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This lens collates various links that point to resources referred to in the presentation "OUseful Playground: Firefox (OU edition)" that can be downloaded from here.

Code Snippets

Examples of small, reusable applications produced in the OUseful playground.

OUseful Info: Embedded Searchable Further Reading Lists: Import a list of links via a del.icio.us JSON feed into a page and search over them.
OUseful Info: deliSearch - Searching the Contents of a List of URLs: deliSearch allows you to specify a del.icio.us user and/or tag combination and search over those pages (pr the domains those pages live on) with a specified search term.

Firefox Keywords

Mozilla Firefox - Smart Keywords: Smart Keywords are an easy way to search websites right from the Location bar.
Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial: A tutorial about Firefox's bookmark functionality.
OUseful Info: Search Keywords via Yahoo! Shortcuts: Yahoo! Keyword shortcuts

Firefox Search Box

How to add additional search engined to the Firefox search tool.

Firefox Integrated Search Tool: An overview of the Firefox search tool.
Build Your Own Firefox Search Engine: Firefox's built-in search box lets you search Google from wherever you are. You don't have to settle for that built-in searching, though, because you can build your own Firefox search engine plug-in to search through any site from the Google search box...
IEBlog : Search in IE7: An overview of search features (like OpenSearch integration) in IE7.

Live Bookmarks

Consume web feeds via your bookmark toolbar.

Live Bookmarks: A quick guide to Firefox live bookmarks.
OUseful Info: Even More OU Library RSS Feeds: Several OU library RSS feeds, including 'My Library Loans'.

Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are mini-programs that you can rin on the currently loaded page.

OUseful Info: OU Library Record Bookmarklet: Create a bookmarklet that will take you straight to your OU library record.
Jon Udell: The LibraryLookup Project: If a page has an ISBN in the URL, you can use a custom bookmarklet to look the book up in your local library catalogue.
OUseful Info: Link Referencing Bookmarklet: A bookmarklet that generates a numbered and itemised list of references to links contained on a page.
OUseful Info: 'Search Links On this Page' Revised Bookmarklet: A bookmarklet that lets you search over the links contained on the current page.
OUseful Info: OU libezproxy Bookmarklet: An easy way to see if a subscription site is accessible via the OU libezproxy.

Firefox Extensions

Several OUseful Firefox extensions.

OUseful Info: Voyager Library Catalogue Toolbar: A toolbar specifically for the OU library.
Sage: a feed reader for Firefox: Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox.
OUseful Info: Persistent News Search OPML Feed Roller: Using Sage as a client for an OPML feedroll of persistent news search queries.