Firefox Extension

Recently plunged into understanding the variety of extensions available in Firefox. All of them i found it really useful and i would strongly recommend these as the minimum set of firefox Add-ons

• Calculator This is a small extension which will give a small window at the bottom to do your basic mathematical operation. The good thing of this is "ALT + C" takes u to do the calculator section and you can do calculation with not even touching the mouse
• ScribeFire This is the one i am using to publish this Blog. Allows a mechanism to reach your favorite blog site with just a click. It was earlier called Performancing. This plugin needs one time setting of your account to connect it to the blogsite, For example, http://jishnusdiary.blogspot.com/ in the "add blog", would then take you through the process. Once added you can also edit earlier posts.
  
• FasterFox This improves the performance of once browsing. Though i think it improves the speed, not so great.
• FlashGot This improves the download speed of big files. For this one has to first install FlashGet and then install this plugin. This is a download accelerator.
• Coolpreview: This saves you lot of clicks
• FireFTP: In case you are a heavy user of FTP.
• FireShot: Allows to take a screenshot of the webpage and edit it
  
• FlashBlock: Blocks all the flash Ads and only allows it after your explicit approval. This saves you a lot of time with many flash ad websites
  
• FoxClock: Provide you the world clock in the status bar
  
• DailyDilbert: In case you need to take timeoff with some comic strips
  
• IE Tab: For all those websites which have trouble opening or does not work properly in Firefox
  
• File and Folder shortcuts: Your frequently used shortcuts now inside firefox.
  
• PDFDownload: Allows you to decide if PDF has to be opened in browser or with acrobat.
  
• QuickRestart: Sometimes you would need to restart and this provides a button in firefox
  
• StatusbarEx: This keeps tab of the memory consumption of Firefox and allows you to decide when to use your quickrestart button!!
  
• StumpleUpon: Some random search trough web in the field of your interest.
  

All of this works perfectly for me in firefox 3.0. So enjoy Firefox 3 with all the Firefox addons.

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Books I Read- On a Philosophical Sojourn

Recently, got to know about Easy Library which allows a very easy way to get the books. So after a long back i am now into a hectic reading. I also am reading books at a rate of min 1 per week, a nice shift from one per 2-3 months. Also the quality of book has also improved. The books i read recently are:

Author: Richard Dawkin
Books: Blind watch Maker, The Selfish Gene, Out of My Mind

Author: Hermann Hesse
Books: Siddartha, Journey to the east, Narcissus and Goldmund

Author: Richard Bach
Books: Illusions, Out of my Mind

Author: Paulo Coelho
Books: The Alchemist, The fifth Mountain

Author: Ayn Rand
Books: Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead

Author: Dr S. Radha Krishnan
Book: Indian Philosophy I

Author:Boethius
Book: Tractates The Consolation of Philosophy

Author: B. Russel
Book: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

If you would like to go on a unknown and unchartered flow of philosophy i would recommend you to go through this and then come to the best of all "The Upanishads". And also it is strange to figure out all the books of various periods of time still continue to be relevant and little progress has been made by the mankind in this domain.