Firefox WOW : Use your Gmail Space for file storage

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Gspace is an extension that allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.
After the installation, you’ll get an option called “Gspace” in your “Tools” menu, which opens the GSpace window.

It’s great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace).

Add it from here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593

Here is a Video tutorial :

Firefox AddOns : Do More

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Fast Dial

Fast Dial replaces “about:blank” page with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Click on an empty cell, assign a site URL, click OK - a thumbnail will be generated for a site. You can also add sites opened in browser or existing bookmarks by right-clicking them and choosing “Add to Fast Dial” from context menu.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721

Forecastfox™

Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398

Better Gmail

Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.

Better Gmail 2 compiles the best Greasemonkey user scripts for Gmail into a single package. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the About tab for help and more information. Only compatible with the new Gmail interface.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076

GooglePreview

Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. The GooglePreview thumbnail system currently consists of 7 dedicated servers and generates 5 TB of traffic per month.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/189

FireGestures

A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6366

The Firefox WOW

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Firefox, This is the topic of the month. Firefox is not just a replacement to Internet Explorer, its Way Much More.

I will be exploring firefox all this month, and believe me there is more then Tabbed browsing.

Topics to be covered:

- A Geeks view on What is so special about it.

- The Lazy Life : Drag and Drop Magic

- Bookmarking +

- Web 2.0 and Firefox

- Extensions

- Deeper digg : A different approach

Will update soon, Stay Connected….

Photoshop Express: online photo library, editing and sharing

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Photoshop Express is an Free to use ( with 2GB online storage ) online photo library, editing and sharing website. Think of it this way. You shot it - not it’s time to do something with it. You can crop, rotate, change colors, enhance, remove red eye, and even some crazy special effects like twirling and distorting. When you’re done, you can share the photos using galleries and even give people a link to go see them. Photoshop Express works with JPEG photos only—the most common format used in cameras.

Features:

Crop & Rotate—Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
Auto Correct—Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
Exposure—Change the brightness of the photo.
Red-Eye Removal—Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
Touchup—Remove scratches and other imperfections.
Saturation—Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
White Balance—Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
Highlight—The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
Fill Light—If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
Sharpen—It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
Soft Focus—It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
Hue—This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
Black & White—Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
Tint—Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
Sketch—Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
Distort—Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

TOO MUCH?? Don’t worry, they have fully illustrated Video Tutorials for every feature.

Visit : http://www.photoshop.com/express

Tutorials : http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/

Accessibility shortcuts in Windows

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• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

The Magical WinKey

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The WinKey on your keyboard is the most useful key, here is the bunch of tricks you can do with it.

If you are confused what’s WINKEY, see image below.

Shortcut:

WinKey : Opens Start Menu ( You can also open Start Menu by hitting CTRL+ESC )

WinKey+R : Opens RUN Box

WinKey+F1 : Help and Support

WinKey+M : Minimize all Windows

WinKey+D : Show Desktop

Winkey+Pause/Break : View System Information

Winkey+U : Accessibility tools

Winkey+L : log off Windows.

[Win XP] Administrator Account from Welcome Screen

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Ever wanted to access the administrator account from the welcome window without having to boot to safe mode. When at the screen press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice. This will bring up the login screen were you can type a user name and password in.