My Top 10 Firefox Web Development Addons
Firefox is my primarily web development browser. For regular Internet browsing I use Google Chrome.
As for today the following Firefox addons I find very useful for my work.
- Firebug - no need to describe this. Must have.
- Page Speed - Firebug extension from Google, that helps to optimize page loading speed.
- YSlow - Firebug extension from Yahoo to optimize page speed.
- Web developer - lots of useful stuff.
- HTML Validator - validates page according to W3C standard.
- Copy Plain Text - helps to copy text without formatting.
- SEOQuake - very useful plugin for SEO. I also install SEOQuake Yandex extension, which extends SEOQuake for Russian most popular search engine.
- EditCSS - I use it sometimes, when I want to create new website or make mass CSS changes.
- MeasureIt - measuring tool.
- ColorZilla - color picker tool.
Wordpress plugin “Generate Post Thumbnails”
Today my first Wordpress plugin was released at Wordpress - Generate Post Thumbnails.
This plugin helped me to automatically generate post thumbnails for existing posts on my Wordpress blog and I hope it will help somebody else.
Plugin page for more information:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/
Most popular Google searches about Spongebob. These questions are bothering people most about him. Don’t ask me what I was searching, I don’t remember :)
Basic Tumblr customization suggestions for better SEO
I analyzed this blog with Google webmaster tools and found that it is not SEO friendly. Go ahead and check your blog search results at Google: “site:your_blog_url”. Probably, you will see your blog posts, with the same short description and duplicate titles. Here are some tips to improve your tumblr blog if your theme doesn’t support this.
Nexus One and iPhone family plan price comparison
Me and my husband have recently decided to buy smartphones. We are actually interested in both Nexus One and iPhone. Each of them has its pros and cons. So one thing that we wanted to see as one of the factors is their price and monthly cost. It’s pretty obvious if you buy one phone - Nexus with T-mobile contract will be the best bargain. However, there is no family plan offers on T-mobile today, so the cheapest option is not really obvious. So I investigated different plan options that we have.
Los Angeles
Picasaweb hidden size
I was never satisfied with the size options range of embedded images at picasaweb - 144, 288, 400, 800. I needed something in the middle between 400 and 800. I don’t know, how I didn’t notice it before and why interface doesn’t show it in the embedded options, but there is also 640px image in “s640” folder. So when you embed the image by copying text from Embed image text field you need to replace for ex. s144 with s640. In general, I am pretty happy with Picasa - fast and easy upload with picasa.app. However, their resized images are still pretty bad compared to other services. But as long as I have my low-quality camera this is not a big issue for me. Besides, it leaves original image untouched, so if I need a good quality I upload image with a desired size.
Update: thanks to stansult, he found a lot of other sizes, actually:
0 (original image), 32, 48, 64, 72, 104, 144, 150, 160, 200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, 800, 912, 1024, 1152, 1280, 1440, 1600 (this was original size in his experiments)
Interstate 5 Road. Somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It’s actually very long, goes from Vancouver down to Mexico.
Inside Macbook Pro. In the middle of process of upgrading memory.
