if your internet connection speed of very law or you are using low bandwidth connection speed at your home or at any cyber cafe. use the new low bandwidth version of orkut. the name it self describes when to use this settings. it avoids downloading most of the images. because downloadin images by the browser make the webpage loading slow. and it also counts to reduce in your MB usage of the internet connection.

In friend list of user or in your homepage, only the name link will be visible to you. no images of orkut users in the friend list of any one's profile is visible. no photos in recent updates block on the home page. it will be for example "Cute Piscean ... added 6 new photos".

also in Scrapbook, images of scrappers are avoided. you can only view his/her image by clicking on it. by default be titled as "show photo".

To enable / disable settings to use low bandwidth of orkut. go to
settings->general and choose the appropriate option.

A firefox trick and tweak to improve the browser speed more, though firefox is already one of the fastest browser. after trying this trick I experienced amazing speed with firefox. it realy made the differance.you people will also enjoy it. but these setting will make more difference if you have broadband connection. so don't blame if you are not using broadband connection and struggling with same old speed :( .

follow this:

• in address bar type "about:config" and press enter. this will bring you the configuration list with different parameters.
• Double click the following settings and put up the numbers as described bellow. for booleans - it will change to true/false with double clicking on it. if you can't find any value just right click anywhere on the screen and add a New variable.
• Change following settings:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

Add new parameter "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set it's value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.

Now enjoy loading of webpages much faster than before.

Related:

• Speed up IE (browser Tricks)

What is Screen Capture?

VidShot Capturer is released for free software. is created for quick screen capturing. You can use VidShot Capturer for capturing anything you see on your PC desktop and record them to video. You can capture windows, region, the entire desktop and even cursor moving. More over VidShot Capturer allows to adjust the frames of the video. It has an easy to use interface that’s why you can manage it, even if you'r new to making screen captures.

Features

• Capture Video from desktop
  
• Capture video from Window
  
• Capture wideo from region of your desktop
  
• Automatic Video options
  
• Frame Rate advaned settings
  
• Easy and nice interface

CamStudio is open source software, it is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

CamStudio also comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.

You have total control over the output of your video: you can choose to use custom cursors, to record the whole screen or just a section of it and can reduce or increase the quality of the recording depending on if you want smaller videos (for emailing to people, for instance) or you can have "best quality" ones for burning onto CD/DVD.


Free Screen Capture is an all-in-one software for free screen capture. You can capture screen in many ways, including full screen capture, region capture, window capture, scroll capture, directx capture, video screen capture, sound record and etc. You can choose many kinds of output ways, including clipboard, printer, email, editor tool, temp folder, and all popular formats. Super Screen Capture has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. Whatever you can see on your screen, Super Screen Capture will easily and fastest capture for your immediate use.

Video mp3 Extractor is freeware to download it here. Video mp3 Extractor is easy to use tool to extract audio from Video AVI, ASF, WMV files.
Output audio file is mp3, and you can listen extracted audio with your mp3 player without any additional conversion or modification. Video mp3 Extractor provides simple and fast method to rip audio from video and save as MP3.

Features

• Convert Video Files directly to mp3
  
• No additional software required
  
• Fast audion extraction algorithm
  
• Easy to use interface.
  

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003

by: The 'Plus' Side of Gmail
you can use 'plus'(+) sign for filtering the mails in your gmail account. Like many other Email providers, Gmail supports the standard "plus" addressing scheme. But just what is it, and how can it help me?

The "plus" method of addressing lets you add additional words to your account name (the "left side" of your email address.) For example, if your email address is "amitshahc@gmail.com", you could add "+office" when you give your email address to members of a club to which you belong. So, your email address would now be "amitshahc+office@gmail.com". But why would you want to do this? Think of the "plus" word as an extra "keyword" or "tag" that you can use to better manage your messages.

Using this example, say you email an invitation to your colleagues in a office asking them to rsvp to the invitaion. You ask them to reply to "amitshahc+nope@gmail.com" when sending you a response, if they don't want to come. and reply to "amitshahc+ofcourse@gmail.com". Assuming they follow your directions, You can then set up a Gmail Filters to automatically route emails to specific Labels based on the addresses. It's a simple example, but the uses can be numerous.

Another use is when you are shopping online. When asked for an email address, use something like "amitshahc+amazon@gmail.com". That way, whenever you get future emails addressed to that address, you'll know that it's either from Amazon directly or from someone to whom they sold your email address. This can be a somewhat effctive way to track spam. Just be aware that not all email systems recognize or accept "plus" addresses. In fact, some spammers even strip it out completely, but it's a cool tool, none the less. The best way is to just try it and see if it works for your application!

Related:

• send formatted invitation by Gmail
• filter spam mails using free Disposable Email by Yahoo

convert pdf document to HTML or Text format
Adobe provides the online service to convert any of your pdf document to HTML or TEXT. There are two ways to do it.

1. if you have the pdf document on your local drive. you can convert it by sending document Email Attachment to given mail address
• pdf2txt@adobe.com for converting in to plain text format
• pdf2html@adobe.com for converting in to HTML format
The converted document will be mailed back to you as an attachment.


2. if you have the document on the internet. you can go to the Adobe website and by filling the required information about that document in the given form. you can convert it on your browser. provided that the document must have a accessible url.
   

Related:

• Convert HTML to PDF
• Convert any image to a text image of ASCII characters

It is one among IE browser Tricks to speed up IE. in compare to firefox IE browser is slow to load the pages. there are various reasons. one of the reason is the number of the connections that IE makes with the server is limited and it also keep searching for the network shares and printers. here is the tricks or say tweaks to overcome the problem and will help you to improve your internet explorer speed.

Steps:

1. go to Start>Run and type "regedit"
2. go to -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ RemoteComputer\ NameSpace\ {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
3. Delete the Key named "Printers".

For connection settings you need to modify or create if it doesn't exist. Two values in the registry.

• go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Internet Settings
• check this two DWORD values
• MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
• MaxConnectionsPerServer
• change their values to 0000010 and 00000010 respectively.

after Restart the computer. you will notice the increase in browsing speed.

Related:

• Save opened tabs in IE-7: Session Manager
• View Thumbnails of web pages with google search in IE
  

This is an add on for firefox and unbelievable but true, it's also available for Internet Explorer (IE) as a toolbar. it shows the image previews of the web pages of search results you are searching with Google search. it's not official Google offering like Google Toolbar.

To disable GooglePreview click on in the status bar (bottom right corner) -> click again to enable.

If you only see gray borders next to the search results, you may have the 'Redirect Remover' extension installed. In this case please add 'googlepreview.com' to white list of 'Redirect Remover'.

Download plug-in: Firefox & IE

Related:

• Save opened tabs in IE-7: Session Manager
• View any Picture Album as 3D WALL
• Save last open tabs in Firefox
• Download all from the webpage