• Web Developer Toolbar
  - Essential tools for any web developer. Too many to mention here.
• Greasemonkey – “Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.”
• Adblock Plus – The development of Adblock pretty much stopped in 2004. When more and more people demanded improvements Adblock Plus was created. Adblock Plus is a completely rewritten version of the original Adblock.
• Tab Mix Plus – Loads of Tab improvements. Changing the behavior of tab opening, focus, closing, mouse eventsion tab and much more. One of the best tab extensions around!
• IE Tab – IE Tab allows embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla and Firefox.
• del.icio.us extension – social bookmarking extension
• BugMeNot -This extension automatically fills in login forms from a list of username and passwords collected from bugmenot.com. With this, you can bypass registrations on websites that you would not like to be registered with will still being able to access their content.
• StumbleUpon – “StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like€ minded stumblers have liked.”
• Adblock – “Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker.”
• Adblock Filterset.GUpdater – This extension allows you to automatically keep up to date Adblock or Adblock+ with G’s latest filterset every 4-7 days. It also provides you with the ability to define your own filters that you want to persist between updates.
• Download Statusbar – Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.
• SessionSaver – “SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even
  things you were typing — they’re all saved.”
• DownThemAll! – The power downloader: lets you download in just one click links, images or other selections contained in a webpage.
• ScrapBook – ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: * Save Web page * Save snippet of Web page * Save Web site (In-depth Capture) * Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree * Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing tools * Full text search and quick filtering search * Text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes
• Mouse Gestures – Allows you to execute commands by moving the mouse around.
• CustomizeGoogle – It enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
• Gmail Manager – “This is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.”
• FlashGot – “FlashGot turns every supported download manager in a download manager for Firefox”
• ColorZilla – Use and eyedropper tool to find the color of any point in your browser.
• Fasterfox – performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
• Forecastfox – Gives a nice weather forecast in the lower right hand corner of Firefox.
• Sage – RSS and Atom feed reader extension
• GmailNotifier – A good replacement for Google’s notifier, this extension adds a statusbar item showing if you have new email. You can configure the time between checks for new email.
• HTML Validator – HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
• All In One Sidebar (AIOS) – Manage a lot of things through the Firefox sidebar, create new toolbars, etc.
• NoScript – NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice.
• Foxy Tunes – FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox. It also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted.
• Stop orReload Button – Combines Stop & Reload into one button
• All-in-One Gestures Extension -
• SuperDragAndGo – Drag a link (e.g. google ), text-link (e.g. http://www.google.com ), text-uri (e.g. abc.com), image , or bookmark quicklink from bookmarks toolbar folder and throw it anywhere on your webpage (content area) to open it on a new tab.
• CSSViewer – A beautifully simple CSS property viewer – hover over any element to see its properties
• Update Notifier – Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Easily configurable for automatically installing updates
  when available and checking for updates when Firefox starts.
• Restart Firefox – Adds “Restart Firefox” menuitem to “File”, and a toolbar button for easy restarting. Great for when you install themes or extensions and
  need to restart Firefox.
• Foxylicious – Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks.
• Aardvark – The Aardvark Firefox extension is a tool for web developers/designers providing the opportunity of viewing and editing styles (css) and content of the page elements… Things You Can Do With Aardvark : Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding “fluff,” especially prior to printing a page … See how the page is created, block by block … View the source code of one or more elements and more … one of my very favorite …
• FireFTP – Full-featured, free (charityware) FTP client that runs as a Firefox extension.
• Tabbrowser Preferences – Advanced controlls for tabbed browsing.
• Performancing -”Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your WordPress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.”
• Firebug – Enhanced console and DOM inspector for great web development.
• SiteAdvisor – Best. WebSafety. Extension. Ever. They trolled 95% of the world’s web traffic and tested e-mail registration forms with unique e-mail addresses for spam and downloads for spyware. Mindboggling – and free.
• Platypus – Interactive removal of page elements through Greasemonkey.
• Fleck – Fleck let’s you add notes and comment to every page on the web. Blog or share your annotated pages. **Comarking**(commenting and Bookmarking in one) is what they call it. *no account needed!*
• All-in-One Gestures – This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page
  scrolling.
• Paste and Go – lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the address bar’s context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. Similarly, you can “Paste and Search” via the search bar’s context menu or Ctrl-Shift-S.”
• Image Zoom – Adds zoom functionality for images. Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page.
• User Agent Switcher – Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
• Menu Editor – Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File, Edit, View, etc.).
• MassInstaller – If you have ever had to re-install Firefox, or you a€™re installing Firefox for the first time on a new computer, you know it can be a
  pain to hunt down and install your favorite extensions. The Mass Installer extension reads a list of extension URLs from a text file and automatically
  installs them all in one fell swoop.
• FirefoxShowcase – Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox. Press F12, and it generates a page with the small thumbnails of opened webpage.
• FlashBlock – Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
• ForecastFox Enhanced – Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension. This adds 12 improved radar images and the ability to supply a URL
