In the first part of my article, I wrote about mapping Exposé onto your mouse buttons, blocking out distractions while working, using keyboard shortcuts, Sidenote and Spotlight. Now, in the spirit of productivity, let’s just get on with part two!
Having a cluttered workspace takes up precious time when you’re trying to find certain documents which you might have misplaced. The first step in using your time wisely to do work is organization - knowing where everything goes. There are several ways to accomplish this.
Last week, I was hunting around for a few extensions that may help me gain some more viewing space in Firefox. I have a few toolbars and around ten extensions installed whose configurations and buttons seemed to have loaded up the interface with a lot of junk. Moreover, I don’t really use the default options and buttons presently in the Firefox window that much. So I wanted to hide them and make my browsing a better experience.
Here are a few tweaks and extensions to help gaining more space for viewing websites in Firefox:
Let’s face it, a desktop that is covered with shortcuts, icons, files, folders, and still harbors the default wallpaper is boring and ugly. No one wants to see it, you can’t find anything on it, it’s neither inspiring nor useful. And why have all those things on the desktop anyway? Is it convenient to close open windows just to access My Documents or open another program? Who does that?
If you agree, if you’re using Windows XP, and if you need some ideas on how to change the bad habits, you will find the following tips very helpful. You’re welcome to follow step by step or create your own flavor and just pick what you like.
Every Firefox user spends a lot of time dealing with tabs. Thus, improving the tabs directly adds to the browsing experience. You can make them better, faster, beautiful and lot less ovewhelming. So here you go, 7 powerful addons to improve your tabbed browsing.
(1) Vertigo - This awesome extension moves your tab bar to the left side of the browser window and stacks tabs vertically. Highly recommended for people with 20 and above inch screens. You can add a splitter to resize the tab bar to any width you want.
As a writer for several sources, I often need to focus very hard on getting the work done. But it can sometimes be difficult. My main distraction is the internet. If something in my Firefox browser doesn’t catch my eye, then I am busy arranging and re-arranging my toolbars in Microsoft Word. So when someone recommended the free program JDarkRoom to me, I decided to try it out in the interests of productivity and not getting fired.
I used to be a total toolbar nutcase. I would have three or four installed then wonder why it took forever for my browser to load.
These days I only have two toolbars (Google and Stumbleupon) and after a bit of tweaking, they are now both sharing the same bar on my Firefox browser. I only have what I need and the newly modified toolbar takes up very little space.
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