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Microsoft Office 2013: New Features, Download Free

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:08 AM PDT


Microsoft recently announced the Preview release of Office 2013, the heir of Office 2010, which brings many new improvements and focuses more on technologies which are becoming more and more popular, cloud computing, together with tablets and smartphones.

Even though Office isn’t a free application, this Preview version lets you download Office 2013 for free. This Office 2013 preview version remains free, during the testing period at least, so everyone who wants to try out the commercial side, now’s your chance.

Office 2013 default window

Two major improvements which Office 2013 brings we’ve already mentioned,increased focus on the Cloud and tablets and smartphones, but there are other things which might be more important for users which are worth a mention. Here’s a quick list of new features:

  • Integration with cloud computing
  • Availability on smartphones and tablets
  • Connectivity with Skype and other chat apps
  • Integration with the Windows 8 Metro interface
  • New interface look and design
  • Works only on Windows 7 and Windows 8

Each one of these features will be explained in greater detail in the following lines, but you will surely notice that last “great” new feature which comes with kills support for older versions of Window, more precisely, Window XP and Vista. This is not a good thing, and we’ll explain why exactly is Microsoft doing this later on, let’s first see what exactly is meant when it’s said that Office 2013 comes with increased focus on the cloud, tablets and smartphones.

Office 2013 – Clouds, tablets and smartphones

Office 2013 brings more compatibility with SkyDrive, that’s what’s meant when it is said that there will be more focus on could computing.

Office 2013 Sky Drive

You could have created, edited and saved Office documents in SkyDrive up until now. On the image above you can see a Word document opened inside the web browser. What changed now with Office 2013 is that there is far more integration with this free internet online storage. After you install Office 2013 Preview on your computer, you’ll be able to login to your Window Live account, more precisely to your SkyDrive account, open up, and edit documents which you have stored there.

Opening documents in Office gives you more editing options, which is great for all those who aren’t satisfied with the tools given by the browser editor. Another great thing about doing work this way, is the fact that the latest Office comes with smartphone and tablet apps, which you can use in order to turn your mobile devices into an office editing device.

Easier online collaboration with Office 2013

The main purpose of online document editing would be the ability that you can work together with your colleagues over the internet, perhaps from home or when you’re on a business trip.

Skype can certainly help you when you’re working in Office over the the internet, for example you can contact your friends or your colleagues directly from Office, without needing to switch windows. This will greatly increase your productivity, for example you can start a conference call and make work plans with your team, make decisions about projects that you’re working on and anything else for that matter.

Recent Skype purchase by Microsoft has really turned out to be a great move by the Redmond giant because there are a lot of places where integrating Skype can come in handy, and Office is definitely one of those places. For all those who aren’t fans of Skype, you’ll gonna have to use other messaging software, but without Office integration.

Windows 8 Metro integration – Office 2013

Windows 8 comes with a brand new interface called Metro. A lot of people are not too fond about this change that Microsoft has introduced in the next version of its desktop operating system and for better or worse Office 2013 works in sync with Metro.

Office 2013 default window

Here’s how Word 2013 looks like with the changed interface, the web app preview at least. When compared to previous versions you can see that there’s a lot less glow and eye candy. Metro brings a complete new way of doing things on the desktop, and the same thing is true with Office. Note that this version of Office is only a preview, and a lot of things can still change in the future, for both Office 2013 and Windows 8.

System requirements for Office 2013

While we’re on the subject of Windows 8 and system requirements, we promised you to explain why exactly is Microsoft not releasing their upcoming Office 2013 for older Windows system, and the answer is quite simple, in order to force people to switch to the latest versions of Windows, so that they ditch XP and Vista and upgrade to either Windows 7 or 8 which will be able to run Office 2013 just fine.

What Microsoft did here is not very nice, but we can’t help it and if you want to enjoy Office 2013, you’re gonna have to have a computer which runs at least Window 7, because Windows versions older than this one will not be able to use the next generation of Microsoft Office.

