and secure’. Also, profiles wont appear in search results if you are logged into Orkut account. Getting all confused??? Well, this should clear things out…

A OneBox Orkut Profile result appears only when someone who is logged in to orkut performs a search on Google.com for another orkut user.So, login into Orkut account and in the same window open (more…)