BEST FREE FIREFOX EXTENSIONS

Hey guys, sorry i haven't been on. recently had an accident and cant use right hand... grrr typing with one hand sucks.

anyway, i found this whilst stumbling!


Blogging:

• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• Clipmarks
  - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether
  it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the
  pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
• Sage
  - Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for
  Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what
  you don't.
• Jeteye
  - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed
  for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web.
  Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where
  communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
• Performancing
  - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits
  right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You
  can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be
  browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
• TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
• Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
• MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
• Show MyIP
  - Displays your current IP address. If you have a static IP (Internet
  Protocol) address, this number will stay the same each time you visit.
  If you have a dynamic IP, the number will change each time you log on to
  the internet (or your ISP assigns a new IP).
• NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.

Developer Tools:

• FireFTP
  - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla
  Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
• IE Tab - IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.
• Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• Firebug
  - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools
  at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor
  CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
• Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
• Tab Mix Plus
  - Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It
  includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab
  clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can
  save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
• Image Zoom
  - Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on
  individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the
  context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy
  to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit
  within your screen.
• ColorZilla - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
• IE View
  - Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain
  sites to *always* load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or
  cross-browser testing.
• iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

Editing and Forms:

• Performancing
  - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits
  right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You
  can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be
  browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
• Gmail Skins - Skins and other extra features for Gmail.
• InFormEnter
  - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in
  a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no
  typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used
  information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to
  be available from the form menu.
• Snipshot
  - Edit any picture on the web with one right-click. The picture will be
  brought into the online image editor Snipshot where you can crop,
  resize, rotate or recolor it, then save it into a variety of formats
  (JPG, GIF, PNG, PDF) or to Flickr or a free image host. For faster
  workflow, you can optionally enhance the image as it enters Snipshot or
  resize it to fit a set of custom dimensions.
• JSView
  - All browsers include a "View Source" option, but none of them offer
  the ability to view the source code of external files. Most websites
  store their javascripts and style sheets in external files and then link
  to them within a web page's source code. Previously if you wanted to
  view the source code of an external javascript/css you would have to
  manually look through the source code to find the url and then type that
  into your browser.
• Password Exporter
  - This extension allows you to export and import your saved passwords
  and rejected sites between computers. Your passwords will be exported to
  an XML or CSV file and can be encrypted.
• AI Roboform Toolbar - Add RoboForm Toolbar to Firefox.
• DejaClick
  - DéjàClick is a web recorder and Super Bookmark utility designed
  exclusively for Firefox. You can record and bookmark your browser
  activities, then with a single click, replay the entire sequence all
  over again. Got a package or an order you want to track? Have a favorite
  category at an online auction site? Tired of going through the steps to
  log into your e-mail? Use DéjàClick by AlertSite to automatically
  access any final URL. Also works great for quickly producing web
  application test scripts.
• Unofficial Myspace Toolbar
  - Automatically login to Myspace, instantly access your messages, view
  hidden comments, create styled comments/bulletins and more with this
  intuitive and customizable toolbar!
• FireFoxMenuButtons - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu on the Toolbar!

Image Browsing:

• FlashGot
  - Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together
  at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular,
  lightweight and reliable external download managers.
• DownThemAll - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system.
• Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery
  - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox
  Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your
  Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange
  pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting
  photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing.
  Co-developed by Kodak, it also includes other popular photo services.
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.
• DownloadHelper - DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
• Firefox Showcase
  - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows
  by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.
  Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability
  to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your
  system.
• Image Zoom - Adds zoom functionality for images.
• Send 2 Cellphone
  - Send2Cellphone provides a simple way to send images from web pages
  directly to mobile phones via free Send2Cellphone service. Simply right
  click any image on any web page and select "Send2Cellphone" from the
  context menu. After transferring the picture to your cell phone you can
  view it, use it as a wallpaper or send to a friend via MMS.

