Steffen's Tech Blog

Did you ever want to download Web videos from sites such as YouTube or others (such as http://www.vidohe.com/sites.php )? Firefox 3.0 together with the free Firefox extension DownloadHelper makes this very easy (see the DownloadHelper homepage for more details). DownloadHelper even provides a Video Conversion feature to allow background conversion of the downloaded video to the format that you like (e.g. from FLV to a format that can be used by iTunes e.g. to load on your iPod or iPhone). This feature relies on FFMPEG available on your system (for Linux or Mac), which can lead to conversion failures as the version of FFMPEG may not have been compiled with the features required by the chosen conversion parameters. You can therefore recompile FFMPEG by yourself with the required features. Note: With Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - there is no need to recompile FFMEG. It just works fine. As an alternative, you can use an external application such as MPEG Streamclip ...

What is BlogThis! ? : "BlogThis! is another easy way to make a blog post at your Blogger blog. Just add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar. Clicking this opens a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post."

Application: Firefox 3.0 (2008060309) Operating System: Linux (x86-gcc3) Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 Ads were yesterday! Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5 Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads. Answers 2.2.48 Alt+Click on any word or term for quick info (definitions, up-to-the-minute reference, and more). No selection is necessary! Deutsches Wörterbuch 1.0.1 DOM Inspector 2.0.0 Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents. Extension List Dumper 1.14.1 Dumps a list of the installed extensions. Finjan Secure Browsing 1.314 Secure Browsing by Finjan Firebug 1.2.0a21X Web Development Evolved. FireGestures 1.1.2 Executes various commands with mouse gestures. Flagfox 3.2.6 Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server Forecastfox 0.9.7.6 Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension. FoxyTunes 3.0.1.1 Control any media player from Firefox and m...

If you are using the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, you can also use ScribeFire to post your blog easily from within the browser. It allows you to drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog. You can even add easily labels to your post. Everything works very fast. As Firefox is a cross-pattform browser, you can use it on Linux/Mac/Windows. You can read more about ScribeFire on http://www.scribefire.com/ where you can also find the link to install it from the Mozilla Add-ons site. Somehow the length of the posts seem to be limited as I have noticed that longer posts (such as my post from March 4, 2008) will be not loaded completely in the ScribFire Editor, but I haven't found any information about the maximum allowed length of a post.