How many times has this occurred? You find a great web site, but it requires an account before you can access the site. So you create the account, password and secret question and let FireFox remember the account information. Time goes by and your at work or on another computer, and decide that you want to visit that great site, but can’t remember the password.
Sure you can have the site email your password, but it also wants you to answer the secret question. Now what? Time to dig into FireFox Password Manager….
Just go to Tools, Options and click on the Security Tab then click on Show Passwords (version 2.0 shown below) or View Saved Passwords (version 1.5 not shown) button.
You will see two columns, one for the Site and another for your Username. To view your passwords, click on the Show Passwords button and answer Yes to show your passwords.
The third column will list all passwords that have been saved…including the web site that you forgot!
Password Manager is a handy tool to use, but keep in mind, there are some potential security issues you should be aware of:
* Never let anyone access your computer un-attended. Doing so, will give them access to your account info as shown above.
* Make sure you are running the latest stable version of Firefox included any security updates.
* If you keep backups of your Firefox profile, keep it secure since Password Manager stores the data in a file. Although it is difficult to read, it’s not impossible to crack.
* Don’t use Password Manager for personal or banking/credit card sites (some banking/credit card sites by default don’t give you the option).
* Use “Password Never Saved” setting in Password Manager for sites you don’t trust or do not want to save passwords.
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Entrecard chain-droppers out there (you know who you are). It works in Internet Explorer (version 7 and later), Firefox, and Safari.
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The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista delivers not only support for larger quantities of system memory, with the high-end editions supporting as much as 128 GB of RAM, but also some extra horse power hidden under the hood.
Essentially, in terms of performance, x64 Vista manages to best all the alternatives available under the Windows client umbrella. However, it's not the x64 Vista with Service Pack 1, as you would expect, but the plain vanilla RTM version of the latest Windows client we're talking about. In a benchmark performed using PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1, the RTM version of 64-bit Vista came out on top of all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows clients starting with the original version of Windows XP.
According to Hardware 2.0, x64 Vista RTM has outrun x64 Vista SP1 with a score of 1183.1 compared to just 1128.8. The platform used for testing featured a Phenom 9700 quad-core processor, an ATi Radeon 3850 256MB RAM, an ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe, 2GB (2 x 1GB) RAM, and a Western Digital Raptor HDD 10,000RPM 150GB as well as a Western Digital Caviar HDD 7,200RPM 500GB. On this system, the original 64-bit Vista version bested the SP1 release.
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In Part 1 of my 4 part series of blog posts looking at the Origami Experience 2.0 software, I am going to talk about one of the most important new experiences in the new release: browsing the web directly in Origami Central. Origami Central, one of the three apps in the Origami Experience, has the built in capability to browse webpages just as you would in IE7. ActiveX controls work just fine in the browsing experience of Origami Central - as does Flash and Silverlight (demo video below!).
In Origami Central, the browsing experience is tied to the toolbar that auto-hides at the top of the window.
Because the toolbar auto-hides, I get a full screen web browsing experience and with a UMPC running at 1024x600 resolution without toolbars and other things taking up useful screen real-estate.
Just like in IE7, I can use the address bar in Origami Central to do web searches. But in Origami Central, when I type something in the address bar (a phrase or URL), it searches through the history of websites I have already visited. I typed in "windows" into the address bar and these 3 previously visited websites came up:
To do web searches, Origami Central provides a really unique way of searching the web using Live Search. When I type in a search term, it provides a list of popular searches that change depending on the term of course. It also provides previous searches I've made.
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When I take a snapshot of a website, it takes a complete "freeze" of the page I am at. I can go back to that site and read the site or access links etc. I can even scroll down to view other parts of the site (as long as it's on the same page of course).
My favorites, history, and snapshots are all available in my "Library" by clicking the star icon in the toolbar.
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When you get to see the internal parts of your CPU, you are most likely so see a lot of chips, modules and diodes which will surely let you go crazy wondering how anyone in his right mind was able to make all of these pieces operate fluently on the motherboard where they are installed.
Ideally, non-electronic people could care less but if you happen to want to take up computer engineering, these are things that are interconnected which will also make you think a lot. There are the usual and positive and negative connections which have to be soldered properly into the right slot and whenever any of them are installed in them, it is likely that the whole motherboard in use will malfunction.
The motherboard is the life of the computer. If a computer’s motherboard fails to operate, the other computer paraphernalia such as the video cards, sound cards, hard disks and memory modules are sure to become dead. These other components can be replaced easily at any time whenever one of them malfunctions but if they main board of the computer is the one with the problem, it is close to saying you need a whole new computer since it is the heart and soul of the computer.
Lastly, the motherboard is the least expected part that is expected to malfunction. Normally, other parts can have problems along the way. But as far as durability is concerned, rest assured that the motherboard is not among the immediate ones expected to malfunction and needed to be replaced.
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