Increase Speed of your mozilla Firefox browser

Hi friends!

In this edition, I am going to tell you some simple tips to increase the performance of Mozilla Firefox. Even though IE still has 51% of the market share, I have mostly seen people going for Mozilla and Chrome. So lets understand a few tricks to boost it's performance:

# 1: In the Address bar, type 'about:config' (without the quotes, notice the colon between about and config)

            You will receive a warning, like the one below: 

Click 'I'll be careful, I promise!' ....  

# 2: Enable Pipeline:

            This is the most common method to enhance 'response time'. What we are going to do is, we are going to increase the maximum number of request Mozilla is going to make to the server, before waiting for response. To do this: 

                                         

Type 'network.http.pipelining' as shown above in the 'Filter' text-box

Change the value of 'False' to 'True' and Change the value of 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests' to say 15. (It means 15 request will be made to the server before a response from the server is waited)

• Right click anywhere on the window->New->Integer-> type 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' (without the quotes) ->OK->Enter 65536->OK-> restart Firefox
• In the filter, type 'network.http.max-connections', this variable keeps value of maximum http request that should be made at a time and can have values between 1 to 65535, change to to 512(double the number)

Caution: Some browsers does not support 'pipelining', so in this you observe a performance degradation, change to default values. Also, sending many request at a time to the server results in DoS attack, the server can block your requests

# 3: Increase the Cache:

Most of us have RAM of the order of 2GB or more. And you can utilize your RAM to store regularly browsed data into the cache. To do this, you need to right click anywhere in the window->New->Integer-> type ' browser.cache.memory.capacity' (without the quotes) ->OK->Enter 65536->OK-> restart Firefox

and it's done!

# 4: Faster Loading:
You can make your Firefox remain in a high frequency interrupt mode(if you do not touch your mouse/keyboard for 0.75 sec, it enters a low priority state), to get red of this right click anywhere in the window->New->Integer->type 'content.switch.threshold' (without the quotes) ->OK->Enter 250000->OK

These were some of the tricks to increase firefox speed. You can also use third party tools like 'toolnel.net' or  enable 'TraceMonkey' or any flash block extensions. Well, I have not tried them, so not sure..

Wish you Speedy browsing!! 

Hidden Star Wars movie using telnet

Hi Friends!

Today I am going to share a simple command prompt (referred as 'cmd' throughout the text) command 'telnet'. Well, we all know it's used for connecting to remote machines, blah blah... but in real sense, many of us have not gone beyond our textbooks and feel how telnet works. In this blog, we are going to learn to play ASCII based 'star wars' using the command prompt. (By the way, we all know cmd is CUI, Character User Interface, so it should be understood that we are going to see text only).

To begin, first make sure that 'Telnet' is ON in your system.
 For that go to Start-> Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on and off -> (Check) Telnet Client -> OK

             

After this you can start Telnet via cmd.

One more thing, you need to be connected to web to play around with this command. Also as the telnet server is on the web, it doesn't matter what platform are you using. It runs on Windows, MAC and Linux etc.

So, having set the background, lets get started.

Step 1: Press Start

Step 2: Type cmd. Hit enter on the small black icon which is shown.

Step 3: Type 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' (without quotes, and hit enter)

                                                       
Step 4: There is actually no step 4!, just connection to the internet would suffice. Your cmd prompt will establish connection and the next screen would be as shown below

The next screen which would prompt will be as shown below: 

There you are, ready to enjoy movie on a text interface and thinking why on Earth did we need that.

Well, if you come up with a genuine reason, do post it.

Till then

adiós                                 

                               

Windows 7 Genuineness Extension For Free

Hi friends!
In this post I am going to share about a simple command which will extend your Windows 7(Home, Enterprise or Ultimate) to 120 days more than its trial period, which is generally 30 days. In this manner, you will be getting regular Windows updates while you are still deciding if this is the OS you want to go with.
So let's get started:
Step 1: Click on Start button
Step 2: Type 'cmd' (without single quotes)
Step 3: Right click on the command prompt icon (Under Program section). Select 'Run as administrator '
Step 4: Write 'slmgr -rearm' (notice the space  between 'r' and hyphen, and write without single quotes)

Step 5: It will ask you to 'Restart' your system. Restart your system
and Tan-Tadaan, now you have genuine Windows in your laptop.

Well to give you more insight, we have used Windows 'Software License Manager' (for slmgr), a utility which is shipped along with your Win OS and ran it using Administrator credentials to activate your Windows for 120 more days.

But remember once your 120 days are over, this trick will not work, means it's a one time tool. After this period you will have to feed your OS with activation key. So do keep this point in mind.


Till then, enjoy your PC. :Þ

VLC Player Trick

Hi guys!
Here I am back again with another.. well it's not basically a trick or hack.. but exploration of VLC media player. In this blog, I will show you how can you make VLC player capture your screen and run into an infinite loop. So let's get started (screen shots are provided for easy demonstration)

Step 1: Open VLC player
Step 2: Press CTRL + N. Hit return
            You will see a window like this:

 Step 3: Type 'screen://' (without single quotes) in the address field

                

Step 4: Press the 'Play' button at the bottom this window and see what happens

VLC will capture your screen and it will keep shrinking it. 

FYI: I am still looking for the keyboard short cut to stop this loop, but till now no Luck!! So click on the close button at the top right corner of VLC window to get rid of it.

If you get any, please post it as a comment.

Yours Truly,

             

Flaws In Windows

Hi! I have been using Windows for a decade now and in the next few lines, I m gonna share with you one of the simplest and oldest of flaws.
Press Windows+R to prompt Run, type 'calc' (without single quotes), Windows calculator will open up in front of you. Now here's where we are going to have fun. I will enumerate the steps for clear understanding:
Step 1: Press 4(any integer whose square root is also an integer will do the trick)
Step 2: Press Square root button
Step 3: Press - (minus button)
Step 4: Press 2( for any other number, press its positive square root i.e don't press '-' button again, you will miss the fun)
Step 5: Press = (equal to button)

Now, you got to see some creepy number instead of our dear friend '0' (for Indians invented it).

Try it out with as many numbers as you wish, the answer will always be wierd.