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Juice: Content Recommendation Plugin for Firefox

Juice is a Firefox browser plugin that functions as a recommendation tool which will help you find related content immediately without searching other websites. This will enhance your browsing experience by using this very cool plugin. You can access the information right on your Firefox sidebar.

With Juice, you can drag text and media on your sidebar for you to use later. Embeddable media can be easily added to your Juice sidebar for later viewing. All you need to do is scroll over the media, wait for the “drag me” button to appear and click or just drag it a bit. You do not have to drag it all the way to the sidebar. The same procedure is also true for texts and images but with no “drag-me” button.

This is a great plugin for researchers and bloggers who wants to get related information quickly. Juice can save you a lot of time when doing research and looking for related web content about anything. The application is quite new and their recommendation engine still lacks knowledge. It will be up to the users so that Juice can continue to learn and deliver better related results.

Watch the Plugin in action below.

Blog Tip: You might also want to try the Zemanta recommendation tool for Firefox.

Tags: Firefox, juice, juiceapp, Plugin, recommendation tool

ChunkIt: View the Web in Chunks

Search engines are a great way to find information on the internet, but the problem is that the search results that they give are very short and does not always provide the information that we are looking for. They only give a part of the indexed pages which most of the time is insufficient data. We have to browse the links provided only to find more links and less information. If you are doing research about a particular topic and using a search engine to do it, chances are you’ll end up browsing more than getting what you need right away.

ChunkIt is a Firefox plugin that will help you get information faster and better with your search results. What it does is browse the pages that appeared on let’s say Google search results and get chunks of information related to the keywords that you used. It highlights the keywords within the content which will allow you to access the information faster.

• ChunkIt searches within the pages of your engine’s results to find your search terms in context. You can then preview the resulting multicolored “chunks” for relevance without clicking on the actual page.

• ChunkIt digs deep inside a Webpage and all of the webpages it contents links to, leaving no stone unturned as it searches for information relevant to your search.

The plugin will divide you screen in two displaying the Chunked texts on the right side and the original page on the left. You can get chunks from browsers like Google and Yahoo and directly from websites. Chunking directly from websites is useful especially when you are browsing a huge website like Wikipedia.

ChunkIt is a great Firefox plugin but it is far from perfect. When I tested it, I experienced several errors and bugs. If you would like to test or try out the plugin, might I suggest that you go over their FAQ page first to find out about the errors. It also showed some conflicts with the current FF plugins that I’m using.

Check out the video below on how to use ChunkIt.

Tags: Chunkit, Firefox, Plugin

Can Google Chrome Beat Firefox?

After releasing their desktop application for Google services, the search engine giant just released another application in the form of a browser called Google Chrome. Ok, so by now you must have heard/read about it. It’s getting great reviews from the early testers/users and there are reports that Mozilla is already feeling the pressure.

I gave it a test drive and I must say that it is an excellent browser. It loads pages really fast and consumes less memory than Firefox. There is of course the issue of add-ons installed in my Firefox so the comparison regarding memory usage  is not quite accurate.

The interface is great. The positioning of the tabs is very efficient. It gives you more space for reading which the other browsers didn’t take into account. This is great if you are browsing from small notebooks with wide screens. The tabs, menus and toolbars consume precious browsing space.

The start page is similar to Opera’s speed dial. The only difference is that it displays your most visited pages other than your personal bookmarks. There is also a quick bookmarking star similar to Firefox’s quick bookmark. I personally liked the feature that lets you drag the tab outside the browser to open it in a new window.

Chrome also comes in incognito mode. It’s a feature that allows you to browse privately. It will not save any information regarding your browsing if you use this feature. This is very useful if you are using another computer other than yours. Its own task manager is also a very useful tool which allows you  to close a single misbehaving page instead of closing the whole browser.

The browser is still in its early stages but is already creating a lot of buzz and great responses from its users. Firefox still leads in customizability but given the proper support from third party developers, Chrome can definitely become a major player in the browser wars. Firefox’s enormous amount of add-ons and plugins still makes it number one in my book but I have to admit that Chrome is pretty cool and won’t mind having it around.

