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Firefly plugin turns Firefox into an advanced file manager

by Brad Linder Jul 14th 2008

Firefly
If you spend all day sitting at a computer with your web browser open, you might have an aversion to minimizing your browser to perform simple tasks like managing files on your hard drive. Fortunately there's a Firefox add-on that can help. Firefly adds a full-featured file manager to Firefox. And when we say full featured, we mean it. Firefly includes a bunch of features that you won't find in Windows Explorer. Here are just a few:
  • Split the window horizontally or vertically. Add as many windows as you'd like
  • Image previews for audio, video, PDF, and image docuements
  • Filter display using regular expressions or wildcards
  • Search the current folder and subfolders
  • Create keyboard shortcuts
  • Use the Firefox or Internet Explorer rendering engine (when using IETab)
You also get all the usual features you'd expect from a file manager including the ability to copy, cut, and paste files from one folder to another.

[via gHacks]

Tags: add-on, file-manager, firefly, firefox

Filed under: Internet, Video

Watch Joost on your TV with a remote control

by Brad Linder Jun 6th 2007

Joost
Now that internet TV platform Joost is actually signing deals to get content you might actually want to watch from CBS, MTV, Comedy Central and other networks, you might be wondering how to watch Joost on your TV set.

While Joost really does make watching online videos a bit more like watching TV and a bit less like surfing the web, you still pretty much need to use a keyboard to navigate. And that means even if you run a line from the video-out port on your computer or graphics card to your TV, it's no easy feat to watch Joost on the big screen.

Luckily, you can map the keyboard shortcuts to most PC remote controls. And you can even add an icon to your Windows Media Center Program Library that will start and stop Joost. Here are a few tips:

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Tags: beyondtv, firefly, hauppauge, joost, snapstream, windows media center, WindowsMediaCenter

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