Technology Talk – 08/29/2007
August 29th, 2007
Here are some posts I’ve ran across recently that I thought many of you may find useful:
- Ryan of CyberNet News reports that my favorite PDF Reader Foxit received an upgrade to version 2.1. Foxit reader is a free alternative to Adobe Reader. It is smaller and much faster, so if you are still using Adobe Reader, I recommend you make the switch on all of your computers as soon as possible.
- SEOpher has posted a list of 40 cool free applications. The list includes a mixture of open source and closed applications, all of which have a free version available and is broken down into categories for easy reference (my favorite kind of lists!).
- Mashable offers 30+ Firefox Themes. It doesn’t seem that themes get much attention, so it was nice to see a list thrown together that provides this. They also offer 30+ Web Browsers that are currently available.
- Read/Write Web gives us 10 Must Have Online Office Applications. I especially enjoy this list because it offers a few lesser known applications that most people won’t have heard of prior to reading this post.
- I don’t necessarily recommend this, but it was to funny to not share.  Young Go Getter has created a Douche Bag plugin that allows the WordPress blogger to mark bad comments with a douche bag logo. Future versions of the plugin will likely include additional douche bag icons, giving comments a little more variety.
- Another nice Mashable post is 300+ Firefox Tools and Resources. This post is insanely long, so read a bit and bookmark it for future reference.
- BlueJar offers useful tips on ensuring your favicon is visible. This is particularly useful when your favicon isn’t viewable in some RSS feed readers.
Oh, and a quick thank you to Mark for selecting me as a Blog He Luvs and to Michael for offering some suggestions for how to improve Kyle’s Cove. Praise and constructive criticism is always welcome.
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Great work man! I only use SEO for firefox and SeoQuake 
No, Gravatar does not have an affiliate program. 
Does Gravator have an affilitate program? 
Great list. All the important ones covered. I've made my own Top 10 list at the following;
http://thatimportantblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/10-best-greasemonkey-userscripts-2009.html
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Thanks for the link love! Douche Bag plugin, that is too good to be true. We need this feature on forums too.
Love the list, Kyle. Although I have recently unsubscribed from Mashable as they have pretty much turned into a link farm may be not in its true sense.
I can see the reason why they do all these insanely long lists but with a huge list like these the actual useful information gets buried under noise. I guess they are good when you are looking at a specific topic but for everyday reading, I am finding fewer and fewer content there.
Douche Bag Plugin is awesome and I second that feature for every forum.
Have a great weekend.
@K-IntheHouse: I have unsubscribed from Mashable too. I just couldn’t digest anything with so much stuff constantly. But atleast if Kyle checks them out he can tell us which are worth a read. :c)
I know what you mean. I rely on Kyle to check on a lot of things I miss out on personally. Like the making money part.
Wow, two unsubscribes from Mashable! They have recently upped it from 10-15 posts a day to close to 40, and some do seem to be garbage posts that are basically search engine spam.
I will say that I truly love these “toolbox” posts or collection posts. I’ve been doing similar posts on this site since before Mashable even existed (my Best of series), but I try to break mine into categories and only list useful ones whenever possible in hopes of it being more reader friendly.