Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
100+ Powerful FireFox Add-ons
Friday, February 12th, 2010
FlashGot
Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.
The new “FlashGot Media” command grabs video and audio clips while they’re playing, too. Supported download tools are dozens, see
http://flashgot.net for details.
Adblock Plus
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the Internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
NoScript
The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
Winner of the “2006 PC World World Class Award”, this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox.
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, guarding your “trust boundaries” against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attempts, thanks to its unique ClearClick technology.
Video DownloadHelper
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.
DownThemAll!
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.
IE Tab
IE Tab – an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox…This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
Greasemonkey
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. …Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at
http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out
http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.
Download Statusbar
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…
Visit the Firebug website for documentation, screen shots, and discussion forums:
http://getfirebug.com
Forecastfox
Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com and display them in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)
This is a fully skinned version. This theme is based on the Noia 2.0 icon set by Carlitus(
http://carlitus.deviantart.com ).
Xmarks Bookmark and Password Sync
Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.
Cooliris
The Cooliris 3D Wall — Simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.
The 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Facebook, Picasa, and even your own computer.
PDF Download
Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.
Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.
Fast Video Download (with SearchMenu)
Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more. 100% Free! In addition, our new SearchMenu feature makes it easier than ever to find popular videos and other information about any text you select.
ColorfulTabs
The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.
Personas
Personas are free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox. Choose from over 30,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter, Bob Marley and Lady Gaga to individualize your browser. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: “What Will My Browser Wear Today?”
NASA Night Launch
Dark theme for Firefox. Inspired by the night launch of STS-116.
This theme is for people who like it dark. If you’re running a dark desktop then this is for you. So zip up your flight suit, make sure your harness is secure, and enjoy the ride.
This theme supports two modes of use:
1 – as a simple dark theme with a dark toolbar, which is how it is installed by default
2 – with your choice of NASA toolbar images, which you enable by taking a couple extra steps
British English Dictionary
This extension packages David Bartlett’s British English Dictionary R1.19 for Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
CoolPreviews
Browse faster — Preview links and images without leaving your current page or tab. Just mouseover any link, and a separate preview window immediately appears to show you the content. (TIP: The fastest way to view many links on a webpage, such as Google, is by mousing over subsequent links while the preview window is still open or locked.)
Flagfox
Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.
Vista-aero
The most IE8-like theme with Vista Aero style!
SearchPreview
The extension previously known as GooglePreview. Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google, Yahoo and Bing search results pages.
WOT – Safe Browsing Tool
Web of Trust warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam. Millions of members of the WOT community rate sites based on their experience, giving you an extra layer of protection when browsing or searching the Web.
Flashblock
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on…
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
All-in-One
AiOS lets you open various windows as sidebar panels, and quickly switch between them. So it put an end to the window chaos! In addition to bookmarks and history it opens dialogues such as downloads, add-ons and more in the sidebar.
Stylish
Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager. Stylish lets you easily install themes and skins for Google, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut, and many, many other sites. You can even customize Firefox and other programs themselves.
myFireFox
Myfirefox is the theme of the most perfectly simulating Internet Explorer 8 by far.
It can work perfectly in Windows 7 .
43things.com search
Search goals on 43things.com. Discover what’s important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.
RedShift V3
The highly anticipated Shift V3 series is finally on it’s way. This version is a public release candidate testing the compatibilities of V3.
Firefox 3.5 version is awaiting editor approval. Scroll to the bottom and select “View Older Versions ”
FoxyProxy
FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc.
Fast Dial
Visual bookmarks.
FoxTab
3D in your browser! FoxTab brings innovative 3D functionality to your Firefox.
FoxTab is a 3D tabbed browsing extension.
With 6 attractive layouts to choose from,
flipping between opened tabs becomes both easy and fun.
Cnet: “FoxTab turns your browser tabs into a spectacle”
Lifehacker: “FoxTab Brings Innovative, Attractive Tab Switching to Firefox”
AnyColor
Change Firefox to Any Color and create your own personalized theme.
Speed Dial
Direct access to your most visited websites
With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. To show the Speed Dial tab, use the Speed Dial button (which can be added to the toolbar), or enter “chrome://speeddial/content” in your location bar.
To assign one website to Speed Dial, use the new “Set as Speed Dial” option in the bookmarks menu, or right click on the tab you want to add, and choose “Set as Speed Dial”. That option is also available in the contextual area menu.
Delicious Bookmarks
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
Firefox Showcase
Easily find and manage your browser tabs.
Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
User Agent Switcher
The User Agent Switcher extension adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
PitchDark for Fx
Dark-colored minimalistic theme with emphasis on visibility, usability and maximum screen real estate.
ChatZilla
A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. ChatZilla provides all the usual IRC client features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling.
IE View
Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing.
FireGestures
A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.
FastestFox – Browse Faster
Save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, auto-loading of next page, improved searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity!
Walnut for Firefox
Walnut for a wooden look and feel. Walnut is a complete skin redesign so that all windows, widgets, panels, and even the addons have a wooden look and feel. Supports many extensions. For Firefox 2.0, and 3.0, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 nightlies.
