Open docx diles With Firefox

The docx file extension is the new format of Microsoft Word 2007. If you do not have Microsoft Word 2007 on your computer and wish to open a docx file, the new Firefox extension from Microsoft should help.

The plugin is called OpenXML viewer. After installing the plugin, you will be able to read docx file just like a HTML webpage from Firefox.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Blocking Ads with Adblock Plus FireFox Plugin

One of the main reason that I love Firefox is because of all the plugins that are available out there for free. Here's another Firefox plugin that I find really useful -- the Adblock Plus.

"Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again."

Unless you like reading ads, or I would recommend you to install this plugin right away and get rid of all the annoying ads!

Googlemail and Gmail

Most Gmail user probably don't know about this: when you register an account on Gmail, you actually get 2 email addresses: one with gmail.com domain, and another with googlemail.com. So if your Gmail address is Jonny@gmail.com, anyone sending an email to Johnny@googlemail.com will go to your inbox as well.

To take advantage on this, you can give one of the email address (Johnny@googlemail.com for example) to only family members or close friends of yours, and publish another address (Johnny@gmail.com) to the public. Then you can set filter to direct all emails that sent to googlemail.com into a separate folder so that you will never miss them!

Google Search Tips

We use Google all the time because it's an awesome search engine. It brings up the answer that we are looking most of the time. But until you watch the following video, I am pretty sure that there are some Google tricks that you don't know about... well that's the case for me at least.. so here you go a video interview with Matt Cutt (Google senior engineer):