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October 2008

Le second souffle du nuage de tags : représentations innovantes de nuages de tags___utilisabilité, sémantique et e-commerce

Le nuage de tags ou tag cloud vit une seconde jeunesse. Popularisé avec le web 2.0, tombé en désuétude, de nombreuses initiatives voient le jour, toutes plus innovantes les unes que les autres pour mettre en valeur l’outil à la base de la folksonomy.

Customize Your Own Portable Firefox Six Pack

Firefox user Asian Angel loves Portable Firefox for projects like creating a Google Chrome clone, but you can also use it to run multiple, sandboxed instances of the browser at the same time. What's the point? Well, it lets you log into multiple accounts at the same service (like Gmail) in different windows, and run certain extensions and styles in one browser instance but not another. You already know how to create multiple Firefox profiles and even run them simultaneously, but using Portable Firefox you can easily back up your customized installations and run them anywhere. Reader Asian Angel explains how she assembled a colorful "Firefox six pack" using the portable app.

Flickr Quick Links – Userscripts.org

The script adds customisable links to the top of every page on flickr next to the flickr logo. In order to add your own links, you need to edit the script, and edit the customhtml variable. you can put whatever html you want in that variable. and it will be displayed next to the Flickr Logo. I use it to put some shortcuts to various URLS that i access regularly.

July 2008

Screenshot Tour: Mozilla Weave Synchronizes Your Browsing Experience

Weave can match up your Firefox 3 settings, cookies, browsing history, and even tabs between browsers, with experimental support for passwords and form data—in other words, just about everything except extensions, themes, and plug-ins.

Featured Firefox Extension: CyberSearch Integrates Search Results with Your AwesomeBar

The CyberSearch Firefox extension transforms Firefox 3's AwesomeBar into a dynamic search box capable of returning results from popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, and more. The extension is fully customizable