Message Reading:

• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Mouse Gestures
  - Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward,
  close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage,
  without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.
• Gmail Manager
  - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail
  notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages,
  saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new
  mail snippets.
• ReminderFox
  - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of
  date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a
  full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody
  that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries,
  etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
• NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.
• Yahoo! Mail Notifier - This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.
• Gmail Skins - Skins and other extra features for Gmail.
• WOT
  - WOT helps you avoid disingenuous Internet content by allowing you to
  learn from others' experiences. WOT shows you website reputations on
  your browser, telling you how much other users trust a website. This
  helps you make better decisions while browsing and avoid phishing,
  malware, and other types of fraud. Reputations can also be added to web
  search results, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other selected sites.
• Temporary Inbox
  - This extension generates random disposable email addresses. You can
  use these email addresses for registration in forums, adult sites or
  whereever.
• infoRSS
  - Displays RSS, Atom, parsed HTML and NNTP feed in a scrolling area the
  status bar. Compatible with podcasting RSS which can be downloaded
  directly.
  It's also a good Gmail notifier.

News Reading:

• Forecastfox
  - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display
  it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and
  unobtrusive extension.
• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Sage
  - Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for
  Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what
  you don't.
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.
• TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
• Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
• ReminderFox
  - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of
  date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a
  full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody
  that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries,
  etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
• Forecastfox Enhanced
  - Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension
  (forecastfox.mozdev.org) by Jon Stritar and Richard Klien. This adds 12
  improved radar images for US locations and 4 for international locations
  and the ability to supply a URL to use images from other sites.
• NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.
• 1-ClickWeather
  - Because weather is important to you everyday... weather.com offers
  you instant local weather conditions, alerts, radar in motion, satellite
  maps, and forecasts all within your Firefox browser.

Tabbed Browsing:

• IE Tab
  - IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet
  Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web
  developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE
  with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• Tab Mix Plus
  - Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It
  includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab
  clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can
  save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
• Firefox Showcase
  - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows
  by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.
  Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability
  to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your
  system.
• Colorful Tabs
  - The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong
  colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them
  easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the
  interface.
• Session Manager
  - Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either
  when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes.
  Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and
  tabs. If you're afraid of losing data while browsing - this extension
  allows you to relax.
• Tabbrowser Preferences - Enables enhanced control for some aspects of tabbed browsing.
• Advanced Dork - Advanced Dork: gives quick access to Google's Advanced Operators directly from the context menu.
• ChromaTabs
  - Colors browser tabs based on the site loaded. For example, visiting
  mozilla.org will make the tab blue, and cnn.com will make the tab green.
• Tab Catalog - Shows thumbnail-style catalog of tabs.
• Tab Control - Take control of your tabs!

XUL Applications:

• FireFTP
  - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla
  Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
• FoxyTunes
  - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control
  your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
• DownThemAll
  - DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it
  features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it
  allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time!
• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.
• ChatZilla - A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
• Jeteye
  - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed
  for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web.
  Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where
  communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
• Performancing
  - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits
  right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You
  can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be
  browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
• AllPeers - Share your files privately and securely. Chat with your friends.
• Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
• ReminderFox
  - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of
  date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a
  full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody
  that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries,
  etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.

Bookmarks:

• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
  - If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks.
  Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the
  background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. As a bonus, log in to
  my.foxmarks.com from any computer anywhere to access your bookmarks.
• del.icio.us Bookmarks
  - This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us
  (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the
  Web. It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox
  with an enhanced experience.
• Clipmarks
  - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether
  it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the
  pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
• Tab Mix Plus
  - Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It
  includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab
  clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can
  save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
• Yoono
  - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing
  the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero
  effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing
  interface. Let Yoono bring you the best that others have discovered.
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.
• Jeteye
  - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed
  for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web.
  Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where
  communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
• Firefox Showcase
  - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows
  by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.
  Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability
  to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your
  system.
• iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

Entertainment:

• FoxyTunes
  - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control
  your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system.
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.
• Fast Video Download - Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from video-hosting servers.
• MediaPlayerConnectivity - Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click.
• Torrent Finder Toolbar
  - Torrent Finder Toolbar is a torrent search toolbar for Firefox, which
  enables users to search over 100 top torrent sites and trackers from
  their Firefox browser the same way they used to search using
  http://torrent-finder.com form. It allows users to search a single site,
  search all sites on one page, or open the sites in Firefox tabs.
• TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
• FoxGame - Enhance user experience with O-game (now works in every o-game version)
  Adds
  a lot of features to the webgame O-game. It also integrates Database
  features inside the game. O-Game, is a real-time spacial browser game.
• Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.