  for your own radar image. It also allows for pausing, restarting and setting the frequency of automatic updates.
• Operator – Operator lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful. For instance, Flickr + Google Maps, Upcoming.org + Google Calendar, Yahoo! Local + your address book, Delicious + Answers from Yedda, and many more possibilities and permutations. All of these scenarios are possible due to **Microformats**, an emerging standard for injecting semantics into HTML.
• Measure It – Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
• IE View Lite – This is a cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub, which is 47.4 KB. All the same UI and features are there. It has a right click menu item
  to open a page in IE and a list of sites to always open in IE. Everything’s just been rebuilt from the ground up to be smaller and more efficient. Plus, it has
  the ability to pass extra parameters to the executable (very helpful for use with WINE), which is not included in regular IE View.
• SpellBounddevelopment version – As you type spell check in every text fields. Supports all the dictionaries provided by mozilla.
• SiteAdvisor FirefoxExtension – “We test the Web to help keep you safe from spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.”
• AutoCopy – Select text and it’s automaticaly copied to the clipboard, like Trillian or mIrc.
• LiveHTTPHeaders – View HTTP Headers on the fly. Extremely helpful for debugging web applications.
• FEBE – This is a brand new Firefox extension that allows you to create a backup of all your installed extensions and themes. The backups are created in an
  installable xpi format so you can easily port them to another computer.
• Fission – Fission combines address bar and progress bar, making the progress bar more visible and allowing for a nice visual effect. This is similar to the
  Safari browser’s progress bar.
• Torrent Finder Toolbar -Torrent Search Toolbar that enables all Torrent Finder search functions from your own Firefox browser. The new Toolbar should give you more flexibility and feature rich to make you find torrents in a snap.
• “Using Firefox” Recommended Extensions – Updated list and review of best Firefox extensions and themes. Convenient download links.
• Extreme Web Site Makeover – Does your web site bring in new leads? Does it increase customer satisfaction or generate additional sales? If not, it may be
  time for a web site makeover. Below are a few key questions to consider before you redesign your web site.
• Organize Statusbar – Rearrange or hide any item (icon or text) in the status bar
• The Web 2.0 Toolbar – FireFox users save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Free Web 2.0 Toolbar aggregates the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video and Social News websites
• Torrent-Search Toolbar – Best RSS torrent feed on the net.
• SplitLink – View the true url that you are being redirected to.
• Plain Text to Link – Plain text to link is able to select plain text in a page and save it in a text file.
• Gmail File Space – This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to “Gmail Drive” on windows platform. Your gmail account looks like a FTP host and you can upload and download your files.
• LiveLines – Add RSS feeds to web-based readers, reader extensions, or desktop readers with the RSS icon on the status bar.
• Colorful Tabs – A simple, but elegant idea: color the tabs in Firefox. Beautiful, and I love it.
• Cookie Culler – CookieCuller is an extended and enhanced version of the Cookie Manager that comes with Firefox/Mozilla.
• Copy Plain Text – Copies text without formatting.
• Download Embedded – Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, movies, music, etc., and a lot easier than digging through the page source or through Firefox’s
  Page Info.
• Slim Extension List – Makes items in extension list shorter, so you can see more at once. Also, sorts them by name (optionally).
• Autocopy – Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. It works in much the same way as does Trillian or mIrc.
• Mouseless Browsing – GREAT extension to browse with the keyboard *only* – I can’t imagine living without it anymore Screenshot and additional explanation on http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=3179.0
• Firefox Table ToolsExtension – Sort table cells with hotkeys + click.
• Google Toolbar – Google Search, Autolink, Translation and SpellCheck in one toolbar.
• BetterSearch – Enhances Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com, AllTheWeb, del.icio.us and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info, a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results
• Reveal – Reveal creates thumbnails of your tabbed pages, allowing you to select, reorder, or even sort through pages in the session history. After you have installed Reveal and restarted your browser, it takes you through a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use it. This is the coolest new Firefox extension I ha€™ve seen in a while (cool as in 50% fun, 50% useful), and definitely worth a look.
• Add Bookmark Here – Allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera.
• Cacheout! – Especially for Digg.com and Slashdot.com users, how many times are you unable to access a particular article because the remote server has been
  slammed by the Digg/Slashdot Effect? Cacheout! lets you try to access articles through Google’s caching service and CoralCDN.org. More being added all the
  time! Load up webpages using Google’s caching service and CoralCDN.org.
• Colorzilla – You cannot discuss about colors but you can catch them
• Search EngineOrdering – SEO – SEO allows you to sort and delete search engines that are in the search bar.
• Sort Extensions and Themes – It does just that.
• Deepest Sender – Deepest Sender is a blogging client for Firefox. What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of having to go to the Update page on
  LiveJournal/WordPress/Blogger/whatever, or loading up a separate client program, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+\, or click the button in your toolbar, and you can start posting.
• Hyperwords – Hyperwords allow you to interact with all the text on the web.
• InfoLister – InfoLister is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Nvu that collects various information about Firefox/Thunderbird and saves it to a file. Currently it prints the list of installed extensions, themes and plugins.
• Copy URL+ – The Copy URL+ extension enables you to copy to the clipboard the current document’s address along with additional information such as the document’s title, the current selection or both. It allows you to add your own custom menu entries.
• Foxlingo – Foxlingo translates websites with their current interface; many languages supported.
• SwitchProxy Tool – “SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.”
