Sunday, January 30, 2011

˙buıʇunoɔ puɐ pǝɹpunɥ oʍʇ

In celebration of reaching two hundred followers I've decided to help them out by posting some useful tips and add-ons to help make following a bunch of blogs easier. I follow a lot of blogs myself and these are some of the things I've tried and what I think of them. Originally I was just going to post an easy recipe for making chloroform, with a nice picture chart, but then I hit 200 followers so maybe I'll do that tomorrow or something.

These will be mostly firefox related since that's what I use for blogger related things. If you use chrome, consider installing FF for the add-ons. There's nothing wrong with using a separate browser just for blogs. Personally I like FF for everything.

I've stopped using Morning Coffee, in favour of just adding bookmark folders broken down into groups of 75 blogs each. I rightclick on a folder and go to 'open all in tabs' to work through that group before moving on. This tip also works in chrome. Now on to the add-ons.

First up we have VertTabbar. Instead of one long row of tabs this allows you to put them in a column, arranged vertically, which sort of reminds me of the windows explorer interface and I like that. Supports resizing, and left or right side of the screen. It's great for widescreens and has more compatibility than similar add-ons like Vertigo.


Next up, I find it's nice to keep organized by colouring and/or numbering tabs. ColorfulTabs takes care of colouring them different pastel colours, and NumExt is what I use to number them. Numext also gives you some neat new hotkeys for quickly switching tabs. I like being able to see how many I have left to go through at a glance.

If you regularly open 100+ tabs at once like I do you may benefit from Load Tabs Progressively which makes your tabs load in smaller batches, instead of trying to load them all at the same time. No screenshot for this one; sorry, but I'm not making an animated gif to show what this does.

It's beyond the scope of this post to review all the add-ons I use but if you like this post and want some more useful ones let me know and I'll write another post on it sometime. I hope somebody finds this helpful.

Squeaked by Anonymouse at 1:02 AM

38 comments:

  1. brotosteroneJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:05 AM

    I actually use VertTabbar

    brotosterone.blogspot.com

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  2. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:08 AM

    I hope its ok with CodGirl that I featured her blog in my screenshots. :)

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  3. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:09 AM

    Oh and thanks again to all my readers. You guys are great and I'll be following.

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  4. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:11 AM

    wow, fast response brosterone, you beat me and i started thinking of my comment as soon as i posted. lol.

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  5. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:27 AM

    Oh yeah, I meant to include some info on adding a paypal donation button(like the one over there →) and stumbleupon button(see my post footer ↑). That's what I get for posting so late when I should be asleep. If anybody cares let me know & I'll do another update tomorrow night & go into how/why to add those to your blog.

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  6. red fredJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:35 AM

    Now that I'm following more blogs and getting more followers I need to start looking into these things.
    http://redisfred.blogspot.com

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  7. jonwintersJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:37 AM

    very helpful. no surprise you're already up to 200!

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  8. SamJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:11 AM

    Grats on your 200 followers! and thanks for the info

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  9. Con QuesoJanuary 30, 2011 at 3:02 AM

    100+ tabs? geeeez. I HAVE to use google chrome; it's a lot more slim which I need since my computer is on the old side.

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  10. RondarielJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:24 AM

    Hm, I think Load Tabs Progressively and Vert Tabbar might be useful. Thanks man.

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  11. ChrisJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM

    Two hundred followers? Wow..

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  12. temptationJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    grats on your 200 followers! nice addons. thanks a lot

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  13. DudemeisterJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    That'S a lot of followers.

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  14. PikamitsuJanuary 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    Huh. I may have to look into some of these extensions.

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  15. Major MackJanuary 30, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    congrats. never tried this but i will

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  16. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    I'm glad to hear people are finding this helpful... i wasn't sure if most people knew about stuff like this already or not.

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  17. JordanJanuary 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    100 tabs at once mind blown

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  18. RawrJanuary 30, 2011 at 1:53 PM

    201 followers, gratz :D

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  19. systemAdminJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    That is a lot of tabs. I have a hard enough time doing 15-20. Kills me interwebs while it loads. Thanks for the info!!

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  20. systemAdminJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:10 PM

    Definitely helpful post. Though I would rather be making chloroform...

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  21. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    well, ok tomorrow i'll post about chloroform and then maybe the next day more helpful tips for bloggers. :)

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  22. DesignAndLaughJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Hah, yeah my computer definitely cannot handle opening 75 tabs at a time.

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  23. ZombieJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    I actually had to turn my head a bit to read the title. lol.

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  24. The Gamer GirlJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    Holy crap, I was just getting around to setting up my morning coffee for my twenty or so followers. You're on a whole 'nother level mouse. I'll study hard and dream of the day you feature me on your blog ;)

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  25. codgirlJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    Of course its fine that you used my blog. And thanks for the tips, I'm going to start trying that myself.

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  26. AnonymouseJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM

    @TheGamerGirl, lol, i'll write some more tips in a day or two, and i'll try to work in a screenshot with your's in it. :)

    i used CoDgirl for this one because she complimented my blog yesterday.

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  27. lazeitaoJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Oh god, awesome post! You should do another on of these soon as I bet alot more people would be interested!

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  28. The Gamer GirlJanuary 30, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    I do like having multiple pages as my start page with hot coffee though. I'll probably keep it just for that.

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  29. RabidmooseJanuary 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM

    I've been using Morning Coffee but I'll give VertTabber a go, thanks!

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  30. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2011 at 6:42 PM

    My crappy netbook lags even when loading three tabs at a time, lol. But I still love it. If I treat it with care it works like a charm.

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  31. DooJanuary 30, 2011 at 7:38 PM

    Congrats!

    And thank you SOOOOOOOOO much for this info! Cheers!

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  32. Viking LeaderJanuary 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    Cool man, that is really useful, thank you.

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  33. loveblogginJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM

    awesome thanks!

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  34. RoseJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    amazing, getting that addon now. And congrats on the 200. glad to be one of them!!!

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  35. thegoldenchildJanuary 30, 2011 at 11:55 PM

    congrats bro!

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  36. The Gamer GirlJanuary 31, 2011 at 2:25 AM

    @mouse
    Ahw! I'll have to make my site look deserving of a screenshoot.:O

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  37. !sense!January 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    I like the blog. Thanks for the info

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  38. JefreyOneFJanuary 31, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    Congrats on the 200! I hope I can get that far! Thank you for the tips; I've been needing something like this to help me out with my blog.

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