FoxReplace Adds Find and Replace to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension]

3 Dec 2008

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension FoxReplace adds find-and-replace functionality to web pages. If you do a lot of writing in web forms—whether it's for work, your personal blog, or just your Gmail account—the option to do automatic find and replace is a godsend. You can choose to match by case and replace all matching text, whole words only, or use regular expressions if you're really savvy. The extension boasts way more features than you're likely to use (including finding and replacing text on an HTML level), though to be honest I'd be happier with a similar extension that worked only with textareas and had a Find Next option before replacing (right now it replaces all instances). FoxReplace is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.

Ask MetaFilter Roundup [Hive Mind]

3 Dec 2008

• What's a good answer when a job interviewer asks what salary you're looking for?
• How do you deal with a boss that brushes you off when you offer a better solution to a problem when their solution has rather large and obvious holes in it?
• What warm winter clothing do you recommend for a woman who likes nature photography and hiking?
• I got an Xbox 360. It's awesome. I can do so much stuff! Now what?
• Is there a product that will make gloves more grippy?

Amazon Mobile Looks Up Any Product You Snap a Picture Of [Featured IPhone Download]

3 Dec 2008

iPhone/iPod touch only: Amazon released a new mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch today, ensuring that you can now get your online shopping fix no matter where you are. Not only does the Amazon app provide an excellent interface to search, buy, or add items to your wishlists, but if you're an iPhone user, the application's Amazon Remembers feature identifies any product you take a picture of—sort of like previously mentioned SnapTell. When you snap a pic, the app uploads the picture to Amazon, which looks for a match among its products. If it finds one (it can take anywhere between a couple minutes and 24 hours), it'll send you an email and update the Amazon Remembers tab. So far it's worked like a charm with all of the products I tested. I expected that my iPhone book might throw it for a loop, considering it has a picture of an iPhone on it, but even it was correctly identified within a few minutes.

If you give it a go, let's hear how it works out for you in the comments.