December 5, 2006 By 15 Comments

4 Tips on How to handle Firefox Memory Usage

As we know, Firefox has problem with the memory usage. It makes the Firefox load slow, use too many resources and drag our computer down. Here are 5 tips on how you can use to handle and improve Firefox memory usage.

1. Reduce memory usage when minimize
This tip will reduce the memory usage when each time you minimize your Firefox. Actually what it does is, Firefox will let Windows to claiming back the memory used when it minimize.

  1. Start up Firefox
  2. Type in about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
  3. Right click and choose New > Boolean
  4. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the pop-up box and hit Enter
  5. Select True and hit Enter.
  6. Restart your Firefox

2. Fixed cache capacity
Every time new page is loaded, Firefox will cache the page so it doesn’t need to load again to be redisplayed. By default, this setting was set to -1 which mean, Firefox use the cache memory depends on your RAM size. Here is how to fix the cache capacity use for your Firefox.

  1. Start up Firefox
  2. Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
  3. In the filter, enter this string browser.cache.memory.capacity
  4. If you set to 0, Firefox will not cache any pages. If you want to customize to other value, read here.

Note: browser.cache.memory.enable must be True if you decide to change the integer.

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Filed Under: Firefox, How To, Tips & Tricks
November 30, 2006 By 17 Comments

How to test your PHP scripts locally?

How do you test your PHP scripts? Upload them to your website server and test them one by one, or you test them locally on your computer first before upload them to the server?

To test my PHP files, I use WAMP . With WAMP, you can make your computer act as a website server. Before I knew about WAMP, I always upload my PHP files to web server to test them. But after one of my friends, name Azhar (I called him Ja’a) told me about WAMP, I now will test the scripts locally in my computer before I upload them to my site. [tags]wamp, wampserver, php[/tags]

What is WAMP?

WAMP is stands for Windows – Apache – MySQL – P HP. These are services that are needed to make your computer act as a server. When you install WAMP, WAMP will automatically configures them to work together. So you can test your scripts before you upload them to your server.

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November 29, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Easy Auto Update your Copyright in Footer

For those who like to put Copyright [year] in footer might like this trick. It is just simple trick by using php date function. Usually we see a copyright at footer like this:

Copyright © 2004 – 2006 www.website.com

But when the next year come, you have to edit the footer for the next year. But with php, it will save your time. Just put this code:

Copyright © 2004 -  <?php echo date("Y") ?> www.website.com

in your footer and you no need to update your footer every year. It will automatically change to the current year.

[via WPMalaysia][tags]php, copyright, auto update[/tags]

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November 20, 2006 By 21 Comments

Reduce Firefox Memory Usage when Minimize

We knew that Firefox has problem with the memory usage. Sometimes it can reach to hundreds of megabytes. But here is a tricks on how to reduce the memory usage when you minimize your Firefox.

  1. Type about:config in Firefox address bar and press Enter.
  2. Right click in the page and select New > Boolean.
  3. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the box that pops up. Press Enter.
  4. Select True and then press Enter.
  5. Restart Firefox.

What it will do is, when each time you minimize your Firefox, the memory usage will dramatically drop down to 10Mb (this is what happen on my PC) but then it will slowly increase up to 50Mb. When you maximize it back, it will stay on 50Mb or maybe 70Mb.

Note: This is only to reduce the Firefox memory usage when you minimize it. Not to fix them. :)

r9studio.com [via Azmie.net][tags]firefox, tricks, memory, software[/tags]

Filed Under: Firefox, Tips & Tricks
November 17, 2006 By 2 Comments

Delete Individual Links in Firefox & IE

Every links that you have typed in the address bar will be stored in History. And you can clear all those links at once by clearing the History. But how you can delete individual links from the address bar?

Mozilla Firefox
To delete spesific url from Firefox address bar is really easy. You just need to SHIFT-DELETE the url and it will be gone.

Internet Explorer
To do this in IE is a little bit complex. Because you will play with the registry. So backup your registry before you proceed.