• Ready2Search – Ready2Search makes search settings for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. Ready2Search is also useful as an image operator.
• CNET 10 Besst Extensions for Firefox 2 – FoxyTunes, Tab Mix Plus, MR TECH Loacl Install ….
• FoxClocks – The world is my oyster, the time is my lemon
• Roll Your Own FireFox Search Engine – Create custom search engines for your Firefox Search Bar.
• Chatsum – Chat with other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you. Includes cool stats, profile pages, and a web2.0 chat interface.
• Firefox Showcase – This is a great extension, list it up!:-)
• XBMC Fox – This adds a new option to the right click menu in Firefox which will send URL’S to Xbox Media Center for onscreen playback.
• X-RAY – This one will show you the html TAGS while you’re watching the site itself. COOL idea and it’s still getting developed for further usage.
• userstyles.org – A collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications.
• Session Manager – Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows.
• Cache Status -Easy cache status & management from status bar.
• Foxmarks – Synchronizes bookmarks across multiple machines.
• Tab X – Adds a close button to each of the browser tabs, and removes the close button at the end of the tab bar.
• Get jetable mail – Get a time limited mail alias to avoid spam, via context menu. Works great
• 1-Click Answers – Hold down Alt and click on any word to get quick definitions and facts. (reliable facts and definitions from over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and almanacs)
• Context Search – Context Search transforms the “Web Search for…” context item into a menu containing your Mycroft search plugins. This is very convenient, since it allows you to decide which search engine you use. Firefox’s default is to use the currently selected search plugin only.
• Yoono – Yoono’s Firefox toolbar automatically suggests similar sites to the current one based on other people’s
  bookmark folder structure. It additionally allows you to sync your bookmarks
  with a server and share them across multiple computers.
• MenuX – “MenuX was designed for laptop/tablet use where maximum screen realestate is desired. Adds the ability to collapse any toolbar. Adds a library of toolbar buttons.” A real time-saver and really useful for 1-click access to options, sidebars, extensions, etc.
• deskCut – This extension adds desktop shortcut creation to the context-menu. Both Windows and
  Linux (KDE/GNOME) desktop shortcuts are supported.
• CookieButton – Another approach to controlling cookies by site permissions. Currently has many user ratings of 5 out of 5.
• SearchPluginHacks – adds a context menu to the search plugins drop-down list, which allows quickly deleting unneeded plugins.
• Peekko Chat – An IRC Client links with visiting web page. “Peekko Chat is a new Firefox extension that makes every web page a place where people can congregate.”
• SearchStatus – View PageRank and AlexaRank in the status bar as you browse. Also has many shortcuts for search engine checks.
• trovando – With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare results from 250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images,
  Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL).
• Chickenfoot – automated web browsing tool. Web agent within firefox.
• SEOpen – Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer,
  and more.
• a Better delicious – This extension to post and manage del.icio.us bookmarks is far better than the one they provide.
• Slogger – Slogger is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is a very flexible tool for creating a complete log of your browsing history (thus the name: Slogger =”browse logger”).
• Adsense Notifier – “Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.”
• Answers.com for Firefox – Click on any word on your screen and get instant, accurate facts and definitions. I urge you to try it!
• View Cookies – It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies of the current webpage. This is interesing for developers, privacy-concious
  users and others.
• ViewSourceWith – View page source with external applications, you can also open images using GIMP or ACDSee or open PDF link using Acrobat Reader.
• Stealther – Temporarily disable history and cache.
• Smiley Xtra – Lets you insert smilies from a huge online database into forum posts and blogs.
• Feed Your Reader – Feed Your Reader allows you to use the RSS Autodiscovery in firefox to launch external aggregators, such as Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon or web based aggregators such as Feed Lounge. By default, FYR uses the feed:// protocol allowing a wide range of aggregators to be supported. However, FYR can be also be configured to support various web based aggregators and desktop applications which do not support feed://. FYR replaces the functionality of the built-in RSS icon, if you wish to add a live bookmark, hold down the shift key when you select your feed.
• refspoof – A simple toolbar that allows to load a page with a different referer.
• Bookmarks Synchronizer – sync your firefox bookmarks between multiple computers using ftp/webdav…the most useful extension ever used!
• EasyGesture – easyGestures is a pie menu that pops up inside the browser when you click the mouse and then let you perform various actions at the tip of the mouse pointer with minimum mouse movement.
• POTO Sidebar – The original Opera-like sidebar. Not cluttered like the derived All-in-One Sidebar.
• Unwrap Text – 1)Unwraps a multi-line URL and opens it in a new tab. 2) Unwraps a multi-line street address and opens it in Google maps.
• Permit Cookies – Manage cookies permissions site by site.
• Informenter – Easily fill forms with information you often use.
• FxIF (Firefox exIF) – FxIF (Firefox exIF) allows you to view the EXIF data contained in JPEG images from the convenience of your Firefox browser.
• Color Contrast Analyser – Determining the colour contrast between foreground and background colours is a time consuming task, but is greatly aided by colour
  contrast analysers. This Firefox extension reveals the colour contrast of all elements in the DOM. If you evaluate websites for colour contrast, this extension will be useful for saving you time, and also take out the guesswork required to determine which colours to test …
• OpenDownload – This extension allows you to open ANY file (executables, etc.) from the internet into the default program assigned by your operating system, without needing to save it first. This is similar to IEs ‘Run’ function for executables.
• NukeAnything Enhanced – Allows you to remove anything from any website.
• FootieFox – Soccer scores for today’s matches of many European leagues – live and almost instantly.
• FlickrFox – Browsing Flickr Images in the sidebar.
• Habari Xenu – An integrated XUL reader for feed (RSS/Atom)

