For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode.

• Web pages 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.

Changes made to your Google Chrome bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved. [Google Chrome Help]

It is equally useful to browse pr0n also. ;P

Whatever the use, this is how you can do so in Firefox:

1. Select Tools > Start Private Browsing. A dialogue box will ask you whether to start private mode; answer in positive
2. The easiest way is to use the keyboard shortcut: press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [P]
3. Key in about:config in the address bar, press “I will be careful, I promise” button in the filter field key in privatebrowsing.autostart; change the value to true. From next restart onward every activity will be in private mode.

Another tip suggested by Firefox facts is to use an extension to do this easily:

Quickly Turn Private Browsing On (or Off)

One tweak or suggestion for this new mode is to give the user a toolbar button to turn it on or off.  The Toggle Private Browsing add-on for Firefox does that.  It gives you the ability to switch between private browsing and regular browsing by adding a button to either the toolbar or status bar.

Hat tip : Incognito with Firefox

Now a new Labs feature will help you do it more easily.  For this you will have to activate this labs feature. It it very easy. Go to https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs

Scroll down to Insert Images and enable it.

That’s it.

Hat Tip : Insert inline images in Gmail

1. Open a Command Prompt window.
2. Right the title bar and select the Properties command.
3. Select the Colors tab.
4. Select the Screen Background button and select the black box in the color palette.
5. Select the Screen Text button.
6. To emulate an old green monochrome monitor, select the green box in the color palette, and then in the Selected Color Values panel use the spin button for the Green setting to move the number up to 255. Make sure that the settings for the Red and Blue remain at 0.
7. To emulate an old amber monochrome monitor, select the green box in the color palette, and then in the Selected Color Values panel use the spin button for the Red setting to move the number up to 185. Make sure that the settings for the Green remains at 128 and Blue remains at 0.

Hat Tip

Today, I came across a solution (from a frustrated user), read on for detailed guide:

1. First you want to install X11 for Mac OS X if you don’t already have it. You’re going to need it to compile Mplayer. If you don’t know where it is, it’s on your OS X install discs under additional software.
2. Go get Macports if you don’t already have it. You can get it from here.
3. Follow the installation instructions for Macports including running the selfupdate. After doing so, run the following commands in a terminal:

   sudo port -v install ffmpeg +a52 +faac +faad +gpl +lame +x264 +xvid

   sudo port -v install mplayer +darwin_8 +darwin_i386 +faac +macosx +x264 +xvid

   sudo port -v install wine

4. Now that you’ve installed all that software, go get comskip. I use version 79_99. It’s an open source mpeg commercial detector that works great. You don’t have to install it into wine or anything. Just unzip it and put the folder inside a folder called “wine” in your documents directory.
5. Now, download this comskip.ini file and place it in your comskip directory.
6. Make two new folders on your desktop called newvids and oldvids.
7. Download this bash shell script and put it on your desktop. In a terminal, cd to your desktop and type

   chmod u+x avitoh264.sh

8. Edit the shell script and replace all instances of “tannhaus” with your username.
9. Now everything is installed and we’re ready to do our normal process of removing commercials from our EyeTV programs.
   1. Go into your recordings in EyeTV. If you wish, cut any excess from the beginning and ending of the programs – before the actual program you were intending to record starts. Then compact the edited files.
   2. Export the files in mpeg2 format into the directory “oldvids” on your desktop.
   3. Open up a terminal and type “cd Desktop”
   4. Now type “./avitoh264.sh”. A lot of gunk is going to fly by on your screen…including a lot of errors if X11 isn’t running. If it’s not, don’t worry about it. It will work anyway. It just throws a lot of errors.
   5. When it’s finished, you will find all your newly formatted and commercial free videos in “newvids” on your desktop. You may now import them into iTunes and sync them to your iPod or iPhone.

Enjoy!

Links for Reference

Hattip

[tags]iPhone, iPod, Video, mpeg2, downloads, ads. mac osx[/tags]

Known amongst the scientific community, a petaflop is the ability of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). In other words, if every person on the planet were to perform a simple mathematical calculation, such as calculating a percentage, each person would have to perform 75,000 calculations every second for the world’s population to achieve a petaflop. [...]

Current statistics on the project’s home page show processing capacity at 1P Flops (floating point operations per second) with 804T Flops from the PlayStation 3. A further 163T Flops are from Windows-based computers and 43T Flops from graphics processors.

The project is attempting to unlock the mysteries of protein folding. It’s suspected that misfolds in proteins are the cause of several diseases, including Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, BSE, and some forms of cancer so better understanding the process could lead to medical breakthroughs.

The computer power needed to perform the modeling and calculations is immense but the problem is such that it can be broken down into pieces each of which are handled by different machines. PlayStation 3 owners who enable the Folding@home application contribute unused power of their console processors to the task.

Links and Reference

• Stansford Folding@Home

• Folding@Home Protein Project Hits a Petaflop
• Answers:Folding@Home
• Distributed computing projects

[tags]petaflop, playstation, sony, folding@home[/tags]

It is estimated that 7% of Web surfers read Wikipedia articles in every browsing session. But do you know the following facts about Wikipedia?

1. About 8.2 million articles have been contributed to Wikipedia since 2001, a total of more than 1.4 billion words
2. The English-language version of Wikipedia has about two million entries — about 15 times as many as the largest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the standard to which it aspires
3. Specialist sites based on the “wiki” model include Wikible (the Bible) and Wookiepeedia (on Star Wars)
4. Last month it emerged that many embarrassing Wikipedia entries had been edited by organisations mentioned in them. The Chinese Government erased information about China blocking Wikipedia inside its borders. The CIA tweaked entries on Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon
5. I am sure you know this already. The term “wiki” is derived from the wiki wiki or “quick” buses found in Hawaii

[tags]wikipedia, wiki, facts[/tags]

From : /. Firehose

[tags]Linux, Tutorials, LPI, Free[/tags]

Over time I have found many fully functioning games that are free to download in various places across the Web. Here are 100 of these great full games that are free to download online. They range from independent games, to games that were once commercial but are now free, free to play MMO games (some of the MMOs do have the option of purchasing in game items, etc.), free action games, 3rd person games, games designed by hobbyists, and many more!

Download Full Version PC Games blog made an attempt to create a list of freely downloadable PC Games, the list includes some nice titles. Check it out.

[tags]games, free, downloads[/tags]

Today, I was organizing my eBooks collection; it was full of chaos after I added many books from my friend’s PC. So, I started to organize them: Programming, Operating Systems, History, Religion, Language, Science, Philosophy, Reference, Dummies Guides, Physics, Money, Novels, Encyclopedias, Magazines, Photography. I was soon fed up with creating new folders.

Creating new folders is simple. Just right click | New Folder. But I got annoyed when I had to create multiple folders. Fortunately, someone else had already found a simple solution for this pestiferous problem: a shortcut to create new folders.

mdAxelerator is a 16K .exe that enables you to define shortcut keys for creating new folders and makes it possible to change some other stuff. You can define the key combinations you wish to create new folders. The default is: [Alt]+[Shift]+[N].

You can also set it to start automatically when Windows boots; I don’t mind this damned small freeware application “hogging” my RAM.

[tags]Windows, Shortcut, Downloads, Freeware[/tags]

[How Google works?]

[tags]Google, Search[/tags]