For reasons that are too long and tedious to recount here, I have had cause to rebuild my Lenovo T61 laptop many times over the last month, using a bewildering range of operating systems, Linux distributions, live CD’s and dual boot configurations.
During this time, gparted and an external USB 500GB disk drive have become very close and reliable friends. In fact, I have only lost data once and, inevitably, that was due to my own stupidity.
Here are the invaluable Firefox plugins that I always install first:
- DownloadThemAll!
- download manager featuring multi-threaded, lightning fast, resumable downloads.
- is.gd - URL shortener.
- Diigo - Great bookmarking service.
- Google Notebook - Useful for random thoughts, reminders, lists of people who have crossed you, transient bookmarks and, well, notes.
- Firebug - HTML and CSS diagnostics