Software Tools

Addons for Mozilla Firefox

uBlock Origin is the ad blocker you should be using. Tt even lets you disable all javascript on a website, if you're adventurous.

The Zotero connector allows you to add papers to your Zotero Library from the browser. It can also automatically redirect journal webpages through an institutional proxy, allowing you to download papers with your institutional credentials.

Return YouTube dislikes brings back a useful feature.

Single-file is a neat add-on that can download a webpage with everything, including figures, in a single HTML file. Very useful if you want to locally archive, for example, a blog post or a Twitter thread.

Tabliss can modify new tab page in the browser.

Tranquility Reader can strip down a webpage to main texts and images, letting you read it without 1000 flashy annoying things.

Feedbro helps to get articles from any website that provides an RSS feed (blogs, journals, magazines…). A good alternative to Feedly.

Gesturefy is such a neat add-on! It lets you do several things, like going back to the previous webpage, only with gestures of your mouse.

You open a webpage like Cosma Shalizi's (check it!) and find hundreds of links. Which one is active and which one is dead? Link analyzer does that job for you with one click.

Hide Youtube-Shorts removes YouTube shorts from its homepage, subscriptions page, and search results. It can also hide the "Shorts" tab. Good riddance!

Tools

• Learn touch typing
• Get unicode of symbols
• HTML cleanup tool & simplifier
• webplotdigitizer - extract data from plots, images, and maps
• Find Journals' short names

Nifty and Free Software For MacBook

1. Amphetamine keeps your MacBook awake, which can be useful during presentations, for example.
2. AppCleaner helps to cleanly uninstall an app.
3. Rectangle moves and resizes windows.
4. Duplicate File Finder Remover finds (and removes) duplicate files.
5. OmniDiskSweeper finds and helps delete large files.