Google Wave Invitation

As we all know, Google Wave is the new buzz and almost everyone is looking to get an account for Google Wave Preview. Google for now is taking registrations and sending the invites to the one's who register. But, it takes months to receive the invite after you register. Luckily, I got one invite from Google and after some days I was able to Invite my friends to Wave. I still have a handful of invites left on my account. It seems that Google is now planning to expand its Wave network as it is providing the Google Invitation to as many people as possible.
I hope you get your invites soon and enjoy Waving.

Search Firefox Tabs easily

Are you used to open many tabs in Firefox and end up looking for the tab you need? Well, I confess that i am one of such creatures who does this

Well, I have stopped bothering about this now because Tab File / Tab Search Extension for Firefox does the searching work for me.

Just right click the Tabs and select Filter tabs... in the Context Menu.

Type the Tab URL, Title or both in the search. All the other tabs not meeting the search criteria would be hidden and only the one's meeting the search criteria would be shown.
To get back all the tabs either press Esc or click Undo Tab Filter.

This is a real time saver.

Click here to download Tab Filter / Tab Search Extension for Firefox

QuickFox Notes - A note taking add-on for Firefox

QuickFox Notes is a multi-tab note taking add-on for Firefox that uses the integrated bookmarks system to store the notes. Therefor, if you already have a bookmarks synchronization add-on installed in your Firefox (e.g. Xmarks or Mozilla Weave), your notes will be synchronized automatically. In this case, you don't need any new registration to synchronize your notes. QuickFox Notes can be run within Firefox as well as like a standalone application (when being started via customized desktop shortcut). QuickFox Notes offers a variety of features and also supports most shortcuts as used in Notepad++.

Features:

• Simple interface
• Multiple tabs
• Autosave
• Spell check
• Adjustable font size
• Various background colors
• Text search
• Autocopy text (disabled by default)
• Paste on middle-click (disabled by default)
• Store to "Archive" (to free tab space)
• Popup after X seconds upon Firefox start (disabled by default)
• Supports most of Notepad++ shortcuts
• Always on top (Windows only)
  

How to access QuickFox Notes after installation:
1. Right-click on toolbar to open a context menu
2. From the context menu, choose "Customize..."
3. Find "QuickFox Notes" icon
4. Drag the icon onto a place on your toolbar
5. Now you can click the icon to open QuickFox Notes

 • Left-click will open QuickFox Notes in a window
 • Middle-click will open QuickFox Notes a tab

Shortcuts for editing:
1. Insert tab delimiter – Tab
2. Remove tab delimiter – Shift+Tab
3. Duplicate line/selection – Ctrl+D
4. Move up line – Ctrl+Shift+Up
5. Move down line – Ctrl+Shift+Down
6. Uppercase – Ctrl+Shift+U
7. Lowercase – Ctrl+U

Mouse control:
1. Scroll on tab bar to switch tabs
2. Right-click on tab to rename it
3. Middle-click on a tab to close it
4. Double-click on a tab to send it to the Archive
5. Double-click on tab bar to create a new empty note

Click here to download QuickFox Notes for Firefox

Addicted!!!

Guys, Its FRIDAY!!! I know this is not relevant but could not help myself from posting this

Windows 7 - Snipping Tool

Windows 7 has come out with lots of features one of which includes Snipping Tool. Using Snipping Tool you can capture your desktop, whole window, rectangular section of a screen or use free hand.

Its a good utility if you do not want to purchase any software to meet the purpose.

There are tools like SnagIt which I prefer for screen captures but it is a paid software. Snipping Tool is not that great in editing the captured images but great if you only wanna capture the images and do a little editing.

Reduce the Start Menu in Windows 7

Windows 7 Start Menu is initially flooded with 10 recent programs. For me most of them we useless and such a big and flooded Start Menu does not look good. This is how my Start Menu looks after installation of Windows 7.

I reduced the number of recent programs from 10 to 7 using the following steps:

1. Right click on Start button and select Properties

2. This will start the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. Click the Customize Button.

3. Clicking Customize button will open up the Customize Start Menu button. Now change the Number of recent programs to display to whatever value you want.

This is it   Now Windows 7 Start Menu looks clean and neat with as many recent programs you need.

Keepass - Free Utility for Password Management

There are lots of utilities to generate and save your passwords at one location if you don't remember passwords easily.

Generally we access number of sites and register with them to access the web pages. It is difficult to remember the registration details on such sites. Keepass helps you with this as it not only remembers the passwords for you but also generates random passwords for you.

The question is we would store all the important information with Keepass but how secure it is. To answer this KeePass encrypts the database with the AES or Twofish symmetric ciphers, both among the highest advanced encryption standards. So now you can be sure that your passwords are safe.

Features

Powerful and secured
KeePass is a secure password manager that allows you to store your sensitive login information in an encrypted database.
It allows you to organize your entries into categories and offers several ways to conveniently enter your username/password.

Easy to use
You can use drag and drop, copy to the clipboard, or create auto-type sequences that can enter the login information with a single click.

Many optional features
You can use drag and drop, copy to the clipboard; other features include password generator, auto-lock, database search, import/export, and more.

Free!
Last but not the least KeePass is free to use.

Click here to download Keepass for free.

Windows 7 Snap Feature – Resize and Compare windows on Desktop

Windows 7 has come out with lots of new features like Peek, Shake, Snap.

Snap is a new way to resize the open windows  simply by dragging them to the edges of the screen. Expanding it vertically, appear side by side with another window totally depends on where you drag the window.

Remember how pain it was to compare two windows in Windows XP? But with Snap in Windows 7 its just a matter of seconds. The only thing you need to know is where to drag the windows

Take a quick look at the video which shows the use of Snap.

Move Progress Bar to Tabs in Firefox

If you like to monitor the status of webpage loading but do not want the Status Bar in Firefox Tab Progress Bar is just what you need.

Using Tab Progress Bar you can move the Progress Bar to the tabs in Firefox to monitor each tabs progress.
As all the tabs are visible you can monitor the progress of each an every tab at once using Tab Progress Bar.



Click here to download Tab Progress Bar for Firefox

SlickRun

SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes MAIL.

Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition… SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.

I have been using SlickRun since years now and I find this utility very helpful. Saves me efforts to use the mouse and open the programs It has become a mandatory software for my machine. Each application I install the next step I do is create a MagicWord for it


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About Me

Zahir Khan
Sr. Technical Analyst
Experience: 3+ Years
Area of expertise: Microsoft Dynamics AX, C#, SQL

Interests: Trying new applications on Windows platform which help in ease of day to day work.

Favorite Applications: SlickRun, Keepass

Email: zahir.dk@gmail.com