Three Cool Things...

Just came across three cool projects/sites that I have found very useful:

1. Snap Shots plugin for Firefox. If you use Firefox, this is an essential plugin. It enables you to place your cursor over a link and see a snapshot of the web page. This used to require that the site implement some Javascript on its server but not anymore. Any site will work if you add this plugin.

2. 40+ Tips to Improve Your Grammar and Punctuation. “Dumblittleman” went through the trouble of distilling the Online Writing Lab of Purdue University. You see so much crappy writing on the web…don’t we all wish people would know at least these fundamentals?

3. Marketing Practice is a site dedicated to the analysis of brands in India. The site owner is an associate professor at a business school in India. He has analyzed approximately 250 Indian brands. Check out the “Categories” in his sidebar.

I might make this “cool-stuff week” because cool stuff has been flowing into my inbox lately.

Comments

[Seth Wagoner]

Not *strictly* true, in the case of the Snap Addon. It seeems to work on 20 or so popular sites, but not every site, and definitely not on your Intranet. Interclue, on the other hand, does actually work more or less everywhere, and usually gives a more detailed and useful summary. All done with a large pile of Ajaxy magic inside the browser. It's been out for a little while now and getting rave reviews in some corners of the net, but still isn't particularly well known. Give it a try :-)

[Ankit Dangi]

Do check out Polar Rose @ http://www.polarrose.com/ - A facial recognition plug-in, for FireFox.

[rajkamal]

Snapshots is a wonderful tool !
i have shared it with 10 of my collegues !
pls keep publishing these stuffs !

[Adrian Enache]

Firefox has for some time an addon for previewing pages without clicking on the links. It's called Cooliris and I'm using it for some time and I'm very happy with it. I might try the Snap Shots thing, just to see how it works...
The other two cool things are really cool and useful, I'm reading the pages just now.
A good day to you, Guy!

[Enrique Burgos]

I'm using the snap shots plug in since I saw it in your blog, and many peope ask me how to install this on their blogs also.

Thanks Guy.