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firefox tips & tricks

Enable the smooth scrolling feature in firefox 3.0 just like safari

 

Firefox 3.0 has been just released and ready for download, I am on twitter side by side telling people the alternate download server for firefox 3.0 as both mozilla and spreadfirefox.com are down due to heavy hits for firefox 3.0 download.

While people are trying to download, I am the lucky one who is writing a post on one of the cool feature of firefox 3.0, I have been waiting to be implemented in firefox for a long time.

Lets come to the point, the feature is related to smooth scrolling which can be enabled to enjoy the smooth scrolling effect just like Internet explorer and safari.

What is smooth scrolling ?

Smooth scrolling refers to a scrolling display where text appears smoothly, rather than appearing as a whole line at a time.

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tips & tricks

Hide all the opened windows with a keyboard shortcut

One of our reader asked us "How can I hide opened windows in win XP with a keyboard shortcut".

But why to hide opened Windows?

  • The answer is quite simple as one may want to hide opened applications like Orkut, IM messengers etc just when his boss arrived to his/her seat.
  • Even you may have an application running or web site opened which contains or display your private confidential data.

We had searched for different free applications on the web and found few of them really cool and worth mentioning to the readers after testing them all.

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tips & tricks

Disabling IPv6 Secures your Network [Guest Post by ajay pathak]

Running unnecessary services and programs on your windows or any operating system makes it more vulnerable for cyber attacks. Best example is IPv6. Most people don’t know what is IPv6? IPv6 is by default enable in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Until and unless you are using IPv6 features, it’s better to turn off IPv6 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

If you are not using IPv6 features it’s better to turn it off. Its very east to turn off IPv6. Open registry editor:

Type "regedit" in run prompt.
Search for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\ "

When you find this registry key "create a DWORD value named DisabledComponents and set the value to 0xffffffff"
If in near future you want to enable IPv6 just change the value to 0.

This post has been contributed by Ajay Pathak from Readerszone. Thanks Ajay for this post!

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Guest Bloggers Needed

Hi guys

I am on a vacation right now till 15 jun, writing this post from a internet cafe in aligarh. I won’t be able to blog so, would like to invite all the fellow bloggers who would like to write for TechnixUpdate.com

TechnixUpdate.com is about computer tips and tricks so we can accept any article on computer tips and tricks. In return you will get a link back at the end of the post and the winner whoese post recieves highest amount of traffic will get a 125* 125 banner ad in the sidebar for one month for free.

If you are interested, mail us  your entries at abhishek.bhatnagars@gmail.com .We hope to receive lot more entries. Cheers !

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tips & tricks

Drop shadow outlining all the edges of your screenshot with winsnap but not possible with snagit

We have been using SnagIt for a long time now, also quite addicted to the great features it offers.

But, We miss one of the aspiring feature of dropping a shadow effect outlining all the edges of the screenshot captured.

Does it sound confusing?

See the images below to know more…

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windows hacks

Convert drm protected music to wav files with freeware Drm2Free

It occurs many times when you try to copy the DRM ( Digital Rights Management ) protected music from your audio files but not able copy, because the file you are trying to copy is DRM protected.

Drm2Free is a freeware program which lets you copy protected or unprotected audio files to wave-files for private use ( as shown in the image below ).

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After running the program, for every protected copied sound file a new and unprotected wav-file is created.

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tips & tricks

Hide your desktop icons in a double click with hide icons

Desktop with icons

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Desktop without icons

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Out of 10 people around 7 will always have a cluttered desktop in windows with lots of usefull and not usefull icons this I can say as per my experience from the time, I have been using computers for 5 years.

Even they know it looks very cluttered but they are used to using it although we have already posted on how can you clean your cluttered desktop automatically. But most of the computer users are much used to the large number of shortcuts they create on their desktop.

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windows hacks

Password Protect your Confidential information with steganos locknote

Did you ever think of storing the all your passwords or other confidential information in a file? But before you can do that, the most important question which comes to your mind is how will you be able to protect that file.

Steganos LockNote is a Freeware which comes handy in this situation. It will change the way you work with confidential notes.

locknote-editor 

 

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It allows you to encrypt and decrypt any note in a simple and independent way which can be unlocked any time, any where with a correct password.

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