Three little time-savers!

Hey all! We’re halfway through the moving process from the south of the Netherlands to the middle. That is, we’ve painted the new house (check “some pics here”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkey/sets/286033/) and recoated the floor (is that how you call that?) This Friday, we’ll be moving our stuff from house A to house B and to put first things first: The network cable and Wifi-router are on top of the stack! Anyway, I would like to talk a little about three time-saving plug ins/apps I am using right now to make my life on the web a wee-little easier. Targetalert Don’t you hate it when you click a link in Firefox and darn…it’s a PDF! Or a mailto-link. Well fear no more! Because “Targetalert”:http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/ let’s you tweak these links [[image:targetalert.jpg::center:0]] Now you can see beforehand if the link is for instance a PDF-file. If so, make sure you have installed… PDF Download This “nifty little gem”:https://do-not-add.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=636&vid=2225 gives you a couple of options: Download the PDF, view it in a new tab or view it as HTML. The last option is a bit buggy, but the rest works fine! [[image:pdfdownload.jpg::center:0]] Foldercache “Foldercache”:http://www.nesoft.org/foldercache.shtml is a nice shareware-tool I actually bought because it saves me a lot of headaches browsing to the right folder on our network. Let me explain: We work on a lot of projects which all have their own client and project folder on our network. I work on 5-10 projects a day (depending the size of projects). During a day I have to go to that particular network folder a lot of times. But I also would like to check some music or find some programs I downloaded. With Foldercache, you will have an extra icon in your system tray which gives you a popupscreen of your last visited folders and your favorite folders. The application has a lot of tweaking power for the way the folders are shown, which drives should be in- or excluded when offline (read: off the network) and a deletable history of visited folders. It sure is a time saver for me to just add a new project folder to the list and delete old ones and I’m ready to go. Also, it nests itself in various Windows-dialogs, so Saving or Opening in the right folder is a breeze! [[image:foldercache.jpg::center:0]] I hope these little timesavers will help you do your work faster. Do you have some interesting extensions or apps you use? Let me know in the comments!