If you wanted to translate a webpage, you could think of using an online translator tool like Google Language Translator, BabelFish, AltaVista etc.The process of opening a webpage copying the URL to the translator could be long.You can translate any webpage into different languages using any online translator by simply installing a simple extension into FireFox called Translator.

It supports the following locales: en-US, fr-FR, de-DE, it-IT, nl-NL, pt-BR, hr-HR, zh-TW, zh-CN, ru-RU, es-CL, es-ES, es-AR, tr-TR, uk-UA.

Translates From/To:

• English to German / German to English
• English to Spanish / Spanish to English
• English to French / French to English
• English to Italian / Italian to English
• English to Portuguese / Portuguese to English
• English to Japanese / Japanese to English
• English to Korean / Korean to English
• English to Chinese (Simplified) / Chinese (Simplified) to English
• German to French / French to German
• English to Arabic Beta

Translator currently supports the following online translation services:

• Google Translation
• Yahoo! Babelfish
• PROMT
• freetranslation.com
• Altavista
• Im translator

Download Translator Add-On from Mozilla

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Google Gmail is great with its easy to use interface, speed, features.Here’s another reason you’ll love GMail, because you can now change the GMail interface of your Gmail Account using a Firefox extension called Gmail Redesigned by Global Designs Inc,which would fully redesign the look and feel of your Google Gmail service. This is done by overwriting the GMail’s default Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) with a CSS file which is loaded on the client’s browser stored on the clients machine.

GMail Redesign, while your inbox loads

This is how your Inbox looks while using the plugin.

Note : Before you install this plugin, Make sure you have Stylish plugin for Firefox installed.

GMail Redesigned : HomePage |

Popurls is a ultimate source for the latest web buzz and news, with news from sites like DIGG, Technorati, Delicious and many more.You can create something similar with recent posts from your favorite blogs.

To implement this you need,

1. A plugin called phptoexec to execute php code in post/pageInstallation
   1. Download phpexec.txt
   2. Rename phpexec.txt tophpexec.php
   3. Upload to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
   4. Activate the plug-in from Wordpress administration menu

   Usage

   Anywhere in your post/pages where you want to execute a PHP Codes, insert <phpcode> before your php codes and </phpcode> your php codes.
   –Via Hongkiat

2. Another plugin called SimplePie, along with SimplePie Core
   NOTE : Activate both plugins before your proceed.

3. Create a new page in wordpress, switch to HTML mode editing and paste the following code,

<div class=”pop-entry”>
<div class=”popurlblock”>

<h2><a href=http://www.digg.com>DIGG <img src=http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.digg.com/></a></h2>
<ul>
<phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://digg.com/rss/index.xml‘, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?>
</phpcode> </ul>
</div>

<div class=”popurlblock”>

<h2><a href=”http://delicious.com”>Delicious  <img src=”http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.delicious.com”/></a></h2>
<ul>
<phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/’, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?></phpcode>
</ul>
</div>

<div class=”popurlblock”>
<h2><a href=”http://stumbleupon.com”>StumbleUpon</a></h2>
<ul><phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://rss.stumbleupon.com/buzz/’, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?></phpcode>
</ul>
</div>
<div class=”popurlblock”>
<h2><a href=”http://lifehacker.com”>Lifehacker</a></h2>
<ul><phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full’, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?></phpcode>
</ul>
</div>
<div style=”clear:both”></div>
<div class=”popurlblock”>
<h2><a href=”http://www.boingboing.net”>Boing Boing</a></h2>
<ul><phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag’, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?></phpcode>
</ul>
</div>

<div class=”popurlblock”>
<h2><a href=”http://www.digg.com”>Digg</a><img src=”http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.digg.com”/></h2>
<ul><phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://digg.com/rss/index.xml’, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?></phpcode>
</ul>
</div>

</div>

Replace the text inside the SimplePieWP function to the URL of the feed of your choice to create a list of posts from links of your choice.

For Ex.

<h2><a href=http://www.digg.com>DIGG <img src=http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.digg.com/></a></h2>
<ul>
<phpcode>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP(’http://digg.com/rss/index.xml‘, array(
‘items’ => 10,
));
?>

To change the bolded text as per the new site/blog links.The feed can also be feedburner feeds.
items => 10, number of posts to be fetched.

Here’ the CSS part

/*  Tutorial By Venkat — www.TechYard.net */

/* http://www.techyard.net/create-your-own-popurls-in-wordpress */

.popurlblock {
width:250px; float:left; padding:0; margin:0 0 40px 0;
}

.pop-entry h2 {
font-size: 1.5em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 15px 0;
height: 15px;
}

.pop-entry h2 a, .pop-entry h2 a:active, .pop-entry h2 a:link, .pop-entry h2 a:visited {
color: #3f3f3f;
}

.pop-entry h2 a:hover {
color: #000;
}

.pop-entry a, .pop-entry a:active, .pop-entry a:link, .pop-entry a:visited {
color: #333333;  //326ea1
text-decoration: none;
font-size:12px;
}

.pop-entry ul{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: 0.9em;
width: 350px;
}

.pop-entry li  {
border-top: 1px solid #dcdcdc;
line-height: 16px;
margin: 5px 0 5px 0;
}

.pop-entry li a:hover {
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #fafafa;
display:inline-block;
}

.pop-entry img{
background-color: #fafafa;
}

.clearer { clear: both; height: 30px; }

Change the CSS as per your sites requirements.

PicLens has become one of my favorite FireFox addon, It transforms your browser into a full-screen slide show experience for viewing photos on the Web from services like Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Yahoo Images, Friendster, Picasa Web Albums, and any other service which support Media RSS.A single click on the thumbnail images transforms the browser into the full screen slide show.

During the fullscreen slide show you can move along the images manually or press the play button for automatic slideshow. For pausing the slideshow Press ” SpaceBar “.

For Exiting PicLens Press ” Escape ” on the keyboard.

This Extension is available for both FireFox and Safari.It supports FireFox 2.0+ on Windows XP and Vista and Safari 2.0 or 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.x.

PicLens

• HomePage
• Download for FireFox and Safari and Internet Explorer
• Check out the tutorial on how to use PicLens.

Uninstalling PicLens

FireFox : Goto Addon in the Tool menu, select PicLens from the list and press Uninstall.

Safari : select the Remove PicLens option from the View > PicLens menu in Safari, or delete the PicLens folder from the /Library/InputManagers folder of your hard disk.

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LightBox JS Web Gallery Generator can help you create an HTML Web Gallery based on Lightbox JS. Just show this program where your images are, press a button and in a few moments a full fledged Web Gallery is ready.You can also have complete control over the CSS of the page.You can also set the Thumbnail size, The number of columns and rows and also the Image size in pixels you want.It supports only JPG files.

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