We’ve been featuring Firefox search bar tips and tricks quite a lot. I’ve said many times why I love the simplistic yet functional search bar so much and why I like playing with it. If you love the search bar as much as I do, you’ll find the following three tips just awesome – they will let you quickly switch between search plugins.

Browsing image search engines has been the major source of inspiration to me. It is amazing how much creative work is stored and searched online.This post will hopefully make your web image searching and browsing even more fun: the three addons listed will let you easily zoom the image thumbnails in to quicker choose one from search results.

We have featured the Flickr Interestingness section in a few popular articles in the past. It is quite obvious that we (as well as our readers) love the feature because it is unique and really smart. It’s been working wonders for discovering the most creative photography artwork. For me, Flickr Interestingness has always been a constant stream of inspiration.

Google Reader is free, offers unlimited features and is very flexible. It also has a very powerful search platform that makes it easy to explore your feed archives. You may have dozens (or maybe even hundreds) of feeds on your list – and browsing through them daily or weekly can take plenty of time. This post aims at making that procedure faster, which will hopefully increase your productivity and let you spend more time actually reading.

The Firefox search bar is by far my favorite tool inside the browser. While it seems to have rather basic functionality, it opens up endless opportunities for creative minds. We have already listed some fun ways to play with the search bar, such as how to enjoy as-you-type suggest functionality. Today I am listing two more tools showing that you can use the feature not just for search.

Google Reader has been always almost perfect: and it’s been fun watching it being improved: the added cool search option and some interface tweaks have made it even better. But there’s nothing too perfect under the sun, and the below userscripts have been quite good at making Google Reader experience even better.

Quite some time ago we reviewed a little Firefox-based search helper called Kikin which has now turned into an awesome multi-feature tool with lots of functionality. When you have it installed you will see tiny buttons to the right of your browser screen. The buttons are broken up into two sections: permanent and dynamic.

We have to deal with web forms and check boxes daily: to comment on any article, to subscribe to an email alerts, to fill in the contact form, etc. It is always worth looking for more and more possible ways to optimize the process. Here are few browser-based tools to make your forms more usable and friendly.

Awesome free email services like Gmail have made it possible to exchange multiple emails with attachments (almost) without the fear of exceeding the storage space. As a result, we have lots of important files and documents saved online in our inboxes.

Let’s face it: FireFox’s default image viewing options are quite limited. You can’t click through multiple images in one tab and you can’t zoom effectively (you can only zoom in / out once at most). Luckily there are two addons that do a great job fixing that issue. In fact, I am so in love [...]

With the advent of Twitter “micro-blogging”, the multiple URL-shortening services solved the main problem the 140-character-limit blogging platform posed: they allowed you to easily share long URL’s with your followers. People have quickly got used to seeing shortened URLs, however the two main disadvantages of the services still apply: You can’t be sure where you will [...]

LinkedIn has always been one of the most useful social media networks for me. The reason is simple: it is business-oriented and (almost) clutter-free. While I do have a large network there, I am almost never spammed or bugged in any way: there no random people who are willing to chat or pitch their products. [...]

There is a wave of paranoia that has been hitting the users of the web in recent years – personal privacy, identity theft and scams. If you are active online, you are likely to have heard those words hundreds of times. The thing is, if you use the Internet frequently, your personal privacy is a [...]

Would you like to have more power over your wall? The following user scripts will help you to tweak your Facebook wall to de-clutter and simplify it! Note: All the three user scripts listed here to declutter Facebook have been tested on FireFox (through Greasemonkey). They should also work on Google Chrome. 1. Simplified Facebook [...]

If you want to secure your tweets against any issues that might happen to Twitter and its servers, consider backing up your Twitter shares. If you use Twitter as a bookmarking tool sharing the most interesting links you come across, you may want to create a searchable archive to be able to quickly find a [...]