You would want to know what has went through on firefox in past five years and whats there for future?
Just read on from mozilla hacks… http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/5-years/

While reading the comments/appreciation on the above blog, Some comments stick with my eyes and impressed my soul. here they are..

“just cannot imagine the web without Firefox – Maku”

“Without Firefox, IE would not be the great browser as it is today.-Mark Austin”

“The best browser i have ever used (i have tried all browser BD)
I cant imagine what firefox will be in the next 5 years! – Muhammed Arif”

“Love you Firefox thanks for filling the gap. – Steve”

“Five Years of excellence,success and Glory.
I am thankful to Mozilla for making such brilliant software such as Firefox and Thunderbird – Nipun”

Come on, Lets celebrate Firefox

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Note : For this to work, one should “enable legacy my-hack.php” check box in the “Miscellaneous” section of the wordpress admin -> “Settings” page .

Though this feature is an legacy feature of wordpress, I came to know about it very recently. Anyways, naan ready.. neenga readyaa?

Reference

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What is its Advantage?
Suppose we are installing a firefox into a new pc, Cleo Pack is one step installation of all addons, rather than downloading and installing each addon separately.

Smart Pandian’s Cleo Pack can be downloaded from here. SPCP 0.4.xpi
This Cleo Pack has got following addons.

1.		AdblockPlus{1.0.1}.xpi
2.		AddtoSearchBar{1.7}.xpi
3.		All-in-OneSidebar{0.7.8}.xpi
4.		CLEO{4.0}.xpi
5.		DownThemAll{1.1.0}.xpi
6.		FEBE{6.0.4}.xpi
7.		FireFTP{1.0.3}.xpi
8.		Flashblock{1.5.8}.xpi
9.		FoxmarksBookmarkSynchronizer{2.7.2}.xpi
10.		Greasemonkey{0.8.20080609.0}.xpi
11.		IETab{1.5.20090207}.xpi
12.		ImageBlock{1.2}.xpi
13.		IndicInputExtension{1.1}.xpi
14.		OPIE{1.2.2}.xpi
15.		PCSync2SynchronisationExtension{1.0.0.658}.xpi
16.		QuickRestart{1.1.4}.xpi
17.		Screengrab{0.95}.xpi
18.		TamilKey{0.4.1}.xpi

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It appears like the topic is getting diverted, Ok, lets turn our attention back to the title.i.e., Its wide known fact that OpenOffice is very slow compared to other popular office suites, predominantly OpenOffice being a Java application, we cant expect more. However, There is a way to improve the speed of OpenOffice, Please follow the steps below to improve the speed.

Launch OpenOffice.org, Go to Tools -> Option,

1. Click Memory in the right Hand side menu.Change the following in values in the Right Hand Side,

   -----------------------------------------------
   -- Undo ---------------------------------------
   Number Of Steps             - 30
   -- Graphics Cache -----------------------------
   Use for OpenOffice.Org        -    128 MB
   Memory Per Object            -    20.0 MB
   Remove From Memory After    -    00:00 hh:mm
   -- Cache For Inserted Objects -----------------
   Number Of Objects            - 20
   -- Open Office Quick Starter ------------------
   
   Check This - Load OpenOffice.Org at Startup
   -----------------------------------------------
   

   

2. Click the Jave option in the left hand menu,
   Uncheck “Use a Java Runtime Environment” , for a normal Office Suite Operation.
   (For Tech guys, this may disable many other programmatic features, take care)

Reference
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“Yes. That’s the title of my 75th post” I said “See..Statistics Matters”.

“Oh! You do all that lousy writing and can make whatever count you want and you call that a statistics?” he said.

“Listen! Increasing this count can be easy, as I am the driver for it. But, How can I increase the number of visitors for my blog, for which I have no control over it?

However, If I were able to track which posts were being highly visited, I can assume or understand what exactly a reader wants. Based on which, I can able update/review the content of my blog .

For tracking blog visits /referrers (etc), WordPress users were blessed with a plugin called wp-stats.
I have installed this plugin on Jan 9, 2009 in this site. In the last 20 days, the top visited post of my blog are as follows

1. AVG Control File Error – 171 Views
2. Serendipity vs WordPress – 31 Views
3. BT Landline Connection – 21 Views

This statistics is quite surprising for me. When I write the blog “AVG control File Error”, I never thought it would become Top visted post of my blog.  This clearly reveals that so many visitors has got affected by this error and end up in my blog. I doubt these visitor, will they ever get back to my blog?. Anyhow, this reveals a trick for getting  many visitors .”

Hearing all these in silent, he took a deep breath and said “Blog for your passion, more than for the readers”.

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Disclaimer:-
“Always Check and then Use the vbscript downloaded from Internet, as it can potentially damage your system. If you’re not sure, don’t”

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Normally when I click the minimize button of an application, say for example Eclipse or Toad, it gets minimized to task bar. As I wont be actively using the application, over the time, my taskbar would be loaded with more than ten application. To overcome this issue, If I close the app, instead of minimizing, the next time when I open the app, It will be waste of time (Java based GUIs). So I want the application minimized to system tray instead of task bar, there by minimizing the clutter in task bar. Exactly this is what is done by this application.

