Firefox 3 Released

Firefox 3 is here at last.
If you have been living under a rock for several years you may not have noticed that Mozilla Firefox is a browser that makes Internet Explorer look retarded.It takes up less space,it has a smaller impact on pc resources,it gives you more on screen real estate,tabbed browsing,,built in spellchecker,renders pages faster ,built in rss feed reader,etc etc,the list is well and truly endless.
As if that wasn’t enough,you can customise and configure Firefox to your requirements with plugins and around 5000 available extensions.You can get search engine plugins,have any engine you want ,right in the browser.Extensions that cover anything you can think of…popup blocking,any media player control,download from Youtube etc at a click,note-taking,rss readers,ftp clients,web developer tools,games.
Download it here
Themes and Extensions
How to Faq on Visual plugins,Flash,Shockwave etc
For search engine plugins,click the engine icon once you install Firefox and then click ‘Manage Search Engines’,then just pick the ones you want.
Mozilla also make an email client,Thunderbird and an excellent calendar application,Sunbird amongst various other projects.

Zotero

Zotero is magic!
It is an extension for Firefox,the best damn browser on the planet.There is no standalone version,you want Zotero,then you need Firefox first.
Zotero helps you collect and manage your research sources,perfect if you want to research topics for a blog or it can easily handle much more serious projects.It can store whole web pages,pics,pdf’s,anything you want,then you can highlight areas of text,take notes directly onto the page you save,just like you might do the same thing on paper.It integrates with Word and the superb and highly recommended Open Office.It can generate reports ,create bibliographies and seperate collections of information can easily be cross referenced.
There is excellent support and some video tutorials on the site to get you started.Give it a go