Firefox Campus Edition
Throw flames on anything and it instantly becomes cool. beCamp probably wouldn’t have been nearly as successful if it weren’t for the gosh-darn flame logo. Face it. If ya want to attract the edgy, hip crowd (that’s us, right?), there’s no easier way than to slap on some flames.
Well, the Mozilla gang took that idea to heart, added some flames to Firefox, and released the Firefox Campus Edition browser this past week. Sure, it’s got a swell bundle of “back-to-school” add-ons:
- FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.
- StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.
- Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.
…but let’s be serious. It’s the flames that caught your eye, right?
I wonder if the video feature is anyway similar to Winamp. I constantly listen to internet radio over winamp as I surf the web. If Firefox campus addition has that feature, then maybe I’ll give it a try.
-Todd
PF: FoxyTunes is a browser plugin to control your existing media player—e.g., Winamp—from Firefox or win-IE. So it looks like you need to keep Winamp (or one of the other players) around. But give the FoxyTunes extension a shot and report back to us if you’d be so kind.