Technology Week: Pixlr Grabber

For those of you who are Firefox users, you may sometimes need to do a screenshot. Instead of hitting the ctrl and print screen keys on your keyboard, why don't you try a Firefox add-on called Pixlr Grabber. This is an excellent tool for those who want to grab an entire page, only the visible part of a page, or select the area yourself that you would like to capture. Once you have the captured the image, you can decide to edit it with the tools available in Pixlr.com, share on Imm.io, save to your desktop or copy to your clipboard.

I have used this free tool many times and have been very happy with it.

Technology Week - User Agent Switcher

For those of you who use Firefox as a browser and are curious as to how websites may appear in another browser or on a mobile device, you may be interested in an add-on called User Agent Switcher. Developed by Chris Pedrick, the extension allows users to switch the user agent of a browser, choosing to view websites using Firefox/ Internet Explorer, or viewing the site as it would appear on an IPhone 3. You may also select from a variety of search bots (Yahoo Slurp, MSNBot or GoogleBot). (The add-on is free but the developer encourages a small donation amount of $1.99).

This proved to very handy as I and another team member had submitted a project for a health technology competition and were curious to see how the site would look like on a mobile device.