Add-ons
To make it easier to use DuggBack as a complementary to Digg, you can install add-ons to automate some routines. Available methods range from manual usage, bookmarks, and up to Firefox extensions.
Add-ons
Manual Usage
Replace Domainname
When you visit a Digg story, just replace digg.com with duggback.com and press enter, e.g.:
Before: http://www.digg.com/security/How_to_Encrypt_Your_VoIP
After: http://www.duggback.com/security/How_to_Encrypt_Your_VoIP
Post Comment
You can also post a comment on the Digg story page pointing back to 'http://www.duggback.com' and when someone clicks on that link, they will be redirected to the respective DuggBack page automatically.
Find Story
If you happen to only have the webpage address from a Digg story but can't remember which Digg story it was associated with, append the address at the end of the duggback.com domain and press enter. The website will look-up your URL and try to find the Digg story. E.g.:
URL: http://duggback.com/http://www.voipnow.org/2007/04/how_to_encrypt_.html
Redirected to story: http://www.duggback.com/security/How_to_Encrypt_Your_VoIP
Investigate Website Address
If you want to do further research, or digg deeper, and find mirrors and caches for a webpage that has not been promoted to the Digg front page yet, you can use another cool function called 'Investigate'. All you have to do is to find the link you want to look-up and either paste it in the submit field at the end of every DuggBack story page or at the end of the duggback.com domain, e.g.:
http://www.duggback.com/http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6166254.html?tag=nefd.top
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are shortcuts that utilize small snippets of Javascript code to perform rewriting of an website address with just a click of a button. E.g. when you are at the comments page of a Digg news item, you can click the DuggBack bookmarklet and you will be directed to the respective DuggBack page automatically.
Install Bookmarklet
Firefox
Drag this button to your bookmark toolbar at the top-half of your screen:
Opera
Drag this button to your bookmark toolbar:
You might have to enable the toolbar under View - Toolbars - Personal Bar, but it works fine if you just select it from the Bookmark menu.
Internet Explorer
Right-click on this button and select 'Add to Favorites...' and put the bookmark in the 'Links' folder, click Add.
For IE7, either select the yellow star to open the favorites folder or press the Alt-key and select View - Toolbars - Links to enable the favorites toolbar.
Safari
Click and hold this button, drag and drop it into your bookmark toolbar in Safari.
Firefox Extensions
Extensions allow you to add new functionality to the Firefox browser. E.g. automatically add a new link on a Digg news page that points back to DuggBack and looks just like normal link on the page with the same color and font size.
DuggBack Extension
This is a stand-alone extension and puts a link to DuggBack on all the Digg categories and topics pages.
DuggBack Greasemonkey Script
Greasemonkey is a scripting extension for Firefox and makes it easy to manage all kinds of small scripts available through userscripts.org. This script does exactly the same as the extension, i.e. puts a link back to DuggBack on every Digg news item listing.