Kiosk Browsing:

• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system.
• All-in-One Sidebar
  - All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's.
  Click on the left edge of your browser window to open the sidebar and
  get easy access to all your panels. It lets you quickly switch between
  sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and
  more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
• Dictionary Tooltip
  - Press ctrl+shift+D (or) double-click (or) right-click after selecting
  a word to see its meaning. This extension is ideal for those who
  doesn't like to switch their window to see the meaning of a word.
• FireFoxMenuButtons
  - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu
  on the Toolbar! Look for this buttons (after installing) on the
  "Customize toolbar" (Menu/View/Toolbars/Customize...).
• Public Fox
  - Tired of cleaning stuff people download? Use this to limit file
  downloading. Prevent browser changes, block unwanted Web Sites.
• Firefox Google Bookmarks - Creates a menu to access google bookmarks from any computer. Needs Google Account to use this extension.
• Personal Menu
  - Feel tired of the conservative menus, and have tried to put them into
  a single menu but never want to waste time on one more click?
• Full Fullscreen
  - Hides remaining toolbars that the normal fullscreen functionality
  does not. Hiding the tab bar, as well as starting up on fullscreen, are
  configurable from the settings dialog. Licensed under MPL.
• gladder - Get over Great Firewall with Great Ladder!
• R-kiosk
  - Real Kiosk is a Firefox 2.0 extension that defaults to full screen,
  disables all menus, toolbars, key commands and right button menus.
  Alt+Home still takes you home.

Miscellaneous:

• Adblock Plus
  - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that
  often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install
  Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose
  "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again.
• NoScript
  - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides
  extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other
  executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g.
  your home-banking web site.
• Forecastfox
  - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display
  it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and
  unobtrusive extension.
• IE Tab
  - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a
  great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage
  displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• FoxyTunes
  - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control
  your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
• Fasterfox
  - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings
  such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and
  initial paint delay.
• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Map+ - View a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs using the right click command.
• Clipmarks
  - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether
  it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the
  pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.

Privacy and Security:

• NoScript
  - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides
  extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other
  executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g.
  your home-banking web site.
• Fasterfox
  - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings
  such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and
  initial paint delay.
• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Torbutton - Torbutton provides a button to easily enable or disable the browser's use of Tor.
• Flashblock
  - Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't
  get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it.
• FoxyProxy - FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's proxy configuration.
• SwitchProxy Tool - SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations
  quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your
  computer from prying eyes.
• iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.
• Firefox Extension Backup Extension
  - FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions.
  In fact, it goes beyond just backing up - it will actually rebuild your
  extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily
  synchronize your office and home browsers.
• CustomizeGoogle
  - CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search
  results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN
  etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

Web Annoyances:

• Adblock Plus
  - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that
  often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install
  Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
• NoScript
  - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides
  extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other
  executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g.
  your home-banking web site.
• IE Tab
  - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a
  great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage
  displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• Fasterfox
  - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings
  such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and
  initial paint delay.
• Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
• Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Tab Mix Plus
  - Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It
  includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab
  clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can
  save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
• PDF Download
  - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser
  (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your
  default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system.
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.

Contacts:

• JAJAH - Web-Activated Telephony
  - The JAJAH extension for Firefox integrates call functionality into
  your browser. Phone numbers on web pages are automatically detected and
  highlighted. When clicked, JAJAH initiates a phone call from your phone -
  landline or mobile - to the desired destination.
• LinkedIn Companion
  - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 7.5 million experienced
  professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work
  and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your
  network of business contacts.
• ReminderFox
  - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of
  date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a
  full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody
  that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries,
  etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
• Email This
  - Email This! (formerly known as GMail This!) will send your recipient
  the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing
  using GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express,
  Thunderbird, & More!
• FireFoxMenuButtons
  - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu
  on the Toolbar! Look for this buttons (after installing) on the
  "Customize toolbar" (Menu/View/Toolbars/Customize...).
• GTDGmail - GTDGmail discreetly integrates into Gmail making it even more suitable as a GTD tool.
• Facebook Toolbar - Integrate your Facebook life into your browser.
• WataCrackaz AutoSMS - Watacrackaz AutoSMS toolbar. Send and receive SMS text messages to and from cellphones around the world.
• Skype Sidebar
  - Skype Sidebar allows you to call, add, find, chat, and voice mail
  other contacts without even leaving your browser. Skype Sidebar lets you
  see the status of your contacts and quickly chat with them. It saves
  you time, allows you to quickly send files, and also view contacts
  information. You can even start conference calls. You can customize the
  width of the Skype object.
• SMS Send - ABC SMS Send is a toolbar that allows you to send SMS text messages to over 170 countries.

