• Open any folder. Press ‘Alt’ button to get the menu bar on top.
• In that go to “Folder Options”, under “Tools” .
• Under the “View” tab, check the option “Reopen previously opened folders”.
• Click “Apply” and “OK”.

That’s it. The next time you switch on your computer, these folders will automatically open for you. In my opinion, this feature can be a little annoying. AFAIK, I don’t see much of a need to keep folders always open. However I do think that it can be handy when there are frequent power cuts.

There are two userscripts, that you can use to implement this feature in your browser. Both are good, each having their own advantages and disadvantages. It’s up to you to decide which you want. The links I am giving you below has detailed tutorials which you can follow while using the scripts. The first script here, does not work in Google Chrome, but the second one does. So, if you are using Google Chrome, install the second script.

1. Facebook Multi-user Login
2. Facebook Switch Accounts

If you are concerned about security, then I assure you that these scripts cannot harm you in anyway. Bascially, what they do is, log out of one account and automatically login to another with the credentials you have given. So, your password and other credentials will remain safe.

You can also check out some of the previous posts, that I have written on different userscritps here.

1. Change the New Google Black Bar into Old White One
2. How to Get the Old Facebook Chat
3. How To: Get Turn-Off Lights On Every Youtube Video

• It’s very long, irritating.
• It shows the list of people who are not online too, which makes the list very long.
• It is difficult to scroll through and find out who is online.

So, as always someone has come up with a good Greasemonkey userscript to get back the old facebook chat. Here is the link. Go ahead and install it.

Some of the features of this script are:

- Shows ALL online/idle friends
- Shows ONLY online/idle friends (Doesn’t show offline friends)
- Orders friends by first name
- Groups friends by online and idle.
- Shows total number of online/idle friends when chat is open.
- Keep the list of online friends on the left hand side of the page always visible even when the chat dialog opens.
- Does not realign the page when chat opens
- Header to the top of chat that closes the menu when clicked.
- Works for both HTTP and HTTPS
- Searching friends is still possible.
- Going online/offline is still possible.

Also Read: Change the New Google Black Bar into Old White One

P.S. If you don’t know how to install a greasemonkey script, refer to this article here.

It changes only the top navigation bar to the old type. The remaining will remain as it is. Go ahead and download it.

Here is the user script: Google BlacktoWhite Bar

P.S. If you don’t know what greasemonkey is, then please refer to this post. For Google Chrome users, you can directly download the script. It will be automatically identified as an extension.

The idea of the Spriting technique is, when you load multiple small images, every time a image has to be loaded, a HTTP request has to be sent to the server. So, when you have large number of small images, the load on the server increases and in turn the webpage slows down. When you sprite small images into one single image, even though the size of the image increases, the request is sent only once. Hence, the load on the server decreases and the speed increases.

For more information on CSS Spriting, you can visit w3schools.com or css-tricks.com

Generally spriting is done by adding chunks of CSS code into the stylesheet. But, here is a tool that reduces your work while spriting images on your website. Enter SpriteMe.

Features:

• finds background images
• groups images into sprites
• generates the sprite
• recomputes CSS background-positions
• injects the sprite into the current page

Using SpriteMe

SpriteMe is simple to use. First of all, you need to bookmark this link: SpriteMe. (If you are using Internet Explorer, then right-click and add it to “Favorites”. If you are using Firefox or other browsers, then drag and drop the link on the bookmarks toolbar).

Next, go to the website/page of which you want to sprite images. Click on the SpriteMe bookmark. A small window opens up, showing the suggestions for spriting images. As you can see in the pic below, it shows the URLs of the images that can be sprited. Also, hovering on those URLs displays images so that you can easily identify them.

Third step is to make sprites. To make sprites, just click on the button saying “Make Sprite”. It automatically combines combines those images into a single one and temporarily hosts it temporarily.So, first you have to download the images into your local computer and upload it in your own host.

The last step, is to get the code. After spriting all the images that you want, click on the button “Export CSS” button to get the code. A new tab opens in which the URL/s to the sprited images are provided along with the changes that are to be made to the existing CSS code. Change your CSS code according to that and your images are easily sprited without writing even a single line of code.

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.

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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

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!

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.)

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!

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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