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Blogstamp plugin makes a request of timestamp (the number of seconds elapsed since the 0 hour of the 1st of January of 1970 GMT), certified by third parts, and adds a signature, which comprised of contents SHA-1 hash, returned timestamp and a digital signature.

The WP Link Directory is a link directory plugin on the Internet for WordPress admin to store and maintain a set of links in classified categories.

AdSenseBot-Stats counts the visits of Google AdSense Bot (Mediapartners) and writes them into a database.

The WordPress Updated Plugin echoes the last modification date instead of the standard the_time() and the_date().

Routes allows you to add geographical route information to articles and pages in a WordPress blog, and map the routes using Google Maps.

Subscription Icons allows you to put a set of icons for RSS subscriptions on your WordPress blog page.

Private Notes plugin for WordPress provides registered users on a site with the ability to send messages to one another.

Cloud-O-Google Queries is a filter to display keyword clouds based on search engine queries.

WP Group Restriction is a WordPress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages).

The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series.

Slickr Gallery is a bandwidth-friendly AJAX photo gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos. Slickr Gallery needs a Lightbox plugin to work properly.

Google Sitemap Parser outputs all the links from your sitemap.xml that is generated by using the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress.

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• CSS Zen Garden -
• CSS Vault -
• CSS Beauty -
• Stylegala -
• Webcreme – A design gallery updated daily with fresh and innovative sites
• CSS Mania -
• CSS Reboot -
• CSS Thesis -
• CSS Import -
• Unmatched Style -
• CSS Drive -
• CSS Galleries – Aggregating CSS & Web design inspiration
• CSS Play – Fantastic CSS resource site with loads of demos and tutorials. Some particularly impressive CSS photo galleries
• Daily Slurp – Daily link dump of well designed sites.
• Light on Dark -
• Liquid Designs -
• Dark Eye -
• W3 Compliant Sites -
• Most Inspired – Aggregates web-design galleries into one easy to access page.
• kovver css gallery – css gallery with very high selection standards. only for the top designs!
• CSS Flavor – Collectoion of Best CSS Design Websites
• CSSElite css gallery – CSS Design Gallery and Website Development Resources
• Style Crunch – StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery.
• CSS Bloom – CSS Bloom is a website showcasing the best CSS based designs used by Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s.
• CSS Remix – CSS Remix celebrates the dynamic innovation and creativity of designers who are on the forefront of CSS-based design.
• The Horizontal Way – An horizontal showcase for horizontal scrolling websites.
• CSS Websites – CSS Gallery by Design CSS
• Submit CSS – a brand new website gallery full of css designs
• Best Web Gallery – Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites
• Cssimpress – CSS Impress – Gallery of CSS Websites
• CSSelite – Only the best of the best in CSS. Great gallery.
• CSS Spain – Here you will find sites developed in Spain with the web Standards and Guidelines of the W3C
• Alternative CSS – Gallery focusing on new and creative design ideas, elements, layout methods, and styles.
• Camaleon – Hispanic CSS Zen Garden
• CSS Blast – russian css showcase
• Doblepixel -
• CSS Collection – Naked Sites: Shedding tables and running free
• showcase GR – showcasing the best of Greek CSS web design
• Design Snack -
• Web Standards Awards -
• Design Melt Down – Articles on web design trends, each with a slew of samples.
• Open Web Design -
• A List Apart – Great web design resource