More bad news are coming for Mac users, who will not be receive an upgrade for their Office software. Microsoft has decided to drop support for this increasingly popular operating system. For the past several releases of Office there were Mac versions made, but things are changing now, and Mac fans are gonna either have to leave older versions of Office on their machines, or they are gonna have to turn to one of the free office suites, like OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

Computer hardware also has to be a little bit more powerful, with several gigabytes of memory, newer generation processor and graphics card, because Office 2013 is a bit more demanding when it comes to hardware resources.

Conclusion

All those who are interested in test driving Office 2013 should follow the download links which you can find down below, and get their hands on a free preview copy. While testing is active, you will be able to use the program fully, but the drawback would be that once the full version comes out, all that stops. Still if you want to check out Office, now’s your chance, grab your free copy and enjoy it while you can, which will probably be sometime in 2013, hence the name.

Download Office 2013.

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Free Image Editor to Play around with 3D Objects: P3dO Explorer

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT


P3dO Explorer is a free image editor for manipulating 3D objects and images. P3dO is available in two versions, the free version and the pro version which you have to pay for. The program is available in the default English language and 7 translations including Italian, Spanish and Finnish. P3dO allows you to view, organize, print and even transform pictures using various tools and plugins.

Features of this free image editor

  • Support for over 40 image formats.
  • Customizable auto focus image zoom throughout 5 pre-set options.
  • Rotate pictures clockwise and anticlockwise and convert images from one format to another.
  • Sided image previews and zoom windows which allow you to view more detail.
  • Renaming utility which lets you rename files in batch or rename files more easily individually.
  • Creation of thumbnails from ZIP, RAR formats and other archive formats.
  • Folder exploration which lets you view image files from multiple directories simultaneously and search for image files using filenames as parameters.
  • Extend functionality using plugins.
  • Supports the most widely spoken languages including Finnish, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian.
  • Set favorite folders containing folders for easy access.
  • View images in thumbnail, detail and icon modes.
  • Print single pictures or print thumbnail sets.
  • Explore 3D files and their structures.
  • Poser library to show RSR thumbnails, list paths and automatically renames, moves and deletes Poser thumbnails.
  • 3D engine with hardware acceleration.
  • Customize-able interface with windows that can be docked anywhere on the interface.
  • Windows explorer look and feel.

How to use this image editor for 3D images

The interface is well organised and the windows look and feel works wonders. You get a menu bar at the top, a toolbar and file explorer in the middle and a bottom strip occupied by the status bar. The menu bar contains the usual menu items like file, view, image, tools and edit. The File menu consists of the usual menu commands like save, open, exit and print. The program also supports drag and drop.

P3dO Explorer

On launching the application, it searches for all pictures on the computer and prepares them for viewing or manipulation. Pictures in the explorer can be previewed on the Preview toolbar by single clicking and opened by double clicking. Items on the explorer can be manipulated using the main toolbar. The toolbar enables users to change the style of listing, rotate images, copy, move and sort images. The Folders toolbar lists all folders on the computer. The toolbar also contains an option to search or reload the file list. The Image menu allows users to manipulate images. From the menu you can be able to print, copy, edit and transform an image by rotating it to either the right or the left. The same menu can be used to toggle between images in the explorer window. You can also choose to preview and zoom focus options.

P3dO Explorer

The Render menu allows users to access various modelling techniques. Options include Wireframe modelling, Smooth shading, Cartoon shading and Texture mapping. The View menu allows user to select from toolbars, windows and panels which you want to view. Layout options and thumbnails sizes can be set on the same menu. The Sort submenu enables users to sort image files on the explorer using criteria like date, size, type and name. Then Go To tab enables users to navigate between directories and keeps a record of recent files and directories.

P3dO Explorer

The Favorites menu enables user to  add  and organize folders. The program searches for images on these favourite folders before it can proceed to other folders. The Tools menu enables users to search and locate images, start a slide show, print and access the Pattern renamer and access program settings.

Opinion

P3dO Explorer is great image editor for anyone looking for a program that easily manipulate images and 3D objects for free.

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Free Video Converter, DVD Ripper & Encoder: MeGUI

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT


MeGUI is a free open source, audio and video software using which you can rip DVDs or convert video files. It is free to download and use.

