Vijay For Victory

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

Extensions are one of the key factors which you always missed in Google Chrome.

Google Chrome 4.0 is the stable release that support extensions. Here is the three minutes video about “How to install extensions in Chrome?”.

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.

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

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

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.