notabilia.us » News and Links http://notabilia.us/blog occasional musings on things of interest Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:21:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WebMynd Releases New Must-Have Search Plugin http://notabilia.us/blog/webmynd-releases-new-must-have-search-plugin/ http://notabilia.us/blog/webmynd-releases-new-must-have-search-plugin/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:29:09 +0000 Michael http://notabilia.us/blog/?p=63 In early 2008, the company WebMynd released a Firefox plugin that archived screenshots of your browsing history so you could visually navigate through your history to find pages you have visited.  I tried it out and thought it was a nice idea, but I didn’t find it useful enough to make it worth the large amount of disk space it was clear those screenshots would take up because I don’t generally like to keep a browsing history.

Today, however, WebMynd has released a new version of its plugin which incorporates a sidebar into the major search engines containing information from various sites such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and YouTube.  The ability to see YouTube videos and the beginning paragraph of Wikipedia articles next to your search results is invaluable.  I had been using the Google Extra GreaseMonkey script to do this but I will probably switch to WebMynd, and I highly recommend one of the two for everyone.

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I switched to Thunderbird for accessing my Gmail mail many months ago because I realized that I was willing to sacrifice some of the convenience of Gmail’s interface for offline access.  I may switch back to using Gmail now that I can have both offline access to my email and its superior interface and design.

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  • Potomac Fever: Panel gives foreign fashion models a break | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register –
  • Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause – washingtonpost.com –
  • Obama Should Pick Webb for Running Mate –
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  • Ron Paul’s forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain : Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times –
  • Using Google’s N-Gram Corpus –
  • Must read: Bush DOE says wind can be 20% of U.S. power by 2030 — with no breakthroughs –
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  • Climate Progress » Blog Archive » ‘Tipping Point’ — A non-technical Hansen piece -
  • Techdirt: How Do People Find The Time To Watch Television? -
  • Crooks and Liars » Fareed Zakaria: McCain Would Mean Second Cold War -
  • Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Even the AP mocks Bush’s energy remarks -
  • America’s Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor’s Degree – Chronicle.com -
  • Book Review: The End Of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot -
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