Download Tools:

• Download Statusbar - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
• FlashGot
  - Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together
  at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular,
  lightweight and reliable external download managers.
• VideoDownloader
  - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion,
  Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites! And all embedded objects on a
  webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).
• FireFTP
  - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla
  Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
• DownThemAll - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
• PDF Download
  - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser
  (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your
  default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
• Media Pirate - The video downloader
  - More and more websites publish their videos in those neat flash
  players. But if you want to download a video there is no download link.
  This doesn't mean that you can't download it. Media Pirate creates a
  download link for you!
• Gspace
  - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and
  growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload
  files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
  system.
• Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery
  - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox
  Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your
  Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange
  pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting
  photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing.

Humor:

• Tab Effect - Add effects when current tab is changed.
• Splash - Adds a splash screen to most Mozilla and Mozilla Based products.
• Firefox Google Bookmarks - Creates a menu to access google bookmarks from any computer. Needs Google Account to use this extension.
• President Bush Countdown
  - A timer that counts down the number of days remaining in George W.
  Bush's term as President of the United States. Clicking on the countdown
  shows a more detailed timer and enables people to air their grievances
  on newprez.com. An icon shows when there is a new topic for discussion
  or a vote.
• Usage Counter - Tells you how much time you have spent using Firefox and browsing sites. (Previously known as Wasted Time Counter).
• Bork Bork Bork - View web pages or mail as spoken by the Swedish Chef like this: "Feeoo veb peges oor meeel es spukee by zee Svedeesh Cheff."
• Anglais - This extension provides proverbs and jokes to better learn English.
• STOP! Hammer Time
  - Adds 'STOP! Hammer Time!' functionality to Firefox - Simply go to
  "view -> toolbars -> customize" and swap your stop button for the
  'STOP! Hammer Time!' button. Now you can hear MC Hammer whenever a page
  needs stopping!
• Sun Cult - Worldwide Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight, Moonrise and Moonset Times.
• ghostfox
  - Stylises Firefox into Ghostzilla (The Invisible Browser) style. Move
  your mouse away and firefox disappears. Then move it towards the left
  edge of the screen, back to the right and again to the left and voila -
  firefox is back again, discretely blended with ur original application
  to appear like a part of it.

Navigation:

• IE Tab
  - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a
  great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage
  displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• Fasterfox
  - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings
  such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and
  initial paint delay.
• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• Map+ - View a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs using the right click command.
• Tab Mix Plus
  - Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It
  includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab
  clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can
  save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
• Yoono
  - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing
  the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero
  effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing
  interface. Let Yoono bring you the best that others have discovered.
• PDF Download
  - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser
  (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your
  default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
• BlueOrganizer
  - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology
  for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books,
  movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you
  automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them
  and instantly find related information.
• Firefox Showcase
  - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows
  by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.
  Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability
  to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your
  system.
• Mouse Gestures
  - Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward,
  close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage,
  without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

Website Integration:

• VideoDownloader
  - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion,
  Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites! And all embedded objects on a
  webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).
• StumbleUpon
  - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the
  web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and
  sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find
  interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
• del.icio.us Bookmarks
  - This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us
  (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the
  Web. It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox
  with an enhanced experience.
• Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
• Yoono
  - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing
  the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero
  effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing
  interface.
• Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery
  - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox
  Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your
  Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange
  pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting
  photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing.
• DownloadHelper - DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
• Performancing
  - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits
  right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You
  can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be
  browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
• LinkedIn Companion
  - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 7.5 million experienced
  professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work
  and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your
  network of business contacts.
• Fast Video Download - Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from video-hosting servers.

