Byron Adams has developed an extension for Firefox that allows language translation while browsing the web pages, known as translator. The latest release has a couple of new changes.

Change Log

• · Google Translation
• · Yahoo! Babelfish
• · PROMT
• · freetranslation.com
• · Altavista
• · Im translator

The requirement for this extension is a Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.x - 2.0.x. Note that, the extension is also compatible with Flock version 0.4 - 0.8.

Download Link
translator 1.0.3.5

Want to know what Google ads might be displayed on a particular web page? Try Adsense Preview 1.0.1, a free tool from Yellowpipe Internet Services. This small utility tool is a Firefox extension that allows users to preview Google advertisements showing on any web page.

With just a few clicks, the ads which may appear on the your browser will appear. This is also quite helpful when making a decision to design a web page with Google ads embedded within.

Support ad formats

• * Leaderboard (728×90)
• * Banner (468×60)
• * Button (125×125)
• * Skyscraper (120×600)
• * Wide Skyscraper (160×600)
• * Square (250×250)
• * Medium Rectangle (300×250)
• * Large Rectangle (336×280)

The above listed are ad formats that are currently supported by Adsense Preview. An official preview tool for Internet Explorer is also available. See the download link below.

Download Link
Adsense Preview 1.0.1 (Firefox extension)
Official Google Adsense Preview Tool (for Internet Explorer)

For Macintosh users, if you are using Safari, you may like to have this Creamonkey 0.8 plugin to go with it. Creammonkey add Greasemonkey like user scripting to Apple Safari, which is implemented as an InputManager bundle.

However, do note that Creammonkey is not necessarily 100% compatible with Greasemonkey since the JavaScript implementation in Safari is not compatible with Firefox. Therefore, some Greasemonkey specific functions are not available in Creammonkey.

Latest Change Log

• * Execute script when DOM is ready, don’t wait loading of all images and other resources.
• * Don’t cache local scripts.
• * Support Accept-Encoding.

Download Link
Creammonkey 0.8

Videos hosted on YouTube can’t be downloaded directly onto your PC, unless you use some special software to extract the video content. Downtube 2.0 is one such application that allows users to download video from YouTube. Available in three basic languages, i.e. English, Spanish and Portuguese, Downtube provides an alternative to watch the video offline.

As video content from YouTube are basically flash movies, therefore video can only be viewable through a flash player. However, DownTube offers other means to let you watch them.

Key Features

• · Download the videos and watch them later using the “Video Manager”. A simple two clicks automates all the necessary procedures. No external plugins or programs are needed.
• · Provide video conversional directly into MPEG format with no boring and complex set-up actions. Other external programs to convert into VideoCD are not necessary.
• · Bring YouTube directly into your cellular phone. A 3GP converter allows the conversion of videos to a format thoroughly compatible with cell phones.
• · Support download resume.
• · If you do not want to open your internet browser to watch a video again, users can watch it from inside your Downtube.

Both Linux and Windows platforms are available.

Download Link
Downtube 2.0

Ever since Adobe Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux was released last month, this has spark a great interest from users from the Linux communities to push forth the development of this Flash 9 for Linux. The good news is Adobe® Flash® Player 9 Update Beta 2 is now released at Adobe Labs. This is a beta version, and is under development. The good thing, is that it has been made available for developers and end-users to test out the content to ensure compatibility with most flash playbacks.

The Flash Player beta is available in all languages; however, the beta installers are only in English. Note that, the beta downloads are also available for the Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ and Linux platforms.

Several issues have been fixed, but there are some remaining known issues yet to be resolved. More information are available in the release note.

I have listed out a step-by-step instruction to install Flash Player 9 for Linux below. It doesn’t even take a minute to get it working.

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Now, Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28 for Mac OS X has been released. Adobe Flash Player is a high performance, light weight and highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experience across major operating system platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.

Adobe Flash Player version 9 was first released for Windows systems only. Recently, Linux community also managed to get glimpse of the power of version 9 through the beta release. Macintosh users shouldn’t be left out too, and hence this release is made for Mac OS X users.

Download Flash Player 9 now.

At first when Google announced Google Earth, we thought there is no way any other major enterprise is able to do that. However, within a short time, Microsoft revealed their ultimate tool to challenge that - Microsoft Virtual Earth. Integrated with Local Live, Microsoft Virtual Earth is not just a replicate of Google Earth; beside creating a mapping from an aerial view, it also has enhanced its capability and visual with 3D sights, capable of looking in a three-dimensional way.

Local Live also integrates mapping, together with globe-exploring services, and additional capability to zoom around the three-dimensional planet, looking from different angles. Unlike Google’s 3D views with grey boxes representing building structures, Microsoft Virtual Earth’s 3D visual look is highly photo-realistic.

As the Virtual Earth has their own apps, the service will have an API, and basically, if you want to hear the disappointment side, well, it works only in Internet Explorer.

So, if you don’t believe a word I say about Microsoft Virtual Earth, and still insisting that Google Earth is better, you might as well check it out yourself.

External Link
Free 3D Download

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5 is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox, support versions from 1.0 to 3.0a1. This little tool is pretty useful if you are one who opens a lot of tabs on your Mozilla browser. It has the capability to enhance Firefox’s tab browsing functionalities with features such as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, and more…

Providing a full-featured session manager, it also includes crash recovery functionality which allows users to save and restore various combinations of opened tabs and windows.

Note that, Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5 is only available in en-US locale. More other locales will be added, as according to the developer. If there is any query, do not hesitate to access the forum to post your query, or find out more.

Download Link:
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5

For web browsers, if you talk about plug-ins or add add-ons, most of the time you would refer to Mozilla Firefox, and perhaps Opera somtimes, but never Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, with the release official release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft has launched an surprise news to the public that there are add-ons available for Internet Explorer 7! You have to check out those Add-Ons for Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has organised the Add-ons into 4 different categories; Security, Time Savers, Browsers and Entertainment. The following are what’s available under these categories:

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This is a GREAT news for everyone, particularly Linux users! A pre-release version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 9 software is now available at Adobe Labs. Currently this release is a beta version, and is under development. The good thing, is that it has been made available for developers and end-users to test out the content to ensure compatibility with most flash playbacks.

The Flash Player beta is available in all languages; however, the beta installers are only in English. Note that, the beta downloads are also available for the Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ and Linux platforms.

I have listed out a step-by-step instruction to install Flash Player 9 for Linux below. It doesn’t even take a minute to get it working.

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