Ahmad Khalid Hakimi
Local Chief Print, Bayan Media Center (BMC)
Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan
Cell # 0786 611 311
Local Chief Print, Bayan Media Center (BMC)
Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan
Cell # 0786 611 311
Monday, 14 April 2014
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
THANK YOU GOOGLE
Google, the world most favorite and rich search engine is not only a perfect search engine but a powerful tool to meet your every need. From mail services, to chat and from social networking to blogging, these are the quality of a perfect online business. I am amazed about the quality of services they provide to their clients and moreover with no cost. They are trying hard to create a benchmark in the era of internet and online communication. Currently the Google is known as the true market leader of the electronic commerce, earning millions in a matter of seconds.
Besides this all benefits they still fear giving more facilities to their clients, instead they should put more pressure on their marketing department to know the customer demands and need and strive to satisfy them in order to maintain their position in the market.
In 2008 I created a blog using Google facility for blogger, and at that time nothing was so eye catching in this facility, every thing so basic and simple, but now they have added some excellent feature in it and I am quite happy and optimistic about these facility and hope they will add more to it.
Besides this all benefits they still fear giving more facilities to their clients, instead they should put more pressure on their marketing department to know the customer demands and need and strive to satisfy them in order to maintain their position in the market.
In 2008 I created a blog using Google facility for blogger, and at that time nothing was so eye catching in this facility, every thing so basic and simple, but now they have added some excellent feature in it and I am quite happy and optimistic about these facility and hope they will add more to it.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Make Firefox Faster
Everybody's favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient.
1. More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the "Use small icons" box.
2. Smart keywords. If there's a search you use a lot (let's say IMDB.com's people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select "Add a Keyword for this search", give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let's say "actor") and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox's address bar, type "actor" and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search!
You can do this with any search box.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs)Spacebar (page down) Shift-Spacebar (page up) Ctrl+F (find) Alt-N (find next) Ctrl+D (bookmark page) Ctrl+T (new tab) Ctrl+K (go to search box) Ctrl+L (go to address bar) Ctrl+= (increase text size) Ctrl+- (decrease text size) Ctrl-W (close tab) F5 (reload) Alt-Home (go to home page) 4. Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it's not
commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the "www" or the ".com". Let's say "google". Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the "www" and the ".com" and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.
5. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs) Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab) Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
6. Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you're already using your mouse and it's easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
Shift-scroll down (previous page
Shift-scroll up (next page)
Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
7. Delete items from address bar history. Firefox's ability to automatically show previous URLs you've visited, as you type, in the address bar's drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don't want those URLs to show up (I won't ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you've visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
8. Cool User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you'll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It's a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.
9. Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You'll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.
10. about:config. The true power user's tool, about.config isn't something to mess with if you don't know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser's address bar. See Mozillazine's about:config tips and screenshots.
11. Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.
12. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it's optimized for dialup connections).
Here's how:
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Type "network.http" in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them): Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
13. Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter "browser.cache" and select
"browser.cache.disk.capacity". It's set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
14. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it's definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean.
Name it "config.trim_on_minimize" and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
15. Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox's tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for "browser.tabs.closeButtons". Here are the meanings of each value:
0: Display a close button on the active tab only
1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2:Don't display any close buttons
3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior) Just make these tweaks and observer the difference in the way firefox works and you may be interested in my previous posts about Mozilla firefox.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient.
1. More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the "Use small icons" box.
2. Smart keywords. If there's a search you use a lot (let's say IMDB.com's people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select "Add a Keyword for this search", give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let's say "actor") and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox's address bar, type "actor" and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search!
You can do this with any search box.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs)Spacebar (page down) Shift-Spacebar (page up) Ctrl+F (find) Alt-N (find next) Ctrl+D (bookmark page) Ctrl+T (new tab) Ctrl+K (go to search box) Ctrl+L (go to address bar) Ctrl+= (increase text size) Ctrl+- (decrease text size) Ctrl-W (close tab) F5 (reload) Alt-Home (go to home page) 4. Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it's not
commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the "www" or the ".com". Let's say "google". Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the "www" and the ".com" and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.
5. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs) Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab) Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
6. Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you're already using your mouse and it's easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
Shift-scroll down (previous page
Shift-scroll up (next page)
Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
7. Delete items from address bar history. Firefox's ability to automatically show previous URLs you've visited, as you type, in the address bar's drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don't want those URLs to show up (I won't ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you've visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
8. Cool User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you'll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It's a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.
9. Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You'll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.
10. about:config. The true power user's tool, about.config isn't something to mess with if you don't know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser's address bar. See Mozillazine's about:config tips and screenshots.
11. Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.
12. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it's optimized for dialup connections).
Here's how:
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Type "network.http" in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them): Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
13. Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter "browser.cache" and select
"browser.cache.disk.capacity". It's set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
14. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it's definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean.
Name it "config.trim_on_minimize" and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
15. Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox's tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for "browser.tabs.closeButtons". Here are the meanings of each value:
0: Display a close button on the active tab only
1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2:Don't display any close buttons
3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior) Just make these tweaks and observer the difference in the way firefox works and you may be interested in my previous posts about Mozilla firefox.
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