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    How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in Firefox?

    To Increase simultaneous download limit:

    1. In the browser address bar, type about:config and hit enter.Click the I’ll be careful, I promise! button

    2. In the Filter field, Search for network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

    3. Double click on network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server… and enter the amount of simultaneous downloads you’d like from the server

    How to clear cache and cookies in Firefox

    How to clear cache and cookies in Firefox

    For Windows XP Users Clear the cache

    1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options.
    2. Select the Advanced panel.
    3. Click on the Network tab.
    4. In the Offline Storage section, click Clear Now.

    5. Click OK to close the Options window.

    To Delete all cookies

    To delete all cookies stored on your computer:

    1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button, go over to the History menu (click on the Tools menu in Windows XP) and select Clear Recent History….
    2. Set Time range to clear to Everything.
    3. Click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.
    4. Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
    5. Click Clear Now to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.
    Unlock Windows 8 hidden features with BluePoison

    Unlock Windows 8 hidden features with BluePoison

    BluePoison is a tool for Windows 8 which helps you to disable Windows 8 Immense Start Menu, unlock the Applications folder, activate full-screen Snap feature on small screens. It basically allows you to unlock and modify all hidden feature’s and also you can change the Windows 8 default theme with it.

    The BluePoison is very handy if you want to change the GUI of your Windows 8, and customize it according to your needs. you will need Administrator privilege to do this.

    BluePoision can enable/disable all the unlocked features in one, Including Windows 8 Immense Start Menu, hidden Application folder, and Aero Snap feature restriction. When you want to revert to default Windows 8 settings, click disable all to restore the default settings, including Windows 8 Start Menu, hidden Application folder, and Aero Snap feature restriction.

    The application was developed to replace Windows 7 File Explorer with ribbon based Windows Explorer and to unlock PDF Reader, extended Windows Task Manager and Webcam in early builds of Windows 8. BluePosion now supports Windows 8 Developer Build Preview.

    BluePosion includes a total of 10 non-customizable Windows 8 Start Menu themes. Since Windows 8 Developer Build doesn’t have an option to change the color scheme of default theme, this feature may come handy.

    Download BluePoison (Website is in Italian, download link given at the end of the page)

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    Establish Multiple Remote Desktop Connections In the Same Window

    rsrdp is an open source application that works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. A portable remote desktop connection management application, which enables you to establish multiple remote desktop connections by switching between them within the same application window.

    To establish a remote desktop connection, Click on File >> Quick Connect, and enter the hostname / IP address for the PC that you want to connect to. You can enter multiple connections for connecting to remote computers, create groups to organize the list of remote hosts. You can also connect or disconnect all specified hosts simultaneously, using the option in the menu.

    Click the sidebar to see the remote window in an expanded format.You can also close and refresh connections by using the Refresh and Close (x) buttons located next to the File menu.

    Download rsrdp

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    How To Get Back The Old Gmail Look

    To Get Back The Old Gmail Look

    1. log in to your Gmail account.
    2. In the right hand side beside the email counters & navigation you will find a “Settings/Options = a little gear icon in black”,click on that and look for “Revert to the old look temporarily”
    3. Click on “Revert to the old look temporarily” to confirm the changes.
    4. That’s it.

    Note: This is a temporary fix, I am not sure how long Google team will keep up this option.

    To Switch To The New Look Of Gmail

    1. Click on “Switch to new look”  in the right hand footer of the Gmail page.
    2. Then click on “Switch to the new look” to confirm the changes.
    3. That’s it, you will have the Gmail’s new look.

    What do you think about the new design?

    Completely Remove Chat from your Gmail

    Completely Remove Chat from your Gmail

    This article is about disabling/completely removing Google Chat from your Gmail account, by following this Video Tutorial you will be able to disable the chat completely from your Gmail.

    1. First log into your Gmail account.
    2. After logging in,look for Settings Page which you can find in right side of the screen.
    3. Click on Chat and select “Chat Off” radio button and click on Save Changes.
    4. That’s it!! now notice that Chat options is removed from your account.
    5. Alternatively, use this link to directly access your Gmail Chat settings page. You can re-enable chat in your Gmail by using the “Chat On” option.
    How to Enable Aero Glass Effects on Firefox4

    How to Enable Aero Glass Effects on Firefox

    GlassMyFox, a Firefox add-on, can enable the Aero Glass effects, for Windows 7 and Vista makes window buttons and toolbars look transparent theThis add-on makes menus, toolbars and windows, transparent. You can access options to easily enable different effects such as Glass effects, Glass effects with custom tabs, favicon/closeicon, White tab-text and more.

