Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works:
- Helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.
- Uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.
- Saves your zoom settings on a site-by-site basis.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Has an in-page help dialog to remind you of your personalized shortcuts.
Beautify your Google Reader!
I’m a big fan of the iPhone app, Reeder and seldom use Google Reader for anything other than managing my RSS subscriptions. But since I discovered Helvetireader, I actually like spending time in Google Reader!
Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability™ in your Web browser.
Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids
Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it’s like a command line for your browser!
Quix comes with an enormous amount of powerful commands built in: check out the video below, or the first steps guide, after that, check out how to integrate it with your browser, and all the commands that are available by default.
Vintage Leather Journal
What a work of art! Wish I could afford one of these. This artist has many beautiful creations. Check them out! Teo Studio
iThoughts is probably one of the best examples of interface design with the iPhone that I’ve ever seen. It REALLY works well. I’m able to slap down ideas (thoughts), and organize them on the fly. But it doesn’t stop there… this puppy reads and writes to Dropbox! So, that opens seamless connectivity with my Mac! But not just to other MindMap software, rather OPML exporting (i.e. Scrivener, outliners, etc.) as well as PDF. iThoughts sports a variety of file export formats, and it memorizes which ones (yes, simultaneous export of multiple file formats) you want to use for each document you create! So, when I save to Dropbox, it automatically exports all of the formats that I configured with that particular iThought document! A superb productivity tool. (Also available for the iPad)
I’m constantly fascinated with the new uses for Dropbox that I keep discovering. It’s changed my workflow in a dramatic way! Here’s just one example that I came across recently. This is a technique that allows you to keep your Filezilla directory (like of sites you FTP and SFTP to, username, passwords, remote and local paths, etc.) basically on the “cloud” and synced to all of your computers, even across OS platforms!