  1. Close your IE.
  2. Run regedit.exe from Start > Run.
  3. Go to this tree: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
  4. Delete all numbered urls that you don’t wish to visiable in IE address bar. But make sure you renamed the urls in sequential order start from url1, if you delete only certain keys.
  5. Close regedit.exe

Firefox | IE [via Raymond.CC Blog] [tags]internet explorer, firefox, address bar, url[/tags]

Filed Under: Firefox, Tips & Tricks
November 11, 2006 By 7 Comments

Get a Live.com account or other Live dot Extension

Here is a trick which you can use to register an account with other domain name instead of hotmail.com domain.

  1. Go to Windows Live ID overview page.
  2. Click on the Sign-Up button.
  3. Copy and paste the following code into the address bar and hit enter.
  4. After you hit enter, there will be an alert saying “Success – additional domains added!”.
  5. Now you can select which domain that you want to register instead of hotmail.com only.

Note: Run this trick in Firefox. Some peoples can’t run it to work because they use IE.

[via Mess.be][tags]windows, windows live, live account[/tags]

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November 3, 2006 By 5 Comments

How-To: Edit Rainlendar 2 Style Settings

A few days ago, I have posted about cool dekstop calendar software called Rainlendar 2. All the new features are great. But I don’t know how to edit the style settings like I did in the earlier version.

After I searched at their support forum, I found a topic discuss about this problem. If you want to edit the skin style settings, just rename the skin file extension to .zip and edit the xml/elements.xml. Edit what you want and save the new settings. Then refresh Rainlendar 2 and see the changes made.

Another problems that I currently working on are how to add new categories and how to edit the text colour. If I found the way to resolve these problems, I will update this post again. [tags]rainlendar, rainlendar 2, software, tweaks, how-to[/tags]

Filed Under: Computers, How To, Tips & Tricks
October 12, 2006 By 2 Comments

Troubleshooting your hosting for your Hosting Provider

Sometimes our site(s) down and we don’t know what to do. Instead of leave the problems settled by our hosting provider, we also can help them by troubleshooting the problems by ourselves.

Josh Testone has compiled a PDF format file about “How to Troubleshoot your Hosting Provider for them“. It is a simple PDF file with some instructions, information and a diagnostic flowchart. The instructions in the manual are easily to follow which make, even beginner users can troubleshoot it without have any problems.

Follow this link if you want to download the PDF directly or click here to go to his website. :) [tags]troubleshoot, hosting, provider, hosting provider[/tags]

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October 3, 2006 By 1 Comment

1 step simple trick with Recycle Bin

I disable Show Desktop Icons on my computer. So all the icons on my dekstop will be hidden including the Recycle Bin icon. Sometimes I will empty the Recycle Bin but how I can do it without enabling Show Desktop Icons? Here is my one step simple trick.

  1. Before you disable Show Desktop Icons, hold and drag your Recycle Bin icon to Quick Launch toolbar.

Done! Now even you enable or disable Show Desktop Icons, you still can empty your Recycle Bin by right clicking the icon and choose Empty Recycle Bin. Here is the screenshot when you right click the icon. [tags]how to, tricks, windows[/tags]

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September 8, 2006 By 23 Comments

How to send executable file in Gmail

Yesterday my friend SMS me to send an installer (executable) file via email. So I use Gmail as my primary email account and attached the file. But when I want to send the email, Gmail warned me that it does not allow any executable file send from Gmail. I’m sure this is regarding of the security issues. So how I can send the executable file? Here is the trick. :d

Ok let say the file that you want to send name is Executable.

executablenoexe

  1. Go to Folder Options (My Computer > Tools > Folder Options)
  2. In View tab, uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types“.step2
    And the file will look like this

    executableexe

  3. Then rename the extension .exe with other extension like .jpg. Windows will prompt a warning message, just click “Ok”. The file icon will be changed to .jpg icon and now your executable file is in .jpg format.

    executablejpg

  4. Send the file to the receipent.
  5. After the receipent recieve the file, ask them to rename the extension file with .exe or it will not work.

Note: I have try this many times in Gmail and it works and I’m sure this trick also works in other email services. Because you send an image file not executable file. :p

Found this trick useful? Please Digg the story! ;)

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