Pageflake

I found pageflakes interesting. The point of it is to be the one-stop page to access things that you want to view often such as the news and weather. I do like the idea that you can customize it. I also like the fact that there are many options you can add to page flakes such as a Wickopedia search bar and that you can choose where on your pageflake to place it. I also like that is comes with a calendar which you can put important things to remember. The only problem with that is if for some reason you could not connect to the site you would have to try to recall those from memory. I also like the fact that you can have more than one page. In short I think that pageflakes is an easy to use information center to get information that you view most commonly.

FireFox Extension

A useful FireFox extension that I have used is Video Download helper (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006). It allows you to download videos from site that you could not normally download from such as YouTube. I find this tool very useful for downloading YouTube videos that I really like to play over and over again. Another nice feature that is has is that if you have the VideoDownload helper’s icon on the toolbar and you go on a web page that contains a video that the extension can download the icon lights up and becomes animated. Personally wonder why YouTube doesn’t offer a download option, I guess they don’t want to pay for the extra bandwidth form people downloading videos off of their site.
There is a program you can then download to play the YouTube videos. The link to that is http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html . This programs is easy to use and has a relatively small file size. I also have a free video/audio file converter that allow me to convert these files to many file types such as windows media file (.wmv) so I can play it with Windows Media Player. Overall it is a useful program that works quite well.