Firefox: If you want to compact your user interface in Firefox and turn your address box into a destination for not just URLs but searches too, Foobar combines the address box and search box into one.
Like it or not, customer service representatives don’t exist to act as your personal grievance sounding board — they’re there to resolve problems customers encounter. Speak their language and make action-based requests to get better service.
Mac OS X only: We’ve been fans of Quicksilver for years, but the universal application launcher and-then-some hasn’t been in active development for a while. Alfred aims to pick up where Quicksilver left off.
Chrome: If you want to restore browsing sessions anytime — and not just after a browser crash — Session Buddy for Chrome easily creates custom sessions and restores them whenever you wish.
Ever since I installed a barcode-scanning app on my phone, I see QR codes everywhere — so naturally I wanted one of my own. If you’re a barcode-scanning fool, the QR code to the right links to my personal website. Fun!
Next time you drop a book in the bath or end up with an otherwise water-damaged periodical, document or photograph, reader pearce.kilgour recommends a simple solution: put it in the freezer.
Not many workspaces sit on the edge of a babbling brook in an animal sanctuary, but if you’d like to pretend yours does the visual and audio ambience of MoodTurn can help.
Windows: AutoPatcher, the small but powerful utility that makes it easy to install Windows updates while offline, and on multiple systems, has added support for Windows 7, giving users more control over when and how they update their systems.
From the files of the What Can’t Dropbox Handle Dept: the web-based file syncing service makes it easy to keep custom dictionaries in Word, or most any other app, available and synchronised between computers, as reader caryo points out.
