In case you’re wondering — Gutsy Gibbon is the name of the new Ubuntu release. Ubuntu is a “flavor” of linux. I have actually had Gutsy running on my laptop at home for months and this release will probably be the first release I put on my main system. My hope is to break my ties with the Windows world (although I haven’t fully made that jump yet). Anyway, check out Gutsy if you get a chance — I don’t think, outside of the theme, you’ll notice anything different between linux and windows.

Those who know me, know that I’m an avid player of a game called World of Warcraft (WoW for short).  As part of the WoW experience, Blizzard allows users to create add-ons (called mods).  These mods will do something within the game like change the layout of the interface, add some functionality or just allow you to send a message when you’re resurrecting another player (among a million other things).  I’ve decided to pay some homage to my favorite mods (and mod site) by linking to them.  This will also help me point other WoW players to some of my favorite mods.

• World of War’s UI site – Arguably one of the largest mod sites.  It happens to be my favorite place to search for new and updated mods.
• UI Central – Mod Management Tool – While you’re at World of War, get this tool.  It’s an automatic update tool.  It makes the task of keeping your mods up-to-date MUCH easier!
• CT-Mod – This adds a whole set of mods that add alot to the game.  This one is almost mandatory.
• Gatherer – Gatherer makes the task of collecting materials (ore and herbs) much easier.  It will mark every node location (where you pick up your materials) on your maps so that you can go back later and check those nodes to see if they’re available again.  Another excellent feature is that it will actually synchronize node collections across your guild, so if another player in your guild is using Gatherer and you pick up a node, it will send that location to that other person.  One hint: if you are an herbalist but not a miner, you can send mining node locations to your other guildies by simply running by and right-clicking on them.  Help your guild mates out by clicking on everything!
• Auctioneer – Auctioneer is one of those nice-to-have mods for people who like numbers and statistics (Jerome, this probably isn’t you).  Basically, what it does is it will keep a record of every item in the game (that you’ve seen anyways), then it will scan thru the auction house and check the price for any item it can find.  It then can keep track of the average starting and buyout prices for those items along with the number of times you’ve seen that item in the auction house.  So, for instance, if you pick up a blue item while out grinding (like I did last night), it will tell you approximately what that item would be worth if you were to put it up on the auction house.  It can also recommend a price when you put an item up on the auction house too (based on previous prices and current demand).  It’s a very slick tool for those who use the Auction House alot.

That’s enough for now.  I will try to add more as I think of them.

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• All-In-One Gestures – Allows you to browse by using only your mouse (open tabs, go back and forth, etc)
• AdBlock Plus and the Filterset.G Updater – Automatically blocks ads — I rarely see ads any more on any site — and when I do, I block them!
• DownTHEMall! – will let you download all of any type of file on a page — handy for grabbing pictures or movies or whatever else you may want to grab in bulk
• Google Preview – Adds a thumbnail to google searches. Handy for when you know what a page looked like, but not the URL
• ColorZilla – Eyedropper that allows you to choose colors from another website
• MeasureIt – Measures elements on a page
• IETab – Allows you to open those pesky IE-Only pages within an embedded version of Internet Explorer inside one of your tabs
• Nightly Tester Tools – With this, you can install older extensions among other things — It comes in handy when you use firefox betas
• ForecastFox Enhanced – Shows the forecast and a nice map with the current weather — great when it gets closer to the weekend and you want to know how nice it’s going to be!
• Greased Lightbox – This is not an extension per se, but it’s a Greasemonkey script that completely rocks! It allows you to open image links in a preview window so you don’t have to actually navigate away from a page to see an image.
• Customize Google – This allows you to customize the output and functionality of google. I like it because I can force gmail and gcalendar to use https — secure is better! It has many more features than that however, so check it out.

Those are many of my favorite extensions.