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Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:27:03 GMT

clipped by: abbysname

How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses?

Fist of all you should see this: How to Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

But if you are in a hurry...

1. In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config

2. Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true. If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true

3. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu

4. Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up box

5. You’ll need to enter a number in the Enter integer value, but that number depends on how much memory you have (specifically, how much you want to 'give' Firefox). If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value. If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192. If you have 128MB or less RAM, you may want to consider upgrading - memory is getting very inexpensive.

6. Confirm that the new entry has been created and the integer value is correct

7. If for any reason you wish to restore the default settings, change the browser.cache.memory.capacity integer value to -1 (that’s minus one).

Source: simplehelp.net

Tags: firefox, computer, memory, practical

Massive Resource List for All Self-Learners

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:47:45 GMT

clipped by: cay002

Clip Source: www.eliteskills.com

Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts

Tags: resources, websites, free, education, learning

Top 20 most popular Open Source programs in 2006

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:02:44 GMT

clipped by: ctrinity
clipper's remarks: the most popular open source software in 2006.

Clip Source: www.carolsvault.com

7-Zip - file compression - replacement for WinZip or WinRar
Abiword - create word documents - Replacement for MS Word
Audacity - sound editing and effects
Blender 3D - 3D modeling and animation
ClamWin - antivirus and antispyware scanner
Eraser - erases your data securely
FileZilla - ftp client
Firefox - browser
Gaim - instant messenger
Ganttproject - scheduling , resource management, calendaring
Gimp - GimpShop - image manipulation - Replacement for Adobe Photoshop
Media Portal - media center
NVU - html editor
OpenOffice.org - office suite - alternative if you can’t afford Microsoft Office
PDFCreator - create pdf files
RSSOwl - rss reader
TaskSwitchXP - advanced task management utility
Thunderbird - e-mail client
VLC Media Player - media player
WebHTTrack - web site copier

Tags: open source, freeware, free software

Photoshop Partial Face Transplants

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:28:57 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.freakingnews.com

Orlando Bloom & Johnny Depp

Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson

Hillary & Bill Clinton

Will Smith & Bill Clinton

Donald Rumsfeld & Henry Kissinger

Paris Hiltom and Meryl Streep

TomKat

Olivia Wilde and Katherine Heigl

Jessica Biel & Julia Roberts

Carmen Electra & Elizabeth Hurley

Bill Cosby and Kofi Annan

Tags: funny, humor, photoshop, pictures

How to tell if images were faked

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:43:17 GMT

clipped by: bigb0b

Clip Source: consumerist.com

HOW TO: Tell If Images Were Faked

As a skeptical consumer, you've probably looked at photo in the news or a piece of advertising and thought, hey, I bet that was faked. Now with a little help from Photoshop, and Tim Mathenson's tutorial, you can tell.

• Open Photoshop
• Open questionable image
• Press CTRL+U or go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation
• Set Hue to low
• Set Saturation to high
• Scroll the light bar back and forth, looking for areas of the image that don't match
• If you find a splotch of discoloration, that may indicate the picture was retouched.

Tim says this will work on any retouched photo, not just Photoshopped ones. — BEN POPKEN

How to tell fake images from real ones using Photoshop [Tim Matheson]

Tags: pictures, photoshop, photos, fake

Best 50 hacks for your Life

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:33 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

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

MOZILLA FIREFOX CHEAT SHEET

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:24:15 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: lesliefranke.com

GENERAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Add Bookmarks	Ctrl + D
Bookmarks	Ctrl + B
DOM Inspector	Ctrl + Shift + I
Downloads	Ctrl + J
Full Screen View	F11
Help	F1
History	Ctrl + H
Page Source	Ctrl + U
Print	Ctrl + P
Refresh Page	F5
Refresh Page & Cache	Ctrl + F5
Save Page As	Ctrl + S

NAVIGATION KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Back	Alt + Left Arrow
Down One Line	Down
Down One Page	PageDown
File Open	Ctrl + O
Forward	Alt + Right Arrow
Frame Next	F6
Frame Previous	Shift + F6
Home Page	Alt + Home
Jump to Address Bar	Ctrl + L
Jump to Search Bar	Ctrl + K
Page Bottom	End
Page Top	Home
Stop	Esc
Tab Close	Ctrl + W
Tab New	Ctrl + T
Tab Next	Ctrl + Tab
Tab Previous	Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Tab Select	Ctrl + [1 - 9]
Up One Line	Up
Up One Page	PageUp
Window Close	Alt + F4
Window New	Ctrl + N

TEXT KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Copy	Ctrl + C
Cut	Ctrl + X
Delete	Del
Text Size Decrease	Ctrl + -
Text Size Increase	Ctrl + +
Text Size Default	Ctrl + 0
Undo	Ctrl + Z

SEARCH KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Find Again	F3
Find as You Type Link	'
Find as You Type Text	/
Find in This Page	Ctrl + F
Find Previous	Shift + F3

