All platforms with Firefox: If you like Delicious’ ability to filter bookmarks by multiple tags (like “programming” and “tutorial”), you’ll love the TagSifter extension for Firefox. Now that Firefox 3 supports bookmark tagging—and you’ve got keywords assigned to all your favourite URLs—TagSifter can help you navigate, search, and drill down to exactly the link you’re looking for. Like Delicious, TagSifter adds related tag suggestions, and offers advanced search operators that can find exactly the bookmark you’re looking for. For example, the expression:
Recycler blightdesign demonstrates how you can turn cereal and other similar boxes into gift boxes over at DIY site Instructables. As long as you have a pair of scissors, some glue and the ability to execute some well-placed folds, the only thing standing between you and a cool little recycled gift box is that last bowl of Lucky Charms.
Gift Box from a Cereal Box [via Make]Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Send to Google Docs Firefox extension adds an entry to your right-click menu to send supported filetypes directly to Google Docs. The new entry is context sensitive, so it only appears when you right click supported filetypes, which include Word docs, PDFs, PowerPoint, Excel, and every Open Document format. You’ve been able to open Gmail attachments in Google Docs for quite a while now, but this extension bridges the gap and makes Google Docs that much more of a viable, web-based Microsoft Office replacement. Send to Google Docs is free, works wherever Firefox does. Read any Web Document Directly in Google Docs – Similar to Gmail [Digital Inspiration]
The end of the week is approaching, and with it comes a certain sense of taking it easier, relaxing a bit at the office—you know, caching up on all that YouTube browsing you skip when there’s real work to be done. The popular video sharing site is a great resource (and source of entertainment) that gets better with the right add-ons, plug-ins, third-party tools, and clever usage. Let’s take a look at the best ways to get better video, download clips, and just find the video you’re looking for at YouTube, so you can get more from your guilty pleasure.
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Having an automated, secure, off-site backup solution is a great idea, but for many folks, burning their data and system files to CD and DVD is just more manageable. Free indexing app Virtual Volumes View (VVV) helps you keep track of exactly which file is located on which of those numbered DVDs. Once you’ve let VVV take a look at each of your discs, it can show you them in a physical view (each disc and its contents), a virtual view (one giant file system), or let you simply search through files, including MP3 metadata, to find that certain folder or file you need to restore. The app helps you make sense of large folders you have to break up into multiple discs, and is smart enough to properly index a newly-burned, updated disc it already is tracking. Virtual Volumes View is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems; Linux users, hit the Linux.com link if you need help installing. Virtual Volumes View [via Linux.com]
One intrepid (and open-source-minded) developer has created a non-jailbreak, theoretically legal way to implement copying and pasting between iPhone apps, as shown by GeekBrief.tv. Time will tell if other coders will pick up the idea to make their apps better. [via]