A copy of the internet in one location exists!!!

I was on stumble upon when i found this, an archive of the internet has been kept on a cluster computers and servers in 3 locations. although the one in the picture does not look as snazzy as a data center for Microsoft, there are two more including one with blade servers.

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November 04, 2002 | Tucked away in one of the seediest neighborhoods of San Francisco is a roomful of over two hundred computers with a terabyte of data stored on every three. Stairs from the street lead up an intimidating hallway that opens into a room with 15-foot ceilings and just-this-side of hip ductwork in the ceiling. To the right is a storage area with a single desk, to the left are Baker's racks tightly packed with off-the-shelf HP desktop machines, each turned on it's side to maximize the space. Somewhere in all that ductwork, a fan is squeaking painfully. Walking into this echoey, over-warm warehouse space, it's easy to be underwhelmed until you realize what you are looking at: spinning away on these computers is nothing less than a copy of the Internet from 1996 until today.

stairs leading to the Archive

Hyperbole is easy to generate: over 10 billion pages are held here. The content of a single computer is equivalent to the entire Library of Congress. Over 250 gigabytes of data are added daily. Over 12 terabytes are added every month and there are a total of over 120 terabytes of storage available. As a copy of the entire publicly accessible internet, it is also certainly the worlds largest collection of pornography in a single room.
The Internet Archive was founded in 1995 by Brewster Kahle with the intent of preserving what is arguably the fastest growing archive of human expression ever created. The Library of Congress, and other analog equivalents, keep copies of the thousands of books published every year, helping to preserve our paper history, but the amount of content on the internet has grown to dwarf that repository. Also, unlike books on the shelves of libraries, web pages are in a constant state of flux: the average age of a web site is only 19 months with the average page changing every 100 days. The amount of information created and lost every day is staggering. The current state of digital technology and the internet makes it feasible for the Archive to reach it's stated mission of universal access to human knowledge.
The Internet Archive has several locations, the Mission street facility is their co-location site. This no-frills building is where the data is stored. The other primary site is located at the Presidio in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. That San Francisco location is where the most of the staff are and where the day-to-day business of the Archive takes place. There is another site in Egypt that holds a duplicate of the data on the Mission Street hard drives.
Computing Power on a Shoestring budget

