Software I couldn't leave with out - Part II

Continuing my last post here are three more software items who make my life easier.

Dropbox - At last some one had did it, some one had fixed one of my biggest problems, I work on three computers two of them have two operating systems, until now if I needed two share a file between two computers or two operating systems I had one of two ways. The first way was to send it to my self threw a web base e-mail application, the second is by using a flash memory disk. Both of those ways are a nightmare, every time I'd work on a file, I had to update every ware else, I'd often made mistakes or forget to update, some time I was sure I had updated a file when I didn't. Finally someone invented Dropbox, the magic folder, when I update a file that's in that folder, the file is automatically update where ever I installed Dropbox, now everything is synchronised and updated. Dropbox comes with 2 GB of storage space, you can get extra space by getting a friend to sign up for For every friend you sign up you get another 250 MB and he also gets a bigger space for storage, so if someone wands two sign up just live your e-mail at the comments and I'll send you an invitation, by doing so you and me will both get extra storage space.

  Miro - Formerly none as Democracy player, with Miro you can download pod casts and videos to you computer and listen or watch them when ever you have time, you don't need a Internet connection while watching the videos it's all on you computer. I mostly like it because I don't always have a wireless Internet connection, but I can still watch video programs that I like or listen to a podcast. There is a giant list of Internet TV stations that you can choose to subscribe. Here are the stations I've  subscribed to:

1. Linux Journal - News about Linux, mainly tips.
2. CommandN - News about the web.
3. Ted Talk - Interesting people with interesting ideas.
4. Cooking Korean food 
5. Tekzilla - Gadgets and geek stuff.
6. Tekzilla Daily Tip - Tips on computers.
7. Happy Tree Friends - Stupid but funny cartoons.
8. Hungry Nation - A nice food and recipe show.
9. The Digg Real - A show about the most viewed videos on the web.

VLC - An amazing video and audio player, it can play any format none to you, from the avi to flv and MP4, every thing. It has tones of options, you can convert formats with it, you can add subtitles, it has extensions and skins, you can play streaming media with it, and all of that is open source. I must admit I actually don't know about most of it's options that's because there is so much you can do with it.

LazyFeed

Since keeping track of things I like on the web is getting harder and harder, I found some tools that could help me. The most trivial and commen is RSS feeds, there are some desktop apps such as Thunderbird or FeedDemon (on Windows) the can read feeds, I prefer a web app once I used NewsGator this days I use Google Reader.
Another way of following things on the web is following people on Twitter who have the same interests that you have. Two more social media ways are Stumble Upon And Digg.
Last week I found out of a new way of keeping track of thing I like, it's called LazyFeed, I just tell it what am interested at and the service finds things for me, things I liked I can save, share on Twitter, Facebook or mail a friend.

My Firefox Extensions

1. Gmail manager - So I cam manage my Gmail.
2. Google Reader Notifier - So can manage RSS feeds.
3. Drag & drop.io - Because I work with more then one computer and two operating systems, this is a easy way for moving files around.
4. Shareholic - The easiest way for sharing bookmarks on Delicious & Digg.
5. qtl - The best dictionary you can find.
6. Smart Bookmarks Bar - Saves me a lot of space on the bookmarks bar.
7. StumbleUpon - A great way for waisting time, having fun & discovering new things.
8. Foxy URL - Good for twitting links.
9. Google Gears - So I can access my mail and calender when i'm offline.
10. Google Redesigned - It just looks better this way.
11. Twitter Fox - So I can follow Twitter.
12. Undo Closed Tab Button - Saved more then once.
13. WiseStamp - So I can edit my Gmail signature with HTML.
14. Yahoo Mail Notifir - To keep track of my Yahoo mail.
15. Colorful Tabs - Makes life easier.
16. Customize Google - Makes searching easier.
17. Fox Clocks - For keeping track of time around the world.
18. ScribeFire - Makes writing a post so easy, you can even do it offline.
19. Google Bookmarks for Foirefox - Makes it easy to access my Google bookmarks.
20. Taboo - For reading things later.
21. Locator - For locating any address on Google maps.
22. New Tab King - for opening new tabs.
    

On Ubuntu

1. Ubuntu Firefox Modifications - Allows me to install Firefox add-ons through the Ubuntu package manager, it comes already installed.
   

On Windows

1. IE Tab - Unfortunately there are sites that still don't work on Firefox.
2. AVG Safe Search - Protects my computer.
   

If anyone uses any useful or interesting extensions I would love to hear about it, please live me a comment.