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Downloaders Anonymous: My 15 Essential Firefox 2.0 Add-ons

Okay, okay, the "essential Firefox addons" list has been done to death, but if everyone else can beat a dead horse, why can't I? Having just freshened up my system I had the unique opportunity to take a fresh look at which Firefox addons I have installed and which ones I can't live without. As it turns out, there's quite a lot of them, so without further ado, here's my 15 essential Firefox add-ons:

Adblock Plus: I don't like red-and-green flashing YOU ARE A WINNER!! ads any more than you.

BugMeNotBugMeNot: I don't like giving my e-mail address, much less taking the time to fill out yet another form and click on another e-mail confirmation link, any more than you.

DownThemAll!DownThemAll!: DownThemAll! isn't just useful for downloading a ton of files at once (though that's most certainly its best feature)--it also makes a great general-purpose download manager for when Firefox's built-in options aren't enough.

ErrorZilla: Firefox's standard the-site-could-not-be-reached error message is so passé. ErrorZilla augments the lowly "Try Again" button with six more: Google Cache, Coral Cache, Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Ping, Trace Route, and Whois.

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15 web sites that changed the world

Websites that changed the worldGuardian Unlimited is running a great article called Websites that changed the world. It's odd to think of things we take so much for granted as having changed the world, but it's true, they did. Among the world-changing web sites are Wikipedia, Blogger, MySpace, Amazon.com, and, of course, Yahoo! and Google. One odd choice is Napster, which of course had a web site but was not itself a web site, but it was, indeed, disruptive enough that I think we can let it slide. It's also interesting in that Napster is the only item on the list that is only a shadow of its former, world-changing self.

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