Internet Explorer in Firefox

Firefox does not support some languages to render. Right now it is possible to view your own regional language sites, in Internet Explorer, as it supports more number of languages. So to view non supporting sites, you will have to open a separate instance of an IE.

IE Tab plug-in allows to open IE inside Firefox, this is a cool extension of Firefox and very useful if you don’t want to see IE on your taskbar.

Steps to install and configure:

• Install IE Tab from here, after installation you need to restart the Firefox to take the effect of this extension.

• After restarting go to view->Toolbars and select Customize… option

• From Customize Toolbar pop up window drag and drop IE Tab icon over to tool bar.

• Click on IE Tab icon to view a page in IE, you can also do the same by right clicking on tab and selecting Switch rendering engine from the context menu.

Finally you can configure the IE Tab from Tools->Add-ons, under Extension choose options button of IE Tab.

Minimized tabs in Firefox

You would have been very much happy with the tabbed feature of the Firefox. But when you open more no of pages, you need to scroll across the tabs for invisible ones, which is the least one you probably want to do. Here is a tool Feviconize Tab, allow you to minimize the tabs, so that you can get more room to keep more tabs.

How to install and use it?

• Install Feviconize Tab from add-ons of Mozilla’s site.

• After installing the plug-in go to Tools select Add-ons option.

• From Add-Ons popup window, select Extensions option

• Click on Options button of Feviconize Tab to configure it.

• Chose your desire option to minimize tab from Quick Feviconize options ( preferably Double click). This is more like a short cut key to minimize tab.

• Click OK, close all pop up windows. Try minimizing tabs with selected short cut option.

You can also minimize the tabs from context menu, to do this, right clicking on the tab, and select Feviconize Tab option

Firefox Themes

Have you got bored with the default theme of the Firefox? Yes, and then look at the Themes feature, which is one the major attraction of the Firefox.

Go to the Tools and select Add-ons. Choose the Themes option from pop up window. On bottom right corner click on Get Themes link which will takes to Mozilla’s sites there you can download wide range of themes of your choice.

Samples...

Some useful links to download

Smashingmagazine

takebacktheweb

Customize

Short cut keys to work with Tabs in Firefox

The most famous feature of Firefox is Tabbed Browsing. This is a feature which allows users to open up a link as a new tab within their current Firefox window, rather than opening up an entirely new Firefox window. The benefits of this are faster loadup times for pages opened as tabs, less overall system memory usage, less buttons for open instances of Firefox on the Windows Taskbar, the ability to load pages in the background while reading the current page, and the convenience of being able to switch back and forth between pages just by clicking their tab.

Opening, Closing and Switching Tabs: Whether you use tabbed browsing or not is up to you, however it is generally recommended that you do, and there are some basic things you can do to make better use of this feature:

· To open any link as a new tab you simply need to click your center mouse button while pointing to a link. If you don't have a center mouse button, hold down the CTRL key then left-click on a link to get the same result.

· If you want to force a link to open as a new tab in the foreground, you need to hold down the SHIFT key and use the relevant methods above.

· If you want to close a tab quickly, simply click the center mouse button on the tab, or press CTRL + W or CTRL + F4 while viewing the tab. Or you can just click on the red 'X' on the tab itself.

· To switch quickly between open tabs, press CTRL + Tab Key to go to the next open tab, or SHIFT + CTRL + TAB Key to go to the previous open tab.

· If you want to go to a specific open tab, press CTRL and a number key corresponding to that tabs position from the left. For example, pressing CTRL + 2 will jump to the second open tab.

· You can rearrange the order of open tabs by dragging and dropping them.

In fact, if you click your middle mouse button on a range of things in Firefox, they will typically open up in a new tab (substitute CTRL for middle-click). For example, click the middle button on the back or forward arrows at the top of Firefox, and the previous or next pages you've visited will open in a new tab. Middle-click on an item in your history or your Bookmarks and it will open in a new tab. Middle-click on the Homepage toolbar icon and your home page will open in a new tab.

Streamlined Firefox Layout: More viewing space

You are looking for more space on your browser; here are the tips to do that in Firefox. You can do this by streamline all the short cut buttons on to a single tool bar and get more vertical space for viewing.

Before:

After:

In View menu select Toolbars and then select Customize…

From the Customize Toolbar window drag the items over to the fist tool bar. You can also drag and drop the items existed on Navigation Toolbar.

Finally, go to the View menu, and under Toolbars uncheck both Navigation Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbars.

You can always restore to original settings by clicking on Restore Default Set button in Customize Toolbar window.

Breaking barriers with GoogleTranslate

Google has started new service called Google Translate, which will break all the barriers between different languages. With this services you will actually search other language sites (say Chinese) and you will see result-in, of your interested language (say English).

Suppose you are on holiday to china, you are searching for a specific product which is only available in china and it’s most likely listed in websites scripted in Chinese language. When you search for this item without Google Translate you will see search results in Chinese language, which you cannot read.

With Google Translate you will have an option of specifying your language and searching language, it will automatically translate to the language of your interest.

It is in beta version; the translated language may not be perfect.

Read SMS ads, earn money

New era of mobile/tele marketing has been started, now you will get paid for every sms ad, if you read it or you send it your friend. you will be paid via cheque when you accumulate Rs.300

You will be paid
1. 20 paisa for every ad you receive
2. 10 paisa for every ad your friends receive
3. 5 paisa for every ad your friend’s friends receive

Uninstalling Firefox completely

Sometimes you may face strange behavior and annoying problems after you upgrade to higher versions of Firefox. One of the best solutions is uninstall everything and reinstalling entire package. However uninstalling Firefox does not remove your favorites, profiles, bookmarks, settings and any tweaks. If you want to completely remove all traces of Firefox from your system follow these steps:

I request you to take backups of your book marks, favorites or setting if needed before uninstalling everything.

