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Firefox Campus Edition download for students
Mozilla is jumping on the 'back to school' bandwagon to ensure that students get the most out of their online experience with a new "Firefox Campus Edition" download.Announced last week, the Campus Edition of Firefox comes bundled with a few extras including:
- FoxyTunes - allows you to control almost all media players, find videos, CD covers, videos, band bios all within Firefox.
- StumbleUpon - browse the web and find websites, videos, images all based on your interests.
- Zotero - collects, manages and cites research sources from within Firefox.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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HardwareGuy said 3:44PM on 8-29-2007
StumbleUpon does not help with productivity, in fact it is one of the greatest enemies of productivity. It's a really awesome addon and it definitely is fun, but it is by no means a tool, it is a toy.
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John said 4:02PM on 8-29-2007
@HardwareGuy: You're right, except I've actually found a great site that I might use for an upcoming paper through StumbleUpon. Granted, the signal to noise ration is still very high, but in my experience, StumbleUpon hasn't proved entirely useless.
I have no experience with Zotero, but I know FoxyTunes is a great add-on. As a personal aside, I wish they would've also included AdBlock(Plus), ForecastFox (handy for knowing when to bring an umbrella around campus), BugMeNot (for log-ins to sites that shouldn't need them), and Live Bookmarks in the toolbar for student-oriented sites, similar to what Safari has.
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