MeGUI is a front-end application widely used in ripping a DVD. The process has never been so easy and simple as it is with MeGUI. This free video converter is an experts choice as it supports many transcoding tasks and loads of codecs. This free DVD ripper houses in it a number of utilities to improve and enhance the conversion or ripping process.

MeGUI Home

Features of this DVD ripper and video converter

  • Supports MPEG-4 , AAC, MP3, Flac, etc.
  • MeGUI has number of tools in aiding you. They are Audio Cutter, AudioEncode, AVC Levels Checker, AVC Quant Matrix Editor, AVS Cutter, AVS Script Creator, Bitrate Calculator, Chapter Creator, File Indexer, HD Streams Extractor, Muxer, One Click Encoder and VobSubber.
  • With MeGUI you can handle a number of parallel tasks which improves efficiency and performance.
  • MeGUI is a stable open source software.
  • It auto updates itself so that you are always up to date.
  • MeGUI offers extraordinary control and efficiency.
  • It is easy to use MeGUI as the interface has grouped tools and tabs according to their functions.

MeGUI One Click Encoder

Tips for Installation

  1. After downloading MeGUI, extract the contents to a folder.
  2. Install Avisynth by running the Avisynth installation file from the extracted content (Avisynth is required for running MeGUI).
  3. Then double click the MeGUI icon. The available extracted updates will automatically be installed.
  4. After the updation process MeGUI will restart itself.
  5. Now you can start using MeGUI.

If you are interested to try some more video ripper and converters, you can check out WinX DVD Ripper, VidCoder and Sothink DVD Ripper.

MeGUI is a simple and easy to use application. It houses a comprehensive step by step online Wiki user guide. The guide is written in a lucid way that it helps even a stranger to get easily acquainted with MeGUI. The guide includes step by step procedure to rip a DVD as well as many advanced encoding guides. MeGUI is a stable application and works very well without any crashes. Test results show excellent performance of MeGUI. MeGUI is the ultimate destination for all those rippers and encoding professionals. Try MeGUI it is sure to leave you stunned!

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Facebook Relationship Status Checker: RelationBook

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT


RelationBook is a free online service which will connect to your Facebook account, scan your friends and then sort them out based on their relationship status. This web service is completely free and you can use it to save time and see only those friends of yours which are available for a relationship, and not waste time pining for someone who ends up being in a long term relationship or worse, married.

RelationBook default image

In order for RelationBook to do its thing, you’re gonna have to connect your Facebook account and grant it access to your private information. Once you do that, you’ll be able to access the application like you can see on the image above. Your screen will be populated with your Facebook friends, after which you will be able to see on the left sidebar the names of your friends sorted in 10 different groups:

  • Single
  • Married
  • In A Relationship
  • It’s Complicated
  • Engaged
  • In An Open Relationship
  • Divorced
  • Widowed
  • Not Listed
  • Separated

The last group isn’t really a relationship status, but it will help you weed out those who don’t have relationship status clearly set in their Facebook profile. Before you start doing anything you’re gonna have to setup your RelationBook account, which is just few clicks away.

Facebook relationship status checking with RelationBook

When you open up the RelationBook web page, you will be greeted with a screen where you are immediately offered to connect to RelationBook with your Facebook account.

RelationBook signing in

Clicking on the big blue Get Started button will prompt up the usual Facebook login screen where you will have to enter your email and password, or if you are already logged in with Facebook you will just gonna have to grant the RelationBook access to your account and to your information.

In order for the RelationBook application to see which one of your contacts are in a relationship or which ones aren’t, it will need to have pretty much complete access to your account, so if you’re not comfortable giving third part apps account access you should not use RelationBook. Developers of RelationBook can be trusted and you shouldn’t have any problems with allowing them access to your account.

RelationBook filtering friends

Your friends will be divided into previously mentioned groups, and in order to narrow down the search for that special someone of yours you can either use the search or you can use filters. Both ways are very effective, for search simply enter the name of the person from your friend list whom you want to look up and hit enter.

