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Anonymous Web Surfing

RankRaiser — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:20:48 +0000

Surf the web anonymously without leaving a browsing history with PageWash. Use it to visit websites you don’t quite trust, like brand new websites, or use it to get around your firewall when testing or visiting sites.

Start surfing by entering any URL into their web address box and click the ‘begin browsing’ button. You have the choice to remove all cookies, scripts, ads and referrer information. The site you visit will not know who you are and won’t be able to place cookies recording your visit. Visiting a site through a proxy service like this one will protect your privacy and prevent the site from collecting information about your visit. You are only sharing your information with proxy service.

Which Tab In Firefox is Playing Sound?

RankRaiser — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:03:46 +0000

We haven’t found an easy way to determine which tab the sound is coming from, but the reason anyone wants to know that is usually to shut off the sound from that tab. Maybe the Firefox add-on “Stop Autoplay” will work for you: this add-on prevents audio from automatically playing when you enter a website.

>>Update: Stop Autoplay won’t work with Firefox 6. We’ll keep you updated.

The way you would use this is to install this Firefox add-on, enable its settings in preferences, then close Firefox while saving all the tabs and then re-opening Firefox. (In Firefox 4, click on “restore session.”) All tabs should be silent now. Hurray!

According to Stop Autoplay add-on info, it works on Flash and Silverlight music, video, media and movie files including mp3, wma, wav, mid, flv and other files. You can also define a whitelist and disable the add-on for individual tabs.

Which Tab Is The Sound Coming From?

RankRaiser — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:16:17 +0000

>> We thought we’d found a way to stop the sound in Firefox…

We’d love to post a free resource here that helps you find out which tab a sound is coming from, but unfortunately we don’t have a resource for this dilemma yet! Do you? Let’s say you got a few dozen tabs open in your browser and you notice that there is some music playing. You close all the other programs, but you need your browser open to work with it, including all the tabs.

You’re trying to listen to a web seminar and you just can’t find the source of the other sound – what do you do? You’ve already checked the tabs and there are no YouTube, MySpace or other video and music sites open.

If you have a free solution (or very inexpensive one) for Mac and PC, please post in the comments!

How Well Does Your Browser Support HTML5?

RankRaiser — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:17:24 +0000

To find out all you have to do is go to HTML5 Test and you’ll get a score up to 300 to see how well your browser supports HTML5. Your browser will be rated on specifications like user interaction, like drag and drop, storage handling and geolocation. Apart from the main HTML5 specification and others created by the W3C HTML Working Group, this test also awards points for supporting related drafts and specifications.

Use FlexPaper to Display Documents in a Browser

RankRaiser — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:43:23 +0000

If you have large documents on your site (incl. books), and you don’t want to make them available as a separate download, you could have them displayed in a browser instead. FlexPaper is an open source web based document viewer that uses Flash. It is delivered both as a stand alone flash application and as a Flex (SWC) library, so it can be integrated it into your application in different ways. Examples and use of FlexPaper.

Customize Your Webpage Downloads

RankRaiser — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:40:17 +0000

Download all links and images on a webpage at the same time with DownThemAll, a Firefox extension. You can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. It features an advanced accelerator that increases download speed up to 400%. You can also pause and resume downloads at any time.

How Fast Does Your Site Load? Firefox Add-on

RankRaiser — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:26:34 +0000

Google recently announced the importance of load speed when it comes to ranking websites. Measure how fast your site loads with Yahoo!’s YSlow Firefox add-on. Not only does it measure the tim eit takes for your site to load, it will also offer suggestions on how to optimize your site for faster loading speeds.

Screen Capture Firefox Add-on

RankRaiser — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:59:41 +0000

Does your screen capture program only capture selected parts of the page, have too many features to be practical, or is it too slow? Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. The great thing about this add-on is that you can choose to capture the whole page, the visible portion only, a frame, or a selection of a window with just one click. It works in PNG or JPG and you can scale captured images to any desired percentage.

Firefox Firebug Extension

RankRaiser — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:27:14 +0000

One of the best add-ons for web developers is Firebug. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

The DoFollow Add-on for Firefox

RankRaiser — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:53:54 +0000

Checking links one by one for the nofollow attribute is tedious. NoDoFollow (by Zachary Fox)shows which links on a page have the nofollow attribute and which are regular follow links.

What Does Your Site Look Like In Any Browser?

RankRaiser — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:52:52 +0000

Create screen shots for dozens of different browsers, including Linux, WIndows and Mac browsers at BrowserShots. The amount of browsers they support is impressive, which also means it takes a couple of minutes to show the results.

IE Plugin for Firefox

RankRaiser — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:27:54 +0000

When you are designing sites in Firefox, it is really tedious to check every single modification in Internet Explorer. You can use the IE Tab add-on to show you from within Firefox how your pages will look in IE.

Web Developer’s Toolbox for Firefox

RankRaiser — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:22:25 +0000

The Web Developer’s Toolbox for Firefox offers some of the most popular add-ons for Firefox. The add-ons for web designers and developers will let you troubleshoot, edit, and debug web projects without ever clicking away from Firefox.

Browser Display Statistics, Resolution and Color Depth

RankRaiser — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:22:04 +0000

Get statistics on different browser usage, color depth and resolution at w3schools. The data is collected from W3Schools’ log-files over about ten years.

Fix Annoying IE 6 CSS Bugs

RankRaiser — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:43:21 +0000

Plenty of people out there are still using IE 6 to browse the web. If you care to create a site that’s viewable by ‘all’ CSS-tricks.com has plenty of fixes for Internet Explorer besides a wealth of info on everything CSS.

Anti-Phishing Toolbar

RankRaiser — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:38:49 +0000

Install this anti-phishing toolbar in your browser and get a ‘risk rating’ for every site you visit and a warning for every site with a ‘high risk’ rating. The Netcraft toolbar also shows you in which country a site is being hosted and how long the URL has been active.

Make Any Website Editable In Your Browser

RankRaiser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:33:35 +0000

Not sure what to use this for, but now that you know how to easily edit any web page, you won’t fall for marketers’ realistic looking fake screen shots anymore, right? This won’t actually edit the web page for everyone, just for yourself on your browser of course.

Turn Web Apps Into Desktop Mac Applications

RankRaiser — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:40:33 +0000

Turn your favorite web apps into desktop Mac applications with Fluid, a SSB (Site Specific Browser) for Leopard. You can then keep it in your dock like any other application – love it! Use Fluid to run YouTube, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, or any other WebApp as a separate Mac desktop application. With plugins you can search Google, Reddit, mix, delicious, digg etc. with coverflow, manage your Twitter account with Hahlo, expand Tiny URLs, or create them and more.

Cloaking Detector

RankRaiser — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Cloaking detector, simulates Googlebot: find out if content presented to the web crawler is different from what’s presented to the user.