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How to Download and Save All Images, Icons, Embed Flash and Media Files on a Web Page in Firefox 3

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

When browsing a web page which has lots of beautiful pictures, graphics, photos and images, or has embedded Flash video, or has attractive icons and other media components or elements, Firefox 3 can download and save all of these graphics and media on the web page altogether at once simultaneously, without any plugin, extension, add-on or third party programs.

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Access and Visit US-Only Restricted Websites (Hulu, Pandora, Veoh, ABC, CW) from Outside of United States

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

There are some Internet services and websites that is been restricted or viewable by visitors from continent of United States of America (USA), and most likely Canada only. Most of the restrictions are placed on video streaming contents which may subject to copyright, or sites that target specific audiences only.

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How to Set Gmail as Firefox Default Email Client

Monday, June 30th, 2008

In some occasions when you click on an email link while browsing some webpages, you will be prompted with email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail for Vista or Microsoft Outlook Express for XP. If your email client has yet to be configured, you need to set up and configure it before you can send out emails. It is quite troublesome and inconvenient if you haven’t done so. Anyway, if you are Gmail and Firefox users, the good news is the new Firefox 3 allows users to configure and set Gmail as a default email client. This latest Firefox 3 comes with support YahooMail as default email client. For Gmail users, some setting needs to be done to edit the “mailto” application handler.

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Disable and Turn Off System Tray (Notification Area) to Hide Icons in Windows XP and Vista

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Many programs put an icon in the system tray or notification area for easy and quick access, besides providing some progress indication or notification when needed. But not everybody appreciate the importance of systray. If you feel that notification system tray area is of no use to use, and you want to recover the bottom right space to make more room for Windows Taskbar, it’s possible to turn off and disable system tray with a simple registry hack.

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Fix Hotspot Shield Bandwidth Exceeded, TCP Connect Wait, Auth Failure or Daemon Start Error

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Hotspot Shield is essentially a free private secure VPN tunnel service that routes through a US server with USA location IP address. And thus, it has been used not only for security unencrypted wireless connection connected to public WiFi access point, but also been used as a tool to access websites restricted only to visitors from United States, or as a ‘proxy’ to surf anonymously or download shared files from RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc.

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How to Change or Spoof MAC Address in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003/2008, Mac OS X, Unix and Linux

Monday, June 30th, 2008

MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a quasi-unique identifier consists of a six byte number that attached to most network adapter card or network interface card (NIC). As such, all network cards, whether it’s of Ethernet NIC, Gigabit Ethernet NIC or wireless 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi or HiperLAN adapter, should have different MAC addresses, which also known as Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA) or adapter address.

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How to Emulate iPhone (Change User Agent) in Safari and Firefox Web Browser

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

When web browser accessing the web server to download web page’s contents, it send an user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. Useragent allows web server to respond separately to different system or apply different behavior and features to different browser.

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Fast Tracking FEDEX or UPS Shipments Via Email Sending with Auto Status Response

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Most courier service providers offer web based tracking in order for users to track down the shipment from one place to another conveniently. This is sufficient for those users that can log into web in front of the PC to track them accordingly. But for those users that always travel on the road with limited access to web service, best think is to give them a call with the tracking number on hand for fast check out. If you are FedEx or UPS courier services’ users, you may want to try this even more simpler method – email the respective forwarder with the right tracking number and just wait for their auto reply on the details of shipments delivery.

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