With filters you can isolate several individuals at once, single friends or just those who have set their status to the famous “It’s complicated” if you want to win them over from their current partners.

Conclusion

RelationBook is a great way of how you can easily find out which one of your Facebook friends is in a relationship, and which ones are single. Service is completely free, and very simple to use, if you have a lot of friends, you can use RelationBook to find out which ones exactly are available, which ones you can hit on, best of luck.

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Create and Manage Notes using NoteItDown

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:00 PM PDT


NoteItDown from Gaijin is a free to download, portable and easy to use application used for creating and managing various kinds of notes in a compact interface. This little app works on USB sticks as well as on multiple user environments. This product from Gaijin comes with a lot of inbuilt features which are discussed in the following sections.

Features of this notes creating software:

Portability:

This software, once installed onto your computer hard disk, can be easily transferred using any media to some other machine and it would work perfectly on the destination machine. This makes it easier for users to make the software available to multiple machines.

Language Support:

NoteItDown supports a variety of languages namely English, Catalan, Dutch, German, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, French and Swedish. This vast language compatibility enables users from different portions of the world to interact and use this product.

Interface

This application has got a simple and user friendly interface with two major sections. One being the work area where the user can create and edit notes, and the second section located to the extreme left of the screen, allows the user to manage various types of notes.

Editing Tools

NoteItDown comes with some new features in addition to the ones present in a normal Note creating application like Microsoft Notepad. This app allows the user to change font type, font size, font color and font styles (Bold, Italic, Underline and Strikeout). The user can also change the alignment of texts, add indentation, and make text appear list wise and many more. The background color of different notes can also be set according to the user's choice. Moreover, the word wrap feature can also be switched on or off.

Other Features

  • The various created notes can be saved in a folder structure as defined by the user.
  • This being an RTF (Rich Text Format) Editor, each note can be edited and designed individually.
  • A note which has been edited is saved automatically thus saving the user a lot of trouble having to save the note at regular intervals.
  • NoteItDown comes with an inbuilt search bar which allows the user to find notes with the required text. Moreover, portions of text inside a note can also be searched for by using this search function.

Download and Installation

This latest version of this software (version 1.3), released on the 18th April, 2012 can be downloaded free of cost from the Gaijin website by following this link. The downloadable RAR file is 105KB in size. After download, all the user needs to do is to extract the files into some suitable folder and then execute the 'NoteItDown.exe' file. NoteItDown works on all Windows platforms and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to be installed.

The Final Verdict

This free, portable and easy to use software NoteItDown works pretty well and can be used for different text typing and editing operations. The editing tools with which this software comes is quite limited if one compares it with the other major Text editing applications. Nevertheless, the small size and portability feature of NoteItDown makes it a great software to work with for small kinds of work.

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Free Text Encryption Tool to Encrypt Confidential Text: ImmediateCrypt

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT


ImmediateCrypt is an open source, free text encryption application which enables you to encrypt and decrypt plain text messages for securing them and accessing them when you need. The free text encryption/decryption tool is pretty simple to use and you may use it with a few clicks on the respective options on the software. It comes in handy when you wish to save some of the vital information or details regarding some specific projects or other essential things where you need to protect the texts involved. You can secure plain text messages easily using this free text encryption tool.

Installing this text encryption tool

The process of installation of this particular software has been kept as simple as the functions it comes with. In order to start the process of installing the program on your system you need to visit the developer's website here and click on the download option available at the bottom of the main page. Once you click on the download option the zipped file gets downloaded on your system. The next step is to unzip the files and launch the program by clicking on the .exe file from the files unzipped. If you want to check out some more text encryption/decryption tools, you can try BCTextEncoder, NCode.Me and CTI Text Encryption.

Using this text encryption tool

Once launched the application pops up with a small window which is divided into two halves. The above section of the software allows you to type in or paste the texts which you want to encrypt. You can copy the entire text or type in your passwords which you wish to keep secured. After you are done typing or pasting the relevant texts on the blank space of the main window the next step is to insert a password in the space at the bottom of the main window. Make sure you insert a strong password so that it is difficult to be tracked or misused by unauthorized people using the same system. Click on Crypt and your text would be encrypted. Now you would observe some code appearing on the blank space at the bottom. You need to copy this by pressing the ''Copy to Clipboard'' option and paste it anywhere on a document file. After you have it on a file just save it at any place you wish to.