Who do I think would kick ass?
“Firefox”

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Google Chrome is currently available for Windows users only. Mac and Linux versions are coming soon.

Tags: browser, chrome, Firefox, Google

Firefox: Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

Are you using Read it Later Firefox extension or love to use Firefox 3′s easy bookmarking feature but afraid to lose all your bookmarks in events like computer crashes? You should give Foxmarks a try. It’s a bookmarking add-on for Firefox which allows you to sync/backup your bookmarked pages online.

Foxmarks will store your bookmarks online whenever you starred a webpage. This is particularly useful if you are using multiple computers. You can install Foxmarks on all the computers that you are using. That way you can access your bookmarks anywhere. It even backups bookmarked pages stored in your Stumbleupon toolbar and lets you easily import bookmarks from your Delicous account.You can also save/export your Foxmarks bookmarks in html form.

The deleted bookmarks in your browser will also be removed from your Foxmarks account whenever a sync is made. The only downside of this is that when you accidentally remove a bookmark and synced it with Foxmarks, your data will also be lost.

You can set Foxmarks to sync automatically or every time you shutdown Firefox. The tool is very simple and easy to use. You can also view your Foxmarks bookmarks in a cool preview window without going to the actual page. The plugin sits nicely on the bottom of your browser and very useful when you need to quickly or steadily backup your bookmarked pages.

Mozilla Firefox add-on page for Foxmarks.

Tags: bookmarks, Firefox, foxmarks, synchronize

OutWit Hub: Image Harvester

OutWit Technologies is a publisher of free applications that aims to simplify the data collection on the web. They developed a powerful and simple Web search and collection platform for everyone to use for free. They currently went to the public beta stage for the application called OutWit Hub.

OutWit Hub is a Firefox extension that functions as a data harvester which is particularly useful for downloading multiple images. What it does is let you easily save images found on pages of the web. While OutWit works best with images, its functionality does not end there. It can also be used to gather other form of data from a certain page. You can use it to get email address, page source codes, links and text content.

This version is a Swiss knife, mostly designed to showcase the technology to advanced users. It contains dozens of features to automate tedious collection tasks and produce structured data out of Web searches. The identification of data structures, object types or object collections in HTML pages (or other documents) is based on OutWit’s original structure recognition technology. One of the most interesting features is the recognition of lists and tables even in non-tabulated pages and document without rigorous formatting. The next applications based on our platform will be one-purpose tools, destined to a wider audience: OutWit Images, OutWit Jobs…

This is very useful if you are gathering images from the pages of Google or from other pages with thumbnail images. OutWit Hub will automatically download for you the original size of the images. It actually downloads all the images on a particular page and neatly arranges them in a manner that will save you the trouble of checking the image one by one.

In order to start harvesting, you need to download and install the extension that can be found in Mozilla’s add-on pages. A tiny button will appear near your Firefox’s search bar and you will be just a click or two away from harvesting tons of images on the web. Check out one of their tutorials below.

You can also download the OutWit Hub at Mozilla.

Tags: add-on, extension, Firefox, outwit hub, outwit technologies

Optimize Memory Easily Using Minimem

Minimem is a Windows application for optimizing memory (RAM). It was originally developed for Firefox which is still a bit of a memory hog. Now it can optimize the memory use of any Windows application. It works by removing as many non-necessary memory pages as possible from the selected processes. It can load those pages back whenever they need, and makes your overall system perform much better whenever memory becomes limited.

This is practically useful if you are running beta applications with memory leaks and other software which leaves a large memory footprint that slows down your computer performance. It’s also great for old computers running memory hog applications. Reducing memory load will also give you extra life to your laptop batteries.

Minimem gives you full control over what applications you want to optimize, when and how often. It runs in the background and can be set up to optimize as many processes as you’d like, using a very intuitive graphical interface.

Tip: Applications that are best to optimize for memory are typically office applications, typically word processors, and web browsers. On that last front Minimem has been tested to be extremely efficient with Firefox, the application it was originally designed for.

Download the rather small (389KB) application here.

Tags: Firefox, memory, minimem, optimize, Windows