MOUSE SHORTCUTS
Back	Shift + Scroll Down
Forward	Shift + Scroll Up
Open Link in Background Tab	Ctrl + Left Click or Middle Click
Open Link in Foreground Tab	Ctrl + Shift + Left Click
Open Link in New Window	Shift + Left Click
Scroll Line by Line	Alt + Scroll
Tab Close	Middle Click on Tab
Tab New	Double Click on Tab Bar
Text Size Decrease	Ctrl + Scroll UP
Text Size Increase	Ctrl + Scroll Down

LOCATIONS
Cached Elements
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profilename]\Cache\
Profile Manager
Close Firefox. From the "Start" menu, select "Run", type "firefox.exe -p"
User Profile Folder
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
Advanced Configuration
Address Bar: about:config
Cache Info
Address Bar: about:cache
Plugin Info
Address Bar: about:plugins

Tags: mozilla, firefox, internet, web, cheat sheet, technology, tips, education

Why windows takes so long to start up.

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:57:28 GMT

clipped by: ragendem

Clip Source: www.intelliadmin.com

Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.

1. The prefetch cache

Here is how it works: Yesterday you used MS Word, and Duke Nukem 3D. Today you boot your system to check e-mail. It sees parts of these two programs in the prefetch folder and loads them into memory before windows completes the boot process. The benefit is faster application launch times. If you really wanted to use MS Word, it would pop up really quick when you double clicked on it.

What can be done about it? Well there are a few things we can do to tweak the prefetch cache. One method is to disable it partially, and this can be done quite easily.

Simply browse to the windows folder (Ex: C:\Windows) and under there you should see the prefetch folder. Go into the prefetch folder and delete all the files (Careful! It should look like this c:\windows\prefetch) And here is a screenshot of one if you still have questions

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

2 - Boot : The prefetch only caches boot system files.

2. Hard drive fragmentation

3. Disconnected network drives

4. Spyware & Adware

5. File and Printer Sharing

One other item that can significantly impact is the "File and Printer Sharing" feature within windows. Obviously, if you are sharing your printer, or folders you don't want to disable this - so this tip is not for you. If you never use it, then why waste your time waiting for it to load?

Here is how to turn it off:

Go into the control panel. Click on "Network Connections"

Now right click on "Local Area Connection" and click on properties

Uncheck the "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks"

Click OK, and reboot.

Tags: software, technology, windows, microsoft, howto

CSS: Working with Multiple Class Names

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:57:51 GMT

clipped by: rMarks

Clip Source: www.free-css-templates.com

CSS: Working with Multiple Class Names

This day I would like to share with you a good css trick ;)

An element's class attribute can have multiple values, each separated by whitespace. This is a very powerful features of CSS, allowing you to apply styles from more than one class to any element.

We can read in the HTML specifications:

class = cdata-list [CS]

"This attribute assigns a class name or set of class names to an element. Any number of elements may be assigned the same class name or names. Multiple class names must be separated by white space characters."

So we can make this css code:


.title { font-size: 25px }

.red { color: red }

.right { float: right }

and the html code:


< h1 class = "title red right">Website Title< /h1>

Now you should see your title (25px) in red on the right side :)

25 Dec 2006 . 13:56

Tags: css, multiple, class, names

Parasite "Turns Women into Sex Kittens"

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:31:58 GMT

clipped by: nohobot
clipper's remarks: The sexy side of parasitism? (Shudder!)

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.

Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.

About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.

Until recently it was thought to be an insignificant disease in healthy people, Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter said, but new research has revealed its mind-altering properties.

"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.

"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.

"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''.

The mice were more likely to take risks that increased their chance of being eaten by cats, which would allow the parasite to continue its life cycle.

Rodents treated with drugs that killed the parasites reversed their behaviour, Dr Boulter said.

Another study showed people who were infected but not showing symptoms were 2.7 times more likely than uninfected people to be involved in a car accident as a driver or pedestrian, while other research has linked the parasite to higher incidences of schizophrenia.

Tags: science, research, parasite, australia, cat, cats, mice, mouse, sexuality, sex, personality, men, women

Dr. Seuss Quote

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:47:41 GMT

clipped by: crazyken33

Clip Source: www.boardofwisdom.com

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

- Dr. Seuss

Tags: quotes, dr. seuss

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:40:09 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

MS Microsoft Word Font Character Hidden Secret Program Windows XP

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Tags: windows

Spider-man 3

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:23:33 GMT

clipped by: rwhite0604
clipper's remarks: I can't freakin' wait for this movie! May 4, 2007!

Clip Source: www.toquedequeda.net

Tags: spider-man 3

Children Learn What They Live

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:00:46 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.noogenesis.com

Children Learn What They Live (1998)

by Dorothy Law Nolte (1924 - 2005)

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Chronology of the different versions of this poem:

Children Learn What They Live (1959)

Children Learn What They Live (1969)

Lessons From Life (1971)

Children Learn What They Live (1972)

Children Learn What They Live (1990)

Children Learn What They Live (1993)

Teenagers Learn What They Live (2002)

Children Learn What They Live (2005)

Tags: children learn what they live, poem, versions, life