Monday, March 28, 2011

Google Search Tricks:


Google Search Tricks tipsGoogle has several google operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own   site, below you will find the most important ones:   
define: - This google operator will find definitions for a certain term or  word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange word when writing a post. I use this as a google dictionary. example : (define computer)
info: - The google info operator will list the sets of information that    Google has from a specific website (i.e. info:http://hack2007.50webs.com)
site: - This google operator can be used to see the number of indexed     pages on your site (i.e.site:www.hack2007.50webs.com).                  Alternative it can also be used to search for information inside a specific        site or class of sites.
link: - This google link operator allows you to find backlinks pointing         to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated frequently and             not all backlinks are shown
allinurl: - Using this Google operator will limit the search to results         that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e. allinurl:dailyblogtips)
fileformat: - Useful Google operator for finding specific file formats. Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. (i.e. “fileformat:.pdf market research” will search for PDF documents that contain the terms “market” and “research”)

Friday, March 25, 2011

BOOSTING THE FIREFOX:

Yes, Firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?
That's the beauty of this program being open source.
Here's what you do:
In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.
Note that these are found to REALLY speed up Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining.

Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below - for the true / false Booleans - they’ll change when you double click.
Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300
One more thin Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.
Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

How to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a Registry hack?


We all get bored of the same old default blue color of Office 2007. There are many ways to set the Office 2007 color scheme. One of these ways is to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack. Other than this method you can set it by using the GUI or by using a Group Policy template. You can set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack by following these simple and easy steps:
Using Manual Registry Hack
In order to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack manually, use the Start Menu Search box or the Run box to open regedit.exe.
To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
Navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

Select the key named Theme from the right-hand side of the window.
Set the Theme to one of the following values to get the color of your choice: 
For Blue color scheme: 1 
For Silver color scheme: 2 
For Black color scheme: 3 
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect. You have successfully changed the color scheme of Office 2007 to suit your wish.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

How to create a shortcut for locking the Computer Screen in Windows 7?


There are many ways in which you can lock the computer screen. The most popular as well as the fastest way to lock it is to use a keyboard shortcut. The keyboard shortcut used to lock the computer screen is Win+L. A few of us choose to utilize the mouse to lock it. And of course many people like to use both the options.
There is another method in which we can lock the computer screen. It is to create a shortcut for locking the computer screen in Windows 7. You can create a shortcut for locking the computer screen in Windows 7, XP and Vista too. Follow these steps in order to create a shortcut for locking the computer screen in Windows 7 as well as other editions:
Right-click on the desktop where you would like to create the shortcut.
Point to New.

Click on Shortcut from the menu.

Type in this text in the shortcut textbox. (This text will work for Windows XP as well even though the screen will be different)
rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Click on the Next button.
Type in a name for your shortcut.
Click on the Finish button.  
You have successfully created a shortcut to lock your workstation. Just click on the shortcut whenever you want to lock the computer screen.