    Once you have installed the add-on. You can easily change the tab title color, change the color of the navigation buttons. change the the tabs effects.

    Aero Glass options offers multiple options, divided in two main categories,Glass Options and Options.

    • The Glass options allow you to enable the Glass, Glass and custom tabs and Glass and “GMF-tabs”,
    • The Options category lets you enable White tab-text, Higher tabstoolbar, Favicon+Closeicon, White nav-bar buttons and Higher bookmarks-bar.

    GlassMyFox gives Firefox an Aero Glass effect, install this add-on from the link below.

    Install GlassMyFox Add-On For Firefox

    How to send executable files (.exe) files in Gmail - C1opy

    How to send executable files (.exe) files in Gmail

    Email services including Gmail won’t allow us to send and receive executable files.Gmail automatically blocks these exe files and if you are able to send exe files Gmail will bounce it back to it’s original sender automatically. The reason is simple, executable files may contain viruses. But with this simple trick we can send safe executable files through Gmail.

    Send executable files (.exe) files in Gmail

    Click on Start > Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab, under Advanced settings, uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types”  and click Apply, OK to save changes.

    Now you will be able to see files extensions, example: program.exe. Now replace exe with txt extension so the program file becomes program.txt, click yes to Rename warning “changing file name extension makes file unusable”.

    Now go to Gmail and send the text file as an attachment and it will be downloaded by your colleague without any problems after virus scan by Gmail. Tell your friend to change text file to executable file by Unchecking “Hide extensions for known file types” in the Control Panel > Folder Options, just like you did.

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    How to Make Firefox Address Bar Font Size Bigger

    With Firefox extension called Make address bar Font Size bigger which makes the URL address bar font size bigger.

    This extension even makes the auto-complete suggestions dropdown that appear when you start typing on address bar even bigger which add more comfort to the user. You can also easily know while visiting shopping sites whether you’re on a trusted site.

    How to Disable Insecure Content Warning in Google Chrome 2

    How to Disable Insecure Content Warning in Google Chrome

    How to Turn Off Insecure Content Warnings in Google Chrome. When you open a website in Google Chrome, the browser may display a security warning that says “This page has insecure content.

    To disable this warning in Chrome, follow these steps:

    1. Right click on your Chrome shortcut icon and select properties.
    2. Add/append “–allow-running-insecure-content” to the text in the target.
    3. Apply changes and restart Chrome.

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    Download Facebook Photo Albums

    How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

    Download Facebook Photo Albums using PhotoGrabber. With this app you can Download Photos of Any Friends!

    PhotoGrabber: is a desktop application that makes it easy to download all facebook photos of your friends.Have the app installed, give it access to your data on facebook (through facebook authentication) and choose your friend in the list. You can:

    • Download all photos where your friend is tagged in.
    • Download all albums that contains your friend’s photos.
    • Download all albums uploaded by your friend.
    • Download comments and tagging information of the photos.

    When you select the destination folder, give it time for all photos to be downloaded.

    Download PhotGrabber: Mac / Windows

    Note: If you are unable to download ALL photos where you are tagged in, it’s probably the default privacy settings. A facebook application with a user’s credentials has different permissions than the same user accessing facebook from a browser. The people who have uploaded and tagged pictures of you are probably blocking apps from accessing their information.

    How to add Google AdSense to Xara Web Designer1

    How to add Google AdSense to Xara Web Designer

    To add Google AdSense to Xara Web Designer:

    1. Select the Rectangle tool. To create a rectangle with the same Height and width as the adsense you are incorporating.

    2. Make sure you have the rectangle selected by Selecting the Selector tool and selecting the rectangle.

    3. Once you have the rectangle selected, Click on Placeholder icon.

    4. In the place holder check mark the Replace with HTML code. and Paste  the Google ad-sense HTML in the box.

    5. Upload the site and your ad-sense will be visible.

    Note: If you try to preview your site, adsense will not show. the adsense Banner  will only be visible when the site is uploaded.

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