A walk through any other co-location site would be a testament to the Cisco and Sun sales force: high-end servers with terabytes of storage all connected together in a network that has packets flying so fast you can feel your fillings melt if you get too close to the wires. The Archive, on the other hand, is a poster child for function over flash. The machines on the racks are the cheapest possible—the ideal computer is one with a reasonable CPU, a gigabyte of RAM and case for under $300—loaded with a free operating system. The racks look to be straight out of Costco and you won't find an Aeron chair anywhere on the premises.
Gathering this many computers is certain to point out even the smallest problems inherent in the hardware. There is a failure of one kind or another almost very other day. Hard drives are a common problem, failing long before the manufactures' specification claims they should. The summer-time temperatures in the Archive facility hover slightly above what would be covered by the warranty, and a failed drive is potentially a piece of internet history lost. Motherboards, power supplies: anything that can go wrong, will. In those cases, a crash cart is rolled over, the problem diagnosed and hopefully fixed.
So why isn't the Archive using the latest and greatest Sun servers in a temperature controlled co-location facility where the air and power are filtered? The answer is simple: Librarians don't drive Porches. The Archive budget is not overly generous, and the total cost of ownership for Sun servers, proprietary operating systems and top-of-the-line routers and switches can be onerous. Filtering and cooling the air would approximately double the operating cost of the Archive. Under these restrictions it makes more sense to use commodity hardware and have layers of redundancy rather than a single server worth thousands of dollars.
Crawling
Anyone familiar with the concept of a web spider will understand the heart of the Archive's operation. Spiders are programs that traverse the internet and glean information from web sites. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Lycos rely on spiders to gather information to feed their search engines. The quality of these spiders and the quality of the indexing determine the success of your searches.
The Internet Archive does essentially the same thing in what it calls a "crawl." Crawls are carried out by the Archive itself or crawls are donated by other entities. Most of the data currently in the Archive has been donated by Alexa internet, also founded by Brewster Kahle. The Archive does two kinds of crawls: broad and narrow. A broad crawl is an attempt to archive a wide range of sites as completely as possible while a narrow crawl is designed for complete coverage of selected sites or selected topics. Both types of crawls have their own inherent challenges.
Broad crawls can create a number of different problems. While it may be easy to create a crawler that takes full advantage of a 100Mbs link to the internet, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the crawler fed. Extracting unique URLs becomes computationally demanding as the database of indexed sites increases. A broad crawl can encompass over 150 million web pages in a week and run for 40-60 days total. Each page encountered needs to have the links on it extracted and followed. However, those links first need to be checked against the database of previously visited sites. If it's the first time this URL has been hit, then it will need more attention while a repeat can be ignored. This comparison is done in RAM, so if the database is large enough to exhaust the RAM on the computer and force it to page to disk, the speed of the crawl slows down significantly.
Another issue is for crawls is politeness—not all web sites are able to handle the load imposed by a high-performance, multi-threaded crawler. In these cases, there are only two outcomes: either the crawler is smart enough to back off and reduce the strain on the server, or the server will likely crash. A crawl that is looking up tens of millions of web sites per day can also having a devastating effect on DNS servers. These servers also often run out of RAM quickly as the lookups accumulate.
Broad crawls are a necessity because in the vast pool of web pages, it's impossible to know what information should be preserved. A broad crawl is specifically designed to copy as much information as possible over a wide range of web sites. Since there are a lot of duplicate pages out there, and the task of discerning them on the fly is far to difficult, the Archive ends up with about a 30% duplication rate on broad crawls.
Narrow crawls may require less storage and less bandwidth, but they have their own challenges. On a topic-driven crawl, the most obvious is the programming involved in assuring that the crawl has achieved its goal. Making certain that topics such as the attacks on September 11th have been covered completely goes far beyond finding pages with those keywords on them.
Taking care not to overwhelm servers becomes even more of an issue in a site-based narrow crawl. Attacking an underpowered web site with the full force of the Archive is certain not to make friends. In order to cover the sites completely, it is also vital to be able to pull out links from the pages that are not strictly HTML—links buried in Flash, Shockwave, JavaScript or created dynamically in other ways. In the same vein, the robot exclusion file that some sites use to declare parts of the site out-of-bounds to normal spiders can be ignored by the Archive if they are doing a crawl on behalf of an authority such as the Library of Congress. In that case, the webmaster will receive a notification, suitable for framing, explaining that they should be suitably honored that the exclusion files are going to be ignored so that this site can be added to the Library of Congress Web Archive.
Sure it's cool, but what can it do?
The Internet Archive is for web developers what home movies must be for celebrities. Preserved for posterity are our bad web designs, animated gifs and blinking text. The Wayback Machine is a glimpse into the pages held in Mission Street: enter a URL and it will sweep you back as far as 1996 to look at the early days of the internet explosion. The Wayback Machine is a popular site, it receives about five million hits per day. While it is clearly in heavy use, it's not known what research, if any, the people using the Wayback Machine are doing. Other researchers are using the Archive, but it's not an easy task. While there is plenty of data to look at, there isn't an easy interface for accessing it.
The types of research that are waiting to be done are even more interesting. The Archive contains over ten thousand news sites, various archives of e-mail lists, and a growing number of blogs. This is the chatter of the world, and as time goes on it can provide a wonderful glimpse into the psyche of the time. Nefarious uses are equally easy imagine: the effects of advertising campaigns, product releases or political debates. Having the opinions of millions of people clearly documented, easily accessible and quantifiable would be a boon to market researchers and anthropologists alike. Blogs and personal web sites may be of even greater interest than mainstream news site since they are an unfiltered view of the public at large.
Bigger, Better, Faster, More
The Archive can only continue to grow, but obtaining more raw data isn't the only goal. The tools for accessing the data have to be improved before research can become commonplace using the Archive's stores. The quality of the collections needs to be addressed also: duplicates, missing pieces, new sites and new technologies all must be dealt with as the collection continues to grow.
The future also holds more cooperation between the Archive and other organizations. The Library of Congress and other national libraries have a keen interest in adding web archives to their collections, so a teaming makes perfect sense.
The speed of crawls is also due for an upgrade. Alexa Internet is doing the majority of the crawls for the Archive, but soon they will be able to do their own. When that is put in place, the collective speed of crawls will effectively double from the current 45Mb/sec to almost 100Mb/sec. That also means an increase in the speed of the LAN at Mission Street and the WAN between Mission and the Presidio.
There is a great deal more to the Archive than what is covered here. The Prelinger collection of advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur movies is a fantastic, scary and sometimes downright hilarious remembrance of "duck and cover" type movies from the 1950s and on. The collection covers everything from patriotism to personal hygiene with a pre-"Bewitched" Dick York in a number of roles. Most of the movies are unintentionally, jaw-droppingly funny. (See: Dick York as the Shy Guy, Dick York as a runner battling insomnia, Dick York as a Navy recruit with insomnia. Geez, did this guy ever sleep?)
Explore the Archive's web site often, this article has barely scratched the surface of the material available. The Internet Archive Bookmobile, a mirror of the Project Gutenberg files, the Orphan Films collection and the special collection of September 11th related web material are a small sample of the overwhelming store of information available. And it's free, just like any good library."

