Quickly Remove Hyperlinks from a Word Document July 1, 2009
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From time-to-time you may wish to remove the hyperlinks from your Word documents. Those blue underlines are helpful on your computer, but you may not want them showing up on your printouts. Here is a method for removing all hyperlinks from a Word document in no time flat:
- Select the entire document by holding CTRL and pressing A.
- While holding down CTRL and Shift, press F9.
Firefox 3.5 at a glance! July 1, 2009
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Top 10 Firefox Features
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has been released and downloaded my mass of the users. But what are the features that makes it stand among the crowd. Lets take a look
10. Undo closed window
If you accidentally close a tab you’d meant to keep open, Firefox 3, at least through extensions like Tab Mix Plus, can bring it back. Update: To clarify, Firefox can resurrect closed tabs without Tab Mix Plus (just hit Ctrl+Shift+T, for example); the extension simply adds more fine-grained control. If you accidentally kill a separate window full of tabs, though, you’ve been pretty much out of luck. Firefox 3.5 implements a restore feature for both tabs and windows from the History menu, which would (hopefully) also restore any text you’ve typed into them.
9. Forget this site
Tools like Private Browsing Modes and history wipers are good for what they do, but sometimes it would be great to have just one site wiped off your history—either because it’s hogging your quick address bar results, or because you’d rather your coworker be unaware of your workday LOLcat browsing. Firefox 3.5’s history browser offers a convenient “Forget this site” option, erasing your browser’s memory of particular domains. It doesn’t cover subdomains, and your network traffic and Flash memory would still hold some details, but it’s a handy tweak however you cut it.
8. Tab tearing
Google Chrome (Update: And Safari, as our readers note) somewhat stole the thunder out from under this feature, but it’s still a nice one: Grab a tab and drag it out a bit to create a new browser window from it. Drag windows into tabs again, and open any tab in a new window from the right-click menu, if clicking and dragging isn’t your style.
7. Keyword AwesomeBar filters
Firefox 3’s AwesomeBar/address bar offers a speedy list of suggestions to complete whatever you’re typing. That’s great, but that list comes from your page history, bookmarks, and tags, and can be matched by URL or name, leaving some results almost uselessly cluttered. This gets fixed with special character filters in the next Firefox. Restrict a search by typing “life *” for just your bookmarks with the words “life” in them, or just your tagged “lh” items with “lh +”. Anything that really makes getting back to importantly web destinations quickly is a welcome upgrade.
6. Smarter session restore
What good is it to bring back all the tabs you just lost to a crash if the tab that brought everything down comes back too? Firefox’s developers took a cue from the users and turned the session restore feature into more of a crash recovery tool, allowing users to select which tabs should come back. If you don’t know who’s the culprit, here’s a hint: It’s probably the one with Flash on it.
5. Private browsing mode
The snarky types (i.e. my editor) can call it “Porn Mode,” but this feature, already in a number of competing browsers, has uses beyond the prurient. Beyond obvious situations, like gift buying and sensitive research, logging onto a friend’s browser for a quick email check or bill pay is made a lot more secure if you can get to the private mode. Likewise, anonymizing some of your searches and cookie collection on your own machine isn’t a bad idea, and a private mode can do that too. You don’t need it all the time, but you might be glad it’s available.
4. Color profiles that pop
Different cameras, monitors, and capture devices grab and set colors in different ways. On the web, most colors look the same, though, because they’re filtered and optimized for quick viewing in every browser. Firefox 3.5 introduces dynamic color profiles for each picture, meaning that whatever the graphic designer or photographer saw when they were doing their work, you’ll see it on their web page.
3. TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
Months ago, Mozilla said its still-in-development JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, was “20 to 40 times” faster than the SpiderMonkey engine installed in Firefox 3. That hasn’t shown up in our speed tests, which themselves rely on a Mozilla-assembled testing suite, but JavaScript testing suites are often like drag races—they don’t really tell you what a browser runs like in a real daily sense, just pure timings. Even if TraceMonkey is ultimately outpaced by Chrome and/or Safari, its innovations push the whole browser market forward and give us all a bit less load time to complain about.
