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juice plug-in for Firefox (a momentary geek-out)

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · research

Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful. Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, [...]

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word count tool from the beta site Writertopia

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Writertopia, a work in progress that promises to be a home on the web for writers, has created a free tool to help you display your writing progress visually on a blog or web site. Here’s a sample: They have a cheesier cartoon version of the meter as well, but I’m frankly a bit disturbed [...]

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