In order to decrypt the texts and use it when needed, you need to copy in the codes generated which you had saved above and paste in the top blank area again. Insert the password which you had assigned to this encrypted text and press the Decrypt button available at the bottom of your screen. You would see that the encrypted text which you had protected gets decrypted and appears at the bottom blank space of the main window.

Hence you can say that ImmediateCrypt is a perfect tool to help you save your confidential information or text which you wish to be safe from unauthorized access.

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System Cleaner to Clean and Optimize your PC with TechieBot

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT


TechieBot is free system cleanup and security adviser software which will in one click scan your computer, identify problems and give you advice on how to make your PC run faster and how to increase security. A lot of people think that after their computer starts to get slower, which every single one of them does given enough time, that they need to take it to a repair shop to make it run faster, when in reality they just need a system cleaner which will delete junk and fix errors.

TechieBot default window

TechieBot interface is very simple, this fact makes it perfect for all those who are not computer savvy but would still like to freshen up their PC and make it work faster. As you can see from the image above, everything that you need to do in order to make your PC run faster would be to click on the main button located in the middle, the “speed up and clean out my computer” button, which will start scanning and looking for problems in the following system areas:

  • Autostart programs
  • Hard drive clutter
  • Temporary files
  • Recycle bin
  • Antivirus software checkup
  • Windows update settings checkup
  • Browser suggestions

Each one of these options are crucial in keeping your computer running faster and preventing possible malware infections. After clicking on the scan button, TechieBot will start working, it might be a bit longer if you have an older computer which is working slow, and when it completes the scan, then you will see the full extent of the damage.

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Speed up your computer and increase security with TechieBot

TechieBot scan finished

Results of the scan are displayed very neatly, and even if you don’t have a lot of computer experience you”ll know what some of these would be. The first option, Autostart programs, would be programs which start working with Windows, as it turns on. If you install a lot of programs, then each one of them might nest itself in autostart, work in the tray hidden without you knowing. TechieBot will detect them and offer you the option to disable them.

The second scan result would be the standard junk removal report, which comes included with other free system optimizer applications. TechieBot will scan for and if you so choose delete unnecessary system files, left over installation or de-installation files which could cost you valuable disk space.

Security and web browsers tabs are where you will be warned about problems with your computers security settings, the main ones being that security updates are deactivated, either on Windows or on your main AV program.

TechieBot autostart selection

Each one of the suggested actions by TechieBot can be changed as you can see on the image above. If you know what a certain program does, and you want to keep it working then click on Enable on the right, after which click on Perform Cleanup button at the bottom and enjoy your newly optimized PC. TechieBot is completely free, so you lose nothing by trying it out, if you have a slow computer, it will definitely help you out.

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Download Instagram Photos: Free Instagram Downloader

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT


Free Instagram Downloader is a free software to download Instagram photos. Using this Instagram downloader, you can download any of the photos posted on Instagram. You just need to specify Instagram user name of the person whose photos you want to download on Instagram, and then choose to download

Instagram is a free photo sharing service to which you can post your photos and share them with your family and friends. There may arise a situation when you wish to download all or selected Instagram photos. Downloading Instagram photos using Free Instagram downloader is as easy as you download your favorite images from Google images.

Free Instagram Downloader

Free Instagram Downloader is a lightweight software which comes in a file size of only 3.68 MB. This free software has a streamlined interface, and makes it easy even for the beginners to use this software.

For downloading photos from Instagram, this free Instagram downloader only requires the Instagram username, as you enter your username, it starts downloading the photo list and shows it on the interface with download link and open link in-front of each photo.

The user-interface even includes options like Download All, Downloaded Selected photo, Open in browser, and export the list to your specified text file. So with the help of these options either you can download all your Instagram photos or download selected ones, you can even open any Instagram photo in your browser, etc.