2. Geo-location
If you type post office into a maps site, you probably don’t want the headquarters of the U.S. Post Office, or post office listings from two towns over. Integrated geo-location, powered by Google’s Wi-Fi triangulation and simple IP address information, looks to know roughly where you are and help you when you’re looking for something local. You can disable it if you’d like, but, realistically, signing on from any IP address reveals a bit about where you are anyways. If a good number of sites pick it up, geo-location could bring to the browser what a lot of people are already enjoying on their phone.
1. Video superpowers with HTML 5
If you’re viewing a page coded in HTML 5 with video in an open-source format like Ogg Vorbis or Theora, Firefox 3.5 treats that video like it’s just part of the page, not a separate little island of Flash content. That means instant commenting on videos. It could also mean offering links from inside a tutorial video that offer more details on what’s being shown—soldering tips on an iPhone repair guide would be keen. In general, it’s just a promising step forward into a seamless melding of video and text on a future web.
Increase Hard Disk Space in Windows July 1, 2009
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If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O – read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks.
In any case, it won’t harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!
Steps:
1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!
The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.
3 Firefox Tips You May Not Know About July 1, 2009
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The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you.
I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these could be done.
1. Delete visited URL’s
When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But what if you want to remove one URL from that list? Maybe you’ve been looking at a naughty site and you don’t want your girfriend to know? Or maybe you’ve been shopping for your loved one online and you want to keep it a secret?
Just drop down the URL box, highlight the URL you want to zap then press the “delete” button on your keyboard. The URL will then be removed from the list.
2. Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard
Instead of using the mouse to click on a tab, why not use the keyboard instead? Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you from tab to tab, starting from the one in the far left and working its way along. Or if you want to go to a specifc tab straight away, you can do that too. CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to the fifth tab from the left.
3. Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages
Have you ever wanted a picture, file or video off a webpage but you can’t, because it’s been protected? Just right-click on the page, choose “View Page Info” then the “media” tab. Find the file you’re looking for from the list and click on “save”. (note : this doesn’t work for everything but I have still had a pretty high success rate nonetheless).
Adjust Taskbar Preview Hover Delay in Win7 June 30, 2009
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Here is how you can customize the hover time just for the taskbar:
- Click on the Start Button and type in Regedit and hit Enter.
- Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
- Right click on Advanced and select New DWORD and name the new value “ExtendedUIHoverTime”.
- Right click on ExtendedUIHoverTime and select Modify.
- Switch to Decimal base and enter in your new number. The default is 400 milliseconds. I like to set mine to 100 for a 100 millisecond delay.
- Once changed click OK and restart the explorer process or restart your computer.
Alternatively you can customize the global system hover time that will adjust the hover delay for everything on your system including taskbar icons, start menu shortcuts, etc:
- Click on the Start Button and type in regedit and hit Enter.
- Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse.
- Right click on MouseHoverTime and select Modify.
- Set the new value. The default value is 400 milliseconds.
- Once changed, click OK and restart your computer.
Thanks to Drazen M. and c.kolbicz for the suggestions!
Create a Flip3D Taskbar Icon in Windows 7 June 30, 2009
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Flip3D was a fun and cool looking feature in Windows Vista that can be very useful for switching between windows. With the improved Windows 7 taskbar, Flip3D was replaced with improved thumbnails and Aero Peek. Those are both good alternatives but I like the speed of viewing all my open windows at once and switching with just two clicks.
This article will show you how to create a Flip3D icon on the Windows 7 taskbar:
- Right click on the Desktop and select New and then Shortcut.
- Type in RunDll32 DwmApi #105 in the location box and click Next.
- Type in Flip3D as the Name and click Finish.
- You will now have an shortcut on the desktop that will launch Flip3D but it has the wrong icon. Right click on the Flip3D shortcut and select Properties.
- On the Shortcut tab click the Change Icon button.
- Change the Look for icons in this file text box to C:\windows\explorer.exe and it Enter. The Flip3D icon will now be available. Select it and click OK.
- Click OK to close out the shortcut properties window.
- Finally, just drag and drop the new shortcut on the Windows 7 taskbar to pin it.