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• Firefox – Most loved browser.
• Google Earth – Navigate and search through satellite images around the world.
• Daemon Tools – Virtual CD/DVD drive which supports all popular copy protections.
• OpenOffice – Office Suite
• FoxIt Reader- Fast, free PDF viewer.
• Thunderbird – Mozilla foundation’s open source e-mail client.
• uTorrent – The lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client
• VLC – Mediaplayer that plays everything except realmedia files.
• AVG Antivirus – An Anti-virus Utility
• IrfanView – IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact graphics viewer
• Skype – The most popular Voice over IP (VoIP) client.
• ccleaner – CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool.
• picasa – Find and enjoy the pictures on your computer in seconds.
• Spybot Search and Destroy – Anti-spyware program
• DVD Shrink – Free DVD backup utility
• Ad-Aware – Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components.
• Audacity – The best and simplest open source audio editor out there.
• Filezilla – Fast FTP client for Windows with SFTP/SSH and SSL/TLS.
• Opera – An equal alternative to Firefox
• VirtualDub – VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms
• Media Player Classic – This multimedia DirectShow player looks like the old Windows Media Player 6.4, but has a lot more features like switching audio streams in an MP4 file.
• Unlocker – Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages like:
• Filemon – This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time.
• Apache – Open-source HTTP server
• TweakUI – XP user interface tweaker.
• Real Alternative – Real player alternative
• Pidgin – Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
• 7-Zip – 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
• Google Talk – Talk and IM with your friends for free
• VMware Player – VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines.
• Zonelabs Firewall – Free firewall
• Eraser – Eraser is a secure data removal tool, which allows you to remove sensitive data from your hard drive overwriting it with carefully selected patterns.
• Notepad++ – Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
• Inkscape – Scalable vector graphics sofware
• Autoruns – See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login.
• nLite – Have you ever wanted to remove some Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger…
• wink – Wink allows you to record desktop action or application windows and create smooth, animated Flash demonstrations.
• SpywareBlaster – SpywareBlaster prevents you computer from becoming infested with spyware by blacklisting known bad ActiveX components.
• Tor – An anonymous Internet communication system
• PDFCreator – “PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.”
• PageDefrag – Defrags the windows page file
• WinDirStat – View the files in any folder or drive in your computer as a grid of filesize-proportional boxes.
• TugZip – Great windows integration with lots of support.. Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
• XnView – XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files
• FreeCommander – freeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. * Dual-panel technology * Optional tree view for each panel * Built in file viewer * Built in archive handling * Easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu * Create and verify MD5 checksums * File splitting * File properties and context menu * Calculation of folder size * Folder comparison / synchronization * Modification of file date and attributes * Folder / program favorites * File searching * File filters for display * DOS command line * Multiple language support
• HijackThis – A general homepage hijackers detector and remover.
• K-Lite Codec Pack – The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video.
• xp-AntiSpy – Prevents XP from auto calling MS
• TCP Optimizer – The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.
• MWSnap – Capture selected parts of the screen.
• ZipGenius – File compression suite
• Dependency Walker – Dependency Walker is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. For each module found, it lists all the functions that are exported by that module, and which of those functions are actually being called by other modules. Another view displays the minimum set of required files, along with detailed information about each file including a full path to the file, base address, version numbers, machine type, debug information, and more.
• Avast AV – Excellent free AV. Protects internet mail, instant messaging, network shield, Outlook/Exchange, P2P shield, standard shield and web shield.
• Yahoo Widgets – Bring life to your desktop with fun, stylish,and useful
• FastStone – Image viewers and screen capture utilities
• TMPGEnc – MPEG tool for Windows
• Httrack – Download entire websites
• AbiWord – AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
• KlipFolio – RSS Dashboards & Desktop Alerts
• Darik’s Boot and Nuke – DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
• Regmon – This monitoring tool lets you see all Registry activity in real-time