Gmail Manager
The original Gmail notifier for multiple accounts. Allows you to receive new mail notifications along with viewing account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
All-in-One Gestures
This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
FEBE
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can …
WebMail Notifier
WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails…
Supports : gmail, yahoo, hotmail, daum, naver, empas, nate and more
Illimitux
Illimitux extension is a FireFox tool that removes limitations imposed by streaming plateforms as MegaVideo , Veoh, Megauplaod or Rapidshare. Its purpose is watching without restriction vides from those platforms. When your are in one of these websites. Illimitux identifie the video and prompts a little box in the corner of the browser telling you to remove the limitation. Once you click on it, you’ll be redirected to our website to view the Full video.
Torbutton
Torbutton provides a button to securely and easily enable or disable the browser’s use of Tor. It is currently the only addon that will safely manage your Tor browsing to prevent IP address leakage, cookie leakage, and general privacy attacks.
Yoono – Socialize Your Browser
All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use sidebar. Get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more – all at once! Simplify your online social life.
ScrapBook
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:
* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes
ImTranslator
What is ImTranslator?
Online Translator performs real-time translation for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese languages and their combinations.
TTS Voice presented by animated speaking characters will read the text in the most realistic, human-sounding way in a variety of languages: English U.S., Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and European Spanish.
UnPlug
UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage – it’s a video download tool.
Flash Video Resources Downloader
Download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion & all the rest of the popular (and many less known) online flash video sites of all kinds.
Echofon for Twitter (Formerly TwitterFox)
Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter. Syncs with iPhone.
Fire.fm
Fire.fm gives you access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Last.fm gives free radio to the US, UK, and Germany, plus subscriber-based service to the rest of the world. Listen to your favorite music and discover new artists in the process.
Download Manager Tweak
Allows the download manager to also open in a tab or sidebar, and adds some optional display changes.
The intent of Download Manager Tweak is in the name. It “tweaks” the Firefox download manager with small changes and doesn’t completely redesign it. It makes some optional changes to its appearance and allows it to be opened in a separate window, a new tab, or the sidebar. Additional features beyond appearance include deleting a downloaded file and re-downloading a mistakenly deleted file. The various appearance changes can be disabled, if you don’t like the look and just want it to open in a tab or sidebar.
Easy YouTube Video Downloader
Easiest Youtube video downloader ever, single click non-intrusive direct download buttons for FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities.
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 insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.
Fission
Fission combines address bar and progress bar (Safari style). This makes the progress bar more visible and allows for a nice visual effect.
ACE Safari Foxdie (Blue)
All-in-one Mac style theme!
SkipScreen
Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more. Try it out, or watch a demo at skipscreen.com
Wherever you need to click through ads or wait for countdowns, SkipScreen will be there to make your life easier. SkipScreen automatically clicks through the hoops to get to the content you want.
SkipScreen will be tenaciously maintained and improving all the time.
Ant.com Video Downloader + Video Player
With the Ant.com Video Downloader, you can download video from Youtube or any other streaming site. Rare are the sites you will not be able to download from. We have integrated a flash video player too, so that you can play your files immediately.
Chromifox Basic
A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Chromifox is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome browser and its open source roots, Chromium.
MediaWrap
This sexy baby can transparently wrap ActiveX into the Plugins which supported by firefox. You can just link the media files(Wmplayer, Rmplayer, QtPlayer and FlashPlayer) as normally without security problems.
Read It Later
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
Tab Scope
Preview and navigate tab contents through popup.
Shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup. Major features are:
* Real-time preview of tab contents
* Navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) through popup
* Scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel
* Click links or buttons directly in preview
BetterPrivacy
Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO’s on Google, YouTube, Ebay.
Gradient iCool (Blue)
A modern glassy dark theme with unique animated interface. A perfect mixture of black and blue for your ultimate Firefox browser.
Quick TransLation (qtl)
Translation & more.
The most easy to use translation extension.
Simply select any word with your mouse and a translation box will pop-up.
gTranslate
With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.
Facebook Toolbar
Integrate your Facebook life into your browser.
Search Facebook from anywhere
The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.
Get Notified
Icons on the toolbar tell you how many new pokes, friend requests, and messages you have. A pop-up will notify you when your friends update their statuses, write a new note or interact with you on Facebook.
Connect with Friends
Click the icon to open the Facebook friends sidebar. You can sort your friends by name or status and easily interact with them and their profiles.
Share Content
The share button lets you share the page that you are currently browsing by sending it to friends or posting it to your profile.
Upload Photos
The upload photos button lets you find photos on your computer, caption and tag them, and upload them to Facebook.
Google Toolbar
Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web
Add buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite sites. Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere. Search smarter with instant suggestions as you type in the search box. Share web pages with friends via blog or email.
YSlow by Yahoo! Inc.
YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.
BugMeNot
Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via
www.bugmenot.com.
Activate the extension by right-clicking on a user name and/or password field of a site that asks for registration. BugMeNot will log in for you automatically using user-submitted passwords. Features: multiple login attempts, failure reporting, and auto-submittal.
Boost for Facebook
Join more than 2 Million fellow Boost users and customize your Facebook experience with 300+ skins, 30+ features, rollover pics, selectable options, one-click pokes, video downloader and more! fully compatible with Firefox 3.5 and new Facebook!
