Five Faves for the Week Ending April 23rd, 2010

Here are five favorite websites and/or tools you can check out for this weekend. I hope they enhance your web explorations. Whether old or new these are some of my faves that I came across this past week.

1. FFixer

FFixer is a customizable script that enhances your Facebook experience using Firefox or Google Chrome web browsers. You install Greasemonkey and then install the FFixer script. This will allow you to hover your mouse over images on Facebook and the image will pop-out to a larger view. FFixer also allows you to customize your account settings to control what displays on your Facebook homepage. There’s quite a few other features packed into FFixer. Get all the details over at makeuseof.

2. Facebook Plugins

This past week the F8 Facebook conference took place and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took the opportunity to introduce some new stuff. New stuff like the social bar plugin, the recommendation plugin, the activity stream plugin and the Facebook login plugin as well as the most talked about “like” button. Check out the wrap up at Search Engine Journal. Learn how to install the plugins at Digital Inspiration.

3. Design Inspiration

Whether you need a new business card or not you can always get your fill of design inspiration from some of the business card designs created in the last few years. OddStuff Magazine has a list of 90+ Most Unusual Business Card Designs Of All Time to get your inner creative designer juices flowing.

4. Twitter Permalinks

Need to reference a twitter tweet? Twitter permalinks are available with every tweet via the time setting of the tweet. At the end of each individual tweet is the time of the tweet or how long ago the tweet was tweeted. That is the permalink to that tweet. If you click on the time of the tweet you’ll be taken to an individual web page that displays that tweet. So if you need to reference a twitter tweet or bookmark a specific tweet for future reference, now you know.

5. Chrome Extensions

If you’re an avid Firefox user you probably already know about and use Firefox Add-ons. Add-ons increase the functionality of your Firefox browser. Well Google Chrome has Extensions. These are the same as Add-ons only for Google Chrome. In Google Chrome you can browse their extension web page to try some out. My favorites right now are the Shareaholic for Google Chrome extension and the StumbleUpon extension that displays the StumbleUpon bar in Google Chrome. Don’t know what StumbleUpon is? Read more about StumbleUpon at StumbleUpon – How To Channel Surf The Web.

Tagged as: facebook, Firefox, google chrome, stumbleupon, twitter

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51 Eric Carlson November 26, 2010 at 5:19 pm: Interesting and good plug in you recommend above!

I am going to give Twitter permalink a thumbs up as it really help me simplified my manual process:) Chrome extension is also one of my favorites.

Eric Carlson
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52 Sarah Long November 29, 2010 at 7:34 am: Fb plugin and api is awesome! enough said
53 sue December 4, 2010 at 7:13 pm: WOW. i have 30k followers on twitter and i NEVER knew that twitter had permanent links. DUH. thank you SO SO SO much for this info. you rock!
54 waagen December 7, 2010 at 4:04 am: This is an excellent post, very important information in it. thanks for it.
55 mike December 8, 2010 at 8:58 am: these are some great plugins i use some already but will look to add more.
And I didnt know about the twitter permalink
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56 gshanma December 12, 2010 at 12:58 am: I am an extensive use of Firefox. After reading the article, i think Google chrome will be a better option as a browser with more functional support.
57 Cole Stan December 20, 2010 at 9:33 am: Chrome extensions are great. It is much easier to handle compared with Firefox extensions. I get irritated whenever I’m using my FF with my extensions running, they usually crash. It is very unlikely with Chrome extensions.
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58 Green Tea December 20, 2010 at 10:22 pm: WOW. i have 30k followers on twitter and i NEVER knew that twitter had permanent links.
59 Bill December 21, 2010 at 1:00 pm: @Green Tea: You bet. Not only that your tweets will be archived as well: Library of Congress Will Save Tweets
60 Worlds Headlines December 28, 2010 at 1:35 am: Nice collection of plugin you have. Thanks for letting us know.
61 Jake December 31, 2010 at 4:25 am: Hope things are going OK for you Bill, we’re hungry for some fresh new content.

