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A for Apple

July 12, 2008

in browsing

Firefox 3 Location bar has new feature: It recognizes what address you want to visit when you start typing few letters. It is based on your frequency and recency of visit. I realized how each alphabet has been associated with some regular sites we visit. It’s like saying A for Apple, G for Google. Here [...]

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FireFox Add-ons that I use

February 3, 2008

in firefox

Better Gmail – Gives lot of cool features for Gmail users. Better GReader – Features for Google reader users. GreaseMonkey – Useful to install lot of scripts. Must have.. Before installing any user script you should install this first. Padma – You can view non-Unicode Indic sites in Unicode. Also install the Padma enhancer script [...]

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Get Firefox 3 Beta 3 now. It’s address bar is awesome and I can’t live without it anymore I could even do away with the incompatible extensions for this feature’s sake. What do you like the most in Firefox 3 Beta 3? But except for Ubuntu, I cannot trust anyone for timely releases I guess. [...]

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Congrats for the google team for coming up with an intuitive Tamil transliteration scheme. Pros: – Tamil transliteration tools have so far been completely user dependent to specify the correct keys to achieve the desired spelling whereas google transliteration guesses the word like a mobile phone dictionary servie. So a novice user need not remember, [...]

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Install this script using greasemonkey in Firefox.

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1. Type about:config in the address bar 2. Search for “network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server” in the filter field. 3. The default number is 2. Change it to anything you like. Downloading only two files at a time from a server is a web standard. You can also change this in Internet explorer. To know how, see here

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Firefox users can install the Raagaadskipperuser Greasemonkey script to listen to Raaga.com songs without the annoying ads in between. You can also get the following keyboard shortcuts. * z – Previous Song * x – Play * c – Pause * v – Stop * b – Next Song * Up Arrow – Increase Volume [...]

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Tamil99 users should be aware of some shortcuts / Syntax. 1. To write க்க just type க க in sequence. No need to press f after first க to bring the dot over க. similarly, த+த = த்த, ம+ம = ம்ம. 2. For frequent combination of letters like ந்த, ஞ்ச, ன்ற, ண்ட, ங்க, ம்ப the [...]

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Quick Tip: Use the latest Firefox 3 RC1 and you can view all Tamil Unicode sites properly. For Firefox 2 users, read below: Windows: If you have a problem with reading in all Tamil Unicode sites (example: Tamil Wikipedia, Maatru!), Then go to start-control panel-regional and language options-languages and check both the options in supplemental [...]

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