Alexa Sparky
Alexa Internet’s official add-on for Firefox! Get Alexa data in your status bar.
Media Converter
Download and convert online videos directly from your browser without the need for special software.
This is a video downloader and video converter in one simple extension.
Tree Style Tab
Show tabs like a tree.
This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. New tabs opened from links (or etc.) are automatically attached to the current tab. If you often use many many tabs, it will help your web browsing because you can understand relations of tabs.
Ghostery
Protect your privacy. See who’s tracking your web browsing and block them with Ghostery.
Only Ghostery lets you:
1. Learn which networks are tracking your behavior
2. Block advertising
3. Block over 200 web bug & tracking services
Ghostery alerts you about the web bugs, ad networks and widgets on every page on the web and lets you stop them and protect your privacy.
Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar
Multi Row Bookmarks Toolbar.
TV-FOX
TV Add-on for Firefox – Watch TV directly from your Firefox Browser, 2780 Live TV Channels sorted by country & category, the TV-FOX allow you to watch thousands of TV channels freely available on the internet. powered by the biggest and most up to date database.
(Google – Wikipedia – YouTube – Torrent – eBay & Amazon Search engines included).
Black Steel
A dark sleek theme
Picnik
Add a menu options and a toolbar icon to make importing images into Picnik easier.
This extension adds a menu option when you right click on images to make it easy to pull the image into Picnik for editing.
Firefox 2.0/3.0 users also menu options and a toolbar icon to take screen shots and import them into Picnik.
Multiple Tab Handler
This provides features to handle multiple tabs at once, for example, close them, reload them, and so on. When you press the mouse button and dragging over tabs, they will be selected. (Note: The tab will be just moved, if you move the mouse quickly. To start selection, you have to keep the button pressed and wait for a while.) After you release the button, the popup to choose command will be shown. Of course, you can toggle selection by Ctrl-click on each tab and call features from the context menu. Yes, the behavior looks like Excel.
Phzilla
Firefox add-on to achieve anonymity in surfing, using web-based proxy
BabelFish Instant Translation
Most easy, highly customizeable, and quick Firefox translation interface: Provides two translation services and additional access to Google’s dictionary!
NetVideoHunter Video Downloader
Download videos and music from almost any Youtube-like video sharing site.
Personal Menu
“Menus Toolbar” item is now available in Toolbar Context Menu and you may hide it forever!
WeatherBug
Get live, local weather conditions in Firefox with the WeatherBug extension. Featuring forecasts, radar, and severe weather alerts from WeatherBug’s community of neighborhood weather stations.
FireDownload
The FireDownload extension for Firefox and Wyzo lets you manage and accelerate your web downloads up to 10x faster! With FireDownload, download acceleration is seamlessly displayed within the downloads window. Try the ultimate download accelerator!
AniWeather
AniWeather = Animated Weather + Any Weather.
When it rains, it really does!
AniWeather animates weather information for locations around the world. Here are some highlighted features it provides:
1. Weather information in appealing animations (view a live demo at
http://www.aniweather.com)
2. Real time condition update + 5-day forecast
3. Check the weather of over 77,000 locations worldwide
4. Switch locations in one click
5. A rich set of graphic reports (radar, satellite, alerts, etc.)
6. Link to more detailed views seamlessly
7. Fully customizable to fit your preference (temperature unit, location list, and much more)
Java Console 6.0.02
Java Console Extension for Java SE 1.6.0_02 (version 6 update 2).
The Java Console enables you to monitor status and debug running applets and Java Webstart application that use Sun Java technology.
Office 2007 Black
A theme based on the Office 2007 Black colours.
A Blue Fox Theme
Nice Dark BLUE theme for Firefox 3.5.*.Latest version still in sandbox.
QuickProxy
Statusbar button to turn the proxy on and off with a single click.
ANTHEM
ANTHEM is a take on originality and recent UI trends for Firefox web browsing. It was built on the original Mac theme that comes OOB with the FF3 install.
WebMynd – A better way to search
Find stuff faster by customizing your search experience. When you search, the WebMynd sidebar opens up to show you results from your favorite places online. Choose from dozens of different search sources, including Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube.
A Bloody Red Theme
It works with FF 3.0.* and FF 3.5.It is really nice.The mixture between the red and black is cool and it is perfect for people who like dark themes.
Autofill Forms
Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut.
Ad blocker
It blocks ads on the web pages you visit.
It blocks ads on the web pages you visit. Ads from services like Google AdSense, Yahoo or DoubleClick won’t bother you anymore. It also blocks the GoogleAnalytics tracking script.
YouTube to MP3
Adds links to convert and download Youtube, MyVideo, Clipfish, Sevenload, Dailymotion, MySpace videos as MP3 files.
MushroomKingdom
A theme for the Super Mario Bros. fans!
MushroomKingdom is a theme for all of the Super Mario Bros. fans out there. It features a landscape-style background, colorful icons with personality, and pipe scrollbars (coming soon). Large icons (32px) only for now.
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!
Chromifox Extreme
An Extreme coat of Chrome for Firefox. CHROMIFOX COMPANION is now included with Chromifox Extreme themes. Companion will allow you to make changes to Chromifox Extreme for example: Change the position of the tabs, Turn on or off Urlbar customization. Companion also does a few things behind the scenes to make sure that Chromifox Extreme looks the way it does.
