Recently, i'm searching for program to help me ease my blogging activities when finally i come to Firefox extension. I finally found some -oh sorry- so many Firefox extensions to use for easy blogging. Blogging activities can be divided into at least two activities supporting each other. Activity number one is: posting, and another one is reading. Posting is to write articles to post on your blog(s), while reading blog is searching information and materials for your blog (posting). Reading blog is -simply- known as blog walking. Those two kind of activities are -in my newbie experience- time consuming, and require tremendous efforts. While posting needs many literatures as base of our articles, reading blog (blog walking) needs effort on searching the suitable blogs or materials that suit with the posting topics and this means -of course- visiting all of the blogs have chosen before.
As a newbie, who has not earn any money or reward yet from this blogging activities, i found my self not so comfort with this effort. I have to online many hours a day, and visiting many blogs that sometimes doesn't agree with my topics. (But that's ok, since i need refreshment too by doing blog walking on different topic with mine).

Back again. After experiencing these -a little- tremendous efforts, i come to conclusion that i need helps. Not any kind of help for content -not right now- but it's rather than to ease my activities on writing (posting) and reading (blog walking) for some blogs i own.
Of course there are many ways doing this -in this term, ways meaning that could be done by me, myself or you yourself, no need other people helps this time. So, i began searching info and trying some program or software to ease me. I found some of the desktop softwares to post contents, some of them i even have tried by posting articles in this blog. I found they're interesting. Just to remind you that i've been posting to this blog using BlogJet and Post2Blog before. But still i want more. I want a tools that is some kind like integrated between posting and reading. Tool that no need for me to open several program to do these activities on the same time. What is it ? Is it there ?

Well, finally i come to Firefox. I love Firefox because of its stability and its open source (meaning free software). But more than that, i got realized that my blogging activities will be more ease by utilizing some of Firefox extensions (that are available tons of them). Here some of firefox extension i use, and i want to share with you. By the way, i should tell you that i'm using firefox 2.0.0.6 right now. And i'm writing this article using firefox (with its extension) either. Here are some valuable Firefox extension i use:

1. ScribeFire - useful for posting articles to blogs . Below is snapshot of ScribeFire:

2. BlogRovR - useful for reading blogs you choose. You can collect your favorite blogs and read them all (via RSS) right on your Firefox browser. Instead of opening those blogs one by one  following the RSS, BlogRovR extension brings all new posts from your favorite blog on widget on your Firefox browser. Following new posts on your favorite blogs will be much easier ever . 

 

3. Adsense Notifier - notify earning from adsense on your Firefox browser. Actually this extension is what the 'adsense lover' wants. With this extension no need to sign in google adsense every day just to view how much one earns. Unfortunately, in my experience, i could not see the earning notification at the right bottom of my Firefox browser. But, it does not mean that the extension doesn't work anymore. Update: i can see my adsense earning displayed on the status bar of my firefox (i forgot to input my adsense user name and password before), but takes a hard time to show its update. Still, it worth to try in different environment, and please tell me when it works . 

 

4. DownloadHelper - useful for download anything including you tube video. This extension more likely suitable for you blogger with rich multimedia content and youtube fans since you can download youtube video easily with this extension. Just download, install and activate it, you will be known if there are contents that could be downloaded using this extension .

 

5. Fast Video Download - useful for download videos.

6. Firefox Universal Uploader (FireUploader) - upload files to your hosting space.

 

7. GMail Checker - checking new email of GMail.

8. KGen - display document or website keywords.

9. Shareaholic - share anything you found in the internet to friends.

10. SnapShot - snap shot (pictures) on every pages on your browser.

11. Web Developer - adds menu and toolbar with various web developer tools. 

 

 

All of these extensions are available for free. Some of them are open source program, and some others are free with an user agreement (free software not always open source software). But that's okay since they provide for free of charge.

All of these extensions can be found and downloaded at Mozilla Firefox website. Some magazine or bulletin have downloaded and compiled them for you on cd as gifts on their special edition. Now you can grab, try and comfort yourself with these extensions. And wait for future posts on these extension later on.

Of course some program may be suitable for some bloggers while others not. Everyone should read the information at every extension's page to decide which ones suite for one needs. This article just want to show you alternatives for easy blogging (software). No guaranteed promised that all program will work on your environment. You use it at your own risk.