Free Children's Picture books online

clipped from drawn.ca Lookybook is a new site that not only allows you to flip through children’s books in their entirety, but also lets you embed them, YouTube-style, into your own websites. Picture books are for looking at, explains the site: Lookybook allows you to look at picture books in their entirety—from cover to cover, at your own pace. We know that nothing will replace the magic of reading a book with your child at bedtime, but we aim to replace the overwhelming and frustrating process of finding the right books for parents and their kids. That, and it’s a great resource for illustrators! Here’s Stanley Goes for a Drive by the inimitable Craig Frazier.

clipped from www.insidetonic.com Top 30 Firefox themes Don’t particularly like the default theme on Firefox? One good thing about Mozilla’s browser is that you can install a new one, choosing from hundreds with different, original styles. From your top menu bar, just select Tools>Add-ons. When the window pops up select the ‘Themes’ tab and press the ‘get themes’ link at the bottom right of the window. You’ll be taken to a Mozilla page which lists up loads of different themes, organized by category, from retro to animals, sport, modern or more. On Softonic, we’ve selected a few that we particularly like, including the Vista-aero theme, Mostly Crystal and Doodle Plastik. If you aren’t convinced by these, we suggest taking a look at Mashable’s list of 30 Firefox themes. I quite like FOXSCAPE, with its Netscape-like interface, iFox Smooth, with its Safari for Mac feel, or Ubuntu Human theme, great for Linux fans.

Blogging from YouTube

clipped from buzz.blogger.com Blogging from YouTube November 26, 2007 — permalink As you videobloggers already know, you can upload your videos directly to Blogger. But for the rest of the video watchers out there, did you know you can just as easily post YouTube videos to your blog? All you need to do is set up your YouTube account to post videos to your blog using the "Share" button. You'll enter your Blogger information once, and from then on it's one-click sharing from any YouTube video page! See our help article for full instructions.

Show off your photos with the new Slideshow

clipped from buzz.blogger.com Show off your photos with the new Slideshow November 19, 2007 — permalink Take a look at our latest tool for your blog: the Slideshow page element. This feature lets you add a slick little slideshow of your photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket, or any site that supports Media RSS. The photos will show up in your blog’s sidebar, gently fading into one another. Your readers will be able to go forward and backward, pause, and click through to the photo’s web page. You can also make a slideshow of public photos based on a tag or label. Like all page elements, Slideshow requires that your blog is using Layouts templates. Still need to switch? Read our help article on the topic. In case you missed it: Want to see everyone’s photos? Watch Blogger Play.

Firefox Release New 2.0.0.10 November 26, 2007

Improved Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed Browsing screenshot

We love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don’t worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of “Recently Closed Tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.
Spell Checking
Spell Checking screenshot

Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i” before “e” or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.

clipped from en-us.www.mozilla.com What's New in Firefox 2.0.0.10 Release Date: November 26, 2007 Security Update: The following security issues were fixed. Earlier Changes: For information about previous changes, please see the Firefox 2.0.0.9 Release Notes. Firefox 2 Features: For an overview, please see Firefox 2 Features. These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for Firefox 2. Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting any bugs to Bugzilla. Firefox 2 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. Give us your feedback through this feedback form. Please note that installing Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.

Download & Save Flash Animation Files in Firefox

clipped from labnol.blogspot.com Download and save Shockwave Flash swf files from the web browser to your hard disk using Firefox or Internet Explorer. a. Click Tools - Page Info b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page. d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file. e. Click the "Save As" button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file

Julia Roy on "A Del.icio.us News Portal"-- Very Smart Idea

clipped from clipper.typepad.com A Del.icio.us News Portal I always liked Todd Defren's idea of a purpose-built del.icio.us page.  By tagging every URL referencing a particular brand, campaign, event, initiative etc. using del.icio.us, it gives you the opportunity to aggregate all the links online you want people to find in one place. I have found as a social media tool for outreach and monitoring, it is overwhelmingly valuable and time-efficient.  My first attempt with a purpose-built del.icio.us page was with a client- Fuser.  I tagged every URL to do with Fuser-- from the Fuser Facebook group, to Fuser blog reviews, to the Fuser press release, to the Fuser blog, to the features of Fuser-- it is all tagged and aggregated in one spot.  This serves as a great place to direct journalists, bloggers and users, as well as being a great way to show the client all the media pick-up.  http://del.icio.us/fuser_aggregator

CLEO: Install ALL your Firefox extensions in a flash!

clipped from zia.blogspot.com Wonderful stuff...After discovering the brilliant FEBE (backs-up your Firefox extensions) which I covered previously, the same developer came out with another gem: CLEO. CLEO is a Firefox extension that works with FEBE to package any number of extensions/themes into a single, installable .xpi file.

Lost Your Password? Google Can Find It

clipped from blogs.guardian.co.uk Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately When a Cambridge University team wanted to break a hacker's password, they turned to Google - with startling results. But there's a lesson for you too. a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team the interesting part came later, when the team was clearing up. They could see the user, but what password had he used? All they had was the entry in the MySQL database for the password He took the hash - 20f1aeb7819d7858684c898d1e98c1bb - from the database and stuck it into Google. Lo and behold, it turned out to be "Anthony". So: want to check the security of your favourite password(s)? First, use the MD5 hashing page here if you want to feel safe and have OSX, go to the terminal and type md5 -s mypassword - though use your password, not mypassword. Second, paste that code into your favourite search engine. If it returns no results - well done! for now.

Download & Save Flash Animation Files in Firefox

clipped from labnol.blogspot.com Download and save Shockwave Flash swf files from the web browser to your hard disk using Firefox or Internet Explorer. a. Click Tools - Page Info b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page. d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file. e. Click the "Save As" button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file

Removed Unwanted Firefox Context Menu Items

Its very simple to use. Try it!

clipped from www.liewcf.com Removed Unwanted Firefox Context Menu Items clipped from www.liewcf.com There are many items in Firefox right-click context menu that I do not needed, like Go back, Go Forward, Reload, etc. That’s not a big problem. But after I have installed a few extensions, the context menu become much longer due to the additional extensions’ commands. It is almost as tall as the height of my screen! Super long list of context menu items. After installed the Menu Editor extension, goto Tools -> Extensions -> Menu Editor, and click “Options” button. A “Preferences for Menu Editor” window will pop up for you to kill hide the unwanted items, as well as rearranging them. Here is my result of context menu editing: Slimmed down context menu. Links: - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=30260 - http://menueditor.mozdev.org/index.html

Interesting Web Browsers You Have Never Heard Of

clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com xB Browser (Windows) clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com xB Browser (xB stands for XeroBank) K-Meleon (Windows) K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for Windows the main advantage very low memory usage Shiira (Mac) clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com GreenBrowser (Windows) Not that this browser is actually green, but it’s a fresh, light and quite promising application with many useful tools clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Slim Browser (Windows) Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site web browser clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Swift (Windows) clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Sleipnir (Windows) Sleipnir is a Japanese tabbed web browser SpaceTime (Windows) SpaceTime offers a 3D Tabbed Browsing. clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com uBrowser (Windows) Web pages as a cube. uBrowser Browse3D (Windows) Browse3D clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com 3B (Windows) 3B clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Bitty (all) Bitty Maxthon (Windows) Maxthon Camino (Mac) clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Camino’ clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Netscape / SeaMonkey Netscape, is actually still alive clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com SeaMonkey, cross-platform Internet suite clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com Portable Versions clipped from docs.google.com clipped from www.smashingmagazine.com the portable version of Firefox uses 35% less memory. Internet Explorer 7 Standalone Opera Portable Personal