November 2006

In most of the browsers, toolbars take a lot of space on the display. You can either remove/hide the toolbars or switch to Full Screen Mode.

In the latest version of Firefox (Version 2.0) the Full Screen mode will display only the Navigation Toolbar. However you are forced to switch back to the normal view if you want to access features in other hidden toolbars.

AutoHide is a nice little Firefox Extension which gives you more control of the browser in full screen mode.

Using the extension customization dialog, you can configure "Autohide" setting for individual toolbars. The plugin is intelligent in the sense that when you install a new

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In one of my previous post I had linked to Windows Vista Wallpapers shared by Stephen Silber.

Haklabs has shared another set of 54 photos from Vista RTM build. Download it here !

Its hosted on Rapidshare;Wonder why people use this sharing service, I would recommend using AMD's Streamload for sharing big files !

Brajeshwar has created another Windows Vista Wallpaper pack and has around 70 photos ! As far as I know the official release has around 54 images, I am not sure about the extra 16 images in this pack :)

This might sound crazy; but I make it a point to reinstall Windows every 6-8 months. I install a lot of tools/applications and over the period of time the PC becomes very slow. Even if I do DiskCleanup and Registry cleanup, its not of much use ! Some of the steps I take before reinstalling Windows 1. Take a snapshot of the Start Menu Programs ! It does help in 2. Check/Backup files in My Documents/Desktop. (Backing up the entire user profile directory might make more sense) 3. Check Program Files (Many a times I have lost important files such as the save files of Games, local blog data etc) 4. Use a tool/browser plugin like Google Browser Sych to backup your browser ...

EclEmma is a free Java code coverage tool for Eclipse and is based on EMMA code coverage tool.

Features

Fast develop/test cycle: Launches from within the workbench like JUnit test runs can directly be analyzed for code coverage. Rich coverage analysis: Coverage results are immediately summarized and highlighted in the Java source code editors. Non-invasive: EclEmma does not require modifying your projects or performing any other setup.

Once the plugin is installed, it adds a new launch mode called as Coverage Mode

After the application terminates, EclEmma shows code coverage data in the "Coverage Overview" view

Other than this, EclEmma highlights the code in the source

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Check out the trailer of The Last Legion starring Aishwarya Rai !

I never knew till now that she was starring in a Hollywood movie. If you saw the trailer completely one thing that you will notice immediately is the dialogue delivery by Aishwarya Rai ! Sounds pathetic !  Doesn't it ?

This is the comment left on IMDB by a viewer who saw an early preview of this movie:

I saw an early screening of this movie. I went because I think Ben Kinglsey is a great actor so I thought it would b a great movie. I was dead wrong. My 2 friends as well as my brother and sister laughed throughout

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My hands are aching as I type this post ! All credit for the pain goes to this game called QWERTY Warriors !

The game is pathetically addictive and is supposed to improve your typing speed !

When I took the "Typing Test" some time back I was impressed by my own abilities. However I have not

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I stumbled on this video in Youtube and its worth watching !

The video was created by Dony Permedi as a part of his Masters Thesis (Animation)

Ethereal is one of the best open source packet sniffer available today. It is available on both Windows and Unix Platform. Detailed list of Ethereal features can be found here ! Richard Sharpe and Ed Warnicke have written an extensive user guide(450 pages) on Ethereal. The intent of the document was to improve the accessibility of Ethereal. If you are new to Ethereal or if you are already using Ethereal this guide is for you :) Download Ethereal User Guide V1.1

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One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer.

Colibri was a nice alternative to GD's Quick Search. You can read more about Colibri here.

Launchy is another nice little open source tool to accomplish the same functionality.

Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, and programs on your computer

The startup of the program is kind of weird in the sense that it hides in the background and there is no way to know that the program is running.

(Unlinke Launchy, Colibri sits in the taskbar to let you know that it is running in the background!)

Alt + Space invokes the Launchy widget.

Nope I am not going to write a post listing the 100 Linux Tips and Tricks. I am just going to attach a nice book that I found while searching through by E-book collection :) The book is pretty good for new Linux users and can help them to quickly get started on Linux ! I have checked the copyright and its free of charge. Download PDF(1.18MB) P.S. The search for this document was triggered by the recent installation of Suse 10.1. :).