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- New ways to label with "Move to" and "auto-complete"

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One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders. Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose -- they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up. And unlike with folders, messages can have several labels, so if I get an email from a friend about a trip we're taking together, I can add both a "Friends" and a "Travel" label to it.

But it's not always obvious how to use labels, especially for people who are new to Gmail and used to using folders, and it hasn't helped that some common tasks have been more complicated than they should be. For instance, to move an email out of your inbox and into a label you first had to apply the label using the "More actions" menu and then click "Archive."

Starting today, the buttons and menus at the top of your inbox will look a bit different:



Instead of having to first apply the label and then archive, you can just use the "Move to" button to label and archive in a single step -- just like you would with a folder. If you just want to add or remove a label, use the new "Labels" button. Auto-complete works, so for those of you with a lot of labels, you can select the one you want just by typing the first couple characters.

We're also adding keyboard shortcuts: v for "Move to" and l (lowercase L) for "Labels." Make sure you have keyboard shortcuts turned on to use these.




We're making these changes for everyone over the course of today, so you may not see them right away. But between the shortcuts and auto-complete, you'll soon be able to add and remove labels without touching your mouse.

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-ways-to-label-with-move-to-and-auto.html

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- Speed up Mozilla Firefox upto 30 times faster.

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If your a firefox lover like me then you should try this.

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (This
means it will make 30 requests at once.)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0"(ZERO).
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.



Note: If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times faster now.


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- Increase Your Internet Bandwidth (Speed) By 20%.

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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

1.) Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" (without the quotes).

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

2.) Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

3.) Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

4.) "By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

5.) So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

That's It !!

works on XP Pro, and 2000

other OS not tested.


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- Access Internet throught Microsoft Calculator.

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This is not a very agile form of a trick but does help you when ur browser is not in a comfortable zone.

When your browser(s) is/are messed up for some unexplainable reason

1. Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start => All Programs => Accessories => Calculator.

2. Open the help-window by pressing the F1 key.

3. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Standard is a Document with a Questionmark).

4. Select Go to URL-address.

5. Type your address into the avaliable field, but remember to type http://, and not just www. (or equivalent).

6. Have fun!

Hope you remember this in case all else should fail!

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- Few Steps to Faster Smartbro Connection.

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1.)
 Download Cablenut by clicking here. 


2.) Install CableNut, restart PC after installation.


3.) Test your speed here at testmy.net
 
      Note your Download and Upload speeds.


4.) Note your download, upload values in Kbps & latency value in ms (milliseconds).

** To know your latency, open Command Prompt (start menu/run/type cmd/enter).
In the command prompt type ping testmy.net and hit enter. Your latency is the "Approximate roundtrip times in milli-seconds Average".
However, it is just fine if you may want to get the maximum latency value.


5.) Go to
http://www.j79zlr.com/cablenutXP2k.php, don't forget to choose your connection carefully, then put your download, upload & latency values in the box provided.


6.) Click "Compute Settings"


7.) Click "CCS File Download", save the file to your desktop.


8.) Go back to
http://www.j79zlr.com/cablenutXP2k.php


9.) Click TCP/IP Analyzer


10.) Know your TCP Receive Window (RWIN) values, write down the values for "scale factor of 8" and "scale factor of 4".


11.) Now, download the latest version of CCleaner by clicking here.
 

12.) Install CCleaner, Analyze and Run Cleaner to eliminate all unwanted and junk files in your HD.


13.) Now open Command Prompt, type ipconfig /flushdns.


14.) Exit Command Prompt.


15.) Open the CableNut setting you saved on your desktop.


16.) In the "DefaultReceiveWindow" box, change the current value to the value you wrote for "scale factor of 8"


17.) In the "DefaultSendWindow" box, change the current value to the value you wrote for "scale factor of 4"


18.) Important, see to it that the value for TCPMaxHalfOpen = 100, MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 10 and MaxConnectionsPerServer = 10


19.) Click "Save to Registry", OK & Exit.


20.) Restart PC

Your speed must be optimized now. Test your speed
http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/d_load.php


Notes:
i. Smartbro's advertised speed is only 384 Kbps but this guide will give you almost twice that speed.
ii. This guide worked for some but might not work for others.
iii. Viruses, trojans, spywares, adwares, basestation downtime will surely affect speed tests.

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- Browse your Websites Offline by DOWNLOADING IT !

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Facts:
Many internet users often tend to ask experts about the ‘OFFLINE WEB BROWSING’ as it may improve the efficiency of data usage.

Its quite common nowadays among users, as they may want to browse a Web-site locally on their computer for any reason. This means once you get the website to your system, you can view its content at your disposal and that too without internet connection of any kind whatsoever.

Doesn’t that sound amazing !!

Then lets just have a look at certain ideas for downloading a website…shall we ?

Solution:
There are many software available on internet which lets you grab/download a web site or a blog completely on your system.

The freeware options for this tasks are as follows:

HTTrack (DOWNLOAD)




This is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.




BackStreet (DOWNLOAD)




It is a free, powerful offline browser. A high-speed, multi-threading website download and viewing program. By making multiple simultaneous server requests, BackStreet Browser can quickly download entire website or part of a site including HTML, graphics, Java Applets, sound and other user definable files, and saves all the files in your hard drive, either in their native format, or as a compressed ZIP file and view offline.

After downloading, all links within the website are reconstructed creating a complete hard drive copy of the site that you can view at your own pace without being connected to the Internet. Additionally, BackStreet Browser provides the option of duplicating the original directory structure of a site making it easy to download and transfer a site to another server.

In the event you lose your Internet connection while downloading a site, the Resume Session allows you to pick up a session where you left off after reestablishing your Internet connection. If you wish to update a previously downloaded site, the Update Session feature allows you to revisit a site using new search parameters to make sure you have the most current files.

In addition to the embedded quick-view browser window in the main program screen, you can launch your default browser for viewing any downloaded projects. The quick-view browser window also supports browsing zipped website, so that you don't need to unzip the files to view.




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