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.

Wall Street Journal and Financial Times famous online magazines. Here is a cool Google hack to read these magazines for free.

Financial Times

Wall Street Journal

Thanks to Amit

This month is fully of holidays and celebrations. We have lots of gatherings, parties, dinners and having much more fun. 

This short film explains how the stomach works, and gives some advice to avoid a stomach ache during the end of year celebrations. These tips are must to be followed tips for a healthier life.

Konami Code, known in Japan as Konami Command, is a cheat code that appears in many Konami games. 

The following are the keys that forms the Konami Code.

Checkout the below picture. Facebook, with coloured rings. This is one of the famous Tips and Tricks in Facebook.

How to get this? Just press the Konami Code and Enter Key.

and ENTER key

Now when you perform any mouse clicks, or page up/down, you will get the coloured rings in your Facebook page. To disable this, just refresh the page.

The same key combination gives a different effect in Google Reader. In order to get this you should logon to Google Reader.

Visit konamicodesites.com to find the list of Konami Code powered websites.

Most of you normally login to your Facebook account by typing your email id that was used while registration.

Everyone like to use a username instead of their email addresses.

Sometime in June 2009, Facebook introduced Vanity URLs to all users.

Vanity URL is one of the nice to have feature for every user. Vanity URL allows you to set a nice username (facebook.com/iamunique) in the URL instead of having a alphanumeric characters (facebook.com/?profile=abc123).

You can create your own username using this link – www.facebook.com/username

Take time and create a suitable username for your account. This is a one-off task and it can’t be changed forever.

Once you create the Facebook username, you can use the username to login to facebook instead of your email id.

However you are still will be able to login to Facebook using your email address.