You must have tired of copying the link from one page, opening another page/tab and pasting the link into the Browser URL to open the link, right? But, Firefox has now come with the add-on that can save your time and effort of doing this. You can just drag and open the link in another tab or you can save the image by just dragging it and placing it somewhere on the page.

Probably, one of the must have add-on for the Mozila Firefox, isn’t it? Yes, it actually is.
Quick Drag extends the functionality of the drag and drop mouse gesture, in order to use it to load the URLs. It can perform a web search of the selected text in a page or it can help you to save an image from the page. This add-on is compatible with Firefox as well as with Seamonkey.

You can say that, Quick Drag is a successor of the SuperDragAndGo. This add-on is providing the same functionality with the small footprint. Please find the general information at http://code.kliu.org/quickdrag/ and FAQ at http://code.kliu.org/quickdrag/faq.html.

Tricks & Tips:

1.    There is an add-on setting if you want to use the behavior of old Quick and Drag functionality to opening a link in a new tab rather than searching for it.

2.    There is an option of opening an image in new tab, if you don’t want to save them. You just need to hold Ctrl [Control] button while dragging the image.

3.    If you will hold Alt [Alter] button while dragging a URL, you will be able to save a tab rather than opening it in a new tab.

4.    If you will hold [Shift] button at the time of dragging and dropping, you will be able to reverse the
background/foreground tab behavior of the drag. (i.e. if your setting will be opening it in a background tab, this will open it in the foreground tab).

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Support

You can get the support for this add-on from the developers at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=644971 or by sending an e-mail to kliu@code.kliu.org

The Mozilla keeps coming with the new add-ons which generally become helpful to all the users in one or the other way. This time they have come with the add-on which is a must for each and every user of the Mozila Firefox who are using the websites like Rapidshare.com and many of them.

In order to skip the unnecessary pages on the websites like Megaupload, Rapidshare, Mediafire, zShare and many other websites, Mozila has introduced an add-on which does this job for you.

Skip-screen is an add-on which is persistently maintained and it is improving day by day. While clicking through the advertisement laden pages or while waiting for the countdowns, Skip-screen can be there to make your life comfortable. Skip-screen itself clicks through the loops to access the content which you are actually looking for.

Skip-screen comes with some of the most popular sites, where you need to go through add-laden pages and countdowns and you can be annoyed by the delay created. But, there is a facility where you can submit more websites to Skip-screen, which you can think are doing the same thing and they can add the support for those sites in the Skip-screen.

The websites which they are currently supporting are:
•    www.zShare.net
•    www.Megaupload.com
•    www.Mediafire.com
•    www.Rapidshare.com
•    www.sharebee.com
•    www.Sendspace.com
•    www.Depositfiles.com
•    www.Linkbucks.com
•    www.Divshare.com
•    www.Uploaded.to

And many more websites like this.

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Support

Support for Skip-screen add-on is provided by the developers at http://getsatisfaction.com/skipscreen
If there are other such websites, which you might know, just send an e-mail to skipper@skipscreen.com

Till the date, you might have seen many different mouse designs. Starting from very small size to ever biggest size. Three button mouse or two button mouse. But, with the evolving time, mouse has taken some different designs which we might not have imagine. Here, I have present several such designs that will amaze you.

Oldest Ever Computer Mouse

A Real Computer Mouse

Stone Computer Mouse

Spider Computer Mouse

Gun Computer Mouse

Pirate’s Computer Mouse

Ghost Computer Mouse

Gold Brain Computer Mouse

Car Shape Computer Mouse

Cursor Computer Mouse

Mini Computer Mouse

Butterfly Computer Mouse

Hamburger Computer Mouse

Hippus Computer Mouse

Finally a Jeweled Computer Mouse

I am really gladful to www.DIYTrade.com to providing some of the best images.

Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own.

Windows 7 Graphic

While security for Windows 7 is not a new subject, as you have been able to already read materials on this subject, fact is that following the release of the first Beta for the next iteration of the Windows client, I have seen questions from users related to how they could protect themselves best. Microsoft is indeed providing, in collaboration with members of the security industry, solutions designed to integrate with Windows 7, even if the operating system is in Beta.

Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, revealed that Microsoft had been hard at work attempting to get security providers to offer anti-virus for Windows 7. No less than three companies have rushed to Microsoft’s call, and are offering their products even if Windows 7 is still in Beta.

“The following anti-virus solutions are available [for Windows 7]: Symantec offers the Norton 360 3.0 Beta, which works on the Windows 7 Beta; AVG offers AVG Internet Security and AVG Anti-Virus that works with the Windows 7 Beta; Kaspersky is offering a technical preview of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7. It is great to see that these partners were able to have their solutions working so early in our development process,” LeBlanc added.

Norton 360 3.0 Beta is available for download here.

VG Antivirus Professional 8.0 is available for download here.

AVG Internet Security 8.0 is available for download here.

