Accelerate Mozilla Firefox Scroll Speed

All those who use Mozilla Firefox must have noticed that when you scroll down a relatively long webpage, it scrolls with the same speed throughout the page. For those of you who wish to acclereate the scroll speed of their web browser here’s a way do it. With this small change, users can change and try various values in order to satisfy their own most preferred speed setting.
In the new Firefox 3.6 browser, the developer had actually added an important feature namely Scroll Acceleration in the browser to assist users who might have wanted to speed up their page scrolling rate. However, this feature was later removed by the developer and postponed to the newer version release as it could conflict with some mouse drivers and encounter problems such as double acceleration.

But for users who would like to try the acceleration feature and enable it to increase the page scrolling speed in Firefox, users can activate and turn it on easily. To enable this secret feature, users just need to do some simple setting following the steps below:

• Type in about:config in the address box of your firefox web browser.
• Search for mousewheel.acceleration.start via the filter box.
• Users can set their preferred number of successive mouse scrolls to accelerate the page scrolling speed
• After that go to mousewheel.acceleration.factor to change value and set to how many times faster users want to scroll.

With this small adjustments, users will be able to change the page scrolling speed and enhance their browsing experience.

Access Your Pen-Drive Directly From Desktop

Today I’d like to share a very small utility called Desktop Media that any average PC user will find useful.
Every time we insert a USB or any other flash drive to the PC, to access it we have to first click on My Computer, search for that particular drive and then click on it. This might sometimes turn out to be tedious and troublesome when we are in hurry or have some important work to be done.
Using Desktop Media you can directly access the contents of the USB device. Desktop Media automatically creates a shortcut icon onto the desktop every time a USB is connected to the PC. By clicking on it you can directly access the USB the same way you otherwise would. Also, if you connect more than one USB, it will list all of them on the desktop. This can save your time which becomes precious when your in a hurry. Desktop Media occupies only 354KB and once you install it there’s nothing else to be done. So hope you all find this useful.

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Happy Easter to All..

Wishing all my subscribers a very Happy Easter. May the Risen Lord bring good health, peace and joy to you and your family.

On the occasion of Easter I would like to thank all my subcribers for their support and gratitude. I would also like to annouce that the winners of my 6-month anniversary giveaway has been declared. I’m sure all the winners must have received the liecence key by emails from Wondershare last week.

Continue showing your gratitude and support.

Have a nice day.

Block Unwanted E-mails in Gmail…

Recently one of my friend encountered a problem with someone sending her unsolicited emails. I’m sure many others like her must have also encountered such problems in the past. It happens that you gave your e-mail ID to that person before or someone gets hold of it from somewhere  and they sent you “bad” emails. Well, if you are a Gmail user there is a way to get through this. While Gmail doesn’t provide any direct feature to block such emails (other than spam of course) you can avoid these troublesome emails by following these steps. It’s not something new but not many people are aware of this method.

1. Go to Gmail and login to your account.

2. Go to an email from the sender you wish to block, and open it.

3. Go to the top of the email and use the More actions dropdown to select Filter messages like these.

4. The sender’s email address will appear in the From textbook of the Create a Filter form.

5. Click the Next Step button.

6. Check the Delete it checkbox.

7. If you wish to apply the new filter to clean out existing messages from this user, check the Also apply filter to # conversations below checkbox. If not, leave it unchecked.

8. Click the Create Filter button.

That’s it. You won’t receive any messages from this sender again.

6 Month Anniversary Giveaway – Wordshare Office recovery

This week it’s the 6-month anniversary of my website, TechQuest.  As part of this small acheivement I’d like to give away free liecence to a very useful software, Wondershare Office Recovery.
Wondershare Office Recovery is a new powerful recovery tool specially designed for recovering MS-Office files and PDF files even after you have formatted your PC (Yes!! that’s true). This software is a must-have for all those who work on MS-Office as part of their job. It can recover DOC, PPT, XLS, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PST, DBX, ACCDB, MPP, PUB, ONE, XSN and files lost due to accidental deletion, formatting, viruses, bad sectors, misuse of partition tools and so forth.

