10 Cool Firefox Extensions

There are hundreds of Firefox Extensions on the web. Here are some cool Firefox Extensions which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox.

Fasterfox - Speed up Firefox. Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox’s unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. Also tweaks many network and rendering settings.

FlashGot - Handles single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers.

Linky - Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.

GreaseMonkey - Install user scripts and change the behavior of any web page

All-in-One Gestures - Merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)

Adblock Plus - Is an enhanced version of Adblock. Block ads, applets, flash, embedded-media etc.

SwitchProxy - Lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.

FoxyTunes - Listen to music while surfing the Web, and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.

Gmail Manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

gTranslate - Translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. Uses the Google translation services.

Use Google SMS To Search Directly From Your Mobile Phone

There is a very simple procedure to use google search directly from your mobile phone.
Follow the step by step procedure to search for anything via a sms without any web application.

1. Open the messaging in your phone.

2. Go for new text message and type your search query.

3. Send to 466453 (Google sms server).

4. Thats it. Done ! as you will receive the result as sms again.

For sports scores
* Type the name of the sports team
* Examples: “arsenal”.

For weather conditions
* Type the word “weather” followed by the zip or city and state
For more info send help to 466453.

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Windows Or Notepad Error ?

This Is Really Very Amazing.

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Write following line in the notepad -

this app can break

Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt

Step 4: Close the notepad.

Step 5: Open the file again.

What did you see ??
That's something weird !! ;)

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Browse The Web Using MS Calculator

Now access the internet via your standard Microsoft Calculator using this trick.
You can do this for fun or when your browser is messed up for some unexplainable reason.

Steps:

1. Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start => All Programs => Accessories => Calculator.

2. Open the help-window by pressing the F1 key.

3. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Standard is a Document with a Questionmark).

4. Select 'Jump to URL'.

5. Type your address into the avaliable field, but remember to type http://, and not just www. (or equivalent).

Have fun !!!

Use GMail As An Online Storage System

This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte's worth of free online file storage.
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

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Track Activities Of Your Buddies With Yahoo Tracker

Yahoo Tracker is a web based application that tracks the online offline activity of your Yahoo! messenger buddies without their knowledge. It tells you about their activity in last 24 hours. The data gets updated automatically after every 10 minutes. Yahoo Tracker is absolutely free and registration takes only seconds.

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Give Yourself Higher Rank In Vista

The first time many of us opened up the Windows Experience Index (WEI) and saw the pitiful score, we were ticked off .

As you learn more about how the rating works, however, the score probably won't sting as much. To calculate the WEI, Vista takes the lowest of five scores that relate to your processor, RAM and so on. Maybe that's the goal of the WEI -- to embarrass or anger us into spending more money on better hardware.

There are a couple of ways to increase your rating . First off, run the test again. Sometimes just running it again will boost you over the three mark. Another tip is to turn off your Aero glass interface, which will boost performance. Or, you could go right into the .XML file that stores the results and give yourself a higher score.

The Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT), which is the tool that calculates the WEI, stores its output in the
%systemroot%\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore. Each time you run WinSAT, it creates a new XML file and stores it in this folder with the assessment date at the beginning of the file name.

To change your ratings , you will have to do a little hack .
Open the file using WordPad and change the top five scores to whatever number you like and close the file. When you go to look at your WEI settings again, it should show you the new number.

To revert this back to the original , just run the Performance test again.

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Speed Up Vista

Here are few techniques that can help speed up your Vista system in minutes ..

1. Disable the Indexing Service ..
Indexing services in Windows Vista indexes all the files and folders for faster access. It basically makes search function faster. By default all files are indexed, but you probably won’t need that. It is recommended that you should disable the indexing service on all the items other than the start menu. To speed up Vista, follow these steps:

* Select Start and type "index options", without quotations
* After the Indexing Options are loaded, click the Modify button.
* Then click Show all Locations
* A list of locations will be displayed in the form of a tree. Uncheck those folders which you do not want to be indexed. You can also use the Advanced button to specify file types to be indexed, but this part is optional.
* Click OK button to finalize.


2. Enable advanced write caching ..
Vista comes with built-in support for SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives. By default Vista does not enable write caching. To improve your data retrieval speed you must enable the write caching. Just follow these steps:

* Go to the hard drive properties
* Select the Policies tab
* Select the radio button labeled Optimize for performance.
* Check the boxes titled “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable Advance Performance”
* Click OK button to finish.


3. Speed up Start Menu Search ..
The good old MSCONFIG option is available in Vista as well. Lots of crappy programs load at boot time which consume large amount of memory and processor. To tweak follow these steps:

* Go to Start>Run or press Windows + R
* Type “msconfig” and click OK
* The System Configuration dialogue box will be displayed, select the Startup
* You will see list of checkboxes, most of them will be checked. Uncheck those ones which are not needed. More unchecked boxes will lead to better performance.
* Click OK button to finish this tweaking step.


4. Stop extra services ..
There are lots of services that are automatically started by default in Vista. Many such services are of no use for the user. There are services that get automatically added to the list when you install different third party software. They consume lots of RAM and processor. To speed up just follow these steps:

* Go to Start>Run and type “msconfig” without quotations.
* System Configuration window will be displayed.
* Go to the Services tab (middle one)
* To be on the safe side check the box “Hide all Microsoft Services”
* Now you will have a reduced version of the list, select ones that you feel are unnecessary.
* Press OK to finish.

There are some Windows Vista’s services that you can disable without any glitch:

* Windows Error Reporting
* Tablet PC Input Service ( don’t disable if you are using a tablet PC)
* Remote Registry
* Offline Files
* IKE and AuthIP IP Keying Modules
* Distributed Link Tracking Client
* Computer Browser


5. Disable Network Printer Search ..
Disabling network printer search may greatly improve Vista’s performance. When you browse through folders Vista is always looking for network printers. This search ends up in consuming lots of resources. To speed up performance just follow these steps:

* While you are in the explorer (My Computer), go to the Tools menu
* Select Folder options
* Go to the View tab
* Uncheck the box named “Automatically search for network printers”

After completing this step you would certainly feel the difference.

6. Use ReadyBoost ..

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Chat Using Google Talk In Firefox Sidebar

Use Google Talk without installing Google Talk software on your system by using a cool simple plugin. You don't even need to use GMail to chat using GMail ID.

Gtalksidebar is simple Firefox extension that installs Google Talk to your sidebar of Firefox browser. To open Google Talk either press alt+G or click the icon in the view sidebar menu from the top. The extension/add-on works with 1.0 to 2.0.0 * versions.

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Subservient Programmer

Hey guyz just try this amazing link... there is a man in it sitting on a computer ... type sumthing in the box which you want him to perform..

Eg :- Type laugh and press the button and see it laugh ..

Really Cool ...

Link :- http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx

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