Youplayer is a pretty handy Firefox extension for people that like to share videos online as much as possible. It also allows you to watch videos in a small window in like a bookmark style window to the left of your browser.

How often do you see a video posted on a board that you just love, but don’t really want to have 666 different video accounts with all the video sites to save it, or have an entire bookmark folder for them? Those hysterical Natalie Portman Rap video, George Washington video, hotties bouncing jugglies in their home gyms, etc. I know I see videos all the time that I either want to watch over and over again, or ones that people post which are just way too long to watch at one time. Like all those stupid ass conspiracy theory videos which I don’t even believe, but HAVE to watch anyways for some odd reason. I guess I watch them so that I can mock on the people that believe them.

Anyways, the extension lets you add the url and a title to it to save in one click. You can use it for virtually anything actually like a regular bookmark folder, but I like it a bit better because it has the mini-player window on it so I can listen to it if it doesn’t really need to be watched while I browse elsewhere. Download it directly here, or go to the Youplayer Page and get it there.

Linkification is another of the very useful Firefox extensions for message boards. It works in a very similar way to the Firefox extension Text to Image in that it takes links that only show up as text on boards that don’t allow links and makes them clickable. This feature is very useful as copy/pasting these links is sometimes bothersome when you are on boards such as the ones at Gamefaqs.com where you are often linked to things such as Youtube videos, self assessment quizes, and lol Myspeace pages. It is also quite useful when reading articles on various sites as many times they do not link directly and just post a text that you have to copy and paste instead.

Once installed you will see a small icon on the lower status bar of your browser, or wherever you have it. The circular icon with the “L” in it has a few functions if you right-click on it. The first is that you can blacklist a site from getting Linkified. If you have a site that maybe you do programming on, it is rather bothersome to have links in your code linkified, so it is nice to be able to blacklist that site and not have to worry about it every time. This is a permanent solution unlike the other option available there. You can simply just turn of the links on a page that have been linkified as well in that menu. Two very handy tools that you will find useful once you start to use this Firefox extension.

The other is the options menu which has far too many features to go in depth with here. Just browse around the options and see the various features it has. A couple of note is that you can turn off auto-linkification, allow text links to be visited simply by double clicking on them with out actually having them linkified and even force the links to open in new tabs or windows. More advanced options are available as well and can be reviewed in the help sections.

You can Download the Linkification Add on in the link there, or go to the Linkification Add on page directly and get it there.

GameFOX is a Firefox extension that makes browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards easier. It offers several useful features, all of which are easily configurable. The most up to date download for GameFOX is here (That IS the site, but it is down sometimes when a new version comes out due to overload). It is supposed to auto-update once you have it, but there have been times it hasn’t for me right away. If you are posting on the boards and notice some functionality not working you may want to go see if a new update is made at that link. Typically it will update right away, but every once in a while it won’t.

Main Features

QuickPost

This adds a form to message and topic lists that lets you quickly reply to a topic, or create a new one without having to go to the Create New Topic/Post New Message page.

Quoting

This feature allows you to quickly quote a message.

GameFAQs Themes

GameFOX allows you to easily change the style with which you view the site. Many stylesheets are provided in the GameFAQs CSS section of this site.

User Highlighting

The User Highlighting feature does exactly that; it highlights the post headers and topics of users you list, and can hide the posts of others.

QuickWhois

QuickWhois allows you to quickly check a user’s profile without leaving the message list.

Other features:

* Manage your Message Board and Site settings from the GameFOX Options menu. This includes setting up your sig so that it will post when you use the “QuickPost” feature. So you can always have your website link up for marketing purposes if you want to make sure your ellipticals site gets some run.

* Compatibility with gfaqs9 and gfaqs.

* GameFOX Sidebar allows you to quickly navigate the site. You can even use this when you aren’t at the GameFaqs site. Very handy. Like a bookmarks panel that goes with you.

* Topic Tagging allows you to keep track of topics easily.

If you post on the GameFAQs boards this is a MUST HAVE extension for Firefox. The other important extension that you will want to have is the Text to Image extension.

Have you ever been Rickrolled?

Hopefully, you have never heard of Rick Astley. He’s a terrible musician and has some very bad songs. Rick Astley was “popular” way back in the 80’s. In fact, 2007 marks the 20 year anniversary of the song that will get you Rickrolled. Never Gonna Give you Up. This song is terrible, but back then people used to fall in love with shitty pop tunes just like they still do today. IF you have never heard this song you are going to have to hear it to know why I think it sucks so bad, but let me explain what a Rickroll is first and then you yourself can get Rickrolled.

A Rickroll is another great internet fad. How it works is the same as many other message board fads do. Trickery. Unsuspecting forum readers will see a topic, or even request an image, Youtube video, or story about whatever. Since people on the internet are jerks and like to enjoy a laugh at the expense of other users they will trick them by giving them false information just to waste their time.

So let’s assume that Johnny Internet User wants some videos from Youtube. Other “nice” internet users will pop links to the videos of Little Johnny’s request into their posts so that Little Johnny is happy with the results. What if you don’t like Little Johnny? What if you aren’t a “nice” internet user? You may as well just Rickroll the little bastard then.

Since Youtube videos don’t have any explanation in their links it is always quite easy to throw in a shocking, or tasteless video when someone asks. Rickrolling isn’t really shocking, or tasteless, but it is annoying. I find it funny. So when you feel like screwing with someone, Little Johnny in this case, you just go to Youtube and search “Rick Astley”, or “Never Gonna Give you Up”, and post a link to a video such as this:

Oh the humanity! You just got Rickrolled.

If you want to avoid getting Rickroll’d you can install this anti-Rickroll Firefox extension. Good Luck!

Here is another extremely annoying Rickroll. Click at your own risk. muwahaha!

CTRL+ALT+DELETE will soon be your friend.

UPDATE! The Major League Baseball New York Mets and their fans were Rickroll’d! After a contest that began on March 31st to vote for a song to be played during the 8th inning of games. Fans and Mets were treated to an organized effort by Diggers and other message board users to a massive Rickroll. Well done internet. HEre is a fan video of the Met’s Rickroll:

Certain message boards don’t allow you to post images. Specifically a popular gaming site named Gamefaqs.com. On those boards people seem to whine about having to copy and paste large lists of images when someone decides it is time to post as many pictures of scantily clad women as they can find in a huge list, or pr0n when someone decides to suicide and get banned. This is nothing new, but I see too many people whining about it not to mention it. Well the easiest fix to that is to get Firefox and to get the extension for Text to Image. If you don’t use Firefox as your browser then you just don’t know how to use the interwebs. Opera is OK, but if you use Internet Explorer this site probably looks like ass to you and you are letting everyone steal your information. Also, every time you open up that browser a kitten dies.