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Monday, April 13, 2009
Widerbug Tweaks Firebug to Fit Your Wide Screen [Downloads]
Firebug is a handy tool for examining the HTML and CSS code of a website along with the page itself. The original extension orients the site and the code horizontally, as seen here. You can detach the panels and move them around, but then they don't update when you switch tabs.
Widebug is a tweaked version of Firebug, the site and the code panels are displayed side by side to take advantage of wide screen monitors. The panels maintain their connection to each tab, doing away with the phantom code effect found in Firebug when you try to coax it into wide screen mode. Widerbug is a free extension and works wherever Firefox does.
Free Music Archive Puts Thousands of Royalty-Free Songs Up for Grabs [Free]
Inspired by the ideas and ethos behind Creative Commons licensing, the tracks on the FMA are offered for whatever use you want. Use them to soundtrack your latest YouTube epic, remix them and release them, or download and share them with friends. The site also boasts a kind of quality control to the database of songs both live and recoded, selected by WFMU's audio archivists and curators. The search functionality works pretty well, and can be re-sorted by genre, album, or other criteria.
If you really dig the tunes you're finding, there are links to the artists' albums and a tip jar for each. Otherwise, stream, grab, and go at your leisure. Free to use, sign-up required for the social aspects of the site, like mix publishing and sharing.
TuneConnect Controls iTunes Playback from Any Computer in Your Home [Downloads]
In fact, as weblog MacApper points out, it's easy to think of this as a desktop version of the Remote iPhone application. The app requires you to install a preference pane that acts as the server (you'd only need to install this on the computer(s) you wanted to control), meaning the download comes with both the preference pane and the main application. The main TuneConnect application is the one you'll use on any computer from which you want to control the music.
TuneConnect loads libraries from server computers quickly, and playback control is snappy. Best of all, the application is free and open source. Unfortunately it's Mac only.
TuneConnect [via MacApper]
Chrome Bookmark Sorter Rearranges Bookmarks Recursively [Downloads]
Google Chrome's bookmark manager allows simple sorting by title and for a single folder, but James wanted more, so he created this utility to sort recursively by name or date added through all of your bookmarks. Using the utility is easy enough—just close all the open Chrome windows, launch the application and choose from the sorting options, and your bookmarks and folders will be sorted recursively.
Chrome Bookmark Sorter is a free download for Windows only. James asked us to provide the download here, so we've provided a direct link to the file. Thanks, James!
For more useful Chrome utilities, be sure and check out the previously mentioned Google Chrome Backup tool and our power user's guide to Google Chrome.
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