Last night I discovered a hand PING FM Firefox addon: Ping Fire

It has all three of the items I need and the developers also have a Pingfm Blackberry application that I will download later today.

However, it is not working with any firefox versions above firefox 3.0  Hopefully they will update it soon. You can get an unofficial version at Alex’s site (it’s working for me).

You will also need your PING FM application key. To get this log onto PING fm and go to: http://ping.fm/key/

The Ping FM firefox addon ‘Ping fire’ allows you to update your ping fm status from your firefox toolbar with a handy button.

It also allows you to highlight the content of any website or blog and quote it to Ping FM. The selected text and the current URL will be added to your message.

Here’s a quite screen shot of the post dialog box:

Ping Fire’s Ping FM firefox add on supports:
* all of Ping’s content types.
* your own custom triggers.
* posting shortcuts. Such as @tt for Twitter and @fb for Facebook.

It’s a great handy Firefox addon for those of you looking to update all of your social media networks quickly using Ping FM.

Get Ping Fire Via Fire Fox Addons

Visit the developers website

Today’s Firefox add on is Time Tracker. Although I am sure most of the sites I spend time on are all work

related with the exception of my local ‘city/ community’ forum. I can see how this could benefit users.

According to Time Tracker Firefox add on’s developer they planned to add some additional features which would be really handy. Unfortunately since their post in June they haven’t yet launched these extra options:

Planned features:
- Track time individually for specified sites
- Get back to work alarm
- Statistics

I am finding this add on great for letting me know how long I am spending writing my blog posts.

Another great use; I can use this on my children’s computer to help them see how long they are “online” It’s easier to say you have until the ‘timer” counts up to 15 minutes.

Options/features are currently limited to;
- Tracks browsing time across sessions
- Pauses automatically when you stop browsing
- Reset counter
- Pause toggle per window
- List ‘work’ sites that should not count
- Tooltip showing total time today, since last reset and since installing.

If you could benefit from knowing how much time you are spending online be sure to check out the FireFox Plugin Time Tracker.

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I can’t wait to check out the Colorful tabs and Facebook tool bar.

Of course a few of them look as though they would only be adding to my already endless to do list. So be sure to only download those you feel you would really benefit from.