AddThis
AddThis for Firefox is the best add-on to make sharing and bookmarking simple. Have all your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services at your fingertips. Share any page, anytime, with anyone.
Facebook Video
The popular Greasemonkey Facebook video script is now a full-fledged Firefox addon that lets users download or convert Facebook videos, and embed videos outside of Facebook.
GoogleTube – YouTube Player
GoogleTube is a nifty little player for YouTube, accessible from the status bar and within Google, Yahoo! and Bing search results.
Think of it as a combination of a search and recommendation engine for music, live shows, movies trailers and more!
GoogleTube may change the way you find and play music clips, movies trailers, products reviews, live performances and many more videos normally found on YouTube.
By simply clicking on the GoogleTube icon in the status bar, or by looking for the nicely embedded YouTube button within the search results of your favorite search engine, you can now play and watch great videos in a snap.
FireTorrent
FireTorrent offers truly native integrated support for BitTorrent into Firefox and Wyzo with competitive torrent download speeds. Fire Torrent integrates seamlessly into your downloads window, making downloading torrents with Bit Torrent really easy!
1-Click YouTube Video Download
Download YouTube in a single click. Download YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod compatible High-Quality). The simplest YouTube Video Downloader for all YouTube Flash sites, period.
TinEye Reverse Image Search
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye does not typically find similar images; it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.
Infoaxe
Full Text Web History Search synchronized between Firefox, IE on multiple computers.
Every page that you browse on the Web is added to your Infoaxe account and is browsable and searchable across Firefox and IE across all the computers you use. You therefore never have to bookmark a page again!
MacOSX Theme
MacOSX theme for Firefox 3.5
YouTube Video Downloader
Download ANY YouTube Videos in FLV, 3GP, High-Quality MP4 (iPod compatible) and HD (high-definition) MP4! Will now download any adult videos too!
Ambient Fox Xyan
Cyan glow Ambient Firefox theme, Works with 3.0-3.5.x
WiseStamp – Email signature
WiseStamp- Empower your email signatures in Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail or AOL…Multiple signatures, Auto insert, Add IM & Social profiles (Twitter, Facebook, Digg, LinkedIn…), Add Feeds, Easily add Logo or HTML & more!
Feedly
A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.
Reframe It
Comment anywhere on the web without the permission of a site. Reframe It lets you comment next to the text or images of any website. With it you can highlight comment and share you thoughts in context. Say what you want where you want. reframeit.com
Black Stratini
Dark theme based on Stratini.
SimilarWeb – The Ultimate Discovery Tool
Instant access to the best sites related to the one you are browsing! Vote if sites are similar or not and personalize your results. Get related articles while reading one and read web comments of sites you are browsing.
Fast YouTube Download
Download any YouTube video across the web with a single click!
Supported format: FLV, High-Quality MP4 (iPod), HD (High Definition) and 3GP.
MegaUpload DownloadHelper
MegaUpload Download Helper – start your download once ready.
MegaUpload Download Helper will monitor time limitations and will auto-start your download.
Coral IE Tab (New Version)
An enhanced version of IE Tab which enables you to use the embedded IE engine within tabs of Mozilla Firefox. It supports Adblock Plus in IE, and can sync cookies between IE and Firefox.
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Nokia 5800 with Garmin Mobile XT
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Here is a tutorial to show you how to install Garmin Mobile XT (for Symbian S60 3rd Edition software version 5.00.30) to your Nokia 5800 Xpress Music phone.
Here are some things that you need to have ready before starting this tutorial.
- Garmin Files
- Maps of Malaysia / Singapore
- 3rd Party File
- Key Generator for Garmin (search garmin_kgen.exe)
Warning: Please kindly backup your phone first before installing this, as a precaution. We are not responsible for any damages done to your phone by following our instructions, as this is just a step-by step guide. So far many phones have been installed successfully with these instructions.
Note: Always connect mobile phone to PC via USB cable. Select Mass Storage mode as the connection mode, and NOT PC Suite.
STEP 1
a. Connect phone to PC. 
Locate GarminMobileXTforSymbianS603rdEdition_50030.exe & click to install from PC. A window will pop up. Click on Setup so that the files can begin to be extracted out.
b. Once extraction done, 
Garmin Mobile XT Setup screen will appear. Select (Removable Drive) E:\ and then click Install to proceed.
* If Removable Drive cannot be seen, most probably the connection mode is not Mass Storage Mode. Kindly check the phone settings.
c. Do the same steps for the Base Map & Support File.
Click to install Base Map from PC – GarminMobileXTFreeBasemap_4xxxx.exe
Click to install Support File from PC – GarminMobileXTSupportFiles_4xxxx.exe
STEP 2
a. Once all 3 Garmin files are installed, remove USB cable between PC & phone. 
Do NOT launch Garmin mobile if prompted when the cable is still attached.
b. Browse Phone File Manager (or Y-Browser). Run the GarminMobileXT.sis to install . Click OK to install. It will take you through several steps; select Language, Voice etc. Launch Garmin Mobile XT (search icon, from the mobile, should be under Applications).
c. Once installation is done, go inside Garmin -> Tools -> Settings -> About. Copy down the Card ID.
