Some Cool Firefox Tricks That Might Make You Crazy

Firefox is a widely used browser, specially after it joined hands with Google. Firefox is famous for its addons, but here are some of the tricks that can be performed without any addons. I don’t know where he got these from but seems like to be good, thats why i decide to share these with you. These tricks might not be of any use, but these are good just for the fun sake and those who study codes, needs to understand that why these tricks do this stuff. Here are these tricks. Enjoy!!!

• chrome://browser/content/browser.xul :: Opens another Firefox inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.
• chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul :: Opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab.
• chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul :: Opens the “Book Marks Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window.
• chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul :: Opens the History Panel in the Firefox tab.
• chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions :: Opens the Extensions window in the current tab.
• chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul :: Opens the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.
• chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul :: Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.
• chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul :: Opens the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.
• chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml :: A scrolling list of names. The one’s who we must thank for creating Firefox

And My favorite

• chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul :: Dancing Firefox.

Disable Windows Tour In Xp

When you install Windows Xp Home or Professional Editions, then the first thing you observe is the Windows Tour. This keeps on popping up again and again till you complete the tour.
Windows Tour is a service which was developed so as to make people comfortable with Xp as the interface provided had some new features. But this became a bit of a pain when we were not able to stop it at any point of time. Hiding it in the notification area didn’t help too much. This tour was then taken off in Windows Xp SP1 and SP2. But in case if you are still using the Xp home or Professional editions then you can try to disable it using the Registry Settings. Before performing this make sure you backup your registry.
Here is what you need to do.

1. Go to Start –> Run, and type “regedit“.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour
3. Right Click on Tour and create a new DWORD value.
4. Name the value as RunCount and give its value as 0.

This was the registry setting which i found was existent in Windows Xp SP1 and SP2 versions, and creating them in the earlier versions of it help in stopping the Windows Tour.

Setting The Caps Lock, Num Lock And Scroll Lock Status

Setting up the Caps Lock, Num Lock and the Scroll Lock is much required sometimes. If the settings go bad, they can be create mess sometimes. Thankfully, these can be changed easily by changing some Registry values, and thus using it up to your needs.
To Set up the Startup of these keys, just follow the instructions below to get the desired results.

Before Performing this task, take a backup of your registry, so as in case if anything goes wrong, you would be able to recover it back.

1. Go to Start –> Run and type “Regedit”.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard.
3. Select the String InitialKeyboardIndicators.
4. Now we need to change the String Value to get the desired result. Give the values as given below.
   • For All Keys off - 0
   • For Caps Lock on - 1
   • For Num Lock on - 2
   • For Caps Lock and Num Lock on - 3
   • For Scroll Lock on - 4
   • For Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on - 5
   • For Num Lock and Scroll Lock on - 6
   • For All Keys on - 7
5. Reboot your Computer and its Done

Its that easy, You can do it with ease. But just make sure you go the specified String and put the specified Value only. Please do not attempt to do if you are comfortable with the Registry. Use any Registry Editing Software for make any changes.

5 Online Services to Download and Convert Videos

Today downloading your favorite videos is a necessity, but getting them in the correct format required is a difficult task. You either need to install some software or need to upload it to a website that will provide you the conversion of the video into the desired format, but even the best website may not be able to provide you with all the formats. There are number of sites and software’s providing the downloading and conversion of videos. I have searched for some of the online services which will let you download the video in the format you desire. Here they are.

1. Anjo.to – This service lets you download videos from YouTube, Google video and other service providers in different formats. It allows you to download video in FLV, 3Gp, MP4, AVI, MOV and MP3 formats. The other great feature of this service is the Multiload feature, you can provide links for multiple videos and decide a format, and a mail would be send to you containing the links.
2. MediaConverter – Another site that provides video conversion. For this site you might need to register (free) and you would be able to use some of the premium services. Not only the video formats but other audio and document formats are also supported. This site also provides a downloadable converter for free and a video downloader which is available in free and paid versions.
3. MovAvi – It is another good tool to download and convert videos. The link and the final format can be submitted, and you will receive a mail containing the downloadable link. The quality of the video delivered is also better than others.
4. All2convert – This site allows you to upload videos and also give the URL’s as well. It gives you an option to convert it in mobile format, iPod format and the PC formats. The interface was really easy to use and a starter would find it easy to use.
5. Video4iPod – As the name says, this site is specifically for iPod formats, and provides some good different formats. Video formats for iPod, PSP and mobiles are supported.

Also see review of Vixy and Zamzar which are also great online conversion services.
I might have missed some of the best sites, please let me know more