To change the default search engine box on the top-right corner of FireFox:

This is how you can change it:

in the address bar of FireFox, type: “about:config”

In the box marked filter, type: “browser.search.defaultenginename”

Double click the value field or right click and choose Modify that value, by in the name of the search engine you wish to have as the default search engine. It must be one that you already have installed and also make sure you type in the name correctly.

Now if you type in “Yahoo”, restart Firefox and when your browser comes back you will see “red Yahoo Logo” and Yahoo as your default search engine box.

Then save that by pressing “Ok”.

Every browser like FireFox or IE does searches on a default search engine set some where in its configuration. Changing this default search engine is a little bit tricky, but not anymore. Deepak, my friend, installed a chat software from RediffBol which also changed the default search engine as Rediff Search but he now wants to change it back to Google [my fav].

This is how you can get it done:

in the address bar of FireFox, type: “about:config”

In the box marked filter, type: “keyword.url”

Double click the value field and modify that value, by pasting:

“http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=”

Then save that by pressing “Ok”.

Now, you can use your address bar just as google search bar. Go nuts, since now you can search by entering the search terms in the address bar and pressing enter. This way you never need to visit www.google.com again!!!

If you view a single post of a blog, you will see the author information at the bottom. Here we will see that how we can display such author info in a wordpress blog. That info can be edited in the control panel under Users->Your Profile.

The author’s photo can also display the image using avtars:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/images/<?php the_author_lastname(); ?>.jpg" alt="" />

The author’s name is called like this:

<?php the_author_posts_link('namefl'); ?>

The author’s bio is called like this:

<?php the_author_description(); ?>

The author’s email is called like this:

<a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email(); ?>" title="Email this author">Email this author</a>

That seems like a pretty good start for building your own template themes. Now it’s up to the client to hire some talented writers and hope for the best.

Displaying category specific posts in a wordpress blog is easy. Inside theme folder the you will find “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you have to put a query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from your database. Example:

<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>

You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage->Categories.

Result will be the recent posts from the category no.4

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. RealVNC is an “open source” piece of software that allows two or more computers to be connected while allowing one to be the host and the others to be the clients. It’s a remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the “server”) using a simple program (the “viewer”) on another computer anywhere on the Internet. It is platform independent, which means you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home. VNC is freeware and publicly available and is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately. Even the banks like Canara bank use it [i have seen them using it].

ColinPL writes “BitTorrent, Inc. has taken the next step - the acquisition of uTorrent. In a joint announcement made today, the two firms have publicly solidified the merger. ‘Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and uTorrent AB have decided to join forces.

BitTorrent has acquired uTorrent as it recognized the merits of uTorrent’s exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together uTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent’s expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.”

DISCLAIMER: I am not encouraging anybody to download videos! If I gave you that impression, then I think my English sucks. Do so if you want to! (After considering all the legal and ethical hassles!!!!)

I got this little trick from a website that I was browsing. It’s pretty neat:

First install FireFox if u don’t have it already.

Next : Download a plug-in called “VideoDownloader™” from firefox addons.

Go to Youtube -> get to the movie page (that is, where the movie is playing in the flash player)

Stop the flash player.and click on the little button on the right hand corner of the screen. The icon is shaped like two windows.

OR:

Now wait for it to generate the link : it takes 2 seconds.

Next, right click on the link, and click on SAVE AS. (be sure to save the file as (filename).flvNow you will have a flv file.

To play it, you need FLV player. Download it for Free from here .

if u need to convert it to some other format, use IMTOO encoder.
This can be downloded for free, or can be registered.
That’s it enjoy!

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