Funny how FFixer effectively lets you change your facebook settings outside of growing circle of control.
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62 Joe January 17, 2011 at 1:17 am: I use Firefox extenstions alot. I did not know about the Chrome extensions. I should check that out because I want to use Google bookmarks anyway.
63 Wedding Expos January 26, 2011 at 3:45 am: Thanks for sharing your plug-in collection. I will definitely try the Facebook plug-in.
64 Craig February 20, 2011 at 1:21 pm: Hmmm just spent 20 mins trying to get ffixer working and all it managed to do was crash firefox with regularity….anyone else have this problem? I am going to reinstall ff just in case that’s the problem…
65 warstorm guide February 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm: FFixer has been a staple for me! Good advice on the twitter permalinks too!
66 Horoskop February 22, 2011 at 5:46 am: thnx for sharing! This help me a lot with my FB stuff….
I`ll be follow your blog.
67 Online Fashion Store February 25, 2011 at 7:18 pm: Good plugins collection, thanks you for providing useful information on these tools.
68 Tekstforfatter February 28, 2011 at 4:05 am: Thank you for sharing that list – especially the description of FFixer. I´m not that experienced with Facebook, and I have been looking for a plug-in that does exactly what you describe – so now I´m really looking forward to trying it. Thanks a lot for that!
69 Amit Sharma March 8, 2011 at 1:19 pm: I recently switched from mozilla firefox to google chrome…Would like to try some chrome extensions.
BTW, I noticed this blog is not being updated. Just curious. When’ll you be back?
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70 Implants Toranto March 11, 2011 at 1:08 am: Thank you for sharing! This help me a lot with my FB stuff….Interesting and good plug in you recommend above!..
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71 Gary Corbett March 16, 2011 at 8:35 pm: Chrome really is growing to be a dominant browser, as it used to be just Firefox having the useful add-ons and extensions, but combined with Chrome’s speed I can see it becoming the most used browser eventually.

Thanks for the twitter permalink notice as well, never thought of linking to them before, can do it now.
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72 Tandblekningsprodukter March 25, 2011 at 2:36 am: And up to this date, these are still very useful.
Keep on checking the latest plug-ins!
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73 Elisha Rousseau April 1, 2011 at 12:02 am: Just installed FFixer and trying it out. Seems good so far!
74 Magnet generator April 7, 2011 at 7:20 pm: I like your idea for design inspiration: checking out business card designs. I think another idea could be looking at how successful products are packaged. For example cereal boxes. A lot of research has gone into the color combinations and graphics.
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75 crimea April 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm: Thanks for sharin info about Most Unusual Business Card Designs Of All Time. I just saerching tamplates like this/
76 Demania April 20, 2011 at 6:54 pm: Thanks for those pointers.. It will all help me in Social media.. I work for Social media company and love to read this blog post…
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77 Sébastien Martin April 27, 2011 at 4:18 pm: Always good to be aware of all the good tools and plugins that we can use !
Wow thanks for the post !
78 freebies May 7, 2011 at 5:19 am: FFixer is one of my favorite plugins to use. Thanks for some good information on these!
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79 Antonio@Swiss Replica Watches May 7, 2011 at 7:01 am: fb plugin is looking very attractive. It looks that i have forgot to add this new fb badge to my site. But now i am going to add it to my site so that i can increase my fb fans.
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80 DrawBloodPoker May 10, 2011 at 3:39 am: OddStuff Magazine is a great idea.I do need business card that are different.Thanks
81 Ahsan Habib May 19, 2011 at 3:51 pm: Mostly I like to enter facebook. I think it is best time spending machine. I have more facebook fans and friends. So it is no difficult to waste time for me. I am also like to visit video site and be happy to download that.
Also thanks for you.
82 Stefanos Karanikas May 20, 2011 at 7:58 am: Nice post. Very interesting plug in. I already use some of them. About browsers i think firefox is better than all!
83 Freight Audit May 25, 2011 at 4:40 am: Plugins made my internet life easy. My life internet experience is just a click a way.
84 Mahesh Rathi May 29, 2011 at 7:29 am: Its my pleasure too visit your blogs its awesome but one thing i want to say please keep up to date your blog it placed very good impression for visitors.
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85 Loose Diamonds May 30, 2011 at 5:02 pm: One of my favorite extensions for Chrome has got to be YouTube Download Helper! Check it out guys, it rocks!
86 Raw diet for dogs June 8, 2011 at 11:36 am: I did not know about twitter permalinks, I can use that, thanks.
87 Builders in Chester August 24, 2011 at 2:05 pm: Ithink chrome is catching up to firefox but not there yet but it will come
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89 Graeme Icebreaker October 3, 2011 at 8:24 am: Great list from you again!

I’ve never used FFixer before and only just getting into using Facebook from a developer point of view. And something great you have brought up here is business cards – I am currently in the middle of getting new designs for our business cards and the list you provide is brilliant for inspiration!
I’ll maybe post a picture up on your site once it has been designed.

And by the way, it’s got to be Chrome all the way! I stopped using Firefox because I found it way too slow in the end.
90 Mykonos October 7, 2011 at 3:38 pm: Thank you for sharing your plug in post. I prefer facebook and twitter especially fb plugin looks great! As for the browsers I prefer Google Chrome! Thanks for sharing again! Regards!
91 margarita machine November 24, 2011 at 5:39 am: Good plugins collection, thanks you for providing useful information on these tools. Hope this plugins made my internet life easy
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