[Firefox]- If you are a newbie and don’t know what Personas are, they are just like dresses to your, otherwise plain Firefox browser. You can install any persona, or in other words theme for your Firefox browser from its official gallery. I really like these personas and would have enjoyed using them, if only I had a better PC. If you too are fond of these, then here is something exciting, an addon that helps you to change the personas automatically!

Personas Rotator is a Firefox addon that changes the personas automatically frequently. So, your browser can now wear different personas automatically without a single drop of sweat from you.

The Personas Rotator is an addon which changes the personas at a particular frequency. By default, it is kept at 60 seconds, which you can change in the options. The addon selects the perosnas from all categories by default. But, you can select anyone you want in the options menu.

For this addon to work, you must have another extension installed on your Firefox browser called “Personas Plus”. This can also be downloaded from the Firefox addons site. However, there would be no need of this as the Personas Rotator addon automatically prompts you to install it.

Bonus Tip:  How To Enable Autofilling In URL Bars In Firefox (Like In Chrome)

Go ahead and try this amazing addon for Firefox. I am sure you will like it. And also, do you know any addon similar to this for Google Chrome? Do share your comments here. They add great value to this post!

Install Personas Rotator

Do you want to see your keyboard lights play disco? Yes, you heard that right! You can make your keyboard LEDs dance, with a simple Visual Basic script. Now, without much ado, let me give you the script.

Copy the following script into a notepad. Then save that file with an extension “.vbs”. Now click on the new file with a script like icon. You see the magic! I am sure you will enjoy seeing them. Here are the codes you need to paste:

This code makes the LEDs to dance randomly.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

This code makes the LEDs to dance in a regular manner.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

To end this disco, you need to end a process called “wscript.exe”. For best results, keep all the LEDs “Off” before starting the script.

Don’t forget to share this with your friends on Twitter and other sites!

Many blogs fill their post pages with lots of widgets such as Related posts, Popular posts and so on. Some blogs even place lots of flashing affiliate links on the sides of the posts. This is a complete distraction to the readers. Even though there is good content written on that blog, visitors can’t read it because of the clutter.

Readability is a tool that helps you to read any webpage clutter free. Whenever you want to read a webpage without any distraction, you just need to click on this bookmark and Voila! all clutter is cleared! You will be presented with pure content without any ads. Check the below two images to see how it works!

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Now, who would want to read that with Clinton and Bush?

Now, just click on the bookmarked button. Wow! Clutter-free! You have to click that “refresh” button (See below image) to get it back to normal mode again.

Bye Bush, Clinton: Ah! I can read that post easily and quickly now!

Add Readability bookmark to your browser and enjoy clutter free reading! (To add a bookmark to your browser, drag and drop the link to your browser bookmarks bar.)

Google Wave had caused great excitement among people earlier this year. Now, that it has been released for the public, there are lots of bots, extensions and gadgets that help us to use Google Wave more productively.

Recently, Raju(Technically Personal) had written an article about how to edit Google Docs in Google Wave. I found that very useful and interesting, thanks Raju. He had used a gadget called as IFrame. I went a step ahead and tried to integrate in a similar way with that gadget, my Gmail account. But, it turned out that the page was getting redirected to my Gmail account itself.

Today, I found a great gadget that could help us integrate Gmail in Google Wave. Well, there is no specific name for the extension, it has just been called “Gmail”.

Follow these steps and add the bot to your Google Wave account.

Now, click on “Add gadget by URL” button. (This button would resemble a small jigsaw piece.) You can refer to the pic below.

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/100080069921643878012/gmail.xml

This is how it would look after it is added!

Enjoy Waving!

P.S. If anybody hasn’t got a wave invite, then I am giving out a few. Just check this article out:

Get Google Wave Invitations By Just Commenting And Retweeting!

Feeds are a great source of information. Many of us subscribe to new and interesting feeds everyday to be updated with information. However, all the feeds will not be equally interesting. Some may be less interesting when compared to some others. So, it becomes difficult to maintain the feeds as they increase in your reader. Today, I have brought you people a simple trick, that can help you combine two or more feeds into a single feed.

Before proceeding to the procedure of how to combine/merge two or more RSS feeds let me explain where and how can this be helpful.

• As I said in the above paragraph, this trick might be helpful in categorizing interesting feeds and non-interesting feeds, or rather less interesting feeds.
• Suppose you have a few really informative sites that you never want to miss. In such a case, you can merge multiple feeds under the name like “My Favorite Feeds”.
• Categorizing the feeds based on different subjects. Suppose you have feeds related to different fields. In that case, you can combine multiple feeds based on the subjects the feed contains.

I hope you got an idea of how this trick can be helpful to you.

