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Improve your browser performance

Optimization of Your Browser Speed

Nobody likes a snail-paced internet connection. These days’ homes and offices are associated with the high-speed net connection and most of us are utilizing them. This is the reason, why we go crazy whenever we across a slow connection. There are plenty of options available for optimizing surfing experience.

To boost up internet connection speed, there are numerous software applications, which are able to tweak and optimize internet speed. Software such as DSL speed are able to make your surfing experience much better, however you cannot expect too much from these applications. As a fact, you will not be able to increase above their actual speed. It will optimize the internet connection speed much better instead of optimizing it manually.

These days, graphics are virtually everything. Window 7 and Mac Snow Leopard have lot of graphics as compared to their previous versions. However, it is unfortunate that these graphics take too much time to load on the browser. Consequently, if you want to boost your internet browser’s speed you can do so by disabling the graphics option from your internet explorer. Another option is that you can increase your browser speed by switching over to high-speed plans. It is also possible for you to increase the browser speed by changing the catch memory.

Disabling Graphics from Internet Explorer

Click > Tool >Internet option > click on advanced tab from the dialog box. Now uncheck the following Enable Image Toolbar, Enable Automation Image Resizing, Play animations in web pages, play videos in web pages, Show pictures, and then press Apply.

Increasing Catch

Click > Tool > Internet options > General Tab > under the “Delete browsing history on exit” section click setting under the temporary internet files box Click > check for newer versions of stored pages click > on radio button of automatic button > Next set disk space to at least 300MB

Configuration of Internet Explorer

Click Start > Run > Type reedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > software > Microsoft > windows > Current Version > Internet Setting

Change value to 10 (00000010)

Reboot your internet explorer

Configuration of Firefox

Type “about:config” in address bar click> Enter

Skip warning and go further

‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ change value to 10

Now right click in empty space and set value to 0

Reboot browser.

Our Conclusion

For increasing the browser speed we recommend you to change your browser setting instead of going for an optimization software, because this software will not able to Increase the internet speed beyond the actual speed.

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Clicky Gone – The Quickest Way To Hide Open Applications

Clicky Gone – The Quickest Way To Hide Open Applications

Many a times a computer user comes across an extremely congested screen because of the number of applications he/she is accessing. This can lead to a lot of confusion and you might end up closing the wrong application down. To help you out of this confusion you have Clicky Gone, a utility that helps you hide some of the open applications while you manage the rest more efficiently.

The best thing about this utility is that you can hide something from others view white it’s been running in the background. Suppose, you are watching something not required for your office job and your boss whizzes by, then this beautiful utility comes into act and helps you hide the irrelevant application and saves your job.

Clicky Gone is extremely useful but it has its limitations too. The user interface of this utility is not that great and can be driven only by your mouse and keyboard. To unhide or hide all running applications you just have to hit the Alt+Ctrl+F12 key. Hitting the Alt+Ctrl+Return keys enables you to hide some selective applications. It also mutes the sound of the running application along with hiding it.

 

You can restore the applications back on the screen by hitting the Alt+Ctrl+Space keys. The best part is that if the default keys are confusing then you can reconfigure them to your own liking.

The utility Clicky Gone is compatible with all versions of the Windows Operating System and can be downloaded easily that too for free. In order to download this utility for free visit the following link.

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How Can I Send Large Email Attachments In Outlook Express

How to send extra-large attachments using Outlook Express

Most of the mail services available on the web today have an upper limit on the size of emails that you can send and/or receive. For most of the services nowadays the limit is somewhere around 20 to 25MB (it is 20MB for Rediffmail and Yahoo!Mail, whereas it is 25MB for Gmail, and a mere 10MB for Hotmail).

Ten years ago, a 25MB attachment limit would have been a dream for most, but with increasing bandwidths and needs, this is not enough for today’s customers. So what do you do if you want to send a file across email which is larger (way larger) than 25MB? This article will show you a cute little trick that allows you to send such large files through Outlook Express.

Simply follow through the steps given below.

  1. Run Outlook Express.
  2. Navigate to Tools -> Accounts to open the Internet Accounts window.
  3. Go to the Main tab, and select the mail account that you use.
  4. Click on Properties.
  5. A dialog opens up, containing various options for configuring the mail account properties. Go to the Advanced tab in this dialog.
  6. Under the Sending heading, select the option for Break apart messages larger than, and use the arrow to set a suitable upper limit.
  7. Click on Apply.
  8. Click on OK.
  9. Exit the Internet Accounts window by clicking on Close.

After this, Outlook Express will break up all attachments that are larger than 20MB (if that is the limit you set) and send the mail in parts. The recipient will receive the email in parts and on downloading the parts; they will automatically combine to become a single file again.

Another option is to use some of the services available on the web – such as YouSendIt, Transfer Big Files, SendThisFile, and so on – that sends your extra-large file across the internet for you.

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A brief look at Dictionary Apps for Linux

Even though it’s been almost a week since am OpenSUSE up to the point of writing this, I was still hunting for a dictionary/thesaurus for KDE. Also there are a ton of Firefox extensions for dictionary but I prefer a stand alone one that pops with a Ctr+Alt+W.

Also since I don’t have/want OpenOffice (I don’t find much use for it), I could not use the Thesaurus and Dictionary (Ooodi) it provides and Stardict is a no no (It was meant for Gnome).

I added a few of the repos from here (the backport and community repos) and jDictionary turned up in software management. Doesn’t gel with the KDE look, but it does the job, has a thesaurus too.

JaLingo :: OS independent dictionary application

I searched on Sourceforge and I found JaLingo. Very neat piece written in Java, running it is bloody simple. It supports quite a few types of dictionary, I chose to download some of the Sdictionary types.

In comparison to JaLingo, jDictionary allows one to download dictionaries (a limited set available though) within the program, which is very convenient. But Jalingo has a nicer interface and provides for a “drop zone” that you just drag and drop words into and it will show you the meaning and you have the wide variety of dictionary support formats.