1. Go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs in XP or Control Panel>Programs & Features in Vista, and if a 'Mozilla Firefox' entry (or similar) exists, select it and click Change/Remove and uninstall it. Reboot if required.

2. Go to your Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla directory in XP, or the \Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Mozilla and \Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ directories in Vista and delete the entire \Firefox subdirectory and all of its contents. Note that this will delete all of your bookmarks and saved settings, so if you want to backup any or all of your current Profile, see the Customizing Firefox section on page 7 of this guide first. Typically all that I would recommend you backup and restore is your bookmarks.html file.

3. Go to your \Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ directory and delete it and all of its contents.

4. Use the Registry Editor (Start>Run>Regedit) and delete the following keys - that is, right click on their name in the left pane of Registry Editor and select Delete:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\firefox.exe]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MozillaPlugins]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\mozilla.org]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins]

How to import IE and Opera settings to Mozilla Firefox

Typically you will get an option to import all IE and Opera setting at the time of you installing Firefox, by any chance if you said no to import option, you can still import all setting from IE and Opera web browser at any time.

Import option will let you import the Internet Options, Cookies, Browsing History, Saved Form History, Saved Passwords and Favorites.

To import go to File menu and click on Import… option.

Choose the browser, click on Next button

Choose items, Clicking on Next will import selected items

Keep drinks cool on you desk with USB Mini Fridge

Have you been working on your computer with a drink on desk, which is getting warm? Do you want to keep that chilled? Then you should buy USB Mini Fridge. This cool USB gadget with door design which can keep your beverage chilled and stay at your computer for longer time. Now, you can carry a fridge to anywhere!!

Join in Google user experience research study, earn $75 per hour

Here is another chance to earn money with Google. This is not like earning money with ads or blogs .Google often run usability studies on their new features, products and blogging issues. They need people for giving new ideas, testing these products and totally for innovation. So you can also be a part of these research studies and earn $75 per hour.

To participate in you just need to have a computer with a high speed internet connection. You will have to sign up at Google user experience research study; you will get a confirmation call from Google, be patient. for more information click here

Converting your videos recorded with Digital camers

Have you got your own camera? And you started shooting video using your camera? If yes then you will be definitely facing problem to play those video files on your Disk player or if you are trying to make a movie using a ‘Windows movie maker’ right?

Most of the cameras store the video in .MOV format which is QuickTime’s native format. And if you google for conversion tools you first come across ‘Quick Time Pro’ conversion tool, which eats some bucks form your pocket.

I started searching for free and simple tool; then I came across RAD video tool featuring by Bink and Smaker, which I found very simple and easy to use.

I am giving the details here you might found useful.

This tool comes with Bink Video, 24-bit true-color codec, and Smacker, our 8-bit 256-color codec.

Whit this you can convert a bunch of BMPs into an AVI, GIFs into JPEGs, Smackers into flics, QuickTimes into AVIs, wave files into different sample rates, 24-bit images into 8-bit images, etc.

You can use the batch editor to create a list of tasks that can be run in sequence without your presence

You can create self Extracting videos and screen saver, in advanced play options, this is only available for binkers and smakers. For more details click on ‘FAQ s’ button.

It has lot more functions which I have not mentioned here. If you are looking for conversion tool you should give a try to this tool. Download here

Conver DVDs to Ipod, psp ,xbox,, Cell Phone supporting formats

If you want to convert your movies to your portable player supporting formats like, iPod, PSP, Cell Phone, Xbox, Pocket PC, PDA, MP4; Agogo DVD Ripper is a good tool. This Agogo DVD ripper allows you to rip into many formats; it also gives option to choose like subtitle, audio track, frame rate and audio quality.

Key features are

1. It converts DVD to AVI,DivX, XViD, VCD, SVCD, iPod MP4 Video, to PSP Video, 3GP, and to Pocket PC Video
2. Support Ripping DVD by custom file size
3. Support choose subtitle and Audio track to rip
4. Support Setting Beginning and Ending point to rip
5. Normally, the conversion speed is 3 times of the playback speed
6. Support Automatically Shut down your computer after long time conversion

System Requirements:

Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003
Adaptec's ASPI driver for win32 (version 4.71 is recommended

Intel Pentium II 350MHz or above
64 MB RAM or above

Agogo DVD Ripper is a shareware it costs you $29,95 (USD), you can try trail version.

How to add system tray control buttons for winamp?

If you are looking for a plug in which will control the play list of winamp form the system tray of windows, then, you are at right place.

To do this you don’t have to download any third party plug ins, winamp comes with an inbuilt plug in called ‘Nullsoft Tray Control V2.0’. You simply need to have configured this.

To Configure…

1. Open ‘Winamp Preferences’ window, to open this click on ‘ Options -> Preferences..’ or use Shot cut key Ctrl+p
   

2. In Winamp Preferences window, click on General Purpose node under Plug-Ins node

3. In right pane double click Nullsoft Tray Control V2.0 [gen_tray.dll] plug in

4. . Check the Enable NullSoft Tray Control Check box, to enable system try control buttons.
You can select your desire options form the given list.

5. Clicking on Close button will enable system tray icon, you can control the play list by clicking the icon in system tray

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