Weblog Of Zen and Computing reports that you may be able to speed up Firefox by clearing out its Download history. By default, the 'fox keeps a record of every single file you've downloaded - whether it's still on your hard drive or not - in its Downloads dialog, unless you clear it. To do so, from the dialog, hit the "Clean up" button. I don't know how much this list actually affects performance, but it's a good way to make sure that your downloads don't clutter anything.
Speed Up Firefox by Cleaning Out Your Downloads [Lifehacker-Of Zen and Computing]
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1) is a good read, particularly as a reminder of some goodies you or I might have forgotten about. I note that this is Part 1, so worth checking back for Part 2 as well.
Open Source alternatives
Open Source Alternative - Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software - a handy site to s
ource out open source alternatives to popular commercial programs. Programs are sorted by category to easily browse open source options.
PhotoWalkthrough.com: Learning digital photography
If you've been looking for a site that will help you learn digital photography post-processing, then it's certainly worth looking at PhotoWalkthrough.com PhotoWalkthrough offers free video tutorial podcast covering digital photography post processing using adobe photoshop cs2.
71 Free CSS Menus
71 Free CSS Menus - a nice list of links to 71 free resources for CSS Menus. Nice round-up for anyone looking for ready-made CSS navigational menus.
Learn to play the guitar
Web site Guitar Noise offers a huge knowledge base of free lessons and advice that can take you from guitar novice to guitar god.
Since I am a guitarist myself, I know that a lot of you out there must just be waiting for the right resource. With hundreds of lessons, articles, and an active forum, Guitar Noise could be it. If you feel you learn better with video, you might want to supplement your lessons with some free video lessons you can put on your iPod.
Best way to learn guitar [Guitar Noise Wiki]
Insanely Useful Persistent Searches in GMail.
Using the Persistent Search Greasemonkey script for Gmail, Matt shows how to take advantage of persistent searches to create what amount to smart folders in Gmail. Persistent searches work differently than, for example, using filters and labels, because you can use operators like is:unread, is:starred, and label:inbox to make these new folders dynamic, in ways that labels are not.
Three solid Gmail productivity tips [Matt Cutts ]
doPDF - free PDF Converter
doPDF "is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files."
doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer driver that will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents.
doPDF doesn't require any 3rd party programs to create the PDF files. It also features customizable resolution, predefined page sizes, searchable PDFs and multilanguage support.
Scribd: YouTube for your documents ?
Scribd is a free online library where anyone can upload. Use their embedded PDF player to publish and view documents right in your browser. You can also download as a PDF, MS Word document, text file or MP3.
Tasklist: the ultimate resource to identify process
How many times have your wondered what a particular process is in Windows tasklist? My solution has always just been to search for the particular process name. TaskList.org - List of Windows Proccesses and Descriptions seems like a much easier solution and a worthy bookmark for future quick reference. "TaskList.org is the ultimate resource to help you determine if your computer is infected with spyware, adware or viruses."
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