Archive for August, 2009

How to get world-class premium images … for free

Published: August 17, 2009
New Formula 1 Yas Marina Circuit - Abu Dhabi

A model of the circuit first Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

It’s lunch break in Abu Dhabi. I’m speaking with a group of talented senior journalists from a news organsation about convergence and multimedia – and an inspirational experience it is, too.

We were discussing Creative Commons and the wealth of image content available online for those willing to add value to the conversation. Someone rightly asked whether any newspapers had actually shared images on sites like Flickr. Since I’m unable to get into Flickr here, I don’t actually know the answer. (Does anyone?)

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12 great Firefox extensions for organisation and SEO

Published: August 4, 2009

Mozilla Firefox ... Top 12 extensions for organisation and SEOI like my browser to be the hub of my personal organisation … and Firefox is helping me do just that with some fantastic add-ons.

In this list there are seven Firefox extensions I reach for every day and five useful webmaster tools …

Last Pass

I don’t know about you, but I have a shedload of logins and passwords … and my hoard is growing by the day. But gone are the days of scribbling passwords on a PostIt – LastPass does it for me. Brilliantly.

Not only does it remember all my logins and passwords, it will automatically log me in to sites it recognises. It even generates encrypted passwords and keeps everything nice and safe in a ‘vault’ I can access anywhere.

The cherry on the cake is LastPass’s form autofill feature, which saves me hours. I can’t recommend LastPass highly enough.

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Evernote

The same goes for Evernote, which really has transformed my online organisation. I’m always coming across chunks of content I want to save for reference. No more copy-and-paste or printing out – all I do is click the Evernote elephant icon, choose my keywords and a folder (or ‘notebook’) I’ve set up, and the highlighted content is clipped to my Evernote account.

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