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Google + Firefox = Free Music

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:01:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Posted by James Yeang
October 17, 2006

Firefox, Google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, Useful Tips

There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

All you need to do is:

Create a bookmark in Firefox
Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks (like in the pic above)
Assign a keyword to it - eg. music
Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address bar (NOT the search box). For example… type in music beatles , and Google will search open directories for Beatles music files that you can download.

You can modify the code in the text file to change file extensions, which opens a whole window for you. For example, you can even change it to PDF and DOC to look to e-books, or AVI and MPG to look for movies.

By the way, I’m assuming you already own the media you will be downloading :)

Bonus Tips:

The feature above only works for Firefox. If you’re NOT on Firefox yet, try it now
If you want to create basic smart keywords to search any web page, here’s how.
Here’s a useful advanced features cheat sheet from Google
If you don’t find the files on Google, you can try the best bittorrent search engine ever.

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Tags: internet, music, digital, good idea, google, firefox

Neat tricks to teach your body

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:46:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some little-known practical tips about your body, such as:
If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side - etc.

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Neat tricks to teach your body

Some little-known practical tips about your body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.

2. Your right ear is better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech (good tip for spies!) The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

5. Clear your stuffed nose!

Forget Sudafed. An easier way is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger.

7. Cure your toothache

Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger... reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent

15. If your hand falls asleep

rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute.

Tags: health

Best 50 hacks for your Life

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:33 GMT

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Communication, Writing, Studying

My Best Presentation Tricks

The Business Card Game

Persuasive Writing for Students, Webmasters, Bloggers, and Everyone Else

7 tips of handling your Emails without feeling overwhelmed

Writing as a Form of Self Healing

Advice for students: Writing by hand

Yes, But Do People Like You?

Writing – Just do it!

A good place to study

Blog your way through Writer’s Block

14 Tips for Communicating Ideas

Productivity, Creativity, Motivation

9 Top Secrets of Naturally Born Organizers

Fight The Flab!

More Fight The Flab!

Limit Creativity, Get Innovation

Precious Moments

5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office

A Geek’s Best Lifehack

What Kind of Paranoid Are You?

Being A Creative

There’s No Time!

The Mysteries Behind Motivation and How To Manipulate Them

Time Management: Handling Disruptions in Daily Schedules

Productivity Hack: Write Mini Process Flows

Design an Online Workflow

Management, Self-Management, Entrepreneurship

Bare Bones Project Hacks

The 10 Beliefs of Great Managers

The Simplest Path to Success

Letting Things Go

Closet Entrepreneur

Time To Discard The Portmanteau

5 Important Keys to Bootstrap Your Entrepreneurship

The Most Underutilized Tool for Effective Communication

Everyday Performance Reviews

Meetings, @&!!$*@ Meetings!

What Are You Worried About?

How to Ruin Your Career In Five Easy Steps

Procrastination, Goal Settings, Life

9 Steps to Define your Goal Destination and Devise a Plan to Get There

Pro-Active Steps to Prevent Procrastination

Improve Your Life By Following A Schedule

The Causes of Procrastination And How To Conquer Them

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Literal Life Hack: Cut your window of time in half

New Year’s Resolutions and Deficit Thinking

6 Sleep Tips

Risks versus Rewards Worksheet

5 Tips for Getting Out of Debt (and Why)

Deep Breathing: A Great Health Trick

8 Expenses to Cut and How

Desk-side Fitness

Tags: hacks, lists, life

5 Tips to Increase Your Likeability

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:17:48 GMT

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1. Be positive.

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." - John Keats

2. Control your insecurities.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt

3. Provide value.

"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." - Wilfred Peterson

4. Eliminate all judgments.

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

5. Become a person of conviction.

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: likeability, tips

How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:40:44 GMT

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How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad

Published February 5th, 2007 in Howtos and Tips. Edit Tags: howto, tips.

There are plenty of software which lock your folders, some are free, other costs a lot of money. Why you’ll waste time and money when you could do it with your notepad.

* Consider you want to lock a folder named PICS in your D:\, whose path is D:\PICS

* Now open the Notepad and type the following

ren pics pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

* Where pics is your folder name. Save the text file as loc.bat in the same drive.
* Open another new notepad text file and type the following

ren pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} pics

* Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive.

Usage:

* To lock the pics folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.
* To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.

That’s all.

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:11:51 GMT

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

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All you need to do is:

Create a bookmark in Firefox
Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks (like in the pic above)
Assign a keyword to it - eg. music
Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address bar (NOT the search box). For example… type in music beatles , and Google will search open directories for Beatles music files that you can download.