STEP 3
a. Now open the Garmin Keygen file. 
Copy & paste the Card ID and click the Generate (top button) to get the Device Unlock Code.
Card ID is unique to your SD card, and cannot be shared to other phones.
Copy the Device Unlock Code & paste into a Notepad.
b. Save the file as sw.unl. 
Change the file type to All Files (*.*), and not as text file. Now connect back the cable to the phone & PC, using Mass Storage.
Place this sw.unl file in the Garmin root folder of the phone, usually it is in E drive.
Close Garmin Keygen dialog box.
STEP 4
Install MalFreeMaps to your device. Click
here to view the steps in a separate post.
STEP 5
a. Launch the Garmin from the phone. 
You will now be able to log in successfully. When you see Garmin trying to search for
Bluetooth GPS, click Cancel. Now go to Tools -> Settings -> System -> RemoteGPS -> Use Attached/Built In GPS.
DONE. COMPLETED. CONGRATS!!
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Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteHow to Backup and Restore Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Activation Status (Activate Offline On Reinstall)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, similar to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, requires user to perform activation in order to activate the Windows operating system to be used without interruption. Activation of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, except for users who bought branded OEM computer or activate via KMS host, is normally performed online to validate against Microsoft’s activation server, or via phone activation.
One inconvenience brought by activation is that Microsoft limits and restricts the number of time that online activation can be done. Anything more than that will require user to call Microsoft activation hotline to go through manual hectic process to activate via phone.
Besides, not many people will like to “contact” Microsoft every time after reinstalling or reformating the PC or computer for a fresh and clean start. So it would be great if the “activated” activation status of Windows OS can be preserved, or backed up and restored after re-installation so that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can be activated offline or without connecting to Microsoft’s activation server.
Try the following trick to backup activation files for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, which has been previously been activated, prior to reinstallation. Note that the workaround should only be tried by users who want to clean install Windows, as if user (i.e. want to upgrade to bigger hard disk) makes a clone image of physical hard disk with Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, all application programs, data, resources together with activation status will be automatically preserved.
1. Copy and save or backup the following activation-related files to external storage medium such as USB flash drive or portable hard disk drive:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwarePlatform\Tokens.dat
and,
%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms
Note: For 64-bit (x64) OS, %SystemDrive%\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms have to be backed up too.
2. Retrieve and record the product key used to install and activate the current Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tip: If you can’t remember the product key used, there is plenty of product key viewers available to help.
3.
Reinstall Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. When installation wizard prompts for a product key for activation, leave it blank (do not enter anything).
4. In the newly installed Windows operating system, stop the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
net stop sppsvc
5. Navigate to the following folder:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\
Note: In 64-bit (x64) operating system, also perform the action in %SystemDrive%\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\ folder.
6. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file.
7. Delete the original default pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file, and replace with the backup copy.
8. Navigate to the following folder:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwarePlatform\
9. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to tokens.dat file.
10. Delete the original default tokens.dat file, and replace with the backup copy.
11. Restart the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
net start sppsvc
12. Register the product key for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Replace xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx with the actual product key.
13. Windows will activated instantly, off-line. To check activation status, uses of of the following commands:
slmgr.vbs -dlv
slmgr.vbs -dli
slmgr.vbs -ato
Note that the ability to backup and restore old activation status in order to pre-activate or ready-activate a machine after re-installation must be on the same hardware without any hardware change, else user will need to activate online again. Besides, the product key used must be the same serial code too. The hack also does not apply to OEM branded computer which has Windows pre-activated and KMS host activated Windows system.
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Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteHow to Disable and Turn Off UAC in Windows 7
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The user interface of User Account Control (UAC) settings in Windows 7 has changed to reflect the move to make UAC less annoying, more user control and more user friendlier approach. In Windows 7, the UAC has a slider bar which allows users to configure and select which level of notification (and hence protection against unauthorized and malicious access) they want. With the fine-tuning of UAC, the wording ‘disable’ or ‘turn off’ is no longer available. So how can you disable UAC? Or at least, how can you turn off the notification prompt or pop-up so that they appear less regularly?
In fact, the steps to disable UAC is Windows 7 is similar to steps to disable UAC in Windows Vista, only with slight user interface change, and there is plenty of methods to turn off UAC too.
Method 1: Disable or Turn Off UAC (User Account Control) in Control Panel
- To user Control Panel to disable UAC in Windows 7, there are several methods to access the User Account Control settings page:
- Go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety -> User Account.
- Go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> Action Center.
- Click or right click on Flag icon in notification area (system tray), and then Open Action Center.
- Type “MsConfig” in Start Search to start System Configuration, then go to Tools tab, select Change UAC Settings, then click on Launch button.
- Click on User Account Control settings link.
- Slide the slider bar to the lowest value (towards Never Notify), with description showing Never notify me.
- Click OK to make the change effective.
- Restart the computer to turn off User Access Control.
Method 2: Disable UAC with Registry Editor ( RegEdit)
- Run Registry Editor (RegEdit).
- Navigate to the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
- Locate the following REG_DWORD value:EnableLUA
- Set the value of EnableLUA to 0.
