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Mollie | Oct 22nd, 2009 5:07pm The workers at EatonGolden breathed a collective sigh of relief as the repairman walked through the office with his box of tools and headed toward the arcade in the Safari conference room, aka “The Fun House.”
For months workers had been trudging through the workday without the promise of Space Invaders in the next room.
“Not having the sounds of buzzing, dings, slaps, woo-woo-woos, and loud laughing was really affecting my concentration. Now that they’re back, I can finally get some work done,” said one writer at EatonGolden.
Workers have asked for assurances from the management that a similar malfunction of the games won’t happen in the future.
So, if only 8% of people know what a browser is, how many know about Firefox Add-ons? It can’t be many, but that’s a shame.
Add-ons are easy to install, generally free to use, and can literally change the way you work. Only one problem — there are too many from which to choose (5,000+). Here are some of my current favorites… what are yours?
- Firebug: Allows you to highlight areas in the browser and view markup, CSS, DOM, script, etc. Also lets you change the code and see a realtime preview on screen. For me, it has become as essential as Dreamweaver.
- Basecode: Here at EatonGolden, we use and love Basecamp for project management. Sadly, it comes with no formatting options built in. Instead, you have to try to remember textile codes, like putting asterisks around items to make them bold. No thanks. Basecode inserts a nice little formatting toolbar… much better!
- Abduction!: Attention, SnagIt lovers. Abduction! does the same thing — one-click screen captures within the browser window.
- YSlow: Yahoo!s website performance tool generates a report on speed of pages and provides some indicators for improvement.
- Web Developer: Like Firebug, this is a must-have for any front-end coder. It adds a toolbar with so many features, I can’t even begin to list them.
- KidZui: My preschooler loves Starfall.com. If Starfall is a hammer, KidZui is a jack hammer. It turns the entire screen into a kid-friendly browser. The extension is certainly impressive, but be aware of the promotional motivation behind it.
Posted by
Mike | Aug 4th, 2009 11:08pm Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
An extremely improbable rise to success.
