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Details on how to setup a local version of WordPress on your Vista system. A great option for theme and plugin development!
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After XP SP3 was pulled, now they’ve pulled Vista SP1 from being pushed via Windows Update for fear it may screw up some business apps.
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Some ‘Green’ reasons why Vista can save you money.
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A creative way to get around Vista?s UAC temporarily without having to reboot. Elevate Explorer!
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Stats showing why you should be using Vista, and be happy about it!
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The aging of XP and the uncertainty of Windows 7 mean businesses really have no choice: They have to move to Vista, whether they like it or not
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If you have to disable UAC in order to install an application, I’d say that takes it out of the ‘Vista Ready’ catagory.
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One of the cool things about Firefox is it’s never ending ways to do things. While this list will not make headlines, any Firefox list I find, always has one or two tips worth saving. Here are five Firefox tips that I like because they are quick and don’t require any extensions or add-ons installation.
Firefox Tip 1 - Bookmarks are great, but sometimes you may want to save a Web site link for the short term. Instead of creating a Bookmark, just click and hold on the Web site favicon in the Address bar, then drag and drop to your Desktop creating an instant shortcut link to the site. Next time you need to visit the site, click on the shortcut and Firefox will open the link in a new tab.
Firefox Tip 2 - Firefox 2.0 provides a few options to customize what sites you want opened when Firefox starts up. By setting the Startup preference in Tools \ Options under the Main tab, I like to have several sites open, by selecting Show My Home Page (next to When Firefox Starts) and adding URL’s in the Home Page field.
But after a while, I find new sites here and there and end up needing to add or remove URL’s.
Instead of constantly modifying the URL’s in the Home Page field, you can have Firefox open all sites located in a Bookmark folder. Just select Use Bookmark and choose a folder. You can easily add and remove sites to the folder, then just refresh the sites by clicking on Use Bookmark and re-select the folder (This also works on version 1.5).
Firefox Tip 3 - If you like to use keyboard shortcuts, but found the Page Up / Down and Home End keys are not working anymore, just hit F7 to get them working again. The keys become disabled if the Accessibility feature was enabled either in Tools \ Optons \ Advanced tab and selecting Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages or you press F7 and answered yes to the following for Caret Browsing.
By selecting the check box Do not show me this dialog box again, pressing F7 toggles the feature on or off, but does not display the dialog box if the keys become disabled again without warning. To get the warning back:
* Type about:config in the Address Bar
* In the Filter bar, type accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret and double click on it to set the Value to True.
Firefox Tip 4 - When searching using Firefox search box on the Navigation toolbar, search results will open in the active tab. Using Alt + Enter will open the search results in a new tab. You can make this the default action by having the searches open in a new tab all the time with the following change:
* Type about:config in the Address Bar
* In the Filter bar, type browser.search.openintab and double click on it to set the Value to True.
Firefox Tip 5 - Tab browsing is one of the best inventions since the Internet. But sometimes when you have many tabs open, it’s hard to find the active tab.
To make this change, make sure the userChrome.css file exist in your profile directory at the following locations:
On Windows Vista: C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome
On Windows XP/2000: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome
On Linux (typicaly) ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/
(If file does not exist, just create a text file and name it userChrome.css)
Then copy the following code into userChrome.css and save it.
/* Make inactive tabs almost visible */
#content tab:not([selected="true"]) {
-moz-opacity: 0.5 !important; }
Close and re-open Firefox and you will now be able to easily find the active tab.
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As I noted a few days ago, there is weirdness associated with properties added by atom .
This weirdness stems from the fact that adding properties by atom
is really a hole in the original implementation
rather than something designed on purpose. The original Read More......(
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What is Pictomio?
Pictomio is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. The extensive capabilities of the latest programmable 3D graphic cards are utilized for image decoding and displaying slideshows. The Pictomio software is composed of three parts:
a photo browser and slideshow editor, a slideshow viewer, and a slideshow screensaver.
Minimum requirements
Intel or AMD x86 CPU with >1 GHz
1GB RAM
Shader Model 2.0 graphics card with 128 MB of Video RAM
500 MB of available hard drive space (depending on number of managed photos)
Operating system Windows XP/Vista
DOWNLOAD IT!!! http://www.pictomio.com/en-US/Download/Default.aspx
Pictomio - free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards
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Microsoft kicks off its annual management conclave by touting public betas of three management products.
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