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Mozilla Plugin Check Now Checks Plugins In All Web Browsers

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:32:49 +0000

The Mozilla developers introduced the Mozilla Plugin Check back in October 2009 as a way to inform users of the Firefox web browser about outdated plugins. Plugins that are not up to date can pose both a security and stability risk.

The plugin check would analyse the plugins of the web browser and compare their version to the latest version offered by the plugin’s developer to inform the user if the plugin is up to date or needs updating.

This plugin check has now been extended by the developers to work with other web browsers as well making it a web tool for everyone who wants to verify that the installed plugins are up to date.

All that needs to be done to check the installed plugins is to visit the plugincheck website to do so.

The online service can identify many popular plugins. The plugin database is maintained by Mozilla and constantly expanded. It can however happen that some plugins are not recognized automatically by the service.

Three different statuses are available: Up To Date confirming that the latest version of the plugin is installed, Update suggesting that the plugin is outdated and Research if a plugin cannot be identified yet by the service.

Links lead either to the developer’s homepage or a Google search depending on the individual plugin’s status.

Writers Tools for Open Office

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:42:26 +0000

If you prefer Open Office over Microsoft Office you might find the following plugin for Open Office useful. The so called Writers Tools for Open Office are a set of new functions that are added as a new menu in the software.

The new functions add several new possibilities to Open Office that users normally do manually. Among them are a word lookup tool using several dictionary websites, a backup function (email, remote, multi form), Google Translate, a map lookup, two writers templates, a word game and several others.

To install the plugin you need to click on Tools > Extension Manager in Open Office and click on the Add button in the My Extensions screen. Then simply navigate to the downloaded plugin and select it.

Writers Tools
via Lifehacker

Lie Detector for Skype

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:32:34 +0000

If you ever wanted to know if a person you are talking to in Skype is telling the truth you might want to give the KishKish Lie Detector plugin für Skype a try. Just download the plugin from the developers website and run the file once the download has been completed. It will automatically assign itself to Skype and you will have to tell Skype to give this plugin access.

Once that is done a new window appears that is giving you information about the Stress Level of the person you are talking to. It needs some time to calibrate but once that is done it displays the Stress level in a graph. I’m not sure how reliable this method is, I tested it with a friend and it seemed to display rather strange results. You should also note that the person you are talking to will receive information in the chat window about the plugin that you are using.

It seems to be free to use for now, not sure though how long this will remain. It looks more like a nice gimmick at the moment than a serious application. Let me know if you have better results using it.