How-to Remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7? June 30, 2009
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For the first time since 1997 it is possible to uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows. Now full time Firefox, Chrome and Opera users can remove Internet Explorer for good. Best of all, removing IE will not break any of the thousands of applications that depend on the Internet Explorer rendering engine. Over the years many applications including AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player, Google Talk, LimeWire, MS Office and more use components of the IE rendering engine. When Internet Explorer is removed the shared rendering engine components will remain to make sure the thousands of applications that depend on the IE rendering engine continue to run.
While the rendering engine will remain for compatibility reasons the IE executables, shortcuts and settings will be removed. To uninstall IE on your computer, follow these steps:
Click on the Start Button and type in Turn Windows features on or off and hit Enter.
Then, scroll through the list and remove the check from Internet Explorer 8.
Click OK and IE will be removed.
Download Firefox 3.5 Final June 30, 2009
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The wait is over! Firefox 3.5 has reached the end of its development process. The gold build of the open-source browser from Mozilla, formerly codenamed Shiretoko, was finalized on June 29, 2009, and is now available for download (links are live at the bottom of this article). Mozilla is planning to ship Firefox 3.5 today, June 30, but at the time of this article the availability of Firefox 3.0’s successor hasn’t yet been announced officially. Still, the final development milestone of Firefox 3.5 has already been wrapped up and the bits went live on Mozilla’s FTP servers. It is only a matter of Firefox 3.5 being released to web, but you needn’t wait, just grab Firefox 3.5 from the links below for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
“The team here at Mozilla has been working hard on creating features, enhancing performance and adding other awesomeness to Firefox 3.5, and we’re very excited about sharing it with the world,” revealed Mozilla’s John Slater on June 29.
Firefox 3.5 has been launched over a year after the release to web of its precursor, Firefox 3.0. Version 3.0 shipped in mid-June 2008 and went on to set a world record for the most downloads of a newly available browser, in excess of eight million in just the first 24 hours. Subsequently Mozilla announced that it was starting development of codename Shiretoko, a browser referred to well until the first half of 2009 as Firefox 3.1. Version 3.1 was rebranded 3.5 to show that the latest iteration of the open-source browser was indeed a major version.
Firefox 3.5 will be available in “more than 70 languages – get your local version. [The browser will come with] improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode. Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation. Support for native JSON, and web worker threads. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms,” Mozilla revealed for the RC3 build, which was as close to the final milestone as possible.
Facts to know about computers and related stuffs: May 25, 2009
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Here are some facts that i’ve collected. Maybe useful:-
- An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
- Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
- If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
- one for each member of Apple’s Macintosh divison as of 1982.
- The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
- equipment corporation.
- Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
- The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
- the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
- Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
- Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.
- The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.
- The most expensive game ever developed was “ShenMue” for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.
- The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.
- South korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
- In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, “Hearsay” was developed in India.
- Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers
- The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.
- The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip. - James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the
name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop. - The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under
AOL. - The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the size
of Windows 98 or Mac O.S. - What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles of
single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to
support this information is about 50 gigabytes. - The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-
‘The dirty dozen’. - When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long
enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was
precisely 72 minutes. - 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
- Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac! - Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-
- A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
- A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
- A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
- A human hair is 4000 microinches.
- When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months. - Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
- David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
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Is your friend really offline? or invisible? Know it!!! May 22, 2009
Posted by Parixit in Hack and Hack tips, Infos.Tags: hidden, invisible, Messenger, Yahoo
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WORKS FOR YAHOO MESSENGER!!
Do you want to know whether your friends are really offiline or sitting invisible??
There is this small trick that you can use to find out what the truth is.
Firstly open your yahoo messenger main window and double click on the name of the person whom you want to check.The chat window will open obviously.
Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.
After loading the Doodle imvironment there can be two possibilities
1.If the user is offline Doodle are will show this “waiting for your friend to load Doodle” continuously .See in the picture below:
2. If the user is online (but in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on your connection speed), you should get a blank page like in the picture below.So you know that the user is online.
Alternate Method:
Chose a person you want to check .Double click to open the chat window.Now simply invite the person for a voice conference.This is done by clicking on the “conference’ button on the top of the chat window.
If the talk button appears and turns green then that person is online.But if you receive the message ‘Voice chat could not be started ‘ then the person is offline.
I dont recommend you using third party softwares for this purpose.
And its good not to disturb people.Privacy must me given to them.
