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As more and more add-ons are being developed for Firefox, it’s interesting to see what all a browser can be turned into. The Pencil Project is a Firefox extension using which you can draw and design GUI prototypes (having elements like buttons, combo boxes, text boxes) easily by drag and drop. It uses Firefox’s underlying Mozilla Gecko engine.

These are some of the features offered by Pencil Project:

• Built-in stencils for diagramming and prototyping
• Multi-page document with background page
• On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
• PNG rasterizing
• Undo/redo supports
• Installing user-defined stencils
• Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating…
• Cross-platforms
• Adding external objects

After it is installed, Tools –> Pencil Sketching will start the application. Pages are arranged in tabs.

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Want to get only those stories from your favorite RSS feed that have certain words? Feed Sifter provides a form where you can paste a RSS feed, enter keywords by which you want to filter that feed and get a new feed URL.

The keywords are to be entered one in a line (multiple keywords separated by a comma will be treated with an ‘and’ condition). For example when I enter the feed URL of this blog and filter by ‘firefox’, the generated RSS feed is http://feedsifter.com/?f=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webtechdaily.com%2Ffeed%2F&firefox

If you want more powerful feed manipulation like being able to mash multiple feeds together, filter, sort, fetch and more, Yahoo Pipes is the best web service available.

noupe has a list of useful tutorials posted at several blogs on the Internet on the topics of Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS and XHTML, Ajax and JavaScript, Free Graphics. Definitely worth bookmarking. Visit by clicking on the screenshot below:

Are you like me using the free VLC player only to play .avi and other video files? If so, check out this lifehacker’s article on how to use VLC to:

1. Rip DVDs
2. Convert videos so they are playable in iPod or iPhone
3. Stream media to other computers
4. Play ripped DVDs

Organizing a birthday party or get-together? Anyvite offers a web form where you can enter your event details and fill in your friends’/family members’ e-mail addresses.

After the preview button is clicked, you can see how the invitation appears to your friends and send it.

Registering in the site enables you to upload your profile photo, add your phone numbers, IM accounts and set notifications of invitation acceptance updates, comments, reminders. Also a RSS Feed and Google Calendar import option are available to track all your events.