Procedure

To be frank, I found this trick while I was working with Yahoo! Pipes. People who don’t know about Yahoo! Pipes can refer to the Wikipedia article linked. (Hover the mouse over Yahoo! Pipes)

1. After signing in, you get a dashboard type screen where you can work on your project.
2. Click on “Sources” in the top-left corner.
3. Drag and drop the module “Fetch Site Feed”. The number of modules depends of number of site feeds that you want to merge into a single feed. I am explaining with three sites here.
4. After adding the modules, enter the site addresses of all the sites. [Note: You need to enter the site address and not the feed address]
5. Now, you need to use an operator to combine all the feeds. This is the “Union” operator. To use this, go to the operator tab and drag “Union” module to the dashboard.
6. Now, pipe all the “Fetch Site Feed” modules with the “Union” button. [Refer the pic below]

   

7. After you do this, you need to create the RSS feed. So you have to add “Create RSS feed” module. To add this, again go to the “Operators” tab and drag “Create RSS Feed” module.
8. Select the suitable preferences and connect the lower end of this module with result. The upper terminal should be connected to the “Union” operator.

   

9. That’s it. Now save the pipe and run it!
10. You can even subscribe to that feed in your reader. You need to add the resulting pipe URL in your RSS feed reader.

Any doubts regarding the tutorial can be discussed below in the comments. Do leave feedback through comments. They are valuable to me!

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SEO I Did To This Post

SEO Title: Combine Feeds | FeedBurner Combine Multiple RSS Feeds | Using Yahoo Pipes

I used Google Insights for search that I had discussed about in my previous post here. Found that keywords like “FeedBurner” had more popularity, so just used it in the title.

SEO Excerpt: Here is a simple trick to combine different RSS feeds into a single RSS feed. Merging multiple RSS feeds helps you in many ways.

If you observe a little deeper, I have used to keywords. “Merging” and “Combining”. So, both types should get attracted.

SEO Tags: feedburner combine multiple rss feeds, combine multiple rss feeds, multiple rss feeds combination

Youtube had recently added some new features like expand video, and also turn-off lights. This turn-off light feature was quite interesting as we could avoid all distractions while watching a video. This feature is actually meant to view videos in theatre effect.

However, we don’t see these options on every video. Now, here is a greasemonkey script that could help you to add the turn-off lights feature on every Youtube video.

For those who don’t know what is Greasemonkey: Greasemonkey scripts are tiny Java snippets that help you to enhance your browsing experience by adding new elements on a webpage. To install a Greasemonkey script, you need to install the Greasemonkey addon first. Here is the link to install Greasemonkey addon.

After installing the above addon, go to this link and download the script. [Note: You have to keep your Greasemonkey addon enabled] The script automatically downloads and now you can see “Turn-off lights” feature on every video.

Do you watch Youtube videos a lot? How do you like this Youtube feature? Do not forget to leave comments below!

Happy watching!

SEO I Did To This Post

SEO Title: How To Get Turn-Off Lights Feature On Every Youtube Video

Be specific. Enter sufficient keywords in the title. Google gives primary importance to titles. So, be very careful while writing titles. Note here that “Every” is not a noise, in the contrary it’s the main keyword.

SEO Excerpt: Here is a greasemonkey script for your firefox browser that helps you to get Turn off lights feature in every yotutube video.

Keep it less than 160 char. Most search engines have except limits. Be brief in excerpt and also, keyword filled excerpts rank higher.

SEO tags: turn off lights on youtube, youtube turn off lights, turn off lights features on all youtube videos

Recently when I was chatting on GTalk with Sriram, one of my friend I saw that he was making text italic and bold in Gtalk. I wondered how he did it and asked him about that. And I found that it was cool and simple. I thought many don’t know this and so am writing this post.

To italicize your text in GTalk you need to use two _ (underscores). For example, if you want to italicize a word then you need to type _italic_.

If you want to make a word bold, then you need to use * (Asterisk). For example, to make a word bold *bold text* should be used.

You can also use compound tags like _*bold and italicize*_ to do both of them.

That’s it simple and cool, isn’t it?

Thanks to Shriram for the tip!

SEO I Did To This Post:

Post SEO Title: How To Make Text Italic And Bold In GTalk | Gmail tricks

When you are writing a SEO title, keep in mind that you are the Googler. How would a person search for some trick like this? Add that as your SEO title. Here I have not used “Without any external applications” because they are noises in the title. If I had added that too, then my ranking would have been less as there are some extra words. So it is important to e brief while writing titles.

Post Excerpt: Here is a simple trick that will help you to make your text bold and italic while chatting on Gtalk. Making text bold and italic helps you to chat with more feelings on Gtalk.

As usual the excerpt should contain more keyword oriented. As they say, using right keywords in right place and time will fetch you huge traffic. In the above excerpt I have emphasized on the two words, “Gtalk” and “Bold and Italic”.

Note that keywords should not be stuffed. If done so, Google will blacklist them.

Keywords SEO: make text italic in gtalk, make text bold in gtalk, make text italic and bold in gtalk, gmail tricks, gtalk tricks.

Again keywords are the tags you give to Google. It shows your site whenever a search query is made using these keywords.