Lolo's Alarm Clock -- The omniscient alarm clock...

A fancy alarm clock built with the Arduino platform and hardware. It keeps track of time and can measure temperature, humidity, dew point, light level, air quality, and sleep patterns. It's designed as a wooden box with touch sensing for control.

It monitors the quality of air, and general comfort in the room during sleep and wakes you up at the best possible time by sensing your sleep state with an accelerometer sensor under the bed. All data is logged wirelessly to a base station connected to the computer for latter analysis.

Right now I am providing all source code (Arduino) and videos for the project. Details on the electronics will be provided at some later time.
Theory.

The more you move during your sleep the easier it is to wake you up. 'Deep sleep' is the worst time to wake up and is characterized by very few body movements. Any other time is better: in particular just after moving substantially. For example turning from belly to back side, moving arms, legs, head... This sometimes corresponds (at least for me) to a short moment of consciousness while dreaming or close to waking up. The alarm clock monitors a time window defined by a wake-up deadline and a preceding monitoring period (configurable). For example you can tell it to wake you up no later than 8h00 but up to one hour before (between 7h00 and 8h00). It will wake you up just after a body movement that exceeded a given intensity threshold.

Below is an example 'Sleepogram':

Also interesting is the possibility to monitor the general comfort of the room while sleeping. I usually get fued in the morning if there was not enough air circulation. The alarm clock can warn me if there is a problem with the air quality. Air contaminants detectable by the Figaro gas sensor (TGS2602) accumulate and are a good indicator of overall air freshness...

The alarm clock makes 'bird-like' sounds although right now the birds sound very wrong... A nice idea would be to have bird-like sound that slightly vary randomly thus avoiding the usual repetitive and boring alarm clock buzz.
Hardware.

What I have used:

    * Arduino Dueminalove (alarm-clock)
    * Seeduino Mega (Base-station)
    * Real-time clock
    * LCD screen
    * Temperature and humidity sensor
    * Gas sensor: detection of air contaminants (TGS2602 or TGS2600)


Click to see the video

Hackers turn Google into vulnerability scanner

The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) this week released a tool that turns Google into an automated vulnerability scanner, scouring Web sites for sensitive information such as passwords or server vulnerabilities.

CDC first achieved notoriety ten years ago with its backdoor Back Orifice, which demonstrated in a highly public way just how easy it was to take unauthorized control of a Windows PC.

The new tool, called Goolag Scan, is equally provocative, making it easy for unskilled users to track down vulnerabilities and sensitive information on specific Web sites or broad web domains.

This capability should serve as a wake-up call for system administrators to run the tool on their own sites before attackers get around to it, according to CDC.

