Recent Blog Posts
Blogs ยป Archive for October 2nd, 2005
ScreenGrab & Devboi for Firefox
It’s been a few months since I’ve had a good look at some of the newer Firefox extensions, but there are two that have really grabbed my fancy lately.
ScreenGrab
The first is ScreenGrab. Like many, I looked at this one and immediately thought ‘What the?… what can it do, that I can’t now?’.
The very worthwhile answer to that question is simple — it has the ability to capture all the parts of a long, scrolling page and then automatically glues it all together into one, long, shiny new PNG. If you’ve ever wasted minutes of your life doing this by hand you’ll recognize this as a very neat trick.
In fact, I can’t think of another application, client-based or otherwise that is able perform this seemingly simple task — this pony has but one trick, but it’s a good one.
DevBoi
The second nifty new string to the Firefox bow is Zhluk.com’s DevBoi.
Devboi is a Web developer reference sidebar for Firefox, at this stage cover HTML 4.01, CSSS2.1, DOM and XUL. I’d expect more will added over time. Although no single aspect of it is remarkable, the whole package is well thought-out and immediately …
Sponsored Links
Download sample chapters of any of our popular books.