So Now on, Just press the Shift key when clicking the minimize button, the app will be minimized to system tray.(you have to download and run it)

Note:- Also, using this you can play hide and seek on the app when somebody(boss) around your computer
Credits :- TeamCTI ..
Reference :- http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

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In this release, WordPress has included Tags Support. i.e, Now the user can add tags to the blogs.

For me, Categories and tags for a blog more or less the same. The difference is that tag cloud(look at the first box in right most column). The characters in the Tag cloud appears bigger as per the no. of posts have that tag. while, categories (look at the one below tag cloud), its just a list.

When I was browsing, I find tag cloud was not much helpful. May be in future, I might be able to appreciate its purpose.

As days goes by, wordpress comes up with more and more functionality and now with a threat to privacy. Slashdot has reported that wordpress spying on users. So , there is not much difference between blogger & wordpress but still, in wordpress, the owner can remove the unwanted code.

After the immediate opposition from the users, WordPress has released a plugin that disables the functionality,

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-core-update/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates/

/* From.. http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers */

But I find the best way, is to remove the code than installing another plugin.
Following are the lines that needs to be removed from the code for this fix.

in wp-includes/update.php , remove line 52..

add_action( ‘init’, ‘wp_version_check’ );

in wp-admin/include/update.php , remove line 106..

add_action( ‘load-plugins.php’, ‘wp_update_plugins’ );

The another common issue is that every time, an admin user log into wordpress. The package was designed to make a call to WordPress development blog and Planet News feeds. To remove this annoying blog feeds,

In wp-admin folder, open index.php..
Remove the following lines
In line 3 to 15

function index_js() {

?>

<script type=”text/javascript”>

jQuery(function() {

jQuery(‘#incominglinks’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=incominglinks’);

jQuery(‘#devnews’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=devnews’);

jQuery(‘#planetnews’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=planetnews’);

});

</script>

<?php

}

add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘index_js’ );

Line 133 to 137

<div id=”devnews”></div>

<div id=”planetnews”></div>

That’s it with WordPress 2.3..

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Currently, my blog runs on wordpress blogging software. As per the google Statistics, wordpress has crossed the blogger at the inception of year 2007. This is the time, greed gets into the application.

Having used with wordpress for the past six months, i find some of its functionality made me iritated/intereste

1. WordPress has started doing some advertisement on the website. I have not seen any advertisement in my blog. Also, I am not sure whether the advertisement was done only on wordpress.com or all wordpress package. After all, all men were money minded.. next 3 points for wordpress installation on separate website..
2. Regular Updates – WordPress releases its minor revision every month. Added to that, they were releasing a major revision once in six months. For the user who were crazy for updates like me, find that it becames a more redundant job compared to writing the blog. ( eagerly waiting for September 24, wordpress 2.3 would be releasing)
3. During upgrade of 2.1.2 to 2.2, i update the wordpress php files, one by one, to my surprise I can find that how poorly wordpress was coded. Here is a blog that explains poor coding in wordpress.
4. Another one serious threat.. if somebody finds the user credentials of wordpress administator, he was powered to run any malicious php scripts in the server.

These were the some functionalities that makes me hate wordpress. But, Out of the two leading market players Blogspot vs WordPress, wordpress was definitely far better than blogger.

The success of wordpress and poor coding of wordpress, results in thousands of attack on wordpress. The safer is to use the simple blog system but equally powerful as wordpress and I want that should be a open source. At this time, I hear about the web blog system called serendipity which has got better coding style. It would be definitely helpful for me to know about better coding style in php with serendipity. Here goes my first look on serendipity…

1. Admin Screen is better organized in serendipity and i.e.. having sidebar menu (while top menu in wordpress).. child menu were displayed completely. This gives a complete functionality overview just on the quick overlook. Sometimes in wordpress. I would be confusing under which menu, miscellaneous menu comes..
2. Visual Editor is Better.

Still it has so many better things.. But I find it lags many functionalities of wordpress. The page concept in wordpress makes it better software than just blog. In addition to that, be it widgets / blogroll extra plugins etcetra etcetra .. serendipity was limited. Updates wise, serendipity was no less than wordpress. Serendipity has got a good scope and great market ahead..

So to conclude, Changing from wordpress to serendipity is like changing from Bungalow(with the some internal cracks) to a well made Hut… Yes.. I can build my own Hut.. ..

• I have to change my attitude towards updates.
• WordPress has to revisit their quality of code.
• serendipity has to move forward from just blog to web 2.0.
• I have to start work on creating a opensource blog software…

Reference:

1. WordPress Vs Serdipity – perspective of Serendipity User.. http://www.christopher-chan.com/blog/index.php?/archives/343-WordPress-vs.-Serendipity.html
2. Google Trends on various blogging software

   http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+blogger%2C+%2Cserendiptiy&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

3. WordPress Fund Raising

   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050331-4759.html

P.S. The comments for this blog closed as this blog receives considerably large number of spams.

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