I’ve found a great article with tricks and hacks all for Gmail – handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. While some might not work anymore or are already integrated by Google enjoy them.
FIREFOX EXTENSIONS
Gspace – multi-platform firefox addon that turns your gmail account into powerful online storage tool
Gmail Search Extension – search your gmail account directly from the firefox search bar
GcalQuickTab – toggle between gmail and google calendar with keyboard shortcuts
GTDInbox – turns your account into flexible and feature-loaded ToDo-management service (GTD …
Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, but tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here’s what you need to do.
1. Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page …
Every few weeks (depending on amount of mails sent/received), Outlook 2003 will get into a situation where it will no longer render images in the preview pane or the message window. If you reply to the message, then you will see the image. Perplexed by the problem, I would take the brute force “Detect and Repair” solution but that isn’t always desirable as it resets all the Outlook settings and takes a while. The problem can be fixed by deleting the Outlook Temporary Cache folder and here is how you …
Very often registry permissions in Windows get messed up. Almost all of the time this makes different programs not to work at all. I will cover the situation when there are no items shown in the Device Manager e.g. Device Manager is empty. If you try to restart the computer, run spyware scan and even rescan the devices directly from device manager no items will be shown in the device manager. After some testing I’ve found that this is registry permissions related issue. You must use the Registry Editor in …
Some malwares disables the registry editor to prevent removal of their startup entries. Usually the message reads like
Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator
Basically the malware adds the registry entries
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools
and puts a value of 1 for them. This prevents the registry editor(regedit.exe) to be started.
This can be easily solved by changing the value from 0 to 1 or just delete DisableRegistryTools entry. Since the registry editor cannot be started I’ve create a VBS script file to restore the options.
