Yahoo! Briefcase is closing on March 30, 2009. You have to download all your files before that, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible.
If you are a Yahoo! Briefcase Premium subscriber, your current subscription will be cancelled on March 30, 2009. You will be refunded the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method you have. So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date. For more information, please visit https://billing.yahoo.com.
How to download yahoo briefcase files by folders
The one main hitch at this point of time is that you cannot download all your files by folders. To do this,
1. click on “Show All”
2. “Check All”
3. Then click “download” to download your folder as a zip file.
Finally you have to manually rename your zip file to something of that folder.
Yahoo briefcase is closing- How to download by folders
Category : Yahoo, Yahoo Briefcase
How to stop the annoying Content Preparation Progress in Adobe Reader 8?
Category : Adobe, Adobe Acrobat reader, Zero Hacks, ZeroHacks, zeroes-basics
While opening all Adobe documents you will receive an initial pop up Content Preparation Progress which says please wait while the document is being prepared for
Problemo
This wastes lot of time and we got to remain idle every time until this preparation is complete.
Why this Occurs?
Accessibility standards ensure that the software must be accessible even for visually challenged persons. In order to prepare the document for reading every time this pop up checks the document for preparing it to Read Out Aloud.
Solution
1. In the Adobe Reader press CTRL+K (Alternatively open EDIT > Preferences)
2. Go to Categories, select Reading
Gmail goes offline – Now access your Google Mail even without internet
Category : Gmail, Zero Hacks, ZeroHacks, google
GMail goes ga ga. Now you can access your GMail offline even when you don’t have internet. The only requisite is that you should have Google Gears installed for your browser.
Here are the Steps to activate your Offline GMail account
1. Sign in to Gmail and click ‘Settings’.
2. Click the ‘Labs’ tab and select ‘Enable’ next to ‘Offline Gmail’.
3. Click ‘Save Changes.’
4. In the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username, there will be a new ‘Offline’ link. Click this link to start the offline synchronization process.
5.”Install offline access for Gmail” will pop up. Click Install. This will install Google Gears also and re-start your browser.
6. Based on your email volume, Offline Gmail will download email that is newer than 5 years old excluding Spam & Trash.
TIP:
1.To evade browser restart you can install Google Gears from http://gears.google.com/.
2. Google Chrome browser have Gears already installed.
What can you do in offline Gmail
1. You can do everything except sending & receiving new mails.
2. If you compose and press send, the mail will be sent when you connect it to the internet.
How do I know if Gears is installed on a computer I am using?
1.Visit the page http://gears.google.com/. That page will clearly tell you whether Gears is installed or not.
2. Check the Add/remove programs
Flaky connection mode
An interesting feature is the useful flaky connection mode, by this you can:
1.Access the mail that’s stored locally on your computer, regardless of your connection status.
2.This makes it much faster to read and send mail, while you’re on a slow or flaky connection.
3.Your account will continue to sync in the background when it’s able to do so, with no disruption to your experience.
WARNING
How to see what plugins are others using in Wordpress?
This is a simple Wordpress hack. Just append the site address with /wp-content/plugins/.
If the site is not protected, you will see the list of plugins. This won’t work with sites run by wordpress.com domains like http://xxx.wordpress.com.
You know how to protect it, right?
Chrome – Google’s first step towards Web OS?
Category : Browser, Google Chrome, ZeroHacks, google
Chrome is designed as a Multi Process Architecture keeping in mind the increasing complexity of the web applications. It has several advantages instead of running the whole browser as a single process with several threads.
Today’s browsers try to act smart much like a little operating system. Indeed it runs several (heavy?)applications inside the browser like in Firefox we have FTP, Torrent, IRC, etc.
Browser must attempt to keep each web apps with JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, Java etc independent of each other so that if one has a bug and crashes it must not close the browser itself. Chrome is designed to spawn multiple instances of Chrome.exe for each tab or site exactly for this reason.
Chrome uses the open source WebKit rendering engine, which is also used by Apple’s Safari web browser.
Since it runs multiple processes Google Chrome can have its own Task Manager. You can access the Google Chrome Task Manager with SHIFT+ESC or a right click on the browser’s title bar. This Task Manager lets you track resource usage for each web app and plug-in, rather than for the entire browser. You can kill any web apps or plug-ins that has crashed, without having to restart the entire browser.
Chrome spawns 3 entirely different architectural processes to manage the browsing.
- Browser Process: Similar to underlying OS it co-ordinates and takes care of interaction with all peripheral devices as well as file interactions. It directs Renderer and Plu-ins to behave in the designed way. It doesn’t do any rendering.
- Renderer Process: As the name suggests. Many renderer process are created to manage each web app. And the most interesting point is that each renderer runs in a separate sandbox with no access to OS files. If any suspicious activity is noticed in a renderer browser kills that PID.
- Plugin Process : Manages the plugins like Flash, Adobe Reader etc.
For each website you visit a new process (renderer) is created. This means an additional chrome.exe in your Windows Task Manager. All this chrome.exe is aggregated and categorized in the Google Chrome Task Manager.
If you open a site from another site’s JavaScript only one renderer will be spawned. Also only one renderer per one domain since inter communication between the different apps of the same domain cannot happen if different PIDs are used. For example if you are signed in yahoo mail, you have to re-sign in for accessing yahoo answers.
In short,
Strategy
1. By using different processes for each site a robust application can be run in each Tab.
2. This implies Google can go ahead and create apps with more functions making things breezier.
So, it’s the beginning of the Web OS as the future will be fully loaded with more on web side.
Is Google the early Bird?