Modify Incompatible Firefox Extensions to make them work with Firefox 3
Ever came across an extension that you badly want to run with Firefox 3 and are in no mood to downgrade to earlier versions of Firefox, and you aren’t comfortable with modifying about:config, the other day I came across this extension called minimize to tray and I badly wanted it to run with Firefox 3 ,actually what it does is that it minimizes Firefox to tray when you press CTRL+SHIFT+M, now whenever I am done with with Firefox I don’t close it instead I minimize it, it is working great so far in Firefox 3.0.1, I am using the same extension as an reference in this post:
first step is to get the .xpi file of the addon you want to make compatible with Firefox 3.0.1, to do that go to Mozilla addons site and open the page of your desired extension, now the problem is that the add to Firefox button is greyed out because its not compatible otherwise we would have right clicked it and chosen “save link as” option but now you can get xpi file by changing your browser e.g Internet Explorer (you can use IE tab too) as it will turn the add to Firefox button to download now button and then you can easily save the xpi file to your hard disk
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Get stand alone installer for windows live messenger and windows live writer
Ever since Microsoft started giving their windows live labelled software through windows live installer I am having hard time installing these software’s because it is hard to download those installers through Windows Live Installer every time you need to install a windows live software especially if you have slow connection and this makes the installation process really slow, thank god windows live installer saves a copy of the installer on your harddisk once you install the software, I will show you how to get the installers
First open my computer open tools menu and select folder options
Add a “Clear list and close Window” button to Firefox download manager
I found this nifty little extension for Firefox while crawling on the web named “clear and close”, the name pretty much describes its function that is it replaces the default “clear” button in the Firefox download manager with a “Clear list & Close Window” button which clears completed or interrupted downloads and automatically closes the download manager window, it basically saves you one click 
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it is very small and simple extension so I don’t need to write much about it. it’s in experimental mode on Firefox addon’s site so instead you can get it from softpedia.
Advanced Power Management in Ubuntu
The default power management system that is present in ubuntu is very basic and provides very limited functionality. If you need more advanced features i will show an application called Kpowersave which is part of the KDE gears package. Kpowersave is easily found in Ubuntus repositories so instaling it is not too difficult.
When you first launch Kpowersave you get an icon in your panel like so:
Clicking on the icon shows you an information dialog box showing you various options such as.
1) The power scheme selected
2) The CPU frequency policy set
3) Remaining Battery Power and voltage consumption
Monitor Your Adsense earnings from your windows taskbar
The other day I found this nifty little program on softpedia named SysSense, basically it allows you to monitor your Adsense earnings from the windows taskbar, it places an icon in the taskbar and when you hover your mouse pointer over it, it shows a box with the details of your Adsense account.
It can show all the details of your Adsense account including Page Impressions, Clicks, CTR, eCPM, Earnings, Predicted Earnings, current month’s page impressions, current month’s clicks, current month’s CTR, current month’s eCPM and current month’s earnings, you can configure what to show and what not to show. You can also configure at how much time interval you want the statistics to be updated, it can also show details for multiple accounts and the feature I like the most is that one can configure it to show balloon popups when the amount of click changes, good for those who get excited on every single click. apart from that you can configure it to show the earnings in your native currency but the downside is that you yourself have to put the conversion rate so it means that it wont be accurate but its good for getting an idea.
