Articles from April 2008
Posted by jf on April 28, 2008
The Send To context menu can sometime become very slow and frustrating. Many softwares and other Windows features are adding menu items in this contextual menu, and it can become overloaded. You can have an idea of the existing menu options by entering the following in Explorer (My Computer): shell:sendto From there, you can edit [...]
Categories: Bug Fixes, News, Technical, Winblows
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Tags: Context, Menu, Sendto, Windows
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Posted by jf on April 25, 2008
OperaFly is a nifty little free program that runs on Windows. You can get a version that does or doesn’t require installation, and the beauty is that it takes what could be a daunting task and turns it into something that is very user friendly. When you startup the program it will automatically find the [...]
Categories: News, Non-Geek, Winblows
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Posted by jf on April 23, 2008
If you’ve started using the beta of Firefox 3, you’ve probably already seen the new Smart Bookmarks folder that is created by default. This folder can be useful for looking up sites you just visited or bookmarked… but how do you get it back if you accidentally deleted it? Luckily there’s a simple about:config tweak [...]
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Posted by jf on April 19, 2008
Auto Context is a Firefox extension that will open a customized popup menu when you select a text on any web content. You can get the extension at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5714 The add-on page has multiple screenshots available. Multiple customizations are available and the add-on received multiple positive reviews. Support for this Extension is available at http://autocontext.extra.hu.
Categories: Firefox, News, Technical
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Posted by jf on April 6, 2008
There is this open source HTML editor, known as Xinha. It has WYSIWYG interface so HTML editing is easier. Well, there is now a Xinha Here version for the web page text entry on any field you may want. Once this extension is installed, all you need to do is right-click, and select Open Xinha [...]
Categories: Firefox, Gadgets, News, Technical, Winblows
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Posted by jf on April 6, 2008
From Cybernet: “One thing that you may not realize is how many different actions can be performed simply by dragging and dropping text or URL’s in Firefox. Most browsers actually support similar actions, but we thought it would be useful to provide an overview of the different ways you can put it to work.” There [...]
Categories: Firefox, Linux, News, Technical, Winblows
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