By the way, I’m assuming you already own the media you will be downloading :)

Bonus Tips:

The feature above only works for Firefox. If you’re NOT on Firefox yet, try it now

If you want to create basic smart keywords to search any web page, here’s how.

Here’s a useful advanced features cheat sheet from Google

If you don’t find the files on Google, you can try the best bittorrent search engine ever.

Firefox, Google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, Useful Tips

Tags: firefox, google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, useful tips

104 Performance Tips for Windows XP.

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:16:43 GMT

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Updated Source Link As Of 10-29-06, thanks paul:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1681

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Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP

From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently. - Version 1.0.0

Preparing Your System (1-8)

BIOS tweaks and Insight (9-13)

Overclocking your processor and memory (14-16)

WindowsXP Software and Registry Performance Tweaks (17-46)

Graphics Performance Tweaks (47-55)

Network and Internet Performance Tweaks (56-66)

WindowsXP User Interface Shortcuts and Hints (67-78)

Improving Windows XP boot speed (79-94)

Increasing XP shutdown speed (95-99)

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7 Tips to Simplify Your Life

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:30:43 GMT

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7 Tips to Simplify Your Life
by Barbara Myers

1. De-clutter. Begin by grabbing an empty shopping bag. Walk around your home. Fill the bag with anything you don't use or love. Place the bag in your car and drop it off at a charitable organization. Repeat weekly.

2. Control your time. Reduce obligations. Learn to say no more often. Even one fewer activity per week can allow you some down time.

3. Do without. Stop impulse purchases. Each item you buy costs more than the purchase price. Consider upkeep costs in both time and dollars.

4. Pare down. Do you really need six spatulas or 30 pairs of shoes?

5. Have a weekly "no noise" day. Turn off the TV and radio. Tune in to nature and your family.

6. Make a list. Split your current activities and tasks into two columns: things I enjoy and things I don't enjoy. How can your reduce the second column and increase the first?

7. Organize everything. What takes up too much of your time? Simplify your routines, paperwork, wardrobe and your life.

Free "50 Ways to Manage Your Time" tips booklet. Visit www.ineedmoretime.com

Publishers may use this article if the bylines are included.

Tags: organization, life

Firefox can be faster: four easy tricks...

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:36:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am an add-on addict of Firefox: the more I had added on the add-ons, the more Firefox had become sluggish in opening up! the above tips has helped me, well, agreeably so! If someone knows more such tricks, let's all share...
By the by, you need to visit the site for the how-tos!

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Firefox CAN be faster - 4 easy tricks

Now that we all know the hidden pages in Firefox, it’s time to go a bit deeper into tweaking your browser for optimal use. All of the operations will be made in the about:config page, so save your important stuff, open up a new tab, write about:config in the address bar and be prepared. I have gathered four tricks that will improve your Firefox experience, and here they are.

1. Fetch only pages that you click

2. Limit the RAM usage

3. Reducing the RAM usage even more when Firefox gets minimized

4. Make pages load faster

This is just about it, and if you guys have any other tricks for improving the Firefox experience, we’ll be glad to hear them.

Tags: firefox, tricks, tips, web.

Know where to search, No where to hide

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:34:13 GMT

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Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

We all have our favorite search engines tips, and use Google, MSN, and Yahoo! – but there are times when these search engines don't have the information you're looking for, so you'll need to venture down the road to know where!

STANDARD SEARCH

About – Comminity Help Search

Accoona – artificial intelligence for “better” searches

AddAll – book search

AltaVista

Answers – searches for answers (aka Guru)

AOL

Ask Jeeves

BookFinder – Book Search

Brainboost – searches for answers using “natural” language

dmoz – Open Directory Project (ODP)

Exalead – still in Beta

Excite

Kazazz! – Combines Search Engine and Social Networking

Lycos

Microsoft Search Result Clustering – still a research project, uses "clustering" to group results.

Snap

METASEARCH - Metasearch engines gather information from many other search engines and provide consolidated search results. Most metasearch engines combine the results from: Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, & Yahoo! and more.

Clusty – uses "clustering" to group results

Dog Pile

gada.be – My new favorite

Gigablast

Kartoo

MyriadSearch

QKsearch

Walhello

WebCrawler

GENERAL RESEARCH

Apple’s Advanced Computation Group

AT&T Labs – Research

Google Tools and some not ready for prime time.

