Mozilla Firefox

Keyboard shortcuts

Spacebar (page down)
Shift-Spacebar (page up)
Ctrl+F (find)
Alt+N (find next)
Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
Ctrl+T (new tab)
Ctrl+K (go to search box)
Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
Ctrl++ (increase text size)
Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
Ctrl-W (close tab)
F5 (reload)
Alt-Home (go to home page)
Control-L Go to address bar
Control-Enter will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there.
Shift-Enter will automatically fill in the “www” and the ".net" addresses.
Control-Shift-Enter will automatically fill in the “www” and the ".org" addresses.
Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

Mouse shortcuts

Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
Shift+scroll down (previous page)
Shift+scroll up (next page)
Ctrl+scroll up (decrease text size)
Ctrl+scroll down (increase text size)
Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

Difference between I18n & L10n

Internationalization involves writing and designing an application so that it can be used with different languages, date, time, currency and other values without software modification.

Localization involves writing and designing an application capable of dealing with a specific region, country or language. In a sense, every application written for a specific area is localized. Usually, though, real localization is achieved by core code that accesses locale, location, political or other specific components and modules along with translating text.

A tax or accounting package that deals with, say, the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil would need to be i18n'ed so that displays, reports and values would not have to be specific for each country, but also l10n'ed to handle different accounting and reporting procedures and taxes.

Proper internationalization facilitates localization. Internationalized applications are easier to localize than applications that have hard-coded text, number formats, embedded image names, etc.

Internationalization is typically a design and implementation job for a software engineer. Localization is typically a translation job for those who provide user visible elements. In some cases, however, when a a country or region requires custom features, some localization tasks may require new software modules or business logic. Hopefully the well-internationalized application has been designed for that issue and makes it easy to simply plug in additional functionality without modifying core application logic.

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What is a Spam?

As wikipedia says, Spam is the abuse of electronic message system to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam and junk fax transmissions.

In other words, we can say spam is flooding the internet with multiple copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Almost all spams are commercial advertising, often for dubious/malicious products, get-rich-quick schemes, etc. Spams cost the sender very little to send, most of the costs are paid by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

E-mail spams target individual users with direct mail messages. E-mail spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.

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Rename several files at once

To rename several files at once:

· Select all of them in any folder view, or in the Windows Explorer, rename the FIRST one in the list, and the rest will follow.

To turn off filenames:

· Hold down the Shift-key when you click to open a folder in Windows Explorer or when switch into thumbnail view. This will turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails. Doing it again turns them back on.

· Try grouping your files. In the top menu bar select View - Arrange icons by - Type, and then View - Arrange icons by… - Show in groups.

Enjoy !!

Enhance Windows Performance !!!

Here is how one can improve the performance of a Windows machine.

· Start > right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
· Click on the "Advanced" tab.
· See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings".
· Disable the following:

Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show Shadows under menus
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons
Use a background image for each folder type
Use common tasks in folders
There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster.

Clean Prefetch in Windows XP

This is a unique technique for Windows XP. It is well known that it is necessary to scrub registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down a computer noticeably.

· Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files, reboot. It is recommended to carry out this operation on a monthly basis.

Cheers !!!