Firefox addons which are useful for search engine optimization while searching / browsing.

Foxy SEO Tool – Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook. You can check a site’s listing in important directories like Dmoz and Yahoo! Directory, buzzing Web 2.0 sites such as Technocrati, Wikipedia, Digg, Delicious and links to useful network functions like Whois, Geotool, Internet Archive, etc.

RankQuest SEO Toolbar – This toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.

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Character Conversions from Browser to Database in JAVA

Characters in route to their final storage destination on the World Wide Web,
move through various layers of programming interfaces and can cross software and hardware boundaries.
This article provides helpful hints and best practices for accurately transporting character data from browser to
database and back again.

What if you want to POST non-ASCII data? All is well since you set that URIEncoding flag, right? Wrong. Tomcat doesn’t use the URIEncoding flag for POSTed form data. So, what does it use? ISO-8859-1.

So now, you’re back to where you started, and the simple application still greets Mr. ç°ä, instead of Mr. Japanese characters for Tanaka. Not good. Sun’s application server, however, does correctly
interpret both GET and POST data after setting the parameter-encoding tag as shown earlier, so this coding works well for users on that system.

Unfortunately, these solutions are completely server dependent, and you can’t always control where your applications will be deployed. Fortunately, server-independent solutions exist.

Perhaps the most basic server-independent solution is to set a context parameter indicating the character encoding choice for all forms in the application. Then your application can read the
context parameter and can set the request character encoding before reading any request parameters. You can set the request encoding in either a Java Servlet or in JSP syntax.

Setting the context parameter is done in the WEB-INF/web.xml file.

Add the following code just before reading any parameters in the JSP file.

From a control servlet, you can read the parameter during servlet initiation and set the encoding before processing the parameters:

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The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web –
The recommened firefox add ons -

1. StumbleUpon – StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

2. FoxTab – 3D in your browser! FoxTab brings innovative 3D functionality to your Firefox.

3. TwitterBar – Post to Twitter from your address bar.

4. Download Statusbar – View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

5. Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) – Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized.

6. CyberSearch – Adds advanced Google Search capabilities to the Firefox 3 address bar. Supercharge the “Awesome Bar” with instant search results that appear as you type!.

7. FireShot – FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and …

8. Brief – Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let’s you bookmark and tag..

9. Firefox Showcase – Easily find and manage your browser tabs.

10.
QuickDrag – Extends the function of the drag-and-drop mouse gesture so that it can be used to load URLs, do a web search of selected text on a page, or save an image on a page. The successor to Super DragAndGo.