Tweaking browser configuration increases its efficiency and further enhances one’s browsing experience. There are lots of tricks that you can do with browsers using its about:config editor. Here is a set of tricks and tweaks which  I am sure most of you don’t know.

A general note: To perform the below tricks, you need to login to the preference editor of your browser. To do this, in the address bar, type “about:config” without quotes. Firefox will show you a warning message. Ignore it and click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Now, you are in the preference editor. Follow the instructions to perform each trick.

1) Remove Favicons From Tabs

You might have seen small icons on the tabs and the address bar in Firefox. These are known as Favicons. They were first introduced in IE 5, which was soon adopted by Firefox. They usually represent a site’s logo.

These favicons, even though small, consumes memory sometimes. Here is a tweak that can help you to disable those favicons in your browser. In the “Filter” option, enter the keyword “favicons”. You will get a list of preferences. Among those, search for this: browser.chrome.favicons. Double-click on it to change the value from “true” to “false”. Restart Firefox.

Now, instead of seeing the site’s favicon you will see the “document” icon on the tabs and address bar.

2) Remove Or Tweak The Position Of Close Button In Firefox

Firefox 2.0 had many new features added to it. Among them, one was “Close” button on every tab. As you have seen there is a close button on tab that you select. You can tweak the behaviour of this tab button using the following tweak. In the “Filter” option enter the keyword “tabs”. Select browser.tabs.closeButtons from the list of preferences.

Now, this preference is a boolean and has many values. The default is set to 0. Here are the valid values and their functions.

• 0 – This is the default. The Close Button will be on the active  tab.
• 1 – This value places the close button on all the tabs.
• 2 – Hides the close button from all the tabs.
• 3 – Displays the close button at the end of the tab strip.

3) AutoCopy To ClipBoard

If you are a linux user, then you might be knowing that selecting the text simply, copies the text into the clipboard. Here is a Firefox tweak to make it work like that. In the “Filter”option type “clipboard” without quotes. You will see a preference saying clipboard.autocopy. Double-click on it to change it to “true”. Now select any text and paste it somewhere. You can paste the text without using the “copy” command!

Also Read: Opera 10 Tips and Tricks

4) Change Your Toolbar Style To Make It More “RAM-Friendly”

This is a very good tweak, if you are low on memory but still want to use Firefox. It tweaks the toolbar. It is also a boolean and ahs many values. The valid values and its functions are given below:

• 0 – Displays toolbar buttons with icons only.
• 1 – Displays toolbar buttons with text only, no icons.
• 2 – Displays toolbar buttons with both icons and text. [Default]

This will help you to lessen the memory consumption by choosing alternate styles.

Also Read: Change The Tab Size In Firefox

5) Get Another Firefox Window Inside A Tab!

Well, this sounds amazing, right? Yes, you can get another usable firefox window inside a tab. To make this possible, enter the following URL in the address bar: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul. [See the pic below.]

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Google recently released some new artistic themes for Google Chrome Browser to make it look cheerful and colorful. There are also some Bollywood themes hidden in the Google hidden in the Google Chrome themes gallery. It contains themes of many superhit hindi films like Dil Bole Hadippa, Dil to Pagal Hai and so on.

Here is how you can apply those themes into your Google Chrome Browser.

Go to the Google Chrome Themes Gallery. You will see this URL in the address bar: https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/ks/themes/index.html

Change the “ks” to “hi” in the address bar and refresh the page. Now you will get some amazing bollywood themes for your favorite browser.

Or else, simply click this URL to get some superb bollwood themes.

Bollywood Themes For Google Chrome Browser

Many people said “NO” to the new Microsoft OS, Windows 7. The previous version of Microsoft, Windows Vista, had not been a successful product. It was filled with lots of bugs. Moreover, one of the main drawback of Vista, it occupied more space. It becomes difficult to choose which is good and which is bad. Windows 7 cannot be trusted as it may again contain the same bugs, which Vista had.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could test operating systems before installing them on the system? This would really reduce a lot of pain. Installing and uninstalling requires a lot of time, but if the OS is not good then all the time spent becomes a waste.

Virtual Machines, What Are They?

Now, to test these operating systems, without REALLY installing them on your computer, you can use virtual machines. These are just like Virtual Disc Mangers you use to mount your ISO files. However, instead of mounting CD/DVD it mounts an extra hard-drive.

There are many Virtual Machine applications out there, which help you to mount operating systems. I use Microsoft Virtual PC, which is very efficient in carrying out work.

How To Install Operating Systems Virtually?

The procedure of installing the OS,

1. Boot the OS CD from the virtual machine software. (You can also mount the ISO file and boot it, if you don’t have a CD)
2. Follow the wizard and set the memory configurations etc. (The wizard is very easy) you can ask me if any doubts arise, through comments below. Here are some images to help you make your way.

1. Follow the procedure of installing the OS as in normal hard disk.
2. Now, the OS will be installed in the virtual machine. Use it as usual like in a real computer.