- Optional step to suppress UAC consent prompt dialog, locate the following REG_DWORD value:ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin
- Set the value of ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin to 0 (optional).
- Exit from Registry Editor and restart the computer to turn off UAC.
Method 3: Turn Off UAC Using Group Policy
For Windows 7 Ultimate, Business or Enterprise edition which has Local Group Policy, or computer joined to domain and has Active Directory-based GPO, the group policy can be used to disable UAC for local computer or many computer across large networks at once.
- Enter GPedit.msc in Start Search to run Local Group Policy editor. (Or gpmc.msc to run Group Policy Management Console for AD-based domain GPO editor).
- Navigate to the following tree branch:Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security OptionsIn GPMC, browse to the required GPO which is linked to the domain or OU where the policy wants to apply.
- Locate the following policy in the right pane:User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval ModeSet its value to Elevate without prompt.
- Locate the following policy in the right pane:User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevationSet its value to Disabled.
- Locate the following policy in the right pane:User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval ModeSet its value to Disabled.
- Locate the following policy in the right pane:User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locationsSet its value to Disabled.
- Restart the computer when done.
Method 4: Using Command Prompt to Disable User Account Control
The command line option can also be used in batch script command file, i.e. .bat and .cmd files, providing greater convenient to advanced technical user. In actual, the commands,, which are also used to disable or enable UAC in Vista, are just doing the same thing as directly modifying the registry.
- Open an elevated command prompt as administrator.
- To disable the UAC, run the following commands:%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fand optionally, the following comand to suppress all elevation consent request and notification:
%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Tip: To re-enable UAC, the command is:
%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
and to turn on prompt for consent UI:
%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
Disable UAC may cause gadget not working in Windows 7. User who facing the issue can use another workaround to suppress User Account Control.
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Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteKama Sutra for the IT Department
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010-
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The Windows 7 driver store includes a small collection of drivers for legacy devices, mostly older printers, modems, scanners, infrared ports, PCMCIA controllers, and other oddball devices that don’t use Plug and Play connections. As you might suspect, Windows will not automatically set up such devices, and you’re rolling the dice if you find one of these old but still worthwhile devices and try to install an old driver.
But what if the device in question is valuable to you and can’t be easily replaced by a newer, supported one? Then by all means give it a try. Download the most recent hardware drivers you can find (ideally, for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003), and then use the Add Hardware wizard to complete the hardware setup process. Follow these steps:
1. If you’ve found a downloadable driver package or a CD that came with the device, look for a Setup program and run it. This option places the driver files on your hard disk and simplifies later installation steps.
2. Connect the new hardware to your computer. In the case of an internal device such as an add-in card, turn off the computer, add the device, and then restart.
3. Open Device Manager, select any item in the list of installed devices, and then click Add Legacy Hardware on the Action menu.
4. Click Next to skip past the Welcome screen. On the next wizard screen, choose how you want to select the device to be installed.
- For printers, network cards, modems, and other devices that can be detected mechanically, choose Search For And Install The Hardware Automatically (Recommended). After you click Next, the wizard quickly runs a detection module that searches for anything on its list of non–Plug and Play devices. If it finds the new device, it installs the driver automatically, and your work is finished. If the wizard doesn’t find any new hardware, you’ll be prompted to click Next and look manually.
- If you have a driver on a disc, skip the detection process. Choose Install The Hardware That I Manually Select From A List (Advanced) and click Next.
5. From the Common Hardware Types list, select a hardware category (or the inclusive Show All Devices category) and click Next.
6. From the master list of available drivers, select the device manufacturer and the correct model. Click Next to continue. Follow the prompts to complete the wizard.