Free Instagram Downloader 001

Don't forget to check out Instagram App for Android reviewed by us.

Key Features Of This Software To Download Instagram Photos:

  • Quickly downloads Instagram photos in batch.
  • Open any Instagram photo in your browser.
  • Shows you the image thumbnail and Instagram image URL on the interface.
  • Instagram photo URLs can be exported as text file.
  • Only requires Instagram username for downloading photos.
  • Smooth user-interface.

Also, check out The image collector reviewed by us.

How to Get Started With This Tool To Download Instagram Photos:

  • Open the homepage of this downloader software and click the download link.
  • Now run the exe file of free Instagram downloader and install it by following simple installation instructions.
  • Launch the software, click the Input username button at the top-left corner of the interface and input the username in the box, click the OK button.
  • Wait for a moment till it downloads all the photos to the software interface.
  • Click the Download All option for downloading all photos in the list.
  • Wait for a while, so that it downloads all your Instagram photos to your computer.

Free Instagram downloader is a free downloader which offers an easy way to download Instagram Photos quickly like never before. Download free Instagram downloader.

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5 Password Manager Firefox Plugins

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT


Here, are 5 free password manager Firefox plugins. Password Managers are the easiest and the most convenient way to remember username and passwords when you have lot of them. It truly becomes very difficult to remember each and every username and password of different web accounts which we use.

Firefox browser makes it easy for you as the adds-on store has multiple password manager plugins to manage your username and password of all your web accounts. We will discuss about LastPass Password Manager; one of the popular password manager for Firefox, RoboForm Lite Password Manager plugin, KeeFox, and more.

LastPass Password Manager:

LastPass Password Manager

LastPass Password Manager is a free and one of the most popular plugin for Firefox to manage passwords on Firefox browser. This Firefox plugin is one of the best password manager plugins to save passwords of different accounts. Apart from web accounts passwords, you can also save debit card, credit card, bank account, driver's license, passport, server info, software license key, Wi-Fi password, and more. After installing the plugin on Firefox, you will see the plugin icon on the right top of the browser. You have to then sign-up or login with your LastPass Password Manager. Save the passwords and other information in your LastPass account and then get access to the info saved anywhere and at any point of time. LastPass Password Manager plugin makes it easy for you to access and manage your passwords and information saved on Firefox browser.

RoboForm Lite Password Manager:

RoboForm Lite

RoboForm Lite Password Manager is a free Firefox plugin to save the passwords of the websites which you access on your Firefox browser. The process performed by the plugin is not automated. You have to manually save the credentials before you login to any of your account on Firefox. This gives you the choice that which account username and password you want to save. All the username and password are protected by a master password you enter. This password manager plugin makes it easy for you to login to any of your saved account in one go. The plugin after saving the credentials fills-up the username and password field according to the account you login on your Firefox browser.

After installing RoboForm Lite Password Manager plugin, you will see the plugin icon on the right top corner of your browser. Sign-up with plugin to get started. Now, access any login page and enter the appropriate username and password of the account you want to access. For e.g., if you want to login to your Facebook account, then enter the username and password of your Facebook account. Before clicking on Sign-in option, click on "Save" option in the plugin installed. Give a name; for e.g., "Facebook" to the username and password which you are saving. Now, whenever you open Facebook URL (www.Facebook.com), the plugin will automatically prompt the passcard name as "Facebook" which you saved. Now click on the passcard name (Facebook) and then click on Fill and Submit or only Fill button. The plugin will automatically  fills the username and password of your Facebook account which you saved. This makes your work easier and faster on Firefox.

Password Tote:

Password Tote

Password Tote is a another free Password manager for Firefox. Password Tote is a simple plugin that starts with a short sign-up. Sign-up with Password Tote and create a master password. With that master password you can secure all other passwords which you use on the web. The plugin will be installed on your Firefox browser and creates an icon on the adds-on bar of the browser. Click on the plugin icon and sign-up or login with your Password Tote account username and password.  Now open the login page of any of your account and enter the username and password of your account. Click on the plugin icon and associate the domain name with Password Tote. Next time whenever you access the same login page, Password Tote will give you the username and password of your login account.

