‘What is the relationship between the mind and matter ?, can intention affect the behavior of the physical world ?’ These were the questions that few scientists from Princeton university asked themselves, and they came up with an experiment for trying to find an answer. What they did was, they placed ‘Random Number Generators’...
Read more →Whenever Firefox is finished downloading something, it automatically opens up the ‘Downloads’ window to let you know. Or, if you had disabled showing the ‘Downloads’ window or had it minimized during the download (s), then Firefox still gives you a notification on your screen. If you however have disabled showing the ‘Downloads’ window (because...
Read more →‘MAFF’ or ‘Mozilla Archive Format’ is a fully open-source web page saving format for the Firefox web browser (created by the Mozilla foundation itself) that has many advantages over the usual web page saving format that involves creating a folder and a HTML file when saving a single web page. For example, whenever you...
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Though I do not use YouTube heavily, thanks to my limited internet connection , one feature that I feel like missing is an option to resize videos freely. Now, YouTube does let you view in full-screen and a button to make it a bit large, still, it is handy if we could freely resize...
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The built in image viewer in Firefox is a very basic one and is not that useful at all (or at least in my experience). If you too find that to be true, then you can try ”ImgViewerPlus’. It is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds few very useful features to...
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Other than being a ‘owned’ by Google, another reason why I decided to switch over to ‘WordPress’ (blogging software) from ‘Blogger’ was because its lack of features or controllability in general (plus I like ‘WP’ better because it’s open source ). However, ever since I left ‘Blogger’, Google has been adding more and more...
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You know, I just upgraded to Firefox 13 (did a ‘clean installation’ actually, uninstalled the ‘old’ Firefox and installed the new one). Sure it has ‘borrowed’ few ideas from Google Chrome/Chromium etc, but Mozilla has done few enhancements of their own thus there’s a noticeable improvement in speed and it all look good. However,...
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In Mozilla Firefox, if the URL that you entered is invalid, then it’ll search for that term in Google by default (might change in the future). But sometimes, it can happen that (specially after installing some “freeware” applications), the search engine assigned to the location bar (URL) might get changed to something else. It...
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Few days ago I got my brand new Dell Vostro V131 (core i3 version) notebook. So far it’s good, certainly not perfect (heats up a little more than I expected, not above being that uncomfortable though), but for the price, it’s pretty good. Anyhow, I don’t know why but by default Dell does not...
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Asus has just announced a 12.5 inch notebook (could be their first one as well) that has some high end hardware specifications. It features Intel Core i3/i5 or an i7 processor, with 8GB of RAM, 750GB of HDD and a weight of 3.4 lb!. It’s a good thing that it has a 12.5 inch...
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I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about SOPA and PIPA “Piracy Acts” rendered by the United States House of Representatives few months back. Now I ain’t gonna talk about that but, the boringly long BUT at the same time extremely useful (plus awesome!) Wikipedia has announced that as a protest against SOPA & PIPA acts,...
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Ultrabooks aren’t for everyone, or at least when considering their hardware features in today’s’ standards. For instance, they don’t come with optical drives nor gamers friendly powerful graphics. Although some say the importance of having an optical drive will eventually be outrun by Cloud storage modules in the near future. But not having gamers...
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