BarCamp Buffalo
Thanks for letting me try out my n00b-level presentation skills on you! As a reward for your patience, here are links to the stuff I discussed, glossed over, or mentioned:
The Big Kahuna
• Firefox – Like you really needed this link. Pass it on, though.
Add-ons
- These you may find a bit more unique.
• AutoCopy – Never bother with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V while writing again.
• CoLT (Copy Link Text) – Create customized HTML wrappers for the links you’re grabbing, so you don’t have to write out all that “a href” gizazzle (unless you really feel like a code king doing so).
• Enter Selects – Gives Firefox one of Google Chrome’s coolest features–the ability to type out part of a bookmark name, then just smack Enter to jump to it. It’s part time saver, part stress reliever.
• Speed Dial – Use a grid of your most-visited web sites as your home page, or “new tab” page, then use Ctrl+number to fly between them.
• Xmarks – Synchronize your bookmarks between all your browsers. Find something to write about at work while you’re at home? Just drag it onto your toolbar, and you’re done worrying.
Bookmarklets
• Subscribe in Google Reader (head to “Settings,” then “Goodies,” scroll down toward bottom) – Set up a Firefox hot key for this, and quickly add whatever site you’re looking at to your Reader queue.
• Bit.ly creator - Short URL service that tracks who’s clicking on your links.
Software tools
• Launchy - Open programs, search the web, control windows–do nearly anything from a quick-smack keyboard launcher.
• Texter - Text replacement app that fills in all that crap you don’t want to write–addresses, signatures, weird HTML. It also fixes your specific spelling problems and can do AutoHotKey-style keyboard combinations.
Obligatory but Relevant Lifehacker links
• Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done – Covers some of the same ground as my talk, but gets a bit more geeky for the link-and-comment set.
• Getting good with Google Reader - Just what it sounds like.
• Trick out Google Reader with Better GReader – Our own Firefox add-on for tweaking Reader to behave the way you want it to.
