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5+1 Ways to Open a New Tab in Opera

Maharshi — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:59:00 +0000

Opera internet browser introduced tabbed browsing to browser market in late 90′s. Since then, almost every browser now includes tabbed browsing feature. This feature, when used properly, increases productivity. So, here is a 5+1 ways to open a new tab in Opera. These could be known to many of you, but i thought to share it. Enjoy these tricks.

Number 1:

Select “New Tab” from the File menu in Opera toolbar.

Number 2:

Click the “+” icon located near existing opened tab in a tab bar.

Number 3:

Press “Ctrl+T” from your Keyboard.

Number 4:

Double click the empty area in the tab bar.

Number 5:

Right click the empty area in tab bar and select “New Tab” from the displayed options.

And here is a 5+1^th way to open a link in a new tab. Just click the link with the center scroll button of your mouse and the page will open in a new tab.

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5 Del.icio.us Clients for Windows

Maharshi — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:36:51 +0000

Del.icio.us or Delicious is a social bookmarking service which lets its users to store and share bookmarks. It is similar to your browser bookmark functions where you can keep record of “Don’t miss” content you may find over internet. It is a web-based service but you can access them from your Windows PC with some free utilities. Here is a short review of 5 of them.

1. Delicer:
A tool to manage your Delicious account, it sorts your stored bookmarks from tags. You can post and remove your tags without visiting Delicious. Feeds from YouTube and Delicious are also available. A cool feature though is its ability to display web page in tool itself. So, no need to open browser to visit the bookmarked page. Other features includes support for various file types like MP3, PDF etc, Autocomplete and synchronising IE favorites. Requires .NET framework 2.0 at least. Download Delicer.

2. LocalDeli:
Simple tool itself, it lets you display your bookmarks stored at Delicious. Just enter your User name and Password and there you go. It will sit at your Windows Taskbar and will display list of bookmarks. Alt+D hotkey brings it to foreground. You can then search the list by tags, by description or by both. The biggest miss is its inability to post a new item to Delicious. But this simple Firefox plugin will do that job for you. Download LocalDeli.

3. Deliwin:
This tool loads itself to Windows System Tray, from where you can access various tags and URLs. Quite big in download size (~4 MBs) compared to other counterparts available. You can customize the way tags and other things displayed in “Preferences” menu. Also, there is an option to export all items as an HTML file, a pretty nifty feature. However, periodic auto update is not possible. You have to manually do that. Download Deliwin.

4. Netlicious:
A fine tool with many features. It lets you see web page preview in client itself. You can add/edit tags, notes, descriptions, mark a bookmark as private and more. There is also a facility of filter and search for better usability. Adding and deleting new bookmarks from client is also possible. You can also export your stored bookmarks as HTML/XML file. Its search capability is best of all by which it can search for URLs, descriptions, notes, and tags. Download Netlicious.

5. DeliciousTray:
Similar to Deliwin, this little tool loads to Windows System Tray upon starting. It sorts all your tags groups alphabetically. Clicking on any tag takes you to that tag page on Delicious. The application updates automatically at every 10 minutes. You can see all your tags in a tree view also by clicking “All Bookmarks” option. However, It can run only on Windows XP with .NET framework 2.0 minimum. No other OS is supported. Download DeliciousTray.

Am I missing any worth tool above? Or do you have any other tool in mind that can do the same job? Just share here by your valuable comments below.

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Tab Focus Trick in Mozilla

Maharshi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:46:00 +0000

Mozilla is an emerging browser nowadays and becoming a major competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It has recently crossed 600+ million downloads all over the globe. If you are also a user of this open source browser, you might have noticed various features it offers. One of its features is Tab focus, by which you can focus on various fields in web page pressing Tab.

This little trick will let you tweak that feature according to your preferences. Tab focus facility focuses each and every fields present in web page, namely Text fields, Form fields and links. So whenever you want to focus on particular field say text fileld, you have to cycle through each and every fields in web page.

You can tweak this default option in Mozilla so that it can focus only selected types of fields. For that, start Mozilla and write “about:config” in Address bar without quotes and press Enter from keyboard. There you will find plethora of options to crawl through. Find this option from the list: accessibility.tabfocus. It has default value as 7. You need to set this value to suit your needs. Below is the possible values and its effects.

Set value as 1 if you want your focus to appear on text fields only.
Set value as 2 if you want your focus to appear on all form fields except text fields.
Set value as 3(i.e., 1+2) if you want your focus to appear on all form fields.
Set value as 4 if you want your focus to links and linked images.

Now click Ok and you’re done. Mozilla will now focus only those fields you have entered in accessibility.tabfocus value.

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Free Ubuntu Pocket Guide

Maharshi — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:41:12 +0000

For all the Linux newbies, Ubuntu is the great place to start with. This Debian-derived Linux distribution shares 30% of desktop Linux installations in 2007, making it the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop. This clearly states that it’s intuitive for average users.

Although it is easy to learn using Ubuntu, you may still want some help at some point. And it would be really convenient to find all the help right at your desktop for free. Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is one such book that covers all aspects of using Ubuntu. Written by an award winning writer Keir Thomas, it covers topics ranging from installation to security.

This 170 page book is a must have for Ubuntu learners and it’s free to download. However, you can get print edition also at $9.94 only from Amazon.com.

Download Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference.

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