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Personas: Awesome Firefox Extension for Super-Easy Theming [firefox]

Posted in How-to, Internet Tips, Mac Tips, Windows Tips by Alex Hwang on April 18, 2009

personas

I just downloaded Personas, one of the coolest Firefox extensions I’ve seen so far. Basically all it is is a little menu in the bottom-left portion of your screen, but the features of it is amazing.

Personas are free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox that make changing the look of the browser as easy as changing your shirt. With Personas, you can individualize your browser with hundreds of artist-created designs or create your own design to share with a worldwide audience of millions.

With the support and creativity of the Mozilla community, the project continues to evolve and is focused on three key concepts:

1. It Shouldn’t be Hard to Make Your Browser a Little More Fun and Personal

2. You Should be able to Personalize Your Entire Web Experience with Lots of Great Designs

3. The Artist in You Should Be Able to Treat the Browser as Your Canvas

To theme your browser, all you have to do is click on the menu and hover your mouse over a theme name, and the changes are reflected in the browser. It’s that simple. No restarting, downloading file, or anything else. Just a click. It doesn’t hamper the performance of Firefox at all, this tiny utility.

There is also a gallery with a huge number of these themes.

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CoolIris

Posted in Internet Tips by Panini Raman on April 14, 2009

CoolIris is an awesome Firefox add-on that lets you quickly browse through hundreds of pictures extremely fast. Not only that, but you can also watch videos, or play games straight out one of the many windows on the 3-D wall by just stopping at that particular window. The pictures and games get refreshed, so there will always be something new to see. There are many customizable features on it, such choosing how many rows that there are (I’ve set mine 7 even though the default is seven) There’s even CoolIris for the all of you IPhone users out there! It also downloads very quickly, so go try it out now!


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