Technical Preview Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Microsoft Windows 7  is available for download here.

source: softpedia.com

The Windows 7 taskbar displays previews of running programs via some very cool thumbnails. To speed up these thumbnails so that they appear instantly, follow these simple steps:

How to Speed up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

1. Click on start and type regedit at search bar

2. Navigate to following key in left pan of registry editor

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse

3. Now locate MouseHoverTime key in right pan of registry editor

4. Doublick on MouseHoverTime or right click modify and change value from 400 to any value less then 100 (400 is milliseconds) lower the value faster the thumbnail preview.

5. Click ok and close regedit widow.

Now check taskbar thumbnail preview by hovering mouse on taskbar icon and it should open faster.

source: blogsdna.com

Here are some hints to help you more efficently use rapidshare. Skipping waiting time and bypassing download limits are rapidshare hacks that everybody should know.

RapidShare Logo

Step 1 : Copy the link of the file that you want to download in the browser’s address bar.

Step 2: Now click on the Free User button. Your waiting time will be start.

Step 3: Now copy the follwing code in the Browser’s address bar

javascript:alert(c=0)

Step 4: Hit Enter.

Step 5 : This code will set your download timer as zero and download link will be appear immediately.

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say yesterday about which companies Microsoft sees as its competitors in the client operating system space. You’d think Apple was their number one competitor - and you’d be wrong. Microsoft sees two other competitors as their primary adversaries.

As you can see, Microsoft sees piracy as its biggest competitor. “Number two market share goes to Windows pirated, or unlicensed,” Balmer said, “That’s a competitor that’s tough to beat, they’ve got a good price and a heck of a product, but we’re working on it.”

Balmer said “I think depending on how you look at it, Apple has probably increased its market share over the last year or so by a point or more. And a point of market share on a number that’s about 300 million is interesting. It’s an interesting amount of market share, while not necessarily being as dramatic as people would think, but we’re very focused in on both Apple as a competitor, and Linux as a competitor.”

In any case, it appears that Linux (and piracy) is a larger blip on Microsoft’s radar than Apple, and it’s not hard to see why. With an economy that’s not doing very well, people will opt for cheaper products. Apple cannot offer those, but Linux and piracy can.

so your firefox is running Slow ? you can now make it fast some just doing some tweaks

Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature

Try this:1) Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the address bar in the browser.
2) Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers”
3) Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages

1) Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter. (Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)2) Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.

This means it will make 10 requests at once.

3) Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New->Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now.

Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– >Interger or String

“network.dns.disableIPv6”: set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5”; (Five)
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0”; (Zero)

Reduce RAM usage to 10mb when Firefox is minimized

This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:1) Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2) Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3) In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4) Now select True and then press Enter.
5) Restart Firefox.

These simple tweaks will make your web browsing with Mozilla Firefox at least twice as fast and it’s a pretty simple thing anybody can do.

There are plenty of ways which you use in google image search - I have just consolidated a list of 10 tips which  can help you in finding the right image from google image search tool

1. If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn’t help, do a search for the name.

2. If you don’t know the meaning of a word, the pictures may help you.

3. A better search for Flickr. Google uses information from other sites that link to Flickr photos, so you may find Google search better.

4. Find what’s interesting about a site, by looking at the pictures included. For example: wired.com.

5. Find a new wallpaper for your desktop by restricting your search to large images. You can automate this using an application.

6. Find random personal pictures, using standard file names from digital cameras.

7. Type the name of a painter and you can take an art class.

8. Install a Greasemonkey script so you can view the original version of the image directly by clicking on the thumbnail.

9. Find the color of a word. “Word Color is a windows program that uses Google Image Search to determine the color of a word or string of words. It goes out there, retrieves the top 9 images and loops through all pixels, calculating the average hue, which is later converted to a color.”

10. If you want to grab search results, GoogleGrab is a tool that downloads images from Google Image Search. It even supports batch search.

On 16 feb, 2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled new Windows Phones at Mobile World Congress 2009 in BARCELONA, Spain. Microsoft claims that new windows phones will be based on Windows Mobile 6.5 enhanced with the better user interface and browsing experience. New windows phones will be enabled with the two new features

My Phone : sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web;
Marketplace : a new marketplace that will provide direct-to-phone mobile applications and can be accessed from both the phone and the Web.

At the presentation Steve Ballmer said “Windows phones bring together the best of the Web, the PC and the phone so you can connect instantly to the experiences you care about, no matter where you are,” Also he said “We’re working with partners across the industry to deliver a new generation of Windows® phones that break down the barriers between people, information and applications and provide great end-to-end experiences that span your entire life, at work and at home.”

Some rich feature of new windows phones are

Rich and Integrated Marketplace Service : The new OS offers searching, browsing and purchasing mobile applications using Windows Live ID. 20,000 application are already made for this new OS, so the user can easily choose the application according to its personal needs.

New User Experience : The new Windows Mobile 6.5 keeps the user enable with the new e-mails, texts, missed calls and calendar appointments just on the home screen with touch screen interface.

My Phone Service Connects the Phone to the Web : This new service enable the user to lock their private data directly to the device using web-based service. Contacts and other important data are backed up with My Phone so users don’t have to worry about losing contacts.

Additional Services : Microsoft Recite, which provides users with a fast and simple way to capture, search and retrieve spoken notes and reminders using just their voice without the need to navigate menus or type text.

Microsoft key mobile partners are HTC, LG and Orange.