Firefox Add-ons that I use!!

Listed are the firefox add-ons that I have been using for some time & I think browsing without them now would be impossible!!

All-in-One Sidebar
All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. Click on the left edge of your browser window to open the sidebar and get easy access to all your panels. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, add-ons, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide-out button and a toolbar, all of which can be extensively customized.

Classic Compact Options
To unlock the full potential of Classic Compact and all of the optional settings (including Firefox 2.0 toolbar buttons, the new keyhole arrows, OS native scrollbars, support for dark OS background colors and more), install the companion extension "Classic Compact Options" which can be downloaded from the official Firefox Add-ons site.

Colorful Tabs

DownThemAll!
DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least, it's fully integrated into your favorite browser!

Fission
Fission combines address bar and progress bar - Safari style, as did Fusion:

FoxClocks
FoxClocks is simple but powerful: if you like, you can just have your local time in your statusbar. Or you can keep an eye on the time around the world with multiple clocks. You can set each clock's colour individually, or have a clock change colour during certain hours: for example you can make your Tokyo clock turn green when it's a good time to Skype your friends in Japan.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Foxmarks is a free add-on for your browser that syncs and backs up your bookmarks across multiple computers and more.

Gmail Notifier
Allows checking for new Gmail messages for multiple Gmail accounts directly from the browser's UI. A status bar item will show once installed, and a toolbar item can be added by customizing the toolbar.

Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager

Tab Scope
Tab Scope is a Firefox extension which enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup. Major features are:

Tweak Network
Firefox has a couple of hidden network settings. With this extension, you can tweak these settings, and you might be able to speed up the loading of web pages. You can also increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site (the default is only four).

Microsoft Outlook, Red X on first pic in email

This has happened to me quite a few times & I found this solution. I thought of sharing it with you all so that you might not have to do the repetitive search ;-)

In Microsoft Outlook, after some time, all my mails that have embedded picture's in them were showing a peculiar behavior. The first image in the email would show a red x & the rest of the pictures would show up just fine. If there was only one picture on the email it would show up as a red x.

I searched & found this as the solution.

1) Open Regedit.

2) Browse to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

3) Copy the value of the 'OutlookSecureTempFolder' key.

4) Start->Run

5) Paste that value & open the folder

6) Delete all the files in this folder.

7) Everything should be fine now.

Nice website!

 

A nice website that I came across while searching for 'Blocking Vs Non-Blocking' architectures.

 

http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu/

MF's Vs ULIP's

I have been hanging in this deli ma for quite some time now. Is MF better or ULIP better for investing my money in. After quite some time of market research & talking to at least a dozen investment agents, & then finally calculating all of it by myself, following are my observations & conclusions:

1) With the same amount of premium (45000p.a.)
-- MF over a period of 20yrs @ 6% give a return of Rs.12,65,991
-- ULIP over the same period of 20yrs @ 6% give a return of Rs.15,54,398
-- Difference - Rs.2,88,407
-- Fund Management Charges (FMC) in case of MF over the same period - Rs3,05,534

2) With the same amount of premium (45000p.a)
-- MF over a period of 5yrs @6% gives a return of Rs.2,43,054
-- ULIP over a period of 5yrs @6% gives a return of Rs.2,33,993

Conclusion

1) If investing for a period of less than 7 yrs MF is a better option.
2) If invested in MF do not keep the money invested for more than 7 yrs, because then the FMC would start eating into your corpus.
3) If investing for a period of more than 7yrs ULIP is a better option
4) If invested in ULIP do not take out your money before 7years because in that case the returns would be lower than iin the case of MF's.

Slumdog Millionaire - My thoughts!

I am surprised not at the movie winning 10 Oscar nominations but the fact that people in India are so much impressed just by the fact that the movie has made its place in the Oscars, & without even thinking are giving it a rating of 5/5.

Obviously, they would enjoy it when the filth of our country is used as a tool for popularity, but, other than that I don't think there is anything so great about this movie.

If we compare it to some other good movies made in India, movies like 'Rang de basanti', 'Taare zameen par', & 'Aamir' this is just an average movie. I would rate it 2 as an average movie but subtract 1 because of the fact that it shows India too dirty. Not that it's not true, but, I just don't like the Idea of showing India so badly in front of the world.

I think it is high time we Indians realize that the Oscars are biased. Since, this movie was directed by a American director, it is doing so well in the Oscars. The pitiable part is that we without going with our instincts & rating this movie as an average movie, instead, are being influenced by the fact that it has won 10 nominations in Oscar & rating it as a very good movie.

I feel this is a very sorry state of affairs.

What's going on!!

 

These days I am reading a novel 'The 3 mistakes of my life'. I don't usually read too many novesl, but this one is special. My beloved wife got it for me on my birthday, so thoughtfull of her to bring me a novel so that I can read a little more & at the same time keep away from my computer on which I am glued all the time.

 

I have reached to chapter six as of now, get little time to read it in between my office timings & other things.

 

I am finding it interesting though.

 

Will keep posting as I progress.

Top 5 Flash Gaming Websites

Link for the complete article on Tech2.com.

 

Following are the top 5 websites as per the article (ofcourse they have listed network 18's 'in.com' as the top most)

 

1. IN.com

2. Miniclip

3. Yahoo! Games

4. PopCapGames

5. Games4Win

 

Although it misses some other very important gaming sites, few are listed below:

 

1. Zapak

2. PLAYCOW

3. Firewall.cx