KeeFox:

KeeFox

KeeFox is a free Firefox plugin to save passwords in one single password manager on Firefox. KeeFox is one of the popular plugin in Firefox adds-on store. KeeFox works with KeePass tool for PC. Before installing KeeFox plugin, you need to install KeePass on your PC. With the help of KeePass, KeeFox will work on your Firefox browser. After installing KeePass, you need to set a master password to protect all other passwords with a single master password. Now, whenever you login to any web account on your Firefox browser, the plugin will memorize the username and password of the account. Next time when you access the login page, the plugin will automatically submit the username and password in the credentials field. Before using KeeFox, you need to login with the master password to access all other saved passwords.

Secure Login:

Secure Login is a Firefox add-on to save passwords on Firefox browser. This Firefox add-on works good with simple options to manage passwords on Firefox. After installing the plugin, you  need to head to options menu of the plugin and set them according to your requirements. Now login to any of your user account with the account username and password. You will get a pop-up of "remember password". Click on "remember password" button and proceed with the account login. Next time whenever you login to the same account, the plugin will identify the webpage or URL and you will see the plugin icon color will be changed to yellow. You can find the plugin icon at the top left of the browser in the form of key shaped icon. Click on the plugin icon to login with your username and password of that particular account. The extension will automatically submit the username and password to login to your account.

Likewise, you can submit the username and password of your multiple user accounts to let the plugin remember them all. This makes your work easier and faster to browse user accounts at one click.

If you find any other good Password Manager plugin for Firefox, then do let us know in comments below.

If you are using Google Chrome browser, then you can check out password manager extensions for Chrome. You can even check out password manager apps for Android.

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Create Custom Firefox Menus with Personal Menu

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT


Personal Menu is a free Firefox plugin which you can use in order to create special menus inside Firefox, where you can store launchers and bookmarks important for you. You can even add and create specific Firefox Launchers like New tab or window with the help of Personal Menu, which is great for all those who used to click the Firefox menu to open new windows, which became hidden behind several levels of dropdown menus in the latest changes to the Firefox design.

Personal Menu default image

Adding new custom made menus to the main Firefox menu is very easy with the help of personal menu. All that you need to do is open up the installed Firefox extensions list, find Personal Menu and then simply select options. In options you will find everything that you need for changing the Firefox menu the way that you want, you can:

  • Edit existing menu entries
  • Delete menus entirely
  • Change order of the menus
  • Add new menus, remove sub-menus
  • Rename existing menus

Each one of these options gives you total control over your Firefox menu and you can easily make it your own, with custom entries.

Edit and create new Firefox menu entries with Personal Menu

After you’ve opened up the options of Personal Menu you will see everything that can be changed with the help of this menu editing Firefox plugin.

Personal Menu options

Here we have all the important Personal Menu options showed with arrows. On the left side, the most important menu that you can edit would be the Firefox menu, which is the default one that can be seen in the upper left corner of the screen. By double clicking on each one of the default menu entries from the list on the left, see image above, like the New Tab menu selection for example- You can either remove them from the main menu list on the left or you can restore them.

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The second more important option would be the big plus sign which also has an arrow pointing to it. With that plus, you can easily create a completely new menu entry.

Personal Menu adding personal menu Firefox

Clicking on the green plus sign will activate the add new menu entry dialog where you need to select a name for your personal menu, and then you can even assign a special keyboard launch combination. It’s very important that you select the Menu options from the left menu, because if you have the Firefox menu opened, the green plus will only add submenus.

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Conclusion

Personal Menu free Firefox menu editing plugin is a great way of how you can easily change the way that your Firefox menu looks like. Add to it only the options that you use, so that you’re not confused later on when you need to access something quickly, so that you don’t have to go through a bunch of Menus. This Firefox menu editing tool if of course completely free, so if you’re looking for a way to customize Firefox even more, than definitely give Personal Menu Firefox free plugin a try.

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Create Custom Firefox Menus with Personal Menu was originally published at I Love Free Software

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