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.

BugMeNot: 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! 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.

Hi my name is Mike, and I am a downloader. ("Hi Mike.") Here is my story of how I fell off the wagon.

So it was time for a cell phone upgrade to a new phone, and I stopped in over the weekend with all intentions of picking up the XV6700 Windows Mobile 5.0 device. I had one for some time as a development unit from a client I was developing a mobile application for. My co-worker who had recommended these phones to our client did the dog fooding thing and got himself one. Al though recently he picked up a new razor to use as his phone, he still has the XV6700 for data use and getting his email. While waiting to be helped I checked out the Motorola Q again, and decided on that form factor instead of the XV6700. I soon had my contacts copied over to a new Motorola Q and I was off with my new enabler phone.

So the first application I downloaded was SplashBlog, which is one I had played with, and setup an account with, while I had the demo XV6700. I went to the the site on the phone, found the CAB for the Smart Phone edition, downloaded it , and installed it. It is a great application and it installed just as quickly as when I installed it on the previous device. I soon logged into my SplashBlog account and got my previous account all set up on the phone. This was all done by the time I got across the street to the plaza where I dropped the wife off to go shopping as I went to the toy cell phone store.

Later on that night I followed some of the download links on the phone and downloaded one of my other addictions, a Sudoku game, as well as a couple others Sunday I VPNed to my work computer and installed the Wireless Sync software to get my work email. I also got some of my numerous personal emails setup.

Now, readers, let me know what your must-have Smart Phone applications (or games) are in the comments.