Its best features are:

• Easy 3-step to recover lost files. Select, scan and recover without special technical skills
• Restore lost office files and PDF files due to intentional deletion/formatting/virus attacks and other reasons
• Recover lost files from various storage devices including PC hard drive, external hard drive, memory stick, USB flash disk, DVD and more
• Recovery result won’t affect the original file format and layout

The normal price of Wondershare Office Recovery is about $29.95. As part of the 6-month anniversary of my website I’m giving away free license to 50 lucky winners. All you have to do is…
1) Download Wondershare Office Recovery. (Its only 2.80 MB)
2) Write in a comment on my blog and add in your name and Email ID in it. First 50 entries will get the license code via email.
So hurry up and grab your copy now.
Click here to leave your comment.

Hack Google To Download Free Music

Today i’ll like to share a hack google for more effective and precise search result. Its an old trick but not many are aware of this. Well as we know, we get all kinds of stuff using Google’s search engine, but why waste time when you know exactly what you want.
For eg. Music is something we all want to download for free. If you properly query google, you can find open indexes of music files easily. use these open indexes to get your free music. just type in the following command into the google text box.

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “hips don’t lie” mp3

Well, what does this mean??? To simplify… The -inurl htm and -inurl html is trying to get rid of regular webpages and show only index pages. Looking for “index of” in the title is doing the same. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma, ogg or whatever you want.
You can add additional search criteria to focus your search more.

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “shakira”

This command will find open directories with mp3 files with shakira. You can change to whaever you want.

Similarly to search for an ebook just type

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)

By using the ( | ) sign, we tell google to look for that OR this .i.e look for ebook or book directories. After that we have listed several common ebook formats (zip, pdf, chf).

This way we can use certain command to make google focus on the searches more to our meet our specifiacations. More such tricks will be posted soon. So keep reading….

Free Subscription of Norton 360 v4 for 90 Days

The latest version of Norton 360 4.0 is finally lauched.  Norton 360, developed by Symantec, is marketed as an “all-in-one” security suite. The package includes a personal firewall, phishing protection, ability to detect and remove malware, file backup and PC maintenance capabilities. The previous Norton 360 v3 is based on Norton 2009 products and the latest Norton 360 v4 is also based on Norton 2010.
So whats new in Norton 360 v4??

• Provides unprecedented and unmatched threat detection — Adds an additional layer of protection to detect viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other threats.
• Warns you of dangerous downloads — Proactively protects you by analyzing newly downloaded files and applications for threats before you install or run them on your PC.
• Helps you improve and maintain PC and application performance — Identifies applications that may be impacting your PC’s performance, making it easier to keep your computer running at its best.

In India, a premium edition with three-PC license will cost Rs. 4025. If you want to try out the latest Norton 360 v4, you can download the setup from the link below. After installation, it gives you a free 90 days subscription. Since Norton products are subscription based, you can also upgrade to v4 for free provided you still have an active subscription.

Download Norton 360 v4

What’s the buzz about Google BUZZ??

Starting from Tuesday, 9th Feb, most Gmail users where suprised to see their  accounts opening to a new page showcasing Google’s latest product…BUZZ  (Some were even worried their account were hacked and redirected to some other page!!)

So what’s the buzz about BUZZ???
Buzz is an attemp by Google to make Gmail more social by following the twitter and facebook way.

• Buzz chooses the people whom you contact often from your Gmail and add them as your followers or as the people you follow. It will also connect with your Flickr, Picasa, Google Reader and Twitter accounts and integrate them all directly to your Gmail . You can also access buzz seperately from buzz.google.com
• It has public and private sharing where each buzz can be set private or public.
• It has Gmail integration not only for the fact that it’s in Gmail, but Buzz updates appear in your inbox if someone comments on your posts.
• “Recommended Buzz” recommends content from friends-of-your-friends in your stream, if you accept it. Recommendations “learn” over time based on your feedback.

It also has something for the mobile age. The mobile form of Google Buzz includes:

• A new mobile Google homepage with automatic updates about your current location
• A web app for the iPhone and Android;
• A new version of Google Maps with tight Buzz integration.