• World Wind – World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth.
• Outpost Firewall – Basic Firewall Protection Standard packet and application filtering safeguard your computer from unwanted communications.
• SlickRun – SlickRun is a floating command line that lets you define short aliases for any program or website.
• FLV Player – FLV Player is a standalone application to play Flash .flv files with.
• TiddlyWiki – A completely standalone wiki implementation written entirely in a single html page. Uses JavaScript for dynamic page capabilities and allows saving with backups as well as RSS feeds.
• trillian – Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows
• Azureus – Java BitTorrent Client
• Celestia – The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
• Photofiltre – A powerful and easy to use image editor.
• Copernic Desktop Search – Standard desktop search, does files, emails, history/favorites, will index on the fly. Nice features include the able to index network drives, can set schedule on how often files/emails/favorites/history are to be re-indexed, as well as a index clear/re-index feature and the ability to change where the index is stored on the hard drive.
• SyncToy for Windows XP – The smart way to copy files
• Pandora Desktop Player – Pandora Desktop Player allows you to listen to the Pandora jukebox in your system tray ad free
• Aqua Dock – Aqua Dock is a task bar and a Windows program launcher that looks just like an Apple.
• ClamWin – Free Antivirus
• PC INSPECTOR File Recovery – Recovers deleted files from your hard drive.
• PDFCreator – PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application.
• FlyakiteOSX – FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc.
• Brico Pack Vista Inspirat – BricoPack Vista Inspirat is a free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look
  like Windows Vista.
• MediaMonkey – Get Your Music Collection in Order!
• Microsoft Reader – E-book software
• LinkSync – Sync bookmarks with multiple browsers
• Advanced Disk Cleaner – Search for temporary and garbage files and delete them to free up space. Very thorough.
• Driver Cleaner – Removes parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers.
• SimpleOCR – SimpleOCR is a fully-featured, free OCR application.
• Helix Cameo – Video compression software for REAL MEDIA format.
• NTREGOPT – Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP
• UNDOReg – Use with regshot
• RegShot – A small registry snapshot and compare utility
• Dia – Dia is a program to draw diagrams.
• etuner – Internet Television Client
• VideoInspector – VideoInspector is a tools designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files. With VideoInspector you’ll know why your video files has no sound or refuses to play correctly. VideoInspector will help you installing the required CoDecs (coder/decoder software) for an optimal performance. VideoInspector can also inspect your system to find which codecs are available, and it can also process multiple video files and export its result in HTML or plain text files.
• psp video – Convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files
• Autostreamer – With this you can create new Windows installtions CD’s with the proper service already installed.
• Spyware Terminator – Protect your computer with Free Real-Time detection from spyware, adware, and keyloggers.
• SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/Audio Burner – No installation is needed, just one single file, and it has its own ASPI layer build in.
• Satscape – It produces real-time displays of where any Satellite is, and predicts passes for your locale. There are about 8000+ satellites in orbit, a lot of these are just junk and debris such as discarded rocket bodies, but quite a few are working Satellites.
• QuickReg – QuickReg allows to register or unregister many DLLs in one mouse click. Select all the DLLs to register, drag and drop in QuickReg, save the DLL
  list and register/unregister them as many times as you want
• Resource Hacker – Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.
• IBM – Hitachi Drive Fitness Test – Has your computer ever crashed or failed to boot up, causing you to suspect that your hard drive might be broken?
• Roadkil’s Undelete – Allows you to undelete files that you have accidentally deleted from your drives.
• Unstoppable Copier – Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.
• LeakTest – Test your firewall
• WinMorph – WinMorph is a high performance morphing and warping software.
• SWF2AVI – swf2avi is a freeware tool to convert or batch-convert Flash movies (swf) to bitmaps, bitmap-sequences (bmp, jpg) or videos (avi).
• GSplit – GSplit is a powerful file splitter
• IceSword – English version of the famous rootkit finding software made by the Chinese programmer pjf.
• Paint.net – Awesome free photoshop-like program.
• FlashGet – A download manager with the highest amount of users on the internet
• GIMP – the GNU Image Manipulation Program like photoshop
• Vista Codec Pack – Use any media player, limited only by the players’ capabilities, to play DVD’s, movies and video clips of almost any filetype.

