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Maximize Productivity with Browser Tabs

I’ve long been a fan of Firefox’s tabbed browsing. My typical workflow involves a single Firefox window with a whole bunch of tabs open.

But how can I work productively this way? It hasn’t always worked so well, but I’ve got it nailed down now. Here’s my system:

Make them smaller

I have several standard tabs that are open all day long. You’ve probably got similar ones – Gmail, Google Reader, etc.

Since you know these pages by their favicons, you don’t need the full tab displayed. Save some screen space by installing the FaviconizeTab Firefox extension.

With FaviconizeTabs, …

Projects

These are my programming projects. Hopefully some of them will help you out. If you have a specific need that I might be able to help with, feel free to drop me a line.

Please direct all comments, bug reports, and discussion to the specific page for the project in question. For any general comments or feedback, feel free to contact me.

WordPress Plugins

Comment Email Responder – Automatically emails the commenter, when you respond to his/her comment on your blog.

Firefox Extensions

PayPerPost Opps Hider – Hide PayPerPost opportunities that you don’t want to …

Check Out These Blogging Mistakes

Last week I posted my entry for the Daily Blog Tips group writing project. It’s all about the mistakes we have made when blogging.

The “entry fee” (so-to-speak) for this project is to post a list of all the entries, once the project is over. Thus, here are the other 47 entries for the project. There’s some great stuff here, so read away. If you like something, give it a link.

(Sorry for the long post, but 47 links take up a bit of space.)

My Blogging …

Hide PayPerPost Opportunities That You Don’t Want

I haven’t hidden the fact that I do paid posts from time to time. Yes, I even take opportunities from PayPerPost.

There are usually anywhere from 60 to 100+ opportunities in the PayPerPost database. Since they’ve segmented their bloggers by PageRank and category, I’m not eligible for all opportunities. Plus, most of them have nothing to do with the site here.

I want to hide opportunities that aren’t applicable to me.

That’s why I created a simple Firefox extension that allows users to hide PayPerPost opportunities. It adds …

Search for Real Estate and Apartments with Google Base

Have you ever tried searching for houses or apartments online? It can be darn frustrating with all the different sites available. Personally, Realtor.com doesn’t do quite what I would like. Have they even heard of RSS?

Enter Google Base. It’s hyped as a online database into which anyone can add data. You might’ve seen it before and wondered “what’s that good for?” Real estate and apartment searching, that’s what.

Enter your search terms

To search for housing, Google even has a handy little …

Westlaw Preference Overrides “Link Viewer”

Do you have the impression that Westlaw is just “the man” or a big, faceless organization? Honestly, I did too. Until today.

I opened Gmail to find an email from a Westlaw employee. Actually, it’s from the VP for New Product Development. He read my blog. In particular, he saw my Greasemonkey scripts for Westlaw (kill the mini-window and rename windows).

Now, instead of using the mini-window Greasemonkey script, Westlaw actually provides a preference where you can officially disable the “link viewer.” …

Bypass Westlaw’s Annoying Mini-Window

Anyone who has used Westlaw for online research has experienced the annoying mini-window that pops up when you click a link from within a case or statute. As Westlaw itself terms it, it is the “Link Viewer.” More aptly, the window is the “Research Annoyance.” Here is a quick and simple method of bypassing this window completely, allowing you to open links within cases in a regular new browser window (or tab).

Before you can use this easy trick, you must have two pieces of software installed on your computer: Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension. These tools form the basis for this quick fix. If you have never used Firefox, you definitely should check it out. It is much more secure and customizable than any other browser out there. Greasemonkey is an add-on for Firefox that lets you run user-written scripts, like the one I’m about to give you. 🙂

Kill Your Mouse: Launch Applications with a Key Press

This is the third installment of the Kill Your Mouse series.I hope that everyone has been busy learning their keyboard shortcuts.  I have been trying to improve my own memory of them as well.  Hopefully by now you realize the important time that you can save by knowing a few of these handy shortcuts.Step it up a NotchToday’s tip will take your keyboard skills a bit further.  Beware: This is not for the faint-of-heart.  But, I do have faith that everyone can understand and utilize the concepts presented here.  What kind of a blogger would I …

Kill Your Mouse: Keyboard Shortcuts

Now that everyone is excited about the concept of improving your productivity by using your mouse less, here is your first set of concrete tips to help you begin killing your mouse. Take a few minutes to read this quick post, study its contents, and implement it. I guarantee that your career will thank you.
Keyboard Power
The first step to killing your mouse is to begin realizing the potential of your keyboard. While you may know of several of these tips, perhaps a few of them will be new to you. Virtually every program has keyboard shortcuts …

ScrapBook speeds up legal research

My first legal “tip” is about a nifty Firefox extension called ScrapBook. Not only will it speed up your legal research, but you can also use it for a myriad of other purposes.

First of all, I should mention that I am a die-hard Firefox fan. If you are not on the band wagon, you should hop on.

Back to ScrapBook. This extension (free plug-in module) allows you to save and edit any web page by selecting a simple option in your right-click context menu.

Here is quick feature list from the developer’s website:

Save Web page
Save snippet of Web …

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