My web wanderings

SpellBound, a spelling checker for Firefox. is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite’s Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser.

JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.

1.   Learn the basics of all Microsoft products’ keyboard shortcuts.
2.   Become expert in Visual Studio .NET keyboard shortcuts.
3.   Serve some speed with SQL Server shortcuts.
4.   Mozilla browsers go here, IE browsers go here and select your IE version.
5.   Do you use Google? Of course you do. Check out Google Labs’ experimental Keyboard Shortcuts searching.

I consider myself a power internet user. I typically have at least four browser windows open and the nature of my job dictates that I be able to diagnose issues with web servers as fast as possible. So in that persuit I have tried just about every web browser on the MS and Linux platform. And while there are some outstanding browsers out there I have come to love Mozilla Firebird. It is by far one of the best availible on either platform. With so many powerful addons it can really help in diagnoses and hacking around websites. Below are a the Extensions I use on all my PC’s

Here is the list I currently have installed.

I saw SQLspy on Mike Gunderloy’s blog today. It looks like a good quick and dirty tool to monitor MSSQL. HybridX has some other intresting tools on his site including Addon’s to SQLspy and SQLinsider.

Which brings me to another point, why must some web developers feel the need to restrict the ability to right click just to “prevent” someone stealing their images. Anyone with half a brain will realize the image is in their browser cache or can use an alternative browser such as Opera or my favorite MozillaFirebird. Are you still stuck in IE with no tabs and advanced features. You might as well be using AOL then.

Sorry for the rant.