Firefox is more than a browser. It’s a toolbox, just waiting to be filled with tools.

In this Pimp Your Firefox series of posts I’ll be sharing 12 truly useful Firefox extensions to suit different breeds of freelancers.

I’ve capped the number at 12 to ensure only the highest quality extensions make the cut. This is for freelancers who want only the best tools to make their working day easier and more productive.

Net neutrality activists apparently have information confirming that all major ISPs are conspiring to make the Internet a subscription-based service by 2012.

I don't know if I buy into this, or if the ISPs could even pull it off, but it's interesting nonetheless.

WYSIWYG-editors are often criticized by real coding ninjas for bloated, dirty and not standards-complaint source code they’ve been producing over the last years. However, WYSIWYG-editors have become much better recently. Some of them even produce valid and elegant code.

StylizedWeb shares with you a list of 30 of the best Firefox add-ons, very useful for web designers and developers.

If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

WebClip Icons are strictly for iPhone & iPod Touch users, but since they are quite the popular little devices, website owners might want to think about adding a WebClip icon soon. A WebClip icon is the icon that the iPhone/iPod Touch uses if a user adds your site to their (now customizable) homescreen. Learn how to create your WebClip Icon here.

With Sprout, you can build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps.

Sprouts can be of any size and any number of pages and can include images, video and audio and components such as slideshows and jukeboxes as well as Web service components such as Twitter, PollDaddy, ChipIn and more.

Where to come for practical business advice. Maybe you’ve already made a range of expensive mistakes. Maybe you are trying to avoid the possibilities. No prob, your-mistakes-are-us.

BoDo is grass-roots-get-down-and-dirty-love-yo-mamma. We’ll talk about serious subjects such as “When to bring in a PITA clause,” “How to keep your clients” and “How to fire a client.” As well as lighter fare like “Working in your undies” and “How to tell when your down time is up.”

A great design community featuring commentary and tutorials

Have you ever wanted to edit the web pages of another website? This simple line of code makes it possible.

Of course you can’t actually edit the actual web page but you can edit the page as you see it on your screen.

This is one of the ways scammers create fake screenshots, fake Adsense & affiliate earnings and even fake Paypal transactions.

A huge list of design-related blogs which ping BlogFlux.

A huge list of design-related RSS feeds, complete with links to the sites. I check this one often!

An analysis of common mistakes in the portfolios of Web designers. This article will help you learn from the mistakes of many other designers out there.

Mozilla has announced the official release of Firefox 3 beta 2, the tenth major developer milestone in the Firefox 3 development timeline. The new beta, which is available for download from Mozilla's web site, includes interface improvements and a lot of extra polish.

ArsTech has the scoop.

PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free. You don't need to install any additional software, you can edit PDF documents right now inside your browser.

In the beginning, there was not light on the web. It was awfully crowded with dancing marquees, tedious frames, unbearable midis and annoying spinning @’s. It was the dark ages of the web. Then refreshing empty spaces, vibrant, high contrast colors, lovely gradients, big text, original gloss shine effect, diagonal lines and of course reflected logos came on our rescue. Everything was shiny and with that great brandnu smell. The Web 2.0 look was born.

But guess what? There are some people getting tired of that.

Find out what you can do with your design skills, long after the design business has left you behind.

It has nothing to do with fonts, but everything to do with fun. It's almost addictive.

Check out Mono's Faces New Year page and download the Faces screensaver.

Update: It appears to only run on Tiger or lower.

Korean computer engineers are introducing a new digital music format that has separate controls on the sound volume for each musical instrument, such as guitar, drum, base and voice -- an ideal tool for music lovers of different tastes as well as karaoke fans.

The new format, which has a file extension format of MT9 and a commercial title of Music 2.0, is poised to replace the popular MP3 file format as the de facto standard of the digital music source, its inventors say.

This tool will easily allow you to create RSS buttons or "chicklets" for your blog.

Newsgator's recent announcement that their popular line of cross-platform newsreaders were now free had many of you asking why you would ever give up the web-based bliss of Google Reader for desktop-based readers; still others were wondering why anyone wouldn't ride the desktop wave now that these best-in-class readers have hit the free market. Today we're comparing the most popular web-based newsreader, Google Reader, with the freeware, desktop-based readers from Newsgator. If you think you're running the perfect reader for your needs, take another look—you might be surprised at what you're missing.

Sears.com is distributing spyware that tracks all your Internet usage - including banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage - all in the name of "community participation."

Every website visitor that joins the Sears community installs software that acts as a proxy to every web transaction made on the compromised computer. In other words, if you have installed Sears software ("the proxy") on your system, all data transmitted to and from your system will be intercepted.

Send an email to yourself with a delivery date of February 23, 2037, or any other date in the future. No guarantee it'll arrive, but fun nonetheless.

The Graphic Style of Everybody Else, a site dedicated soley to great print design work, and the designers who created it.

Eric Karjaluoto over at Ideas on Ideas has authored a thought-invoking article titled "The web, community, privacy and optimism." Eric's stuff is always worth the read.

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing.

Manage tasks quickly and easily
Get reminded, anywhere
Organize the way you want to
Work together to get things done
Search your tasks the smart way

All just some of the capabilities of Remember The Milk. If you're on the go and don't have a PDA to keep you organized, this might do the trick for you.

“You Suck at Web Design” is a humorous (attempting to be, that is) writing project about life as a web designer in our current flurry of web acronyms, standards compliance, WYSIWYG, style sheets, hacks, digging, 2.0-this and Ajax-that. It’s mostly a commentary on the life of a freelancer, and a horribly lop-side disdain for the corportate world and it’s micro management.

The site looks fantastic and has plenty of visual goodness in the form of videos and more.