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Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite61 Aplicații
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010-
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- Firefox (see also: Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3, Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features)
- VLC (see also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC, VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support)
- CCleaner (see also: Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools)
- Dropbox (see also: Use Dropbox for More Than Just File Syncing, Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder)
- 7-Zip (see also: Five Best File Compression Tools)
- OpenOffice.org (see also: OpenOffice.org 3.1′s Usability Tweaks, OpenOffice.org Screenshots Preview a Ribbon-Like Toolbar)
- Google Chrome (see also: The Power User’s Guide to Google Chrome, 2009 Edition)
- µTorrent (see also: Tweak uTorrent’s Settings for Faster Downloads, Five Best BitTorrent Applications)
- Notepad++ (see also: Five Best Text Editors, AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing)
- Gmail (see also: Our full Gmail coverage)
- GIMP (see also: Gimp 2.7 Beta Improves Text Editing, Streamlines Saving)
- Paint.NET (see also: Paint.NET Releases Big Update, Still a Killer Photoshop Alternative, Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files)
- Microsoft Security Essentials (see also: Microsoft Security Essentials Free Antivirus App Leaves Beta, Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft’s Security Tools Are Good Enough)
- Revo Uninstaller (see also: Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads)
- Evernote (see also: Evernote 3.5 Beta Brings Tons of Tiny Fixes to Windows, Expand Your Brain with Evernote)
- Thunderbird (see also: Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate Available for Download)
- Audacity (see also: Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3)
- ImgBurn (see also: Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster, Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools)
- Picasa (see also: Picasa 3.5 Organizes Your Photos with Facial Recognition)
- Skype (see also: Our full Skype coverage)
- Pidgin (see also: Ten Must-Have Plug-ins to Power Up Pidgin, Five Best Instant Messengers)
- Ubuntu (see also: First Look at Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony)
- iTunes (see also: iTunes 9 Improves Syncing, Network Sharing, More)
- foobar2000 (see also: Screenshot Tour: The beautiful and varied world of foobar2000, Hack Attack: Roll your own killer audio player with foobar2000)
- Foxit Reader (see also: Five Best PDF Readers, Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads)
- FileZilla (see also: Five Best FTP Clients, Build a Home FTP Server with FileZilla)
- VirtualBox (see also: The Beginner’s Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox)
- TrueCrypt (see also: Geek to Live: Encrypt your data, Five Best Portable Applications)
- Avast! (see also: Five Best Antivirus Applications)
- Defraggler (see also: Five Best Disk Defragmenters)
- KeePass (see also: Eight Best KeePass Plug-Ins to Master Your Passwords, How to Use Dropbox as the Ultimate Password Syncer)
- Opera (see also: Opera 10.10 with Unite Media Server Released)
- AVG (see also: AVG 9 Free Now Available for Download)
- Digsby (see also: Five Best Instant Messengers, Digsby Sees the Light, Removes (Some) Bundled Crapware)
- Google Reader (see also: Our full Google Reader coverage)
- Winamp (see also: Win7shell Adds Windows 7 Jump List Support to Winamp)
- Google Earth (see also: Google Earth 5.1 Speeds Up Your World Browsing)
- TeraCopy (see also: Five Best Alternative File Copiers)
- Launchy (see also: Our full Launchy coverage)
- Transmission (see also: Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Mac Downloads)
- Eclipse IDE
- SpyBot Search & Destroy (see also: Five Best Malware Removal Tools)
- Adium (see also: Adium Updates with Security Fixes, Better Facebook Integration)
- PuTTY (see also: Add Tabs to PuTTY with PuTTY Connection Manager)
- Songbird (see also: Songbird 1.0 Release Official, Fixes Bugs, Plays iTunes Purchases, Killer Add-ons Make Songbird So Much Better)
- Sumatra PDF (see also: Sumatra 1.0 is a Blazing Fast Replacement for Adobe Reader)
- XBMC (see also: Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap, Customize XBMC with These Five Awesome Skins, Turbo Charge Your New XBMC Installation)
- Blender (see also: Learn Blender with free e-book)
- CDBurnerXP (see also: Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools)
- Everything (see also: Everything Finds Windows Files As You Type, Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities)
- HandBrake (see also: HandBrake Updates to 0.9.4 with Over 1,000 Changes, 64-Bit Support)
- Rainmeter (see also: Rainmeter 1.0 Brings the Enigma Desktop to Everyone)
- AutoHotkey (see also: Turn Any Action into a Keyboard Shortcut, Hack Attack: Knock down repetitive email with AutoHotKey)
- Google Calendar (see also: Our full Google Calendar coverage)
- MediaMonkey (see also: MediaMonkey 3.2 Syncs with More Devices, Adds Auto Folder Watching)
- Quicksilver (see also: A beginner’s guide to Quicksilver)
- WinSCP
- Google Voice (see also: Make Unlimited Free Calls on Your Cellphone with Google Voice, How to Ease Your Transition to Google Voice)
- Boxee (see also: Build a Cheap But Powerful Boxee Media Center, Boxee to Launch Beta with Loads of New Features)
- AdBlock Plus (see also: Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition)
- Media Player Classic (see also: Five Best Video Players)
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Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteWindows 7 has “God Mode”? I don’t think so…
Monday, January 11th, 2010-
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A rather silly “trick” ( and really that’s all it is, has been making headlines over the last few days. From what I can tell it was really brought to the forefront by Ina Fried from CNET who says:
“By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard drive partition.”
So somebody decided to call this “God Mode” because to enable this “trick” you make a folder called GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and double-click on it. What you end up with is… drum roll… the control panel; it’s just in a different view than you’d normally see.
First of all, the text ”GodMode” has nothing to do with making the trick work. You can call the folder “IFreakinRawk.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” and now you’ve discovered the magical “IFreakinRawk” feature hidden in Windows.
In reality all you have discovered is:
A documented feature of the shell. Folders can be easily made into ‘namespace junctions’. The whole thing is described on MSDN. Basically, any folder named . will show up with just the portion visible in Explorer, and navigating into the folder will take you to the namespace root defined by the portion of the name. This isn’t for USERS, it’s really more of a developer feature.
The second thing is that it’s really the “All Tasks” folder. This is a special shell folder which is used as the source of the “Control Panel” search results seen in the Start menu. This folder was not designed to be browsed to directly, as the normal Control Panel folder (accessible via Start -> Control Panel) contains all the same items but with a custom view designed to be easier to navigate. The “All Tasks” folder has no custom view, so you just see the standard Explorer list view and little else.
The existence of this folder and its CLSID are implementation details and should not be relied upon by anybody for any purpose.