IBM Research

Intel Technology & Research

Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)

Macromedia Labs

Microsoft Research and Sandbox Prototypes.

Sony-Kihara Research Center

Sun Research

Xerox – Palo Alto Research Center

Yahoo! Research

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

ArXiv – Scientific Journal Archive

CiteSeer – Scientific Literature Library

Google Scholar Search

Scirus – Scientific Information

SmealSearch – Academic Business Literature

NEWS

All Headline News

FeedsFarm

Plazoo – still in Beta

BLOGS

Bloglines

Feedster

Google Blog Search

Pubsub

NEW! Talk Digger

Technorati

NOTE: I didn’t include many search engines like A9, AllTheWeb, Teoma etc because they have too close ties to commercial entities!

Tags: search, tips, links

Firefox Tweaks

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:21:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ways to tweak up your Firefox!

Clip Source: www.tweakguides.com

In this Guide

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Essential Optimization
Page 3: The Basics
Page 4: Firefox Settings
Page 5: Firefox Settings (Pt.2)
Page 6: Basic Tips & Tricks
Page 7: Customizing Firefox
Page 8: Advanced Tweaking
Page 9: Adv. Tweaking (Pt.2)
Page 10: Adv. Tweaking (Pt.3)
Page 11: Extensions & Themes
Page 12: Neat Stuff & Concl.

Tags: firefox, tweak

Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Useful tips if you're into researching anything. More on site

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Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

Tags: google, research

12 Writing Tips From George Orwell

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:14:30 GMT

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George Orwell has earned the right to be called one of the finer writers in the English language through such novels as 1984 and Animal Farm, such essays as “Shooting an Elephant,” and his memoir Down and Out in Paris.

George expressed a strong dislike of totalitarian governments in his work, but he was also passionate defender of good writing. Thus, you may want to hear some of George’s writing tips.*

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:

What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

And he will probably ask himself two more:

Could I put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?

One can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

* From “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell.

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Gmail Tips: the complete collection

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:55:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: most useful tips on Gmail. highly recommended for a Gmail user.

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Gmail Tips Table of Contents

Tags: gmail, tips, useful.

10 Tips to Eliminate Wordiness

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:54:28 GMT

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Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness

1. Eliminate unnecessary determiners and modifiers

2. Change phrases into single words

3. Change unnecessary that, who, and which clauses into phrases

4. Avoid overusing expletives at the beginning of sentences

5. Use active rather than passive verbs

See our document on active and passive voice for a more thorough explanation of this topic.

6. Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs

Use verbs when possible rather than noun forms known as nominalizations. Sentences with many nominalizations usually have forms of be as the main verbs. Using the action verbs disguised in nominalizations as the main verbs--instead of forms of be--can help to create engaging rather than dull prose.

7. Reword unnecessary infinitive phrases

Some infinitive phrases can be converted into finite verbs or brief noun phrases. Making such changes also often results in the replacement of a be-verb with an action verb.

8. Replace circumlocutions with direct expressions

9. Omit words that explain the obvious or provide excessive detail

Be sure always to consider your readers as you draft and revise your writing. If you find passages that explain or describe in detail what would already be obvious to readers, delete or reword them.

10. Omit repetitive wording

Watch for phrases or longer passages in your writing in which you repeat words with similar meanings. Below are some general examples of unnecessary repetition contrasted with more concise versions, followed by lists and examples of specific redundant word pairs and categories.

Redundant Pairs

Redundant Categories

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Google + Firefox = Free Music

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Neat tricks to teach your body

Neat tricks to teach your body

Best 50 hacks for your Life

5 Tips to Increase Your Likeability

How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad

How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

104 Performance Tips for Windows XP.

7 Tips to Simplify Your Life

Firefox can be faster: four easy tricks...

Firefox CAN be faster - 4 easy tricks

Know where to search, No where to hide

Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

Firefox Tweaks

In this Guide

Great Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips 2005

12 Writing Tips From George Orwell

Gmail Tips: the complete collection

Gmail Tips Table of Contents

10 Tips to Eliminate Wordiness

Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness

1. Eliminate unnecessary determiners and modifiers

2. Change phrases into single words

3. Change unnecessary that, who, and which clauses into phrases

4. Avoid overusing expletives at the beginning of sentences

5. Use active rather than passive verbs

6. Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs

7. Reword unnecessary infinitive phrases

8. Replace circumlocutions with direct expressions

9. Omit words that explain the obvious or provide excessive detail

10. Omit repetitive wording

Redundant Pairs

Redundant Categories