Blogging is now easier with ScribeFire! This application is a Mozilla Firefox plugin, which embeds advanced blogging functionalities into a simple applet. With the latest release of version 1.4.2, it has, no doubt, come with several improvements and enhancement.

• * Close button has been restored
• * Clicking on a blog name opens in new tab, not window
• * Blogs have their URL as tooltip in the blog listing
• * Displays “View blog” button after publishing
• * “Publish” button now contains blog name
• * Firefox 3 Support (Alpha 7)
• * Tag sort is now case-insensitive
• * New locales

If you are one who often browse the web, or constantly write blogs, ScribeFire is definitely the choice for you. The plugin can be downloaded from the Mozilla Add-on here.

Google has once again released another incredible product, known as Google Gears (BETA). This software is an open source browser extension that allows web applications to provide off-line functionality using the following JavaScripts APIs:

• - Store and serve application resources locally
• - Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
• - Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

As this is still currently an early release (beta release), it is important to pay attention to the warning dialogs and gain access to trusted websites only. Also, it is not advised to deployed on production machines.

Google Gears Beta supports Windows XP/Vista, Mac and Linux operating systems, on browsers, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+ and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Download Extension
Google Gears

The current release of SoftSift’s Thumbnail Summary plugin 1.3 contains one bug fix to some users running WordPress on servers with PHP 5.1.x installed.

Change Log:

1. Changed the image quality for png from 100 to 9, this should work with all PHP versions

The error was found to be function imagepng() being used differently in two PHP versions. For example, you might get the error

“…Fatal error: imagepng() [<a href='function.imagepng'>function.imagepng</a>]: gd-png: fatal libpng error: zlib error in …”

The latest version should fix that problem.

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Vista Firefox 2 Beta 0.50 is a theme for Firefox 2, modelled after Windows Vista Explorer. The previous version was taken over by Miamoto to recreate a new look of this theme.

As of yet, it is in no way a complete theme; Thee beta version (0.42), released earlier by *solidfilter, was roughly incomplete and Miamoto has taken over he task of completing the theme. Hence, from now onwards, all beta versions will be released by Miamoto.

Installation Instruction

1. Download the file below and save it to your Desktop.
2. From the Firefox browser, click on Tools>Add ons>.
3. Click on Themes.
4. Click and Drag the .jar file to the Add-ons windows.
5. The theme will automatically be installed.

Download Link
Vista Firefox 2 Beta 0.50

Yahoo! Friend is Yahoo! Messenger plugin that let users increase their chatting experience. It makes chatting more funny with a lot of cool emoticons and windows effects.

Features

• #Send very cool emoticons to your friends and make them surprised!
• #Let your friends will always see your emoticons even they don’t have this software installed because it’s all about the font, Wingdings and Webdings – default fonts of Windows.
• #Hear the incoming messages from your friends now!!!
• #Make your friends surprised with Auto Reply!!! (Idea from nBee)

Download Link
Yahoo! Friend 1.1.4

Synchronising between Microsoft Outlook and Google calendar in-sync is now easier with gSyncit. Developed by David Levinson, gSyncit is installed as a small toolboar in Microsoft Outlook, and users are able to configure gSyncit and synchronise the calendars with Google calendar.

gSyncit works by updating your Microsoft Outlook calendar with your Google calendar entries and then updating your Google calendar with your Microsoft Outlook entries. All appointments that occurred in the past 365 days and those that will occur in the next 365 days will be synchronized. The latest version now supports read-only synchronization with additional public and private Google calendars.

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Create a slideshow of your own pictures as MSN Messenger avatars, while chatting with your friends. To do that, you can use MSN Pictures Displayer. Even if the contacts have not installed MSN Pictures Displayer, they can still see the slideshows created with MSN Pictures Displayer.

Note that, only 96×96 thumbnails are stored in the slideshows. After saving it, it will not be able to restore to original full picture. Thus, it is advised that users keep a copy of the original pictures.

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MSN Pictures Displayer 4.3.0.2

This is another Firefox theme that resembles the look of Windows Vista, with a black background polish. The Firefox 2 Vista Black Beta consists of a Vista glass sidebar meter.

The theme is almost quite closely related to the previous Vista theme which I have posted here. Check out the installation instruction below.

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For those who occasionally use MSN Messenger to chat, you might see lots of emoticons, or often known as smileys, used by fellow contacts. How would it be like to use some of them too? My Emoticons 5.1 is a collection of free emoticons which you can use for MSN Messenger.

In this collection of smileys, there are several different categories to choose from, ranging from Bad Boys, Romance, Girlie and even cheeky Rude emoticons. Available as a freeware, it is know to be free of adware and spyware, as according to the site.

Requirement:

• MSN Messenger

The installation is rather straightforward, as everything is quite automatic. Hundreds of new emoticons are installed for you in your MSN Messener upon installation.

Download Link
My Emoticons 5.1

Most people might just think that Google simply produces the best search engine and probably provides the best email service (GMail). However, do not forget they do develop some nice applications. One of that is Google Web Accelerator. This application makes use of the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster.

The software is relatively easy to use. Users only have to download the software and install it. The remaining of the task is just automatic. From then on, many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

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