Interesting is also a feature where you can see Buzz posts from those near you, even though they have not been recommended or followed.

But not everything about buzz seems so nice...

• Buzz automatically chooses the people whom you contact often from you Gmail and add them as your followers or as people you follow. This information is available to public, anyone who visits your Buzz profile can see the your follow/followers lists. Which implies that your email contact list becomes public.
• People who try out buzz out of curiosity without looking into the configurations and settings will have their followers/follow list configured automatically. And worse, Buzz continues to add followers/follow list as we use it.
• Other things like chat status message, pictures, videos etc can also be displayed without your consent

So before actually using it, make sure you configure  your settings according to your preferences. Btw, you can turn off Buzz by clicking on the link which is there in the bottom of the Gmail page.

Watch this video…

Convert Windows XP ShutDown Box to Windows 7

It’s been really long time since I’d written my last post. Finally I managed to write something that I’ve been wanting to share from a long time. My previous article was about changing the progress box to that of Windows 7. That article got good comments. This article is something similar to it, so I’m sure it will be intresting.

Windows 7, similar to Vista, doesn’t have any Shutdown/Log Off dialog box like what we have in Windows XP but we can redesign Windows XP default shutdown box to make it look more refreshing like a Windows 7 Shutdown/Log Off dialog box.

Windows XP

Windows 7

To do so,
1) You will need Resource Hacker.

2)A few BMP files will be needed to change the appearance of both Shutdown/Log Off dialog box.
Click here to download BMP files.

3)Extract the file and you’ll get 4 BMPs with the name:
1.bmp

2.bmp

3.bmp

4.bmp

4) Now open “%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll” file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 14351 -> 1033 with 1.bmp

Bitmap -> 14353 -> 1033 with 2.bmp

Bitmap -> 14354 -> 1033 with 1.bmp

Bitmap -> 14355 -> 1033 with 2.bmp

Bitmap -> 14356 -> 1033 with 3.bmp

5) Now save the file and open %windir%\System32\msgina.dll file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 20140 -> 1033 with 1.bmp

Bitmap -> 20141 -> 1033 with 2.bmp

Bitmap -> 20142 -> 1033 with 1.bmp

Bitmap -> 20143 -> 1033 with 2.bmp

Bitmap -> 20150 -> 1033 with 4.bmp

Now save the file. That’s it.

6) Now replace the existing shell32.dll and msgina.dll file with the newly created ones. No need to restart.

Get WinRar 3.80 worth $29 for Free!!

WinRAR is one of the most popular archive management software for Windows users. Most of us use the trial versions that works fine but such versions have limited funtionality. Today we can  get WinRAR 3.80, which generally costs $29, absolutely free.

“PC Welt”, a German tech magazine is giving away WinRAR 3.80 copy absolutely free to its readers.
You just need to follow these simple steps to get your free copy:

STEP 1. First download WinRAR 3.80 using following link:
Download WinRAR 3.80

STEP 2. Now go to following page which is a Registration Form and enter your First name, Last name, E-mail address, E-mail address again respectively.
http://covermount.win-rar.com/pcwelt0310/
NOTE: If you are not able to open the above link and get “Please note: This offer is not available in your country!” message, do as following:
a. First open a German proxy site like following:

German Proxy Site

b. Now copy-paste the Registration form URL  http://covermount.win-rar.com/pcwelt0310/ in textbox given at proxy website and press Enter. Now it’ll open the Registration form without any problem.

STEP 3. Click on “Abschicken” button in Registration form and you’ll receive an e-mail from WinRAR team very soon containing a download link to download your free Registration key.

STEP 4: Open the e-mail and click on the 2nd link which should look like as following:
https://covermount.win-rar.com/pcwelt0310/download.php?email=your_email_id

STEP 5: It’ll download a file called “rarreg.rar”, extract it and you’ll get a file “rarreg.key”. Copy this file to WinRAR 3.80 folder.

That’s it. Now you can enjoy the full licensed version of WinRAR 3.80.