My Geek Finds

Between my computer at work with IE and Firefox and my computer at home running IE and Firefox, I have bookmarks and favorites spread all over the place – hundreds of them. I go home at night to do some research and remember bookmarking a site earlier but that was at work, log in to the office VPN just to get a bookmark. Not the end of the world, but still frustrating and time consuming. Xmarks allows you to easily manage, organize, and share your browser bookmarks/favorites.

I generally use Firefox for most browsing, but there are some vendor portals, sites, and utilities that either require or simply work better with IE or Firefox. Occasionally I will favorite something in IE and want it later with Firefox.

Xmarks is a free utility/service that lets you manage and maintain your bookmarks/favorites between browsers and computers. You simply sync your bookmarks using different profiles (work/home/etc) that you create and configure.

You also have access to all of your bookmarks/favorites online from any computer using the My Xmarks portal and you can share your bookmarks with others.

Check out Xmarks at http://www.xmarks.com/

Since I posted the StockTicker add-on for Firefox a few days ago I figured I would post a few of my other favorite and useful (I think anyway) Firefox add-ons.

• TwitKit – Twitter in the sidebar
• Weatherbug – Live local weather.
• Feed Sidebar – Sidebar feed reader
• Tab Scope – Preview tab contents
• Tab Catalog – Thumbnail list of all open tabs
• All-in-One Sidebar – Sidebar Control
• Download Statusbar – Manage downloads
• Sun Cult – Sun and Moon Info
• StockTicker – Customizable stock ticker.
• Wikipedia Lookup Extension – Looks up the selected word in the Wikipedia

There are tons of very useful add-ons out there, these are just a few that I use day to day.  Find your favorites at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Great FireFox Add-on to add a stock ticker to your browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/183

I set my details site to use Google instead of Yahoo.

Just add http://www.google.com/finance?q=$ to the Details Site in StockTicker Edit.  Google is just quicker to load – IMO.