Download Firefox 3 Theme for Chrome

Many people have already moved on to Google Chrome from Firefox 3 for it’s amazing features and simplicity. But some like me are are using both to get the best out of them.

Just two days ago I wrote about the first five themes that are available for download for Google Chrome and a new set of themes have been released now. In the latest themes, a developer has made a Firefox 3-styled theme for Chrome.

The Chrome navigation icons in this theme are exactly like the ones in Firefox 3 and have a grey top bar.

Download Firefox 3 Chrome Theme

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Chromifox: Chrome Styled Theme for Firefox 3

arlier today I wrote about a Firefox 3 styled theme for Google Chrome, for users who like Firefox 3 and also use Chrome.

I was quite bored with the default Firefox 3 theme now and was looking for a new one to give it a refreshing look when I came across Chromifox.

It is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3, inspired by the theme from the Google Chrome web browser. According to the developer, the clean lines, slick layout, and compact style of Chrome were the points of inspiration for this theme.

It gives a nice Chromey coat for your Firefox and is compatible with all OS i.e Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

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This theme is a BETA release and you will have to log in the Addons site in order to install it. If you don’t have an account there, you can download this theme using the link given below.

Download Chromifox [Direct Link]

How To Install Chromifox

If you have downloaded Chromifox using the direct link, then simply drag and drop the file in your Firefox Addons window. Installation will start after that.

Related: Download Firefox 3 Theme for Chrome

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5 Resources to Get Free Plurk Layouts

Hi, this is Muhammad Siyab and this is my first post on Sizzled Core as the second author. To introduce myself, I blog about blog strategy, design and general blogging tips at PuttingBlogsFirst . It would be a pleasure writing here and I hope you enjoy my articles.

Plurk is a popular social media network. Your Plurk page can be styled with backgrounds and formatted with font options. But who wants to do it themselves when there are Plurk layouts freely available?

Here are 5 places you can get free Plurk layouts from:

• Plurk Layouts – A massive collection of free Plurk layouts divided into many categories. There is also a Plurk for Beginners guide, if you be interested. You can also get a layout custom built for yourself!
• Flickr Plurk Themes Pool – A collection of Plurk themes from all over on Flickr. There are 340 themes (as of writing this post) currently in the pool, so there is a lot of variety.
• Plurk Themes – A growing database of impressive Plurk layouts. Not so big as the above two, but good enough! :)
• Plurk Templates – Another massive collection of Plurk templates. The templates here are based on a wide variety of topics, so it shouldn’t be hard to pick one you like!
• Plurk Theme Sate Babi – A relatively unknown collection of quite impressive Plurk themes, with around 15 themes available. Moreover there are other styling tips and techniques too, so you can fiddle around with your Plurk layout all you want!

So, where do you get your Plurk layouts from? Do let us know!

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Want to Optimize your Images, SmushIt!

Every now and then Yahoo gives out optimizations tips for websites and blogs to make them load faster. I tried few of them, and really found them useful. Images with big size can increase your blog/website’s loading time and make it slow which is something your readers will never like!

They have rolled out a new tool that can help you reduce and optimize the size of images used on your blog/website.

Smush It is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality.

Want to Optimize your Images, SmushIt!

According to them, lots of more optimizations could be done, even after using good image editing tools. So Smush It comes out with the objective of doing it online and in a much better way.

You can add images (which are to be optimized) by three methods:

• Upload a bunch of pictures from your browser
• Provide them with a list of image URLs
• Install a Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page

After the optimization completes, a ZIP archive with optimized images in it will be generated for you to download.

This tool also looks useful to me and I’ll be definitely using it in future. I recommend this to all webmasters.

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12 Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Wallpapers

The final version of the most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is almost ready to be released which is on October 30. It is going to bring a number of new features, changes and bug fixes.

As posted earlier, Ubuntu 8.10 is going to get a new look. It will come with a new version of its default theme along with new wallpapers.

It is not confirmed whether the following wallpapers will officially make their way to Ubuntu 8.10 or not, but you can still use it to give your current Ubuntu a new look.

Download 12 Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Wallpapers

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Microsoft introduced Windows 7 to the public at Professional Developers Conference 2008, and since I have seen the first screenshots, I can hardly wait to get my hands on it. I’m now desperately waiting for the first public beta from Microsoft.

If you also liked it, here’s something that all Windows 7 fans are going to love. Two free wallpapers that have been inspired by the by the first official screenshots of Windows Seven at the Microsoft PDC 2008.

This wallpaper comes in two flavours: with and without the logo (both standard and widescreen). I really like the logo, and wish Microsoft uses it as the official logo for Windows 7.

Credit goes to Life Rocks for digging and sharing them out. You can download these wallpapers from the link below.

Download Windows 7 Wallpaper

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Download Official PDC 2008 Wallpapers

It’s Day 3 at PDC 2008, and Microsoft continues to unveil interesting stuff that we all are loving it. First, they introduced Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud OS. Then on Day 2, they unveiled Windows 7, the upcoming OS from Microsoft after Windows Vista.

The official PDC website has three wallpapers to promote PDC 2008. You can download and use these wallpapers from the links below.

Download these 3 wallpapers from here!

Thanks to Long Zhen, you can now also download the official wallpaper that is being used on the machines at PDC 2008.

Download 1600×1200

Download 1920×1200 (widescreen)

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