Vijay For Victory

Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.

This is a quick tip to display all the environment variables defined in the computer.

Windows: Open command prompt (DOS Prompt) and just type set to display all the variables

Unix: Type env to display all the environment variables in the console.

StumbleUpon is a great way to share the web links with your friends. This offers a tool bar to instantly share, like and dislike web pages you come across.

StumbleUpon toolbar can hold a maximum of 500 links. If you don’t clear the shares and reaches the limit, your friends will not be able to share the new content with you. You may loose some interesting stuff.

How quickly you can clear the stumbles? If you are familiar with StumbleUpon toolbar then, this tip would help you to give better stumble experience.

Click the Stumble Button by holding Ctrl key will open the page in new tab. Or you can use the mouse scroll button to open the content in new tab.

This will allow you stumble faster and help you to clear the shares.

You can follow my stumbles at http://vijayforvictory.stumbleupon.com

Google Suggest is a cool feature which offers similar to the one you are typing. It works as follows,

If you’re signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you’ve done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network. If you’re not signed in to your Google Account, no history-based suggestions are displayed.

But some times it displays some irrelevant topics and put you in embarrassing situation. Checkout this blog, googlelolz.com, for more  such weird suggestions

Here is the tip to turn off Google Suggestions permanently.

1. Visit Google Preferences page.
2. In the Query suggestions section, select Do not provide query suggestions

3. Save your settings

Now you are freed from Google Suggest.

The behaviour of opening the web links in new tab has been changed in Firefox 3.6

Links opened in new tab will now open in the immediate next tab to the current page. This behaviour is not something new for Google Chrome users.

If you don’t want to have the new behaviour and revert it back to the old one, then given below are the steps to be  followed.

1. Open a new tab and type about:config

2. Click on the promise button to go next stage.

3. Search for the Preference Name browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent

4. Double-click on the resulted row to change the Value to false.

5. All done. Close the tab.

All the new tab windows will be opened in far right in the tab bar.

Just few hours left for the new year 2010. You would have started sharing the new year wishes with your friends and family.

How do you pronounce the new year 2010? The question sounds silly. But it is going to make a big difference in our day to day life.

www.twentynot2000.com is a new website launched to set the trend in pronouncing the year. According to this new concept, we should say Happy Twenty Ten

The following is the message given in www.twentynot2000.com,

Say the year “1810″ out loud. Now say the year “1999″ out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long way. However, many people are carrying the way they said years from last decade over to this decade as a bad habit. If we don’t fix this now, we’ll be stuck saying years the long way for the next 89 years. Don’t let that happen!

Isn’t sound interesting now?

I wish you all a Very Happy Twenty Ten.

Incognito mode is one of the cool feature provided by Google Chrome for private browsing.

By definition, Incognito mode means that,

Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito aren’t recorded in your browsing and download histories.

All new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window.

You can customize your chrome browser so as to always open in Incognito mode.

Create a new shortcut for Chrome. Open it’s property dialog add –incognito option at the end.

Now whenever you open Chrome browser using this shortcut, it will always be opened in incognito mode.

Alternate way is to open the incognito mode from browser menu option.

However, I would prefer to open the incognito mode window using the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N

Facebook is flooded with lots of applications and everyday we are introduced to new applications by family and friends.

You would have added so many applications but latter on you might realise that, it is not the one for you. If you don’t remove such applications from your profile, you will receive unnecessary updates and your Facebook experience may turn to be worst.

Here are the steps that would help you to remove the applications from Facebook profile.

1. Logon to Facebook

2. Click on Applications->Edit Applications which is there on the bottom left of your Facebook page. 

3. This would display the available applications for your profile. From the select box choose Authorised to display all applications that are authorised by you.

4. From the listed applications, select the application you want to remove. (In this example let us remove the Twitter application)

5. Click on Remove to confirm the removal

6. Now the application is successfully removed from you the your Facebook profile.

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