Set multiple pages as home in Firefox

April 28th, 2009 6 comments

This tip would be useful for you if you want to check more than one website so often.

Firefox allow you to set multiple web pages as home.

Follow the simple steps…

  1. Open all the web pages you wan to set as home. (Let us say www.yahoo.com and www.google.com)
  2. Click on Tools->Options->Main
  3. Against When Firefox starts question select Show my homepage from the combo box
  4. Click on Use Current Pages button
  5. Click OK
Firefox Options

Firefox Options

Now, whenever you open Firefox the pages you set will be opened by default.

You can also set your Home Page as follows.

www.yahoo.com|www.google.com

Just separate the webpages with | symbol (as shown in the picture) to set multiple pages as Home Page.

Twitter in plain English

April 26th, 2009 No comments

… in Plain English is a popular series from CommonCraft. Twitter in Plain English is one another masterpiece.

Apple apps download – Hit a billion

April 24th, 2009 3 comments

Yesterday,  23 April 2009, Apple apps download meter hit a billion downloads. It took

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Yahoo said Goodbye to GeoCities

April 24th, 2009 3 comments

This is the age of  blogosphere. Now we have so many ways to be part of internet through blogs and social networking sites. There are many websites provides blogs and spaces and it is growing like anything.

But there were days where only very few offer such services to create sites. Yahoo GeoCities is one among them.

Now Yahoo GeoCities no longer accept new accounts. Yes, it is closing down. The message from GeoCities is given below.

Goodbye GeoCities

But not sure, what will happen to the existing accounts. It just says that “GeoCities will close later this year”. The following is the one given in Yahoo GeoCities help centre.

“Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don’t need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We’ll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time”

Also read : Yahoo said Goodbye to RSS Feeds

One million twitter followers

April 21st, 2009 9 comments

Twitter

Famous actor Ashton Kutcher became the first user of social networking site Twitter to have more than One Million followers.

CNN and Britney are in second and third places respectively.

Visit to twitterholic.com to know follow the top 100 twitterholics. You can also follow me at vijayforvictory.

Text to speech utility by Zamzar

April 21st, 2009 3 comments

Zamzar is a popular online file conversion service. This provides you a huge list of file conversions online.

Recently Zamzar introduced a Text-To-Speech converter service. This a really a nice online utility to convert all your text files to audio files.

Converting this online is very easy 4 step process.

Text to Speech

Text to Speech

Select the text file you want to convert then choose mp3 option in Step 2 which will give you the audio file (,mp3). Provide your mail id and click on Convert.

Your converted audio file will be mailed to you.

You can convert the following types of files into audio format.

  • doc – Microsoft Word Document
  • docx – Microsoft Word 2007 Document
  • odt – OpenDocument Text Document
  • pdf – Portable Document Format
  • pub – Microsoft Publisher
  • txt – Plain Text document
  • wpd – Wordperfect Document
  • wps – Microsoft Works Document

Convert your text files into audio files and and enjoy listening.

Link : www.zamzar.com

A new star is born – Susan Boyle

April 19th, 2009 No comments

Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle

Britain’s Got Talent has seen a lot of talented contestants.

In this season, 47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent – 2009, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.

Here is the video of Susan Boyles brilliant performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY