Hebrew Spell Checking for Firefox
March 26, 2009
Sorry for the lack of posts; the baby is more time-consuming than I imagined.
Useful for e-mails and Google docs.
Another Firefox Add-on, (Needed for Podcasting)
October 3, 2008
Vodpod. Google it and install it in your Firefox browser.
It lets you download video and embed it in your blog.
More importantly, it’s the only way I’ve been able to embed my podcasts into WordPress.
Although I promised a video, it seems my screen capture software is not compatible with Vodpod, so next post, I’ll describe the process in excruciating detail. 
Addendum: Once you get VodPod, you need to sign up and give it your WordPress log-in information so it can post stuff to your blog.
Firefox Add-ons
August 31, 2008
As mentioned previously, Firefox has many useful add-ons that increase its usefulness.
Let’s talk about three of them.
If, like me, you are always bookmarking useful sites as you surf the web, it can get frustrating if you aren’t always doing it from the same computer. I had bookmarks on all the computers in the Teachers’ Room, as well as my laptop and family computer.
No more. Foxmarks is a utility (created by Mitch Kapor, if you’re old enough to remember Lotus Notes) that allows you to synchronize all of your bookmarks. If you’re using Firefox at work, bookmark a site and when you go home, your Firefox there will sync with the Foxmarks server and update your Bookmarks file. Very cool. Always find what you’ve found before.
This one is in response to Ayelet: If you have the need to e-mail an URL (a web address) or a portion of an interesting article, E-Mail This! is a simple add-on. It works with either a Yahoo! or GMail account. Once installed, set it up with your email address. Right-click the desired web page and you will see an “E-mail This!” option. Click on your e-mail program and it will open another tab with your e-mail and automatically insert the URL into the body of the message. If you highlight a section you want to save first, and it will paste the URL and the selected section into an e-mail.
Video Download Helper lets you download Flash video from sites such as Youtube. Find an interesting video, click the rotating icon next to the address bar, and Firefox will download it to your computer. (I will post later on viewing, converting and burning this file to disc.)
Get Firefox – Now!
August 18, 2008
If you’re still trailing the pack, using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, you really should try Mozilla Firefox. Hundreds of programmers are out there designing really neat add-on programs to extend Firefox’s functionality.
Later, we’ll talk about some really useful things you can do to enhance your teaching using Firefox, like downloading online videos from YouTube (there are actually many educational nuggets hidden away in that vast wasteland).
We’ll also list many great add-ons, all for free.
