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 :).
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.
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 Released
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 was a major hit but because of the lack of time some features that were originally planned to be added in Firefox 3.0 were held and now are going to be added to the next major release of Firefox browser that is Firefox 3.1 code named “shiretoko”, these features include Support for the <video> tag as defined in the HTML 5 specification,Support for cross-site XMLHttpRequests (XHR) which would allow more powerful web applications,Native JSON DOM binding a powerful feature for web developers, full CSS 3 selector support, bookmark tag autocomplete, bulk tagging support, private browsing mode for corporate users,advanced search UI, a lightweight tagging user interface, integration of a browser’s download history and last but not the least Visual Tab switching which adds Thumbnail previews for tab switching (alt+tab). The final release of Firefox 3.1 is expected to be released in the last quarter of this year or first quarter of 2009 and will run on Gecko 1.9.1 Engine.
The most exciting feature of Firefox 3.1 is the Visual Tab switching feature which has been inspired by Ctrl-Tab Firefox extension, when you press alt+tab on your keyboard you are shown thumbnails along with the titles of the pages which allows you to recognise the tab you want to open quickly just like the Windows Vista Aero’s Alt+Tab Feature, to revert back to the old tab switching you need to use keys Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down, To know more about this feature read this.
If you want to try out the new features you can download Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 from the Official Firefox FTP site.
Wow! Google now indexing One Trillion Web pages
The Internet is getting bigger and bigger and so is Google’s Index, According to the Official Google Blog Post Google is now indexing a mammoth 1 Trillion web pages, Yeah! even the people at Google got surprised, the Google bot has indexed 1,000,000,000,000 Unique URLs so far and this number is growing at a huge pace, The number would have been even huge if Google would have indexed the duplicate Content.
here is the exact excerpt from the Google blog post on how the indexing works:
How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.
Google is the most used search engine on the web and I sometimes wonder how are their servers able to survive so much load whereas ordinary websites cant even survive the “digg effect” but now I get my answer that is distributed infrastructure, Google has many server farms all over the world and all the servers process the data and then interact with each other making the process faster.
So head on to Google.com and start searching from those One trillion web pages if you don’t already do!
