DemoGirl

After reading Lorelle’s post about a useful Firefox Extension today, I found myself inspired to find a few that I found useful and demonstrate them for you. It’s easy to install various Extensions yourself and uninstall them if you don’t like what they have to offer but it’s even easier to watch a quick demo. I’d like to do more screencasts like these, so if there are any Firefox Extensions that you’d like to see demonstrated then let me know in the comments.

Split Browser allows you to easily turn your browser into multiple browsers to make comparing web pages and even writing blog posts a bit easier. Here’s my screencast tour of Split Browser:
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Locator and Map+ are two ways to quickly map an address you find online. Here’s my screencast tour of Locator and Map+ :
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ColorfulTabs lets you customize the colors of your tabs to make organizing easy. It also makes them look pretty. Here’s my screencast tour of ColorfulTabs:
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Translator will instantly translate any web page you’re on using the translation service of your choice. Here’s my screencast tour of translator:
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1-Click Answers give you an instant meaning of a word with, you guessed it, one click. Here’s my screencast tour of -Click Answers:
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Foodio54 wants to help you find great restaurants in your area and share them with your friends. Members can give ratings, write reviews, edit restaurant information, and set reminders if you want to be sure and visit the restaurant later. All of the restaurants you rate are stored for you as a list and you can create multiple lists to keep them organized. Foodio54 also wants to recommend places for you based on you and your friends ratings but I think I’m to new to the site as that feature didn’t happen for me. Here’s my screencast tour of Foodio54:

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Wishpot is a service that helps you create and share a wish list of all the things you’re just dying to buy.  (Or have bought for you.)  They have a handy bookmarklet to make adding items from any site easy and you can show off your desires on your website or blog with the Wishpot widget.  Here’s my screencast tour of Wishpot:

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Fluther is a Q&A site that keeps you updated in real time when someone is reading or composing an answer to your question.  When you sign up for your account, you’ll need to fill out a profile which will tell Fluther what sort of questions you may be able to answer.  You can rate answers, flag inappropriate ones, and follow questions so you’ll always be updated.  Here’s my screencast tour of Fluther:

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(source:  Webware)

VeohTV allows you to watch, record, and save Internet video in full screen on your PC. They have over 100 pre-selected channels to choose from which contain various full length episodes. You can also search VeohTV and it will grab results from YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo!, and more. Soon they’ll be adding a personal recommendation feature that will suggest video you may like based on your taste. If you want to get real fancy you can connect your PC to your TV and use your remote to view the video. Here’s my screencast tour of VeohTV:

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Queeky is an online drawing tool that lets you send your works of art to friends and family in the form of an ecard. You can also chat and multi-draw when you’re logged into Queeky and watch a replay of pictures being drawn. It was fun to use but when I sent a drawing out as an ecard, my friend only received a link to the drawing and the text I wrote wasn’t there. Other then that it’s a great time killer. Here’s my screencast tour of Queeky:

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Update:  The ecards are now working.  Thanks Philipp!

VUVOX is a media presentation and sharing tool that helps you showcase your photos and video in a very sleek way. You can upload media from your computer, grab it from your flickr, Google, Photobucket, or YouTube account, or just do a search. After that it’s all about drag and drop, style, and customization. To find out more, watch my screencast tour of VUVOX:

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Ztail is a free service that makes it really easy to list items on eBay and online classified sites. All you really need to do is search for the item you own and then select it if it comes up in the Ztail search. If they don’t have your item, you can list the item yourself – but part of the charm of Ztail is that you can grab photos and product information with little effort. Here’s my screencast tour of Ztail:

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(source:  Webware)

MySpaceIM is officially available for download. Once installed you can easily add friends from your “top” friends list, all of your friends, or add specific friends. You can access your inbox and profile from MySpaceIM and get real-time notifications when someone is leaving you comments or messages on your MySpace page. I’ve read a couple of stories reporting that MySpaceIM is only available for IE but I don’t think that’s quite right considering I only use Firefox. Want proof? Watch my screencast tour of MySpaceIM which I recorded in Firefox:

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I normally try to keep you updated, visually that is, on all the little features that Google adds to their services. Well, today they’ve added reviews directly on Google Maps. Not only are they providing reviews, but as long as you’re logged into your Google account you can easily leave your own review right on the map. (And no, I have no idea what the title to my blog post means ) Here’s my screencast tour of the reviews on Google Maps:

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(source:  CenterNetworks)