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Schedule your e-mails in Gmail (or any other mail!)

Many-a-times we feel that the email should not be sent right-away. Rather it be sent at the precise moment. A Birthday to be wished, an Invoice to be sent etc. However, Gmail doesn’t offer this luxury. Not even in the now defunct “Labs”, is this vital tool included. I have sear

How to inspect css hover , active property using firebug

I am sure that while Design and Development of a website you definitely want to see the :hover property of an element using your favorite addon in FireFox called Firebug. But I have found that many newbie developers do not know how to see this property. Default settings of firebug shows only the "De

Enable Save and Quit tabs in Firefox

I am sure when you open FireFox you open as many windows. And imagine if you accidentally quite Firefox ? That's irritating - No ? I know you are smart enough to go to in History menu and Click Restore previous session. But imagine having to fill user username password for certain Web Sites ? And im

Where did RSS Feed icon in Firefox 4 go ?

Many firefox users including me used to love the RSS icon which used to be displayed in the address bar. It quickly lets you subscribe to the RSS feed of the current website which you are on. Strange that you have lost your favorite RSS icon in Firefox 4. If you did not use it, I am sure you might

Firefox: Check all your installed plugins for update

FireFox is a powerful browser and you love it because it has some great plugins. However, the same browser will be a pain if you do not update these plugins timely. Firefox does a self test when started, for any updates available. But in some cases users have disabled this auto self test and sometim

Disable Location awareness sending in Firefox 4 – enabled by default

Firefox 4 has location awareness enabled by default. When location awareness is enabled the sites can request for the physical location of your system. This will help the website to serve the content according to your current location. However, there are times when you do not want that to be enab

Highlight text in firefox address bar for Ubuntu / Linux

Whenever I have used firefox in Ubuntu, one usability issue I faced is that it does not select or highlight the URL in the address bar when clicked. I used Windows for most of my life and I feel lazy to double click on the address bar for selecting the URL. I know that sounds a bit strange but that'

Remove stored password in Firefox

Firefox being the widely used browser has lot many options. From storing browser’s session to storing your passwords (upon allowing). It is a good idea to store password when you have a private computer. But sometimes you might need to remove the stored password. So to remove them follow the st

Web Workers – Another leap in JavaScript

Hey Folks, When I started discussing web workers at SparkIT - 2010, I asked about it from the listeners. They came up with funny answers and out of which one was “Web Workers are people, who develop WEB for us”. It might sound funny but Web Workers are really here to change the way we look at

Switch your user agent to iphone in Mozilla firefox

This post is completely for developers, unless and until if you are really keen to know what User agent is and why does one has to switch it ? So you started developing and website/blog and it has a capability to do some extra stuff for different type of browsers. For instance if your website is goi

Must-Have Firefox Addons (Plugins!) for Everyday Use

It has been nearly 5 Years since we have been blessed with a FREE (I love this word in online terminology!) multi-faceted browser. Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox Version 1 was released to public on November 9, 2004!. Since then Mozilla has not looked back (well, maybe a few times!) & went on to a

Browser of Choice

With Microsoft recently announcing that Windows 7 will have a "Choice of Browers" instead of being stuck with IE 8 (at least till you download a browser of your choice). I thought of giving you a low-down of ALL the Popular Browsers available out there. Contenders: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safa

How to Install Unavailable Firefox 3.5 Addons

The biggest handicap about using Firefox 3.5 right now is the lack of availability of some of our most loved addons.Yes they are being migrated to 3.5 fast, but yet why wait for them, when you can use them right away? Yup! With a little hack, you can fool your Firefox to believe that the addon is

How to Install Firefox 3.5 on Linux

July 1st saw the release of Firefox 3.5. You must already be aware of what is new is version 3.5 and what makes it the awesome-est browser to-date, if not check this Firefox 3.5 preview video and the feature list for Firefox 3.5. In this post we are going to walk you through installing Firefox 3.

Must have plugins for a web developer in firefox

Firefox + Plugins are the life saving combos, you second that right ? Well firefox is famous today more than its old variants like Internet explorer :P It is due to the reason that it gives you the chance to be yourself and modify stuff the way you want it. However the all time bundled Internet Expl

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