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No Directory adds NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags to the header of your theme to force the search engines to use your own description and title for your site, instead of the one that is in DMOZ or the Yahoo directory.

Selig-Stats provides you with a number of filters that can be used directly within your posts / pages in order to display some statistics like post count, comment count etc.

Technorati Rank utilizes the Technorati API to display your blog information (Rank, Links, Blogs Linking) and an Add to Favorites all in simple display.

CodeHighlighter uses GeSHi to highlight syntax for source code.

Book Cover displays the book cover image from ISBN.

WordPress AdSense Deluxe+ Widget is a widgetized version of AdSense Deluxe+ Plugin

Attach Links is a Word Press plugin that allows you to attach one or more external links to each post. They will be shown in a list when calling the function al_display().

TellAFriendPost allows the user to forward the post to there friend.

PromotePost allows the user to Extend the post reach by forwarding it to the 45 sites including del.icio.us, Digg, Flurl, Techorati.

DoubleClick Meaning allows you to doubleclick on a word to know its definition / meaning.

ScaleImage scales images in the post using a slider.

wp-weather widget uses Weather.com to show forecast information for a city.

Duplicate Content Cure prevents duplicate content in wordpress blogs by adding a noindex meta tag to wordpress pages that don’t contain any unique value, like categories, archives, and paged pages.

wp-publications-archive is a WordPress plugin that allows administrators to upload and manage all sorts of files (i.e., publications). Additionally, end-users are able to navigate, search, and download them in the front-office.

Currency Converter sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between 148 currency formats from all over the world.

Ajaxified Expand Post NOW uses AJAX to expand the “more…” on your blog.

Ma.gnolia Widget allows you to display your ma.gnolia links in your sidebar similar to the del.icio.us sidebar widget. This widget uses SimpleXML and as such requires PHP5.

Visualize Advanced Features will display the hidden buttons in the WordPress 2.1 WYSIWYG editor.

Meyshan 6 acts as a place holder for any 6 plugins of your choice, in a very beautiful mini tabbed pages.

onAirNow gets information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog.

IWG Extended Author List expands your author-list at the post-page of every user that is allowed to show_in_authorlist.

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Stat Traq provides detailed statistics in a nice graphical format. It tracks hits, pageviews, sessions, browser details etc.

wordTube will display your own videos, images or sound files on your blog.

WordPress Passwords adds a site-wide password to your posts and pages without the need of .htaccess, users or security levels.

Import New Blogger imports posts and comments from the new Blogger to your WordPress blog.

Top Posts by Category displays your best posts, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments.

FreshTags is a context-sensitive tagging-based navigation system originally for Blogger.

Distributed Social Networking lets you publish hCards, blogrolls as XFN, allow public/private profiles and adds a messaging system.

Category Converter lets you condense categories on your blog into a shorter list. Seems really useful if over time you want an updated category list while maintaining the posts.

Slightbox is a combination of Slimbox and Lightbox.

Simple Yahoo! Sitemap lets you create a Yahoo! compatible sitemap.

Single Bookmark Category List displays links in a bookmark (aka blogroll) category within an unordered list tag.

Simple Tagging Widget is a Widget plugin to show a tag cloud generated by the WordPress plugin ‘Simple Tagging’. Only works with ‘Sidebar Widgets Plugin’ installed.

Post/Comments Time creates a chart that shows the number of posts and comments for the hours of a day.

SL Study Motivation enables you to use your WordPress Blog as an Motivator for your Studies.

Simple Trackback Validation Plugin for WordPress 2.x performs a simple but very effective test on all incoming trackbacks in order to stop trackback spam.

Multi Column Category List generates an alphabetical listing of your WordPress categories in multiple columns. You can choose the number of columns to display, with an option to split up the list of categories by letter.

Yahoo Sidebar Link Badge Widget For WordPress displays the SiteExplorer Badge on your blog.

WP-Amazon will allow you to search Amazon as you compose your post or page entry and add links to the products on Amazon.

PHPlist Helper will render a auto-login link to phplist and can render a subscription input form within a template.

Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog.

WP_Identicon provides a small persistent randomly assembled geometric symbol for each user based on their email or IP address.

Live Sync allows you to synchronize WordPress posts to Live Spaces, facilitating MetaWeblog API.

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• AdaptiveBlue : firefox cataloging extension
• AjaxAMP : winamp media player plugin
• AjaxWhois : ajax domain name registration information
• AttentionTrust.org : attention owners rights
• Blummy : multiple bookmarklet tool
• Browster : fast browser preview plugin
• ButterFly : personal notes on webpages
• Camino : mozilla browser for mac
• claimID : manage your online identity
• co.mments : comments update notification service
• Cooliris : browser extension for previewing
• fireant : unified media viewer plugin software
• Flock : open source web browser
• Itzle : chat about any webpage
• StreamDrive : social media sharing
• thumblicio.us : screenshots of the most popular del.icio.us sites
• Wikalong : firefox plugin for web page notes in a wiki
• Wizlite : webpage text highlight sharing service

