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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 is [...]
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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
Adhiyan – To see [...]
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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 [...]
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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, learn the [...]
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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
* Down Arrow – Decrease Volume
I never imagined [...]
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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 same [...]
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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 language support. For installing [...]
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How to fill your name, email, blog details automatically while commenting in blogs
July 30, 2007
in blogs, firefox, scripts, tidbits
Install this script using greasemonkey in Firefox.
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