Have you ever had 15 tabs open and wished you had opened them in a different order? People that visit certain sites with regularity and despise it when the tabs aren't in their usual order, will enjoy the sheer simplicity of this Firefox tip. Unbeknownst to most, Firefox actually allows you to drag and drop tabs wherever you want to.
Just click on the tab that is out of place or otherwise out of line, and drag it to the area on the tab bar you want it to be at. A little purple arrow will help you find the right spot. Drop it and rearrange other tabs as necessary. Before you know it, your tabs will all be where they should without even requiring an extension or plug-in to accomplish the task.
It's little treats like these that get us fired up about what Firefox 3 holds in store for us. If you're looking for more Firefox and browser tips, remember to check the DownloadSquad search.
Yahoo's new version of web mail is, without a doubt, one of the coolest and most fluid Ajax applications we've seen to date. For the average user it offers every major feature that you can find in Outlook or Thunderbird, and it does it with style. But that isn't all, the Yahoo team also took the time to layer the app with embedded tricks, hacks, and shortcuts that makes the whole experience that much sweeter.
With that in mind, here are the top 11 tricks that I use everyday with the new Yahoo Mail Beta:
1. Trick: Instant Address Book Add - Drag a message onto the Contacts link and you'll see the icon change to a plus sign which means you can add that contact to your address book in one easy step.
2. Trick: Navigate your inbox the quick way - Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow or Down Arrow let you jump to messages in the same folder that have the same subject line. You can hit Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Up Arrow lets you choose another factor to filter on (such as flag) when using Ctrl + Shift to navigate.
Photobucket is set to make an announcement that will allow users of its personal media management service -- which stores and shares images and videos -- a way to utilize flash to edit video's online.
The free service is said to be open in beta this month to premium customers, and rolled out to everyone in March. The web based video editor will be timeline based and allow users to mix photos and videos stored in Photobucket with captions, soundtracks, and effects through a drag and drop interface.
Photobucket allows users to upload photo and video content to create interactive collages, scrolling images, slideshows, animated image stamps, share video clips, and buy prints. This new initiative will most likely see its approximately 35 million current users increase drastically to see if the flash based video tool can benefit them.
From the "Why didn't somebody think of this before?" files...
Taskbar Shuffle is a simple Windows utility that allows you to rearrange the order of your taskbar items by dragging and dropping. And now I'm wondering how I'm going to fill an entire post with info about Taskbar Shuffle, because there's not much more to say beyond that! It is refreshing in its simplicity. (I'm suddenly reminded of something one of my computer science professors once said about Unix programs... "Each program does only one specific thing, but it does that thing really well.")
Taskbar Shuffle is a free download and is compatible with Windows all the way back to 95. It kind of amazes me that Microsoft didn't include this functionality to begin with!
Why can't you
drag-and-drop files onto file upload controls on web forms? It's a complete mystery. I've seen more than one extension
for Firefox that fixes this glaring omission, but Drag
and Drop Upload, does that and a little more: It also supports dropping more than one file onto a form. If there's
more than one file input, you can fill them all by dropping several files at the same time, and on some sites, notably
Gmail, it'll even dynamically create more file fields to accommodate all the files. Brilliant!
Have you ever had 15 tabs open and wished you had opened them in a different order? People that visit certain sites with regularity and despise it when the tabs aren't in their usual order, will enjoy the sheer simplicity of this Firefox tip. Unbeknownst to most, Firefox actually allows you to drag and drop tabs wherever you want to.
1. Trick: Instant Address Book Add - Drag a message onto the Contacts link and you'll see the icon change to a plus sign which means you can add that contact to your address book in one easy step.
