September 22nd, 2008

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8 Tricks to Make Firefox lightning Fast

1. Enable pipelining

Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.

Keep in mind that some servers don’t support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.

2. Render quickly

Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn’t want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it’s received so far every 0.12 seconds (the “content notify interval”). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.

Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that’s five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.

Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.

3. Faster loading

If you haven’t moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.

Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.

4. No interruptions

You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.

Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.

5. Block Flash

Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there’s a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it’ll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn’t entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.

6. Increase the cache size

As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.

7. Enable TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It’s still buggy so isn’t available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you’re willing to risk the odd crash or two then there’s an easy way to try it out.

Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that’s it - you’re running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.

8. Compress data

If you’ve a slow internet connection then it may feel like you’ll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that’s not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there’s much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you’re on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.

Written by Harry Waring on September 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Finding the best mobile deals

If you are looking for UK mobile deals with a difference, then why not pay Best Mobile Contracts a visit? They are a mobile phone comparison website that offer great deals on mobile phone contracts, pay as you go mobile phones, mobile broadband and sim only deals direct from the network. They ensure that they compare deals from a wide range of leading UK retailers, ensuring you get the mobile phone deal that is totally right for you.

With so much choice around, you can sometimes feel overwhelmed and Best mobile contracts aims to show only the best mobile phone deals that suit your needs. One mobile phone that is proving very popular at the moment is the Samsung Tocco. You can get a Samsung tocco contract with automatic cashback at the moment, making it a very attractive offer. So if you are looking to grab a new mobile phone deal in the UK, why not give Best Mobile Contracts a try?

Written by ShaDow on September 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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How to Change Windows Vista Language

If you are using Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium,Business and Starter and want to install additional MUI language pack you wont be able to install them cause a error will be shown stating the system has reached maximum number of languages allowed.So in this case you can use Vistalizator for changing it. Vistalizator is a tool that allows you to change display language in Vista editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate, like Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business.

Features:

* Change Vista display language in less than 5 minutes!
* Uses official Microsoft language packs
* You can install all 35 languages and switch between them easily
* Works in 32-bit Vista
* Works in 64-bit Vista (new)
* Compatible with Vista Service Pack 1
* User Account Control (UAC) compliant - prompts for administrative privileges
* No file is overwritten/changed during language installation - except for language upgrade after Vista SP1 installation

Download : Vistalizator

Written by ShaDow on September 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Outlook Web Access

Outlook Web Access (OWA) is a webmail service of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 and later, originally called Exchange Web Connect (EWC). The web interface of Outlook Web Access resembles the interface in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook Web Access comes as a part of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and previous versions of Exchange.

OWA is used to access e-mail (including support for S/MIME), calendars, contacts, tasks, and other mailbox content when access to the Microsoft Outlook desktop application is unavailable. In the Exchange 2007 release, OWA also offers read-only access to documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint sites and network (UNC) shares. Microsoft provides Outlook Web Access as part of Exchange Server to allow users to connect remotely via a web browser. Some of the functionality in Outlook is also available in this web "look-alike". The most important difference is that Microsoft Outlook allows users to work with e-mail, calendars, etc., even when a network connection is unavailable, whereas OWA requires a network connection to function. OWA can be used from Internet cafes and any other location that provides connectivity to the Web.

Functionality of the OWA is partly bundled with the use of a Microsoft client operating system and the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). The OWA interface available in Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007 is available in two flavors. The so-called "Premium" user interface is rendered for Internet Explorer 5 (for the 2000 and 2003 releases) and Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and later for the 2007 release. The so-called "Basic" user interface (UI) is rendered for other browsers. Some functions, such as Search, are not available in the Basic UI. Since there is no current IE installer available for Mac OSX and no official installer at all for Linux, Linux and many Apple users can only use restricted functionality.

The first component to allow client-side scripts to issue HTTP requests (XMLHTTP) was originally written by the Outlook Web Access team. It soon became a part of Internet Explorer 5.0. Renamed XmlHttpRequest and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium^[1], it has since become one of the cornerstones of the Ajax technology used to build advanced web applications.

Written by magakos on September 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Improper Shutdowns Affect Hard Drive Life

There is a reason why proper shutdown of your PC is being advised. For sure, fluctuations and sudden stop of processes can have a toll and one of the key components that will immediately be affected would have to be your hard drive. Your hard disk is usually the computer part that carries your operating system and files and while they are not physically tangible, even programmers have a hard time trying to save files and systems due to a simple fault in proper PC shutdown practices.

To the average user it does not matter. He always has a friend or technician to restore his PC. But what if your whole PC crashes? What would you do next? If you have backups then fine. But what if you don’t have such and are plainly satisfied with doing these files all over again from scratch? It sorts of defeats the purpose of computers, a device that is known to make life easier for the ones trained to use them.

So while you are fine with constantly shutting it down manually, your computer is compiling errors and though there are software available to correct that problem, you never know when your computer will no longer boot again.

Written by PC Freak on September 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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How to Know Almost Everything About a Website

It is very important to keep an eye on your Website’s statistics. It is even more important to keep an eye on what competition is doing. Plenty of online tools are available for different type of needs. visited quite a few websites to see how ixibo.com come looks like to outside world. Quarkbase.com claims to connect to 30 different sources of information to compile a report on your site’s layout, popularity in social bookmarking sites, Traffic Statistics, People who frequent your site, content that is popular on your site.

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A nice technical section is also included that provides information like Name Servers, Domain Owner and Related Sites etc..

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These screen shots have been taken about the blog you are currently visiting and pasted here to remind me that I have to do alot to make this site socially more popular.

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If this is not enough, here is a list of about 20 other sites that you might like to visit to find detailed site statistics about any site you like. each of these sites presents a different perspective to the same data set.