Firefox Tips and Tricks April 1, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in Computers, General.add a comment
i have use firefox as my primary web browser. i use some shortcut to fasten my browsing activities…
here are some tips and tricks, maybe can be useful for all of you :
- type an address and press ctrl + enter will automatically add www. and .com to the web address
- type an address and press shift + enter will automaticaly add www. and .net to the web address
- type an address and press ctrl + shift + enter will automaticall add www. and .org to the web address
- press ctrl + T will open a new tab
- press ctrl + shift + T will reopen last closed tab
- press ctrl + [1-9] to shift between tabs
- press alt + scroll mouse up and down to scrolling page line by line.
- press space bar to page down
- press shift + space bar to page up
- press ctrl + scroll up / down ot press ctrl + +/- to resize font
- drag a hyperlink to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab
- drag highlighted word to the search bar to bring you to the Google search result page
- drag the highlighted word to the address bar + Enter to perform a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search
Hidden Gmail Function March 31, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in Computers, General.2 comments
are you using gmail as your email provider ? do you know this hidden tricks ? 
- Append a plus (“+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
- Insert one or several dots (“.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com.
i really love the first trick, it allow me to identify all incoming emails from groups / certain email simply by define a meaningful name after the + sign when i register and then create rule based on the name after + sign. as example : i want to join a .net groups, so this what would i do :
- I register my email, i can choose myemail+net@gmail.com. the email itself will still be received in your myemail@gmail.com, no need to create a new name. don’t worry
- create a folder to store the email, example : .net
- create a filter that will move every email that is sent to myemail+net@gmail.com to a predefined folder (.net).
voila…now i can organize my email better. thanks google…
*you can read the full article here
How to download book from googlebooks ? March 5, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in Computers.2 comments
a friend of mine ask about how to download a Google book..
i answer his question instantly : Save As ? oops…didn’t work…Google smart enough to handle this, so i think other solution….one minute, two minutes, three minutes…AHAAA…!!! i know the answer (umm.. a trick actually), i tried it and it works…. do you want to know how ? here are the steps :
- install a screen capture program (i use SnagIt 8.0)
- choose "Scrolling Window (Web Page)" capture profiles
- select the window (choose to view the book as Full Screen) and press "Capture"
- let this software do the works...
- save the result as jpg
done…now you can read the book using any photo manager software (i use ACDSee 9.0) .you just open the image, zoom in and use your mouse to scroll the image up and down. a beautiful life isn’t it ?
