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Firefox 3, Some Resources For Happy ‘Firefoxing’!

Hey! Today is something special. Its the D-Day! {Not the Normandy one, D-Day means Download Day here :D}. So, Have you downloaded Firefox 3 already or plan to do it on some other day?. My advise is that if you want to use Firefox 3 than you should download it before 18:16 UTC today and help them{Mozilla Team} to break the world record. At the time of writing this, the download counter is already showing 6 million downloads with more than 2 million alone from the U.S. So download it, use it and tweak it freely. Here I am sharing some resources which could help you in your ‘firefoxing’ journey.

1-With 9 tweaks and one Easter egg, this guide from lifehacker came in great help when I was setting up Firefox in the morning. You too should check out this awesome guide.

2-Firefox 3 store bookmarks in database instead in html file. If you are facing problem importing your Firefox 2 bookmarks then with the help of this nice tweak from ghacks, you can import your bookmarks easily.

3-Thinking of overwriting Firefox 3 on Firefox 2?. DON’T DO IT or you will end up with losing all your add-ons like me :(. Check this post as your guide for installing Firefox 3 without any headache.

4-If lifehacker can release Firefox 3 guide with a bunch of tips, then how is it possible for mashable to left behind. They have also summed up some tweaks as well as revealed some new cool features included in the latest version.

And Last but not the least

5-If you are dissatisfied with the default theme of Firefox 3 or if you are the type of person who prefer Windows XP look over Windows Vista{in other words, if you share my taste } and considering to revert to Firefox 2, I would suggest to just change the theme and it will become old in look but new in improvements and functions…Check this.

I think that’s enough for now to digest. You can expect more posts like this in near future. I am wrapping up this post with a beautiful Firefox 3 Evolution Wallpaper:

Available in these resolutions:

1024×768

1280×800

1280×960

1280×1024

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5 Windows XP Tips That Sometimes Become Very Useful

1. Access Websites Without Typing In The Browser’s URL
From the Start menu in the run window, you can type for a web address instead of typing in the browser.

2. Select All
Ctrl+A lets you select all thats on a page.

3. Put Your Own Icons For Your Folders
Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Paint>image>Attributes. In this window, type 32 in both the Width anfd Height boxes and select Pixels under the Units section. In this way, you make an icon size document. Have a brush art, use pencil or air brush whatever you want to create one for you or open up one to edit as you like. Save the file as an icon by typing .ico after the name, for example for a file named ‘abc’ you will type ‘abc.ico’. Go to the properties of the folder that you want to change the icon of. Under the Customize tab, click Change Icon button, under the Folder icons section. Browse for the icon that you have just saved.

4. Display Two Equally Enlarged Windows Side By Side On The Desktop
In the taskbar where you have your Windows’ buttons, click on any one of them, press the Ctrl key and hold it and right click on the other Window button. You will see options of Horizontally and Vertically Tiling, click one of them which you like.

5. Reach The Desktop In A Hurry With The Keyboard
You want to reach the desktop but there are many windows in front of you to minimize them first, here are the keys that keep you ’safe’ from this minimizing job. There are two combinations of keys to press one and then other. First press Ctrl+Esc, realease them, then press Alt+M.
Note: Tested on Windows XP Professional Edition.

Tags: Tips & Tricks

Photoshop Fun: Spherize An Image

Select the part of the image that you want to ‘Spherize’, using the Marquee tool from the toolbox’s top-left side. (The Marquee tool is pointed with the red arrow and the part of image that I want to Spherize is selected with the elliptical marquee tool in the picture below.

Click the Filter tab, go to Distort and then click Spherize.

The Spherize titled window appears showing the preview of the effect. Inside this window beneath the preview are two buttons for zooming in/out the preview. Also, in this window, there is a slider called amount slider, drag that slider to your desired amount of distortion. There is a mode bar with other spherizing types, I left it for you to check them out yourself.

Click OK. Tada!

Here note that the amount of distortion ranges from -100 to 0 to 100. Moving from 0 to the left gives your image a concave effect. This concave effect goes on increasing as we drag the slider towards the negative extreme -100 until we reach it, the point where the concave effect is maximum. Same goes for the right side with the only exception of effect which here should be of course, convex.

I spherized the Tower of Pisa with the convex effect leaving the concave part for you.

This post is aimed at having fun with the very basics of Photoshop. I see myself as a beginner photoshop user. This great program can much easily be learn playing with it like that in this post. Make your thoughtful comments did you like the post and how did I demonstrated in the post? Should I continue with it?

Track Your Friends Across The Web With Spokeo

Ever wanna know that how many of your friends are on your favorite social networking site but can’t find the way to do so? Now with spokeo, you can know about anyone’s online social activities if he/she is in your email address book.

Spokeo is a social networking aggregator that will search what your friends are doing across the web. It supports more than 30 services including Digg, Blogger, Amazon, Stumbleupon, DeviantART, Youtube, LinkedIn and other well known sites. One misconception among people who know spokeo is that it is a social networking site, which it is not. It is just an aggregator which collects information about your contacts and thats all. In order to use it, you just have to provide your email address, password and Voila!, all your friends secrets get revealed. If you are a social maniac or a detective, in either case its Worth a try. Here is a video link on Youtube which I think you may wanna watch (I am not embedding the video here because it ruins the page layout).

Tags: Tips & Tricks

Generate Your Keyboard Heatmap.

Wanna know which keys on the keyboard you hit the most while writing an article, post, letter or anything? With this utility you can easily found out your favorite keys =). Just type in some dummy words or copy/paste something you wrote in some text field. choose Heatmap in Heatmap Type and leave the value in spaces as tabs by default. Then press go! and it will generate a pic with your text heatmap! Here is mine heat map for this post.

Tags: Tips & Tricks