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Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby Haggis_McMutton on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:09 am

Saxi has commissioned me to work on rebuilding the community ties that have been ravaged by the recent drama, so here's a thread where we can share tips to improve each others lives, gang.

I'll go first: http://readfa.st/

They have a nifty button thingy that you can put on your toolbar and then press on any article you're reading. This allows you to read the article contents through their website, which has the added functionality of setting a certain reading speed (only a couple of words are visible at a time and they move according to your desired reading speed). If you want to take a quick pause to ponder the ramifications of the nip slip you're reading about, no worries, just hit space.

Thus you can both read the thing more quickly and develop your fast reading skills.

They have a bunch of other features as well, comprehension tests to see what speed you should be aiming for, additional suggested reading material and so on.
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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby Army of GOD on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:16 am

wolframalpha toolbar

if you don't know what wolframalpha is, then you're not a college student currently taking calculus
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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby john9blue on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:21 am

my favorite firefox addon is firegestures

i've installed firefox at least 10 different times and this is always the first addon i get.

it makes browsing way faster.

and if it wasn't for firegestures then i'd probably be using opera
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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby Army of GOD on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:26 am

john9blue wrote:my favorite firefox addon is firegestures

i've installed firefox at least 10 different times and this is always the first addon i get.

it makes browsing way faster.

and if it wasn't for firegestures then i'd probably be using opera


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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby john9blue on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:34 am

Army of GOD wrote:
john9blue wrote:my favorite firefox addon is firegestures

i've installed firefox at least 10 different times and this is always the first addon i get.

it makes browsing way faster.

and if it wasn't for firegestures then i'd probably be using opera


>2012
>still uses performances invented in the 16th century to browse the internet


lol watch yourself chromeboy, you'd best not mess with a browser packin' REAL heat.
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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:11 am

Second on wolframalpha. Pure awesomeness. I never went to class for my calculus sequence, just read from the book and used wolfram for explanations I was unclear of. It's pretty useful for just about everything, more than math.

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Re: Usefull / nifty web tools you use

Postby AndyDufresne on Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:44 am

Page Saver Basic: http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/

It creates a nice button for your toolbar to instantly capture an image of your browser, so you can save it as an image file. Great for if you need to grab screenshots of long webpages or websites with a click of a button.


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