Posted by Lim on Apr 12th, 09 | Filed under
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If you copy contant from web and paste them into Microsoft Word file, you may found that there are a lot of hyperlinks, which you may want to delete them.
So, how to you delete those unused hyperlinks? Simply right-click them one by one and choose “Remove hyperlink“? This method is very time consuming especially if you have a very long article that has a lot of hyperlinks.
The second method you may try to paste the content into a notepad first, then copy content from notepad, and paste again into a new Word file. This method will also remove the heading and style of your content, it is because when you paste something to notepad, notepad will only read plain text from it.
So, how to solve this problem wisely? The best method is to paste your content into a new word file, press “Ctrl + A” to select all, and then use the shortcut key “Ctrl + Shift + F9” to remove all hyperlinks.
Simple, huh?
Posted by Lim on Mar 26th, 08 | Filed under
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This tutorial will discuss how to create a “hidden” folder with a blank name and no icon, so that nobody will know the existence of that folder.
There are a lot of methods to make your folder invisible. The easiest way is to set the property “hidden” to true. Else, you can get some softwares to do it for you. Now, i would like to discuss another method.
Step 1
Right click on anywhere and choose New -> Folder.
Step 2
Rename the folder. When you rename, delete the original name, hold your “alt” key and press “0160“. This will create a blank name for your folder.
Step 3
After that, right click on your folder and choose Properties. Choose Customize and then press Change Icon button. Select a blank icon from the list. Now, you had successfully create a hidden folder.
People will not know the existence of the folder, even they set to view invisible folder. This is because your folder has no icon and no name!
My advise
Try to put the hidden folder at the middle of your desktop, so that no one will accidentally select them. To make your folder more secure, you can check the “hidden” property.
Posted by Lim on Mar 25th, 08 | Filed under
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If you use a lot of USB device, i believe you will use “Safely Remove Hardware” very frequently. But if you have a lot of tray icons, you probably need to take some time to find the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon. So, why not create a desktop shortcut to remove USB devices?
Step 1
Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.
Step 2
Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had rename it to “remove USB“.
Step 3
You had created your shortcut. Now you can double click it and remove and USB device as normal. This method works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Note: If you face any problems when removing your USB devices, you can try unlocker.
Posted by Lim on Mar 20th, 08 | Filed under
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Firefox comes with spell checking feature, which able to check our spelling error in text boxes. But, there are some fields which Firefox never check, for example the input textbox for username or email address.
We need to change the settings in Firefox so that it enable spell-checking for all text fields. I found this article that talk about this.
First, open your Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter. After that, type layout.spellcheckDefault in the filter field and change the value to 2 (the default value is 1). You may need to restart your Firefox after this.
Done! Now the spell checking feature is enabled for all text fields.
Posted by Lim on Feb 22nd, 08 | Filed under
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Stumbleupon is a great service because it let users to discover new sites and rate/review them. Now, this trick will let user use the Stumbleupon toolbar without install it.
Firefox and Internet Explorer users can enjoy the Stumble because they can easily install the extension/plugin toolbar. But, users of other browser such as Opera and Safari can’t enjoy this because there is no Stumbleupon toolbar for them!
Now, thanks to Digital Inspiration, he discover a way to use Stumbleupon toolbar without installing it. And this trick works for all browser! All you have to do is enter http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.techsnack.net/ to your address bar and hit enter. You can replace the www.techsnack.net with any URL.
This toolbar look like the original Stumbleupon toolbar. Although it has the full list of buttons, but you can’t vote for the website or submit to another friends. What you can do is just click the Stumble! button and it bring you to another new site.
This works great for non-supported browser such as Opera and Safari. For Firefox or IE users, you can try this if you don’t want to install to much plugin to your toolbar.
demo
Posted by Lim on Feb 18th, 08 | Filed under
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There are few plugins that will help users to manage their Firefox tab pages. If you like to open more than ten tab pages at the same time, i think you need these plugins.
- Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox plugin which include a lot of features such as undo closed tabs, tab clicking options, and much more. The main feature that attract me is it enable multi-row tab display. Go to your Tab Mix Plus Options -> Display -> Tab Bar -> When tabs don’t fit width, choose Multi-row.
- Tab Scope and Tab Preview show a pop-up on tabs so that you can view the contents of the tab through pop-up.
- Vertigo moves the tab bar to the left side of the browser. It is recommended for users who open a lot of tab pages at the same time.
- IE Tab let users switch between IE and Firefox engine with single click. Some websites are only compatible to IE, but you may wish to use Firefox to open it. Click on the Firefox icon at the bottom-right corner to switch to IE engine.
- Tab Groups is a Firefox plugin that let users organize tab pages into groups.
- Send Tab URLs add a File menu command so that you can easily create an email message which contains the list of open tab URL. You can use this plugin to share URLs with your friends.
- FaviconizeTab adds option to the context menu so that you can minimize the width of the tab to the size of favicon.
Conclusion
There are too many plugins to manage your Firefox tab pages. But, i don’t think you need all of them. Choose 1 or 2 that suite your needs. Install too many plugins will slow down your Firefox speed and it may crash your Firefox if these plugins are not compatible to each others.
If you wish to have multiple feature in single plugin, go for Tab Mix Plus.
Posted by Lim on Feb 17th, 08 | Filed under
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The middle mouse button has some special features that we may not know, or being disabled by default. Now, i would like to introduce some cool tips to use your middle mouse button in Firefox.
There are few settings that you can make through about:config (type about:config in the address bar and hit enter):
- middlemouse.contentLoadURL – If you set this to true, when you click the middle mouse button, Firefox will load the clipboard content as a URL. For Linux, this setting is true by default, but seems like doesn’t work for Windows.
- middlemouse.openNewWindow – By default, this is set to true, which will open a new tab when you middle click on a URL.
- middlemouse.paste – By default, this is set to false. If you set to true, click the middle button will paste your clipboard content to the text box.
Beside this, you can also close any tab page by use the middle mouse button.
If you know more tips or features of middle mouse button, please leave a comment here and share with us. Thanks.
Posted by Lim on Feb 15th, 08 | Filed under
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This tutorial will discuss on how to set the limit of suggestions for the address bar. It is very annoying if the suggestion list is too long. So, we try to limit the number of suggestion URL.
Steps to follow
- Open your Firefox 3 and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.
- Unlike Firefox 2, there is a warning message before you can enter the configuration list. Press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to continue.
- Type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter bar and press enter.
- Double-click the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the value to 3 (you can put any value, this is the maximum suggestions that Firefox 3 will gives you).
- RestartFirefox to take effect.
Below is the screenshots for both before and after the configuration change:
As you can see, the address suggestion become 3. I don’t know how they sort the suggestion list. If you want to have more control over the suggestion, you can try Autocomplete Manager.
Posted by Lim on Jan 28th, 08 | Filed under
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Sometimes, you found some interesting articles over the internet and you would like to store them in your bookmark. But, you can’t bring your bookmark together with you, unless you install bookmark synchronization application or use online bookmark service such as Del.icio.us. But, if you want to keep your bookmark private, you had to keep these bookmarks on your own computer.
toread is a web service which can forward any websites to our email account. When you found any interesting article, you can click the toread bookmarklet button and a copy of the website will then delivered to your email account. You can then categorize those articles in your email account.
How it works?
- Type your email address and then press Start now. They will send you an email and you need to click on the link provided to verify your email account.
- After you verify your email account, you are ready to use “toread” bookmark service. You can then right-click the [toread] button and choose “Bookmark this link” from the drop down menu to add this service to your bookmark. Otherwise, you can simply drag-and-drop the [toread] button to your Firefox Toolbar.
- Now, you can start bookmark any websites. When you click on the toread bookmarklet button, the website’s content will automatically forward to your email account. The subject of the email will start with [toread], to indicate that the website is being sent by toread.
Notes: You can also add toread button to your blog/website so that your visitors can forward your contents to their email account. Please refer Add “toread” button to your web site! for more information.
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