• Ambedo : tag search engines
• BlinkList : social bookmarking
• Blogmarks : social bookmarking
• Blummy : multiple bookmarklet tool
• Bmaccess : social bookmarking service
• BuddyMarks : social bookmarking
• Clipmarks : web clipping sharing
• Cloudalicious : del.icio.us cloud tag history for links/sites
• cluebacca : social text clips sharing
• CommonTimes : social bookmarking for news
• Connotea : social bookmarking for researchers and clinicians
• del.icio.us : social bookmarking
• Diigo : social bookmarking with annotation
• Dogear : bookmarking too
• eSnips : online content sharing
• FeedButler : web-based feed reader; bookmarking
• feedmarker : rss aggregator and bookmarks manager
• Furl : social bookmarking
• goowy : web-based mail, contacts, calendar, games etc
• Hanzo : social bookmarking and archiving
• Hyperlinkomatic : social bookmark manager
• Icio : social bookmarking
• IndiaGram : social bookmarking
• Jeteye : social info sharing
• Jots : social bookmarking
• Kaboodle : social info sharing
• KopiKol : social bookmarking
• ListMixer : bookmarking that automatically expires in 30 days
• LiveMarks : live del.icio.us additions
• LookLater : private bookmarking and archiving
• Lookmarks : social bookmarking service
• ma.gnolia : social bookmarking service
• MyLinkVault : social bookmarking
• Mystickies : add sticky informational notes on web pages
• NewHots : chinese portal for rss, bookmarks
• Nextaris : social bookmarking, networking, blogging
• OnlyWire : simultaneous bookmarking tool
• Philoi : social bookmarking service
• RawSugar : online bookmarking
• RecommendIt : social bookmarks recommendations
• Segnalo : social bookmarking (italian)
• Shadows : social bookmarking
• Simpy : social bookmarking
• Spurl : social bookmarking
• StumbleUpon : social bookmarking / web discovery tool
• Taggle : social bookmarking (german)
• Tagground : social bookmarking search
• Tagsy : social bookmarking and feed management; coming soon!
• thumblicio.us : screenshots of the most popular del.icio.us sites
• ToRead : email-based bookmarking service
• Unalog : social bookmarking
• Wists : social bookmarking; shopping
• Yahoo! My Web 2.0 : social bookmarking
• Yoono : social bookmarking software

Textlink Adder generates your very own textlinks to each single post your wordpress has to offer. Bind as many textlinks as you want to each post.

Raven’s antispam is a smart antispam based on a JS solution of Jakub Vrana.

AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double-clicking any word on an AnswerTips-enabled page.

SEO-Plugin allows you to add Meta tags for Description and Keywords to your blog. (Site in German)

AddThis Plugin will automatically insert the AddThis widget below each post in your blog.

WordPress Plugin Template includes all the framework necessary for a displayable plugin (Something which will show up in a sidebar, template, or anywhere in a post using a token such as )

SETI Stats shows the current credit, average credit and team stats for a given SETI@Home account.

The StripTease plugin is a simple filter that strips fragment identifiers from WordPress’s default teaser links so that they link to full posts.

Post Notification sends an email to every registered user whenever a new post is made on the blog.

LiveSig is a WordPress plug-in that automatically inserts your MyLiveSignature code after each of your WordPress posts making it seem like each post has been personally signed by you.

Subscribe-Remind will automatically place text at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

Comments Waiting Count is a simple plugin that adds the current number of comments in the moderation queue to the WordPress 2.1 admin menu. It will also display the number comments that have been flagged as spam if your using an anti-spam plugin.

Folding@Home Stats is a WordPress plugin that displays your total score, overall rank, number of processes completed in the last 50 days.

Fuzzy Colorpicker adds a color picker to your post pages. This lets you choose the color of your text at will.

wp-page-linker is a WordPress plugin that allows the insertion of links to internal pages while writing a page or a post.

EasyTube allows you to easily embed a youtube player into your website but one simple tag.

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• 3bubbles : real-time chat for blogs
• ajchat : ajax based chat room
• Blogoscoped Chat : avatar based chat
• Campfire : business group chatting
• Chatsum : browser plugin to chat with others on the same site
• Conversate : instant online discussion spaces
• eMessenger : web-based messaging
• Gabbly : chat about any webpage
• Gtalkr : google talk anywhere messaging service
• iGlance : open-source messenger/remote client
• Itzle : chat about any webpage
• Jabphone : phone service using jabber system
• Jyve : skype networking and tools
• Kopete : kde instant messenger
• MyMe : personalize your blog, IM and skype profile
• peekko chat : firefox plugin for web page chatting
• Skype : peer-to-peer voice messaging
• Tello : instant web sharing
• Treehouse AJAX chat room : ajax chat room
• Userplane : social software for live messaging (flash)
• Web2Messenger : web to msn messnger service
• yakalike : firefox plugin for web page chatting
• Zoho Chat : group chatting service