Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Simplify your morning coffee-and-web routine with the Morning Coffee Firefox extension. Morning Coffee bookmarks your regular reads by day (or by combinations of days) and opens up the appropriate set of bookmarks for each day with the click of a button. So let’s say you check an infrequently updating site every Tuesday and Thursday, but you want to get your fix of Lifehacker every day. You can set up Morning Coffee to open specific sites only on specific days so that each morning you’re ready to do your routine reading, you’ll get exactly the sites you want. Granted, you could do something similar by creating bookmark folders for each day, but getting the same feature set out of that method wouldn’t be nearly as simple. Morning Coffee is free, works wherever Firefox does.
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Quickly Share Files with Drop.io
Share files over the internet quickly and easily with web site Drop.io. We’ve mentioned a number of similar file sharing services in the past, but what’s great about Drop.io is its speed (requires no registration for any party), ease of use (just send a simple link to whoever you want to share the files with after you’ve uploaded them), and clean interface. Basically uploading files creates a web site to organize them. You can password-protect the files, and anyone who you share the link with can add to the repository. Drop.io does have a 100mb upload limit—so it’s a bit more suited for sharing documents and images than music and videos—but overall the slickness and minimalism of the site really makes it stand out among its peers. It’s tough to say where they plan to make their money (so who knows if/when the crazy ads will come in), but for the time being it’s a terrific tool.
Knock Down Email Fast with Mail Act-On
Mac OS X only: Process all of your email from the comfort of your keyboard with free, open source Mail.app plugin Mail Act-On. If you’re new to Mail Act-On, just install the plug-in and then read the documentation for how to create rules for filing emails with your oft-used actions. When all’s said and done, Mail Act-On is similar to the Gmail Macros script but with less focus on navigation and much more potential for creating powerful rules for dealing with email. We’ve mentioned this plug-in once before, but this latest version adds support for Leopard. Mail Act-On is free, Mac OS X only. If you use Mail Act-On, share your favorite actions in the comments.
Better YouTube Firefox Extension
Watch YouTube videos more efficiently with Better YouTube, a brand new Firefox extension that compiles our favorite YouTube Greasemonkey scripts into a single convenient package. Better YouTube smartly enlarges videos for better viewing, hides user comments, declutters the page and disables autoplay (great for vids open in a background tab.) Following in the footsteps of Better Gmail and friends, customize your online video-viewing with Better YouTube.
Actually it helps watching youtube on you monitor makes it come out more clearer!! Check it out!!
Remote Control Leopard with TightVNC
Mac OS 10.5 only: With VNC built right into Leopard, you can remote control your Mac from any other Mac via iChat or the Screen Sharing client—OR any PC using the right VNC client. Apple doesn’t advertise this, but since Screen Sharing is just regular old VNC (albeit with a much more grokable name), our favorite Windows VNC client, TightVNC, works with it just dandy—with one small catch.You must set a VNC password in Leopard’s System Preferences in order for the TightVNC client to connect to it. (Or else TightVNC will give you an error about the server not supporting the right security protocol.) To do so, in System Preferences, go to Sharing, and from Screen Sharing, click on the “Computer Options” button. Set your password there and TightVNC will be able to remote control your Mac given its IP address.
Yes I didn’t leave the mac people out!! Here you go!!
