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Speed up Firefox
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Now this is something a lot of you may already know about and use, but for those of you that don’t this provides a quick and easy way to speed up your browsing speeds for free. It makes multiple requests to the same server resulting in a faster browsing experience. What is it? Well, it’s a modification to the Firefox configuration.
Assuming you’re already using Firefox (If not, get it here — www.mozilla.com/firefox/) you should type about:config into the address bar. This will bring up the interface for viewing and setting a wide variety of configuration variables. You should change the entries listed below to the following values:
Alter ‘network.http.pipelining’ to ‘true’
Alter ‘network.http.proxy.pipelining’ to ‘true’
Alter ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ to ‘30′
Right-click anywhere and select New>Integer. Call it ‘nglayout.initialpaint.delay’ and set its value to ‘0′.
That’s it! Restart Firefox and you should immediately notice an improvement in browsing speeds! By Zlyzer
Web Photo Editing the right way with PicResizer
The web is chock full of Web 2.0 picture resizing applications, but none do it quite this well. The interface is polished and quick and try as I might I had a hard time breaking it which is a very good thing. Whether or not you want to just resize the or you actually want to edit the picture this tool can do the job like a real application. One of the most unique functions of this software is the capability to batch out pictures, which I have never seen before in a web image application.
You also have the ability to crop, rotate, adjust brightness, adjust contrast, use a brush tool, add text, blur, sharpen, add bevels, or add effects.
Visually see the path data takes to view a website
Visually see the path packets of information flow with Visual Trace Route Tool a cool Google Maps mashup. The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware connected together by gateways. Information sent over the Internet is broken down into formatted blocks of data called packets. This cool little tool visualizes that trip your data packets take and sometimes can answer some website latency issues by watching the amount of “hops” it takes to get responses from servers. The more “hops” the slower a website or server could seem.
Rename your Digital Camera’s files to pictures’s Date and Time
I take tons of pictures with my digital camera and of course I rename nearly none of them. So if you do the same thing as I you could end up with a file naming mess, possibly deleting files with the same file names.
But all is not lost your digital camera has its own built in clock which dates the file it saves inside the file if its a Exif supported camera, but when it comes to naming the file typically your digital camera will use a sequencial order making it possible to duplicate file names from different SD cards or different cameras.
NameExif via Shivaranjan takes the date and exact time found in the file (Exif) and renames the file to show when the file was taken. It grabs the time right down to the second making a truly unique file name that won’t over-write other files. You can also add a prefix or suffix at the beginning or end of the file. So let’s say that the pictures you are importing are from your Florida trip, now you can change the file name to Florida.2007.12.25-12.30.34.JPG which is way more meaningful than IMG_3242.JPG.
Become a Keyboard Ninja
Are you a keyboard ninja? I’ll admit it if I think too hard about what I’m writing I’ll find myself looking at my fingers typing only to find a bunch of errors following along on the screen. Keybr.com is a neat little web 2.0 (flash) application that can run you through a quick keyboarding exercise to keep your fingers on the path to hunt m’ peck sobriety. A few tests a day with you give you ninjas something to brag about and give the rest of us a way to practice our way to white belt keyboard coolness.
Prettier OSX to do lists with Do it
Its been a little while since we dusted off the old Powerbook for some OS X action but this little to-do list software was a must add to our soon to be replaced Powerbook. Sure there is a ton of great to do lists out there but not quite as pretty as this skinable gem from Jim McGowan. Each to do item can be linked with a file on your computer, a URL, such as the address of a website, or a contact from your address book. To dos can also be set as reminders in iCal. Oh yes and best of all its freeware.
