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Google Sidewiki – New Google Toolbar Feature allows to Read, Publish & Share your Insights + Video

Posted by on September 15, 2011 1 comment

Now Google Toolbar is equipped with a new feature, Google Sidewiki which is meant to allow users to Read, Publish & Share Insights & related information in the sidebar, next to any webpage. Its really very useful to track how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information & get the information that is added by many others have done while searching the same.

Google Sidewiki, with the major aim to contribute helpful information to webpage visitors, appears as a browser sidebar, where you can also read and write entries along the side of the page & share them.

Google has implemented an algorithm that promotes the most useful, ordered & high-quality entries allows you to see the most relevant entries first.

Google Sidewiki as a feature of Google Toolbar, is now only for Firefox and Internet Explorer but it will be available soon  in Google Chrome and elsewhere too.

Also, you can to start exploring the web with Google Sidewiki, visit google.com/sidewiki to download Google Toolbar with Sidewiki and contribute your own entries alongside pages on the web.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

Posted by on December 8, 2009 6 comments

Firefox 3.5.5 releases promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world. Already a browser war is going on the web & but everything is revolving around faster access, faster results & speed factors.

See also How to Accelerate Internet Browsing Speed on your Mobile 3 times faster than now.

Here are some very effective techniques that can make your Mozilla Firefox 3-30x faster then now.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

1. Open Firefox & 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. So, Double click all those entries to Enable them.

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.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

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

4. After altering the entries given above close the firefox window and restart.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages 3-30 times faster now. See also How to Make your Web Searches More Effective & 10 Times Faster | Use Operators & Limiters

Any questions, queries, views??? Share them below through your comments.

Read 20+ Most Popular Magazines Online for Free in your Favorite Browser

Posted by on July 27, 2009 2 comments

Reading Magazines is always interesting & a good source of knowledge. You can read latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Mac World, Reader’s Digest, Popular Photography, etc up to 23 magazines for free.

Zinio offers free access to the digital prints of popular magazines only to the iPhone users, however you can read and download these high resolution magazines for free from your browser. What you actually have to do is trick the website that you are using iPhone browser. If you are Firefox user you can do this by using User Agent addon. Lets see how it is done in Firefox.

Step1: Download User Agent addon from Firefox addon site.

Step2: After installing restart your brower, goto Tools > Default User Agent > User Agent Switcher > Options.

Step3: In the Options window, select New>New User Agent.

Step4: In the Description: field add “iPhone Win XP” without quotations.

Step5: Add the following text In the User Agent: field

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

and click OK to close the User Agent Switcher Options window.

Step6: Now switch user agent from default to iPhone via Tools > User Agent Switcher > iPhone Win XP to activate it.

Step7: Just go to the link http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ to read 23 popular magazines. Enjoy.

When you click on any magazine you will be asked to enter email address to get latest iPhone updates from Zinio, if you don’t want to give email id, just type any letters that are in email address format like abc@abc.abc to bypass. You have to confirm your age if you want to access PlayBoy and PentHouse magazines.

Other Browsers:

Apple Safari has built in User Agent switcher in the Develop menu, for more info see How to read popular magazines on your desktop for free – by Amit agarwal.

Chrome users has to do some work around see this article Change Google Chrome User-Agent String, Read popular Magazines for free – by Andrew.

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