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Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite10 Quick Fixes to Make your Windows Computer Faster
Monday, January 11th, 2010-
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Our computer running Windows isn’t running in the same speed that it used to run when you first used it. It’s slower, crappy, takes a while to start and tests your patience like anything. There are many reasons for this, let’s try fixing up a few things on your slow Windows PC:
Slow Start Up
There can be a variety of reasons to Windows loading slow during start up. Go to Run, type msconfig and hit enter. Under the ‘Start Up’ tab, uncheck the unwanted programs and press OK. Things should be a bit fine the next time Windows boots.
Another program worth mentioning here is StartUp Delayer which will help in setting after how much time programs should be loaded after Windows boots. For instance, you could set your instant messenger program to load 50 seconds after Windows starts up.
Slow Loading Start Menu
If the Start Menu items are loading slowly, you can open the Registry Editor by typing in the Run menu ‘regedit.exe’ and pressing Enter. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Look for MenuShowDelay, and double click to edit the value. The lower the number specified, the faster the Start Menu will load.
Slow Right Click Context Menu
Probably the Windows Right Click menu on your computer is loading slow because too many programs added unwanted entries there. Just
download this program called Mmm, install it and then modify your context menu to remove unwanted items to speed it up.
Slow Send To Menu
If the Send To menu loads slowly, you can type ’sendto’ in the Run Dialog, and remove unwanted items in the Explorer Window that appears. This should add some speed to it.
Slow Defragmentation
The Windows Defragmenter can’t get any slower. You need to have an alternative to the Windows Defragmenter, and
Defraggler is just one of the best ones available in the market. It’s free, and works like a charm and can speed up defragmentation manifold. For some alternatives, see
Five Free Programs to Defragment your PC.
Slow loading My Computer Window
If the My Computer Window loads slowly, in the Explorer Window, go to Tools >> Folder Options >> View and uncheck ‘Automatically search for network folders and printers”
Slow loading Add or Remove Programs Applet
This is one of the most annoying piece of programs present in Windows, it takes ages to load if you have a considerable number of programs installed on your computer. You can either use the all-in-one
CCleaner for this purpose, or get
MyUninstaller that comes as a speedy replacement for Add or Remove Programs.
Slow Ending of Unresponsive Programs
If you’ve clicked on ‘End Task’ if any program is running unresponsive, you might have noticed that the program is not terminated immediately. You can alter this by going to Run >> regedit.exe >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ and change this value to 1000.
Disable Animations and Appearance Overhauls to maximize performance
If you’re a serious performance junkie, you probably won’t bother about eyecandy. Go to System Properties in the Control Panel. Click ‘Advanced’, then ‘Performance’ and click ‘Adjust for best performance’. This might boost your PC’s performance up a bit.
Additional Tips:
- Always keep your computer clean. Remove Junk and Unnecessary registry entries. Use CCleaner for this purpose, one excellent tool that just does what it says.
- Don’t keep installing software. Install a program only if it really serves you a purpose.
- Keep as less programs as possible running on the System Tray. This essentially means reducing the number of programs that start during Windows start up.
(By) Shankar Ganesh, a student and part time blogger from India, and the guy behind KillerTechTips
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Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite100+ Google Tricks
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009-
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Search Tricks
These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away.
- Convert units. Whether you want to convert currency, American and metric units, or any other unit, try typing in the known unit and the unknown unit to find your answer (like “how many teaspoons in a tablespoon” or “10 US dollars in Euros”).
- Do a timeline search. Use “view:timeline” followed by whatever you are researching to get a timeline for that topic.
- Get around blocked sites. If you are having problems getting around a blocked site, just type “cache:website address” with website address being the address of the blocked site to use Google’s cached copy to get where you are going.
- Use a tilde. Using a tilde (~) with a search term will bring you results with related search terms.
- Use the image search. Type in your search word, then select Images to use the image search when trying to put a picture to your term.
- Get a definition. If you want a definition without having to track down an online (or a physical) dictionary, just type “definition:word” to find the definition of the word in your results (i.e.: “definition: serendipity” will track down the definition of the word “serendipity”).
- Search within a specific website. If you know you want to look up Babe Ruth in Wikipedia, type in “site:wikipedia.org Babe Ruth” to go directly to the Wikipedia page about Babe Ruth. It works for any site, not just Wikipedia.
- Search within a specific kind of site. If you know you only want results from an educational site, try “site:edu” or for a government site, try “site:gov” and your search term to get results only from sites with those web addresses.
- Search for a specific file type. If you know you want a PDF (or maybe an MP3), just type in “filetype:pdf” and your search term to find results that are only in that file type.
- Calculate with Google. Type in any normal mathematical expressions to get the answer immediately. For example, “2*4″ will get you the answer “8.”
- Time. Enter “what time is it” and any location to find out the local time.
- Find a term in a URL. This handy trick is especially useful when searching blogs, where dates are frequently used in the URL. If you want to know about a topic for that year only and not any other year, type “inurl:2009″ and your keyword to find results with your keyword in URLs with 2009 in them.
- Use Show Options to refine your search. Click “Show Options” on your search result page to have access to tools that will help you filter and refine your results.
- Search for a face. If you are looking for a person and not just their name, type “&imgtype=face” after the search results to narrow your results to those with images of faces. (more…)
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