Make The Most Out Of Pinterest With These Browser Add-ons

Web browser add-ons can improve your Pinterest experience significantly. Let me give you a quick overview of what the service is about. Pinterest lets you pin photos and videos to online pinboards. These are publicly accessible, and all Pinterest users can comment on them, share them or pin them to their pinboards as well. Links to the original site the photos or videos were found on are retained, which makes it a visual bookmarking service as well.

There are three options to pin photos or videos to your own pinboard. You can use the bookmarklet and run it on the page that contains the photo or image, paste the web address of the page on the Pinterest site into a form, or pin an item that has been posted by another Pinterest user.

When you look at browser extensions, you will notice that Google Chrome got the bulk of it, while both Firefox and Opera only one each. Lets take a look at the add-ons:

Pin It Buttons – Instead of having to use the bookmarklet, these extensions add a button to the browser that you can click on to pin a photo or video on that website. Chrome: One Click Pinterest Button, Opera: Pinterextension

Right-click Pinning – These add a right-click context menu option to pin the selected item to one of your Pinterest pinboards. Chrome: Pinterest Right click, Firefox: Unofficial Pinterest Addon

Keyboard shortcuts – Adds a shortcut to pin items on a page with a keyboard shortcut. Chrome: Pin It!

Image Zooming – Lets you zoom in on images right on the Pinterest website without having to click on the item. Works similar to Hover Zoom. Chrome: Pinterest Zoom

, Pinterest Image Expander, Pinzy

Pin Screenshots – Lets you pin screenshots of web pages that you are currently on, or upload photos from your desktop to pin those. Chrome: Screen 2 Pin

Closing Words It is interesting to note that there is no userscript, and only one Firefox add-on available for a popular service such as Pinterest. Google Chrome on the other hand has been blessed with extensions in comparisons. Is it because many developers are using that browser now? What’s your opinion here? Also, let me know if you come across other add-ons for Pinterest. And if you are not currently a user, you can grab your Pinterest invites here.

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Can’t Open A File? Try These File Openers

Every now and then you may come upon a file that you cannot open right away, because you do not have the right file opener available on the system. While you could fire up your favorite Internet browser to research the file extension to find out which program you need to open it, you could instead try an universal file opener.

These applications support dozens, and sometimes even hundreds, of different file types that you can open with them directly. Lets take a look at some of the more popular file openers for the Windows operating system.

Free Opener

The program supports 80 different file types, from the latest Microsoft office files formats such as pptx, xlsx or docx, to common media file types like avi, mkv or flv to less popular extensions like tar archives or Outlook messages (msg).

The program has a size of about 25 Megabytes and will install a version of the Microsoft .NET Framework even though it may already be installed on the system. Just open the program afterwards and click on the open file icon in the toolbar to open a supported file on the system.

You can download Free Opener from the official website. There you will also find a list of supported file extensions.

Universal Viewer Free

The free version of Universal Viewer supports more than 200 file formats with the majority being image and multimedia formats. It does not support several high profile file extensions, including Microsoft Office 2007 formats and archives like zip or 7z. Users who need support for these types of files can open them with another program discussed in this overview.

You can open files by clicking on File > Open or using the open button in the main toolbar. Like Free Opener, drag and drop operations are not supported. The application integrates itself into Windows Explorer for direct opening of files.

Universal Viewer Free can be downloaded from the developer website. You can access our review of Universal Viewer here.

Open Freely

This one looks almost identical to Free Opener interface wise. It appears to support more file extensions than the other, at least according to the developer website.

Four major file extension groups are supported by the application: Documents, Audio/Video, Images and Compression. File extensions supported include all Microsoft Office formats, all major multimedia formats, as well as a lot of image and compression formats.

You can download Open Freely from the project homepage.

Closing Words

These programs are best suited to open files that you do not encounter on a regular basis. Even then you may be better off installing or running another program on the system. Instead of having to use two programs to open files, you could try and find a program that opens both of them. This is especially feasible when it comes to multimedia files.

Have you tried one of the programs before´

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