"It's no big secret that the Web is the platform, and this platform pretty much sucks from a security perspective," said CDC spokesperson Oxblood Ruffin, in a statement. "We've seen some pretty scary holes through random tests with the scanner in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. If I were a government, a large corporation, or anyone with a large Web site, I'd be downloading this beast and aiming it at my site yesterday."

The tool is a stand-alone Windows .Net application, licensed under the open source GNU General Public License, that provides about 1,500 customized searches under categories such as "vulnerable servers," "sensitive online shopping information" and "files containing juicy information."

The results are displayed as a list of links that can be opened directly in a browser. Example results include tell-tale error messages and Java applets for the remote control of surveillance cameras, according to CDC.

Goolag Scan is based on "Google hacking," the practice of exposing vulnerabilities via Google, which CDC says has been pioneered by a hacker going by the handle "Johnny I Hack Stuff."

Goolag Scan is, however, the first time such vulnerability searches have been built into a simple tool, according to CDC (Compare Patch and Vulnerability Management products).

(http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022208-hackers-turn-google-into-vulnerability.html)

Setup your own Proxy Server in 5 Minutes for Free

A simple Google search and you’ll find dozens of really good PHP scripts on the Internet to help you create proxy servers in minutes for free. The only limitation with PHP based proxies is that you require a web server to host the proxy scripts and second, you also need a domain name to act as an address for your proxy site.

If you don’t own a domain or server space, you can still create a personal proxy server for free and that too without requiring any technical knowledge.



Create a Free Proxy Server with Google App Engine Here’s one such proxy site that you can build for your friends in China or even for your personal use (say for accessing blocked sites from office). This is created using Google App Engine and, contrary to what you assume, the process is quite simple.

Step 1: Go to appengine.google.com and sign-in using your Google Account.

Step 2: Click the “Create an Application” button. Since this is your first time, Google will send a verification code via SMS to your mobile phone number. Type the code and you’re all set to create apps with Google App Engine.

Step 3: Choose a sub-domain* that will host your proxy server. Make sure the domain is available, agree to the Google Terms and click save. The sub-domain is also your App ID that will uniquely identify your proxy application.

For this example, we’ll use labnol-proxy-server as the App ID though you are free to choose any other unique name.

Step 4: OK, now that we have reserved the ID, it’s time to create and upload the proxy server application to Google App Engine. Go to python.org, download the 2.6.4 MSI Installer and install Python.



Step 5: Once Python is installed, go to code.google.com, download the Google App Engine SDK for Python and install it.

Step 6: Download this zip file and extract it to some folder on your desktop. The zip file, for the curious, contains a couple of text files (written in HTML and Python) that you can read with notepad.

Step 7: Start the Google App Engine Launcher program from the desktop and set the right values under Edit –> Preferences (see screenshot above).

Step 8. Click File –> Add Existing Application under the Google App Launcher program and browse to the directory that you created in Step 6. Click the Edit button and replace “YOUR_APP_ID” with the ID (sub-domain) that you reserved in Step 3.



Step 9: Click Deploy and your online proxy server is now ready for use. You can experience it live and if any of the steps don’t make sense, please refer to the following video screencast (available in 720p HD).

You can edit the main.html file to change the appearance of your proxy server and you can even add Analytics and AdSense code to your proxy server in case it gets popular on the web. The application is currently open to all users but you can add a layer of authentication so that only users who are logged-in into their Google Accounts can use your web proxy server.

If you have made any changes to your HTML files, you can upload the latest version to Google App Engine either by clicking the “Deploy” button again or use the following command -- appcfg.py update <app-directory>

Credits: The proxy server uses code from Mirrorr, an open-source web caching project by  Brett Slatkin. Thanks Pratham for your help!

Update: To answer some of your questions:

• This proxy works with Flash videos (like YouTube and ABC News) though not with Hulu.
• If you are getting the “quota exceed” error, try this mirror site. Update: This has been removed since the App Engine TOS does not allow you to split your app across multiple accounts to make use of the free quotas. So technically, the mirror of the proxy is in violation of the TOS.
• As some of you have suggestions, domain with the word “proxy” or “proxies” are banned at workplaces so you may include them in your proxy address.
• Though there exist proxy servers for accessing secure sites, this is a basic proxy